喜樂美語
  1. 1技藝精湛的(形容詞)；使圓滿完成、圓房(動詞)

    Consummate has two very different uses. As an adjective (said kon-SUM-it), it means someone is extremely skilled and complete at what they do — 'a consummate professional' does their job perfectly, with total skill. As a verb (said KON-suh-mate), 'to consummate' something means to complete it fully — most often used for a marriage, meaning the couple has had sex for the first time as husband and wife, which in some cultures and old laws made the marriage 'complete' and legal.

組成From Latin consummare, 'to sum up, complete, finish' — from com- ('together') + summa ('sum, total').

同家族的字

  • sumboth trace back to the same Latin root summa, 'total, sum'
  • summaryshares the same Latin root summa, 'sum, total'

原始詞典資料8 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。

consummateadj詞源 1/ˈkɒnsəmət/

  • 1

    Complete in every detail, perfect, absolute.

    • There lacke many things, that a consummate carde should haue.
    • A man of perfect and consummate virtue.
  • 2

    Supremely skilled and experienced; highly accomplished; fully qualified.

    • a consummate sergeant
    • Thus[…] he loses sight of the remoter truth, that details perfect in unity, and, contributing to a final purpose, are the sign of the production of a consummate master.
  • 3

    obsoleteConsummated, completed, perfected, fully accomplished.

    • Till righteous fate Upon the Wooers' wrongs were consummate.
  • 4

    obsoleteConsummated.

    • I doe but ſtay till your marriage be conſummate, and then go I toward Arragon.

consummateverb詞源 2/ˈkɒnsəmeɪt/

  • 1

    To bring (a task, project, goal etc.) to completion; to accomplish.

    • Although it was agreed by all that discovery must be consummated by possession and use, […]
    • In one word, in perfumery the artist completes and consummates the original natural odour, which he cuts, so to speak, and mounts as a jeweller improves and brings out the water of a precious stone.
  • 2

    To make perfect, achieve, give the finishing touch.

  • 3

    To make (a marriage) complete by the spouses' first engaging in sexual intercourse.

    • the marriage was never consummated
    • After the reception, he escorted her to the honeymoon suite to consummate their marriage.
  • 4

    To become perfected, receive the finishing touch.

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