immaculate
英 [ɪ'mækjʊlət]
美 [ɪ'mækjələt]
TEM8 GRE
- immaculate
- immaculate: [15] A macula in Latin was a ‘spot’ or ‘stain’ (as well as a ‘hole in a net’, which gave English the mail of chain mail). Hence anything that was immaculātus (an adjective formed with the negative prefix in-) was ‘spotless’ – ‘perfect’.
=> chainmail - immaculate (adj.)
- early 15c., "free from mental or moral pollution, pure," from a figurative use of Latin immaculatus "unstained," from assimilated form of in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + maculatus "spotted, defiled," past participle of maculare "to spot," from macula "spot, blemish." The literal sense of "spotlessly clean or neat" in English is first attested 1735. Immaculate Conception is late 15c., from Middle French conception immaculée (late 15c.); declared to be an article of faith in 1854.
- 1. The goalkeeper'sperformance was immaculate.
- 守门员的表现堪称完美。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. The 1979 Chevrolet is in immaculate condition.
- 这辆1979款的雪佛兰轿车纤尘不染。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. She always looks immaculate.
- 她总是打扮得干净利落。
来自《权威词典》
- 4. Her apartment was immaculate.
- 她的公寓房间洁净无垢.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 5. The immaculate is easily sullied.
- 皎皎者易污.
来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
