喜樂美語
  1. 1直立的；建造、豎立

    Erect mostly describes something standing straight up, upright - good posture is sometimes described as 'standing erect'. As a verb, 'to erect' something means to build it or put it up, like erecting a building, a tent, or a statue - this use sounds a bit formal, more common in news or official writing than in everyday talk.

From the word’s history

From Middle English erect, from Latin ērectus 'upright', past participle of ērigō 'raise, set up'; the verb is from the adjective.

源自拉丁文 ērectus「直立的」，是 ērigō「豎起」的分詞。

Wiktionary

組成From Latin 'erectus' - e- (up, out) + regere (to lead straight, to guide) - the same root idea as 'direct' and 'correct'

同家族的字

  • directshares the Latin root 'regere' (to lead/guide straight)
  • correctshares the same Latin root, originally meaning to 'straighten' something

原始詞典資料17 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。

erectadj詞源 1/ɪˈɹɛkt/

  • 1

    Upright; vertical or reaching broadly upwards.

    • Among the Greek colonies and churches of Asia, Philadelphia is still erect—a column in a scene of ruins.
  • 2

    Rigid, firm; standing out perpendicularly, especially as the result of stimulation.

    • The penis should be fully erect before commencing copulation.
    • erect nipples
  • 3

    Having an erect penis or clitoris.

    • OK, baby, I'm erect now. Let's get it on!
  • 4

    obsoleteBold; confident; free from depression; undismayed.

    • But who is he, by years / Bowed, but erect in heart?
  • 5

    obsoleteDirected upward; raised; uplifted.

    • His piercing Eyes, erect, appear to vievv / Superior VVorlds, and look all Nature thro'.
  • 6

    Watchful; alert.

    • vigilant and erect attention of mind
  • 7

    governmentheraldryhobbiesElevated, as the tips of wings, heads of serpents, etc.

erectverb詞源 2/ɪˈɹɛkt/

  • 1

    To put up by the fitting together of materials or parts.

    • to erect a house or a fort
  • 2

    To cause to stand up or out.

  • 3

    To raise and place in an upright or perpendicular position; to set upright; to raise.

    • to erect a pole, a flagstaff, a monument, etc.
  • 4

    aeronauticsaerospaceaviationTo raise and place in an upright or perpendicular position; to set upright; to raise.

    • As soon as electrical power was restored, the attitude indicators' gyros would have begun to erect.
  • 5

    To lift up; to elevate; to exalt; to magnify.

    • that didst his state above his hopes erect
    • , Preface I, who am a party, am not to erect myself into a judge.
  • 6

    To animate; to encourage; to cheer.

    • It raiseth the dropping spirit, erecting it to a loving complaisance.
  • 7

    astrologyhuman-sciencesmysticismTo cast or draw up (a figure of the heavens, horoscope etc.).

    • In 1581 Parliament made it a statutory felony to erect figures, cast nativities, or calculate by prophecy how long the Queen would live or who would succeed her.
  • 8

    To enter a state of physiological erection.

    • On the 17th of July, the patient returned to the country, perfectly healed: the penis erected and he was capable of coition.
    • On an adequate stimulus the penis erected, the testes were drawn up, and the dartos muscle slowly contracted.
另外 2 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    To set up as an assertion or consequence from premises, etc.

    • from fallacious foundations, and misapprehended mediums, erecting conclusions no way inferrible from their premises
    • Malebranche erects this proposition.
  • 10

    To set up or establish; to found; to form; to institute.

    • to erect a new commonwealth
    • In 1686, he was appointed one of the Commissioners in the new ecclesiastical commission erected by King James, and was proud of that honour.

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