compute: [17] Latin computāre meant ‘reckon together’. It was a compound verb formed from the prefix com- ‘together’ and putāre ‘reckon, think’ (source of English putative and various derived forms such as amputate, deputy, dispute, impute, and reputation). It was borrowed into Old French as compter, from which English got count, but English compute was a direct borrowing from Latin.
The derivative computer was coined in the mid-17th century, and originally meant simply ‘person who computes’; the modern meaning developed via ‘device for calculating’ at the end of the 19th century and ‘electronic brain’ in the 1940s. => amputate, count, deputy, dispute, impute, putative, reputation
compute (v.)
1630s, from French computer, from Latin computare "to count, sum up, reckon together," from com- "with" (see com-) + putare "to reckon," originally "to prune" (see pave). Related: Computed; computing.
雙語例句
1. I compute my losses at 500 dollars.
我估計(jì)我的損失有五百元.
來自《現(xiàn)代英漢綜合大詞典》
2. I tried to compute the cash value of the ponies and horse boxes.
我試著算了算馬駒和運(yùn)馬拖車的現(xiàn)金價(jià)值。
來自辭典例句
3. The measures we compute for a sample are called statistics.
根據(jù)樣本計(jì)算的量叫做統(tǒng)計(jì)量.
來自辭典例句
4. The losses caused by the floods were beyond compute.
洪水造成的損失難以估量.
來自辭典例句
5. A more accurate method is to compute the average.