ambit

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈæmbɪt/    美 /ˈæmbɪt/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The extent of actions, thoughts, or the meaning of words, etc.
    — Nickle shrugged his shoulders to indicate the inexpressible ambit of Mr. Bronsky's obvious shortcomings.
  2. The extent of actions, thoughts, or the meaning of words, etc.; The area or sphere of control and influence of something. broadly
    — He had invited Destiny to sweep him up in her reaping, by placing himself in the ambit of her scythe; but the sharp reaping-hook had passed him by.
  3. The boundary around a building, town, region, etc. archaic
  4. The circumference of something circular; also, an arc; a circuit, an orbit. archaic,rare
  5. Chiefly in the plural form ambits: the open space surrounding a building, town, etc.; the grounds or precincts of a place. obsolete

词形变化

ambits plural

词汇关系

衍生词
ambit claim
相关词
ambitus

词源

From Late Middle English ambyte, borrowed from Latin ambitus (“circuit; circumference, perimeter; area within a perimeter; ground around a building; cycle, orbit, revolution”) (compare Late Latin ambitus (“neighbourhood; wall of a castle, monastery, or town; cloister; parish boundary”)), from ambīre + -tus (suffix forming verbal nouns from verbs). Ambīre is the present active infinitive of ambiō (“to go around, to skirt; to encircle, surround”), from ambi- (“prefix meaning ‘both, on both sides’”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent- (“front; face; forehead”)) + eō (“to go, move”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ey- (“to go”)). The English word is a doublet of ambitus.
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