單詞
extant
英 [?k'st?nt; ek-; 'ekst(?)nt]
美[?k'st?nt]
基本信息
- adj. 現(xiàn)存的；顯著的
TEM8GRE擴展詞匯
中文詞源
extant 尚存的，現(xiàn)存的
ex-, 向外。-st, 站，詞源同stand, exist. 即還存在的。
英文詞源
- extant (adj.)
- 1540s, "standing out above a surface," from Latin extantem (nominative extans), present participle of extare "stand out, be visible, exist," from ex- "out" (see ex-) + stare "to stand," from PIE root *sta- "to stand" (see stet). Sense of "in existence" attested in English by 1560s. Related: Extance; extancy, both 17c., both obsolete.
雙語例句
- 1. Two fourteenth-century manuscripts of this text are still extant.
- 這個文本仍有兩份14世紀手抄本存世。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. extant remains of the ancient wall
- 尚存的古城墻遺跡
來自《權威詞典》
- 3. Some of Washington's letter are extant.
- 華盛頓的有些信件仍然被保留著.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 4. The oldest extant document is dated 1492.
- 現(xiàn)存最古老的文獻出自1492年。
來自辭典例句
- 5. This is the only picture extant of a stereognathus.
- 這是僅存的一幅始祖鳥畫像.
來自辭典例句