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capacious怎么读？

capacious

英 [kə'peɪʃəs] 美[kə'peʃəs]

英英释义实用场景例句

近义词wide large ample vast broad spacious commodious expansive roomy voluminous extensive

adj. 宽敞的；广阔的；容积大的

GRE畅通词汇

助记提示

1、cap + -acious(复合后缀：-ace, -ous).
2、-ace is from Latin adjectival suffix -ax, genitive -acis.
3、含义：able to contain.

英文词源

capacious (adj.): 1610s, "able to contain," from Latin capax (genitive capacis) "able to take in," from capere "to take" (see capable) + -ous. Meaning "able to hold much" is from 1630s. Related: Capaciously; capaciousness.

双语例句

1. People is chickenshit, heart is capacious.: 人是渺小的，心灵是广阔的。

2. The private barber parlor was in an annex adjoining a capacious bathroom.: 这个私人理发室设在与宽敞的浴室毗邻的一个小间里.

3. Gradually his capacious chin encroached upon the borders of the white cravat.: 他的广阔的下巴逐渐侵占了白领带的边界.

4. The initial thrust must come in the region of a capacious harbor.: 开始时,进攻的矛头必定是一个吞吐量大的港口.

5. His forehead is capacious and high, but square and heavy and unpleasantly shining.: 他脑门子又阔又高, 四四方方,显得很迟钝,而且亮晃晃的,叫人很不愉快.