conversable
形容词 adj.
英文释义
形容词 adj.
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Able and inclined to engage in conversation.
— It is proper for a Gentleman […] to be Civil, and Conversible in Discourse, to know Men and Manners.
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Able to be conversed with.
— […] it is not the invisible Devil that I am enquiring after, but an appearing conversible Daemon or Evil Spirit […] assuming human Shape, or at least Voice,
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Pertaining to, suited for or exhibiting conversation.
— 1619, John Donne, Sermon 71 in LXXX Sermons, London: Richard Royston, 1640, p. 720, […] it were not hard to assigne many examples of men that have stolne a great measure of learning, and yet lived open and conversable lives, and never beene observed […] to have spent many houres in study
词源
From converse + -able.
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