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potable
🇺🇸 /pˈoʊtʌbʌl/
🇬🇧 /ˈpɒt-/
表示“可以安全饮用的”:作形容词时主要修饰水等液体,作名词时指饮料或可饮用的液体,整体偏正式。
💡 记忆钩子
把它想成一杯经过确认、可以放心入口的液体:先是“能安全饮用的”水或液体,形容词用法;再把这种可饮用的东西整体看作“饮料”,就发展出名词用法。
📝 学习建议
- 先记住形容词用法“可安全饮用的”,再记名词用法“饮料”。
- 不要把 potable 误看成 portable;前者和饮用有关,后者表示“便携的”。
- 它不只是“好喝”,重点是适合饮用、不会因污染或有害物质而带来风险。
📖 中文释义
adj
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core 可安全饮用的📖 指液体可以放心饮用,不会因为水中的病原体或有毒物质而造成危险,最典型的是 potable water“饮用水”。💡 常用结构是 potable water 或 potable + 液体名词,表示该液体符合安全饮用的条件。它属于偏正式的书面或专业表达,日常交流中更常用 safe to drink。不要用它表示“好喝”或“味道清甜”。formalThe village finally has a reliable supply of potable water.这个村庄终于有了可靠的饮用水供应。The filter makes the river water potable.这个过滤器能把河水处理到可以安全饮用。
more potable
comparative
most potable
superlative
noun
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common 饮料;可饮用液体📖 把“可以饮用的液体”当作一个整体来称呼,因此可以泛指水、果汁、酒等饮料,而不只指符合标准的饮用水。💡 常用结构是 a potable 表示一种饮料,或 potables 表示各种饮料;菜单、文学或较正式的文字中更容易见到。现代日常英语通常用 drinks 或 beverages,因此不要在普通聊天中频繁用这个词。作为可数名词使用时,单数前通常需要冠词或其他限定词。The menu offers several hot and cold potables.这份菜单提供几种冷热饮料。
potables
plural
📘 英文释义 (WordNet)
共 2 组
suitable for drinking
同义词集:
drinkable
potable
any liquid suitable for drinking
同义词集:
beverage
drink
drinkable
potable
may I take your beverage order?
上位: food, liquid, nutrient
下位: ade, alcohol, alcoholic beverage, alcoholic drink, chocolate, cider, cocoa, coffee, cooler, cyder, drinking chocolate, fizz, fruit drink, hot chocolate, inebriant, intoxicant, java, mate, milk, mixer, potion, refresher, smoothie, tea, wish-wash
🌳 词源
源自表示“饮用”的拉丁语词根及表示“能够被……的”后缀;名词用法由形容词用法发展而来。
The adjective is derived from Late Middle English potable (“drinkable, potable”), from Middle French, Old French potable (modern French potable (“drinkable, potable”)), and from its etymon Late Latin pōtābilis (“drinkable, potable”), from Latin pōtāre (“to drink”) + -bilis (suffix forming adjectives indicating a capacity or worth of being acted upon). Pōtāre is the present active infinitive of pōtō (“to drink”), from Proto-Italic *pōtos, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₃- (“to drink”).
The English word is cognate with Catalan potable, Italian potabile, Spanish potable.
The noun is derived from the adjective.
🔄 变式
more potable
compar
most potable
superl
potables
plural
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