pure: [13] Pure goes back ultimately to Latin pūrus ‘clean’, a word of ancient ancestry which was related to Sanskrit pūtás ‘purified’. It reached English via Old French pur. Amongst its Latin derivatives were the verbs pūrificāre ‘make pure’, source of English purify [14]; pūrāre ‘make pure’, which became French purer ‘purify, strain’, source of English purée [19]; and pūrigāre, later pūrgāre ‘purify’, source of English expurgate [17] and purge [14]. => expurgate, purge
pure (adj.)
c. 1300 (late 12c. as a surname, and Old English had purlamb "lamb without a blemish"), "unmixed," also "absolutely, entirely," from Old French pur "pure, simple, absolute, unalloyed," figuratively "simple, sheer, mere" (12c.), from Latin purus "clean, clear; unmixed; unadorned; chaste, undefiled," from PIE root *peue- "to purify, cleanse" (cognates: Latin putus "clear, pure;" Sanskrit pavate "purifies, cleanses," putah "pure;" Middle Irish ur "fresh, new;" Old High German fowen "to sift").
Replaced Old English hlutor. Meaning "free from moral corruption" is first recorded mid-14c. In reference to bloodlines, attested from late 15c.
雙語例句
1. Somehow she'd always been a child in his mind, pure and virginal.
不知何故，她在他心里一直是個天真無邪的孩子。
來自柯林斯例句
2. Hybrids, unlike pure electric cars, never need to be plugged in.
與純電動汽車不同，混合動力車永遠不需要接電源。
來自柯林斯例句
3. "Aromatherapy oils" are not pure essential oils but dilutions.
“香薰精油”并非純精油，而是經過稀釋的。
來自柯林斯例句
4. Physics isn't just about pure science with no immediate applications.
物理學并非只是一門不能直接運用的純科學。
來自柯林斯例句
5. The old man turned to give her a look of pure surprise.