diverse
英 [da?'v??s; 'da?v??s]
美 [da?'v?s]
助記提示
1、di- "apart" + vers- + -e.
2、含義：turn to different ways, turn to many or various by separate or apart.
3、該詞在拉丁語中其實就是divert的過去分詞，也就是說它來源于divert的拉丁語對應詞的過去分詞。由此取形容詞詞性并引申出如今的含義。
4、spelling variant of divers.
中文詞源
diverse 多樣的di-, 分開，散開，來自dis-變體。-verse, 轉，詞源同converse, versus. 即轉開，多樣的。
英文詞源
- diverse
- diverse: [13] Diverse is one of a small family of English words, including also divers, divert, and divorce, which come ultimately from Latin dīvertere. This was a compound verb formed from the prefix dis- ‘aside’ and vertere ‘turn’ (source of English verse, version, vertebra, etc and related to worth), and hence meant literally ‘turn aside, turn out of the way’.
It developed in various metaphorical directions, however. One was ‘turn one’s husband or wife out of the way’ which, via the variant dīvortere, gave English divorce [14]. The central sense of the verb passed more or less unchanged into English, via French divertir, as divert [15], but its past participle diversus illustrates a further metaphorical strand, in which ‘turned aside’ has become ‘separate, different’.
English acquired this via Old French in the 13th century in two distinct forms: masculine divers and feminine diverse. The present-day semantic distinction between the former (‘various, several’) and the latter (‘different’) had established itself by around 1700.
=> divert, divorce, verse, version, worth - diverse (adj.)
- c. 1300, spelling variant of divers (q.v.), perhaps by analogy with converse, traverse, etc. In some cases directly from Latin diversus, and since c. 1700 restricted to the meaning "different in character or quality." Related: Diversely.
雙語例句
- 1. India has always been one of the most religiously diverse countries.
- 印度一直都是宗教信仰最多元的國家之一。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. people from diverse cultures
- 不同文化背景的人
來自《權威詞典》
- 3. The Judaeo-Christian tradition is diverse, jumbled, contradictory, at every point inviting inquiry and debate.
- 猶太-基督教傳統呈現多樣化，混亂復雜，相互矛盾，在各個方面都會引發質疑和爭論。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. Davies has managed to pursue his diverse interests in parallel with his fast-moving career.
- 戴維斯在事業突飛猛進的同時并未放棄自己廣泛的興趣愛好。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. The word is now used in a sense diverse from the original meaning.
- 在某種意義上說,此詞現在的含義與最初的含義完全不同.
來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》