apt: [14] Apt comes from Latin aptus ‘fit, suited’, the past participle of the verb apere ‘fasten’. Other English words from this source are adapt, adapt, adept, inept, and (with the Latin prefix com-) couple and copulation. Related words are found in Indo-European languages of the Indian subcontinent: for instance, Sanskrit āpta ‘fit’. => adapt, adept, attitude, couple, inept
apt (adj.)
mid-14c., "inclined, disposed;" late 14c., "suited, fitted, adapted," from Old French ate (13c., Modern French apte), or directly from Latin aptus "fit, suited," adjectival use of past participle of *apere "to attach, join, tie to," from PIE root *ap- (1) "to grasp, take, reach" (cognates: Sanskrit apnoti "he reaches," Latin apisci "to reach after, attain," Hittite epmi "I seize"). Elliptical sense of "becoming, appropriate" is from 1560s.
双语例句
1. The words of this report are as apt today as in 1929.
这份报告的措词用在今天和用在1929年一样贴切。
来自柯林斯例句
2. She was apt to raise her voice and wave her hands about.
她动不动就拔高嗓门，并挥舞双手。
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3. We are apt to wish for what we can't have.
我们往往会祈求得不到的东西.
来自《简明英汉词典》
4. Beginners are too apt to make mistakes in grammar.
初学者极易犯语法错误.
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5. The apt citations and poetic gems have adorned his speeches.