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    Capacious describes a bag, a pocket, a coat, a room, even a , that has a lot of space inside. You can put many things in it and it still does not feel full. A capacious can take a bottle of water, a book, and lunch without a fight. In everyday talk people almost never say this word. They say , or big inside, or spacious. You meet capacious in books, in careful writing, and in ads that want to sound a little grand. Writers also stretch it: a capacious mind or a capacious memory can hold many ideas or many facts. That stretch is still about holding, not about being clever. Though actually, the old Latin parent of this word meant both “able to hold a lot” and “able to do something,” and English split those: capacious kept the holding, capable kept the doing. So this is not a louder way to say capable, and it is not a fancy twin of big. Big is how it looks from the outside; capacious is how much room there is inside.

    寬敞的、很能裝的(偏書面;口語多說 roomy)

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組成From Latin capāx (“wide, spacious, large; also capable”) + -ious. It took the place of Old English numol.

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  • capacitysame Latin capāx: how much something can hold
  • capablesame Latin capāx, but English sent this one toward “able to do,” not “able to hold”

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capaciousadj/kəˈpeɪʃəs/

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    Having a lot of space inside; roomy.

    • I turnd my thoughts, and with capacious mind / Conſiderd all things viſible in Heav'n
    • ‘There’s rummer things than women in this world though, mind you,’ said the man with the black eye, slowly filling a large Dutch pipe, with a most capacious bowl.
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    Capable, able.

    • [T]he fresh brave school-life, so full of games, adventures, and good fellowship, so ready at forgetting, so capacious at enjoying, so bright at forecasting, outweighed a thousandfold their troubles with the master of their form, and the occasional ill-usage of the big boys in the house.
    • As you will read, Trump himself has a capacious understanding of his power.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。