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Apt means fitting or suitable for the situation — the right choice of word, action, or comparison. 'An apt name' means a name that suits the person or thing very well. There's also a specific phrase, 'apt to,' meaning likely to do something, especially something a bit negative — 'she's apt to forget things' means she often forgets, as a habit or tendency.
恰當的、貼切的；apt to = 容易、傾向於（做某事）
組成From Latin aptus, meaning 'fitted or suited.'
同家族的字
- aptitudeshares the same Latin root aptus — a natural fitness or skill for doing something
原始詞典資料17 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，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。
Aptname詞源 1
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A surname from German or Yiddish.
Aptname詞源 2
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A commune of Vaucluse department, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.
- While the work of the contemporary artists in the show is avant-garde, it does not overwhelm the colorful faience made by the Faucon family, seven generations of ceramicists who operated a factory in Apt, a town in the Luberon Valley, from 1890 until 2002.
aptadj詞源 1/æpt/
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Suitable; appropriate; fit or fitted; suited.
- an apt metaphor
- apt punishment
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Having a habitual tendency; habitually liable or likely; disposed towards.
- This tree, if unprotected, is apt to be stripped of its leaves by a leaf-cutting ant.
- that lofty pity with which prosperous folk are apt to remember their grandfathers
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Ready; especially fitted or qualified (to do something); quick to learn.
- a pupil apt to learn
- an apt scholar
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
- automation presses tooling
- advanced passenger train
- apartment
- preferred by the United States Postal Service
- advanced persistent threat
- arbitrage pricing theory
- anatomical pathology technologist
- acyl protein thioesterase
- automatically programmed tool
- advanced packaging tool
- Alabama Public Television
- American Public Television
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。