- 1說到這個、順便一提（口氣偏正式）。不要先想到「恰當」：那是另一個用法；這裡是把相關話題接過去。
We use apropos to start a new point that still belongs to what was just said — a polite way of turning the talk a little, without jumping into a totally new world. You will hear it in careful speech and in writing that wants to sound thoughtful: “Apropos of your question about trains…” or “Apropos the budget, we should talk about paper too.” Friends chatting over lunch are more likely to say “speaking of that” or “that reminds me”; apropos still feels a bit French and a bit formal. Though actually, people also say “apropos of nothing” and then start a subject that is not linked at all — they are marking the jump on purpose. The same word can mean “about / concerning”, and as an adjective it can mean “said at the right moment” (“a very apropos remark”). That last use feels close to appropriate, and the two words look related, but they did not come from the same Latin parent — they just grew up looking alike.
組成Borrowed from French à propos, “on that subject”. À is “to / at”; propos is “subject” or “remark”. English writes it as one word.
同家族的字
- proposeFrench propos (a subject, something put forward) sits behind both; cousins, not copies
原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
aproposadj/ˌæp.ɹəˈpəʊ/
- 1
Of an appropriate or pertinent nature.
- Nothing easier. I received not long ago a map from my friend, Augustus Petermann, at Leipzig. Nothing could be more apropos.
- A particularly apropos line many will remember from this film was the closing shot of a Times editorial reading "Is There No Sense of Decency?"
- 2
By the way, incidental.
- Sherlock Holmes rose and lit his pipe. "No doubt you think that you are complimenting me in comparing me to [C. Auguste] Dupin," he observed. "Now, in my opinion, Dupin was a very inferior fellow. That trick of his of breaking in on his friends' thoughts with an apropos remark after a quarter of an hour's silence is really very showy and superficial. He had some analytical genius, no doubt; but he was by no means such a phenomenon as [Edgar Allan] Poe appeared to imagine."
aproposprep/ˌæp.ɹəˈpəʊ/
- 1
Regarding, concerning, in regard to, on the subject of.
- "Go on, Uncle Max," said Nora pleasantly. "I like to watch your exceptional mind at work. Apropos the disappearance of Geoffrey, and that big old lonely house, you were saying—?"
- Few have the same root and branch obsession with the recent past or the avenger’s recall (‘the necessity for long memory and sarcasm in argument’, as he wrote apropos the old left intelligentsia in New York).
aproposadv/ˌæp.ɹəˈpəʊ/
- 1
By the way.
- 2
Timely; at a good time.
- 3
To the purpose; appropriately.
aproposnoun/ˌæp.ɹəˈpəʊ/
- 1
obsoleteFittingness, pertinence.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。