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If someone is contactable, you can write to them or telephone them — a letter, a call, or a message can get through. Offices like this word: 'Please stay contactable during the trip.' News uses it when a missing person, a parent, or a company cannot be reached. Though actually, in the kitchen nobody says 'Are you contactable?' They say 'Can I call you?' or 'Are you around?' Contactable lives in work English, school notices, and forms. It is about the line being open, not about being friendly, and not about having 'contacts' (people you know). The -able here is the quiet kind: it means 'can be contacted,' the way means 'can be broken.' Some students hear it as 'good at writing to people'; that would be a different idea. You can be contactable and still not want to talk — the word only says a letter or a call can find you.
可聯絡的、聯絡得到的
組成From contact + -able. Contact is the getting in touch (writing, calling); -able (from Latin -bilis, through French and Middle English) means 'can be.' So: can be written to or telephoned.
同家族的字
- contactthe verb/noun this is built from
- contactlesssame stem, with -less: without touching
原始詞典資料1 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。
contactableadj
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Able to be contacted.
- Steve is contactable on his mobile phone and his pager.
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。