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To particularize is to give the details of something, one by one, instead of speaking in a general way. If someone complains but will not particularize, they will not say what exactly went wrong. The verb is formal, and a little old-fashioned in everyday English; most people say specify, list the details, or spell it out. You still meet it in careful writing and older books. American spelling is particularize; British writing often has particularise. The shape of the word can trick you: it does not mean “make something special.”
詳述、具體說明(偏書面;口語較常說 specify 或講清楚細節)
組成From particular + -ize. The ending -ize makes a verb.
同家族的字
- particularthe adjective this verb is built from
- particularlythe adverb from the same stem
原始詞典資料3 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。
particularizeverb/pəˈtɪkjʊləɹaɪz/
- 1
To make particular, as opposed to general; to restrict to a specific or individual case, class etc.; to single out.
- 2
To be specific about (individual instances); to go into detail (about), to specify.
- 'Tis hard I confesse, yet I have disposed of them as I could, and will descend to particularize them according to their species.
- Twice we find him, not only boasting of his Parentage, as an Israelite at large, but particularizing his Descent from the Tribe of Benjamin.
- 3
To differentiate, make distinct from others.
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。