- 1闡明、講清楚（書面、正式）
To elucidate something is to explain it when it is hard to see clearly — by adding the information, examples, or steps that make the meaning come out. It is a formal, slightly verb: essays, lectures, legal writing, and careful journalism use it; friends almost never say it over dinner. The picture inside the word is light: you are making the matter bright enough to understand, not merely repeating it in other words. You elucidate a point, a theory, a clause in a contract. Though actually, it promises more than a short gloss; if you only rename the idea, you have not elucidated it. Teachers sometimes reach for it when they want to sound serious; simpler explain, make clear, or spell out will usually do the same job with less weight.
組成From Late Latin elucidatus, from elucido 'to make clear', built from ex- / e- ('out') + lucidus ('bright, clear, understandable') plus a verb ending. The old picture is bringing the light out of something so it can be seen. French élucider is a cousin. English then uses -ate as the verb ending.
同家族的字
- lucidshares lucidus, 'clear, bright'; a lucid explanation is easy to see through
- luciditythe noun for that clearness
- elucidationthe noun: the explaining, or the explanation given
- elucidatorythe adjective: serving to make something clear
原始詞典資料3 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。
elucidateverb詞源 1/ɪˈl(j)uːsɪdeɪt/
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obsoleteTo make (something) lucid (“bright, luminous; also, clear, transparent”).
- 2
To make (something) clear and understandable; to clarify, to illuminate, to shed light on.
- Let me hear vvhat your ovvn conceptions are of the matter, if they tend to elucidate or reconcile.
- Dining at Mr. [Samuel] Pepys's, Dr. Slayer shewed us an experiment of a wonderful nature, […] This matter or phosphorus was made out of human blood and urine, elucidating the vital flame or heate in animal bodys.
elucidateadj詞源 2/ɪˈl(j)uːsɪdət/
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obsoleteClear, understandable.
- There vvas not a greater Maſter of Perſpicuity, and elucidate Diſtinctions; vvhich look'd the better in his [John Williams'] Engliſh, that ran ſvveet upon his Tongue, eſpecially being ſet out vvith a graceful Facetiouſneſs, that hit the joint of the Matter: For his VVit, and his Judgment, never parted.
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