compose

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解释

※ 提供单词"compose"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

compose 组成

com-, 强调。-pos, 放置，词源同opponent, position. 即放在一起的。

compose: compose: [15] Etymologically, compose means simply ‘put together’; it comes, via Old French composer, from compos-, the perfect stem of Latin compōnere, a compound verb formed from the prefix com- ‘with’ and pōnere ‘place, put’, source of English position. Amongst its many descendants and derivatives are compound, component [17] (from the Latin present participle compōnent-), composite [16] (from the Latin past participle compositus), and compost [14] (which originally meant ‘stewed fruit’, like the later-borrowed compote [17]).
=> component, composite, compost, compote, compound, position
compose (v.): c. 1400, compousen, from Old French composer "put together, arrange, write" a work (12c.), from com- "with" (see com-) + poser "to place," from Late Latin pausare "to cease, lay down" (see pause (n.)). Meaning influenced in Old French by componere (see composite; also see pose (v.)). Musical sense is from 1590s. Related: Composed; composing.

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1. They must each compose a poem in strict alliterative metre.: 他们必须每人作一首严格押头韵的诗。

2. Protein molecules compose all the complex working parts of living cells.: 活细胞中所有复杂的运行成分都由蛋白质分子构成。

3. Most software programs allow you to compose emails offline.: 大部分软件程序允许用户在脱机状态下写电子邮件。