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From the word’s history

From Middle English pure, from Old French pur, from Latin pūrus 'clean, unmixed'.

經古法文 pur 來自拉丁文 pūrus「乾淨、不摻雜的」。

Wiktionary

You can picture pure as 'only this one thing, and nothing else mixed in'. A lump of pure gold has no cheaper metal hidden inside it; pure wool has no other thread woven through it. From that one clean picture — a single substance, nothing added — the whole word grows: take away every other thing, and what is left is pure.

可以想成「只有這一樣東西，裡面沒有摻別的」。一塊純金沒有偷偷混進便宜的金屬，純羊毛裡也沒有夾雜別的線。整個字都從這個乾淨的畫面長出來：把其他東西全部拿掉，剩下那單一的一樣，就是 pure。

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同家族的字

purer purest

原始詞典資料14 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。

pureadj詞源 1/ˈpjʊə/

  • 1

    Free of flaws or imperfections; unsullied.

    • Such was the origin of a friendship as warm and pure as any that ancient or modern history records.
  • 2

    Free of foreign material or pollutants.

    • A guinea is pure gold if it has in it no alloy.
    • As for the rest, the air here is said to be purer than elsewhere in Ireland; the water of the Nore is beautifully transparent; and the bogless state of the land helps out the rhyme.
  • 3

    Free of immoral behavior or qualities; clean.

    • Laye hondes sodenly on no man nether be part taker of wother mens synnes. Kepe thy silfe pure.
  • 4

    Mere; that and that only.

    • That idea is pure madness!
  • 5

    Done for its own sake instead of serving another branch of science.

    • The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason. The architect of modern science was himself not very modern. He was obsessed with alchemy.
  • 6

    human-scienceslinguisticsphoneticsOf a single, simple sound or tone; said of some vowels and the unaspirated consonants.

  • 7

    Without harmonics or overtones; not harsh or discordant.

  • 8

    computingengineeringmathematicsHaving no side effects.

    • a pure method
另外 1 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    slangA lot of.

    • Well when ah's youngah, ah'd just light a candle rahn de dinna table play pure crazy 8s and spades vif my brotha til we lot dozed off...

pureadv詞源 1/ˈpjʊə/

  • 1

    to a great extent or degree; extremely; exceedingly.

    • You’re pure busy.
    • I just get pure shy with the interview cats.

pureverb詞源 1/ˈpjʊə/

  • 1

    golfhobbieslifestyleTo hit (the ball) completely cleanly and accurately.

    • Tiger Woods pured his first drive straight down the middle of the fairway.
  • 2

    obsoleteTo cleanse; to refine.

purenoun詞源 1/ˈpjʊə/

  • 1

    One who, or that which, is pure.

    • ... the establishment of an inferior College, and the consequent connexion of the many thousands of British practitioners in medicine and surgery with a subordinate institution, and one that should be subservient to the government of the pures.
    • Took a drop of the pure, to keep my spirits from sinking, […]

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

  • puer

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