elective

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Something that is an option or may be freely chosen, especially a course of study.
    — I still need to decide which electives to take along with my compulsory courses next semester.
形容词 adj.
  1. Of, or pertaining to voting or elections; involving a choice between options.
    — 1697, John Dryden, The Works of Virgil […] translated into English Verse, London: Jacob Tonson, dedicatory preface to the Marquess of Normanby, For his Conscience could not but whisper to the Arbitrary Monarch, that the Kings of Rome were at first Elective, and Govern’d not without a Senate:
  2. Open to choice; freely chosen; (also, usually) unnecessary; minor.
    — After accounting for all of my required courses, there is hardly any room in my schedule for any elective ones.
  3. Scheduled and nonemergent (regardless of whether necessary or unnecessary and whether minor or serious).
    — It was very confusing hearing my cancer surgery being classified as "elective surgery". Am I "electing" to live rather than die?

词形变化

more elective comparative most elective superlative electives plural

词汇关系

衍生词
elective affinity electively elective mutism electiveness elective share electivity nonelective self-elective stereoelective
相关词
elect election

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
English elect
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
Latin -īvus
Old French -ifbor.
Middle English -yf
English -ive
English elective
From elect + -ive.
词源 2
Etymology tree
English elect
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
Latin -īvus
Old French -ifbor.
Middle English -yf
English -ive
English elective
From elect + -ive.
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