2018-12-21 apt

词：apt

英英释义：suitable or right for a particular situation

例句：Eighty-two years after his death, Lu Xun’s words remain apt.

2. 为什么选这个词？

“apt”是个形容词，意思是“恰当的” “贴切的”，常常可以用来完美替换 appropriate, suitable, fitting 等词。由于 apt 只有 3 个字母，是个单音节词，在有些情况下使用它会让表达显得更简洁干练。

鲁迅先生已经去世 82 年了，依然有很多人引用他的话来描述当今社会的一些状况。我们可以评价说：

Eighty-two years after his death, Lu Xun’s words remain apt.

apt 经常用来形容名词 comment/description/comparison 等，是适合用来发英文朋友圈的一个好词。当我们遇到恰如其分的点评或描述时就可以用到它，比如：

So apt!（太恰当了！）

What an apt caption!（配图文字太贴切了！）

An apt description of XX. （对 XX 的描述恰如其分。）

Never has a title been more apt. （标题非常贴切。）

这个短小精悍的小词也常可以在《经济学人》中遇到，比如：

Well begun, half done. That proverb, ascribed to Aristotle, seems an apt description of the art market—at least it is if a study of artistic careers, published this week in Science, is to be believed.

另外要注意，apt 的副词形式 aptly 也很常见，比如想说一个标题/名字起的好，就可以说“XX is aptly titled/named”。

3. 怎样学会使用这个词？

1）翻译下面的句子：

选择送花很少出错。

Flowers are an apt gift for nearly any occasion.

（参考翻译：Flowers are an apt gift for nearly any occasion.）

2）结合自己的生活、学习、工作、兴趣等，想象在什么语境下会用到这个表达。先简要描述这个场景，再造句。

例子： 语言学

场景 ：Few disciplines are so strongly associated with a single figure: Einstein in physics and Freud in psychology, perhaps. But Noam Chomsky is the man who revolutionized linguistics.Since he wrote Syntactic Structures in 1957, Mr. Chomsky has argued that human language is fundamentally different from any other kind of communication, that linguist from Mars would agree that all human languages are variations on a single language, and that children’s incredibly quick and successful learning (despite often messy and inattentive parental input) points to an innate language faculty in the brain. Sixty years after Syntactic Structure’s publication, these ideas remain apt.