explicit

英 [?k'spl?s?t; ek-] 美[?k'spl?s?t]

反義詞

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副詞:?explicitly;名詞:?explicitness;

1. ex- "out" + plicat- => explicat- => 變體：explicit.
2. => unfold, unravel, explain.

explicit 清楚明白的

來自explicate,解釋清楚的。

explicit: explicit: [17] Something that is explicit has literally been ‘unfolded’. Like the earlier borrowing explicate [16], the word comes from the past participle of Latin explicāre, a compound verb formed from the prefix ex- ‘un-’ and plicāre ‘fold’ (source of English ply and related to English fold). At first, in the 16th and 17th centuries, English retained the literal sense of the original, but gradually it dropped out in favour of the metaphorical ‘make clear, distinct, and open’ (already present in Latin).
=> exploit, fold, ply
explicit (adj.): 1610s, "open to the understanding, not obscure or ambiguous," from French explicite, from Latin explicitus "unobstructed," variant past participle of explicare "unfold, unravel, explain," from ex- "out" (see ex-) + plicare "to fold" (see ply (v.1)). As a euphemism for "pornographic" it dates from 1971. Related: Explicitness. "Explicitus" was written at the end of medieval books, originally short for explicitus est liber "the book is unrolled."

2. He gave me very explicit directions on how to get there.: 他清楚地向我說明了去那兒的路線。

5. Branagh says that it was his intention to make explicit in the film what was only implicit in the play.: 布萊納說他的用意是將劇本中的隱晦含意在電影中清晰明白地表現(xiàn)出來。