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An aptitude is something you're good at. A rock star might have an aptitude for energizing an audience, or for trashing his hotel room.
When you have a talent or do something well, people say that you have an aptitude for it. But you don't have to be born with an aptitude; you can also acquire your abilities. You are probably already well acquainted with this word, since the zillions of standardized tests you have taken in school are usually called aptitude tests.
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单词用法
词根词缀
词根: apt
=fit/ability,表示”适应,能力”
adj.
adaptable 有适应能力的adapt适应+able能……的→adj.有适应能力的
apt 有倾向的,适当的apt适应,能力→adj.有倾向的,适当的
inapt 不适当的;无能的in无+apt能力→adj.不适当的;无能的
adv.
aptly 适当地apt适应,能力+ly……地→adv.适当地
n.
adaptation 适应,[书]改写本adapt[v.使适应,适应[环境]]+ation表名词→适应→适应[各种人]的书→改写本
aptitude 适应能力;才能apt适应,能力+itude性质,状态→有能力的状态
v.
adapt 使适应,适应[环境]ad一再+apt适应,能力→一再适应[环境]
同义词辨析
这些名词均可表示人的”能力,才能”之意。
- ability:普通用词,指人先天的或学来的各种能力。
- capacity:侧重指人的潜在能力,通常不指体力,多指才智,尤指接受与领悟能力。
- capability:多用于人,指胜任某项具体工作的能力,也指本身具有、尚未发挥的潜在能力。常与of或for连用。
- genius:语气最强,指天赋的高度才能与智力。
- talent:着重指人某方面具有可发展和培养的突出天赋才能,但语意比genius弱。
- competence:正式用词,侧重指令人满意的业务能力与水平,达到胜任某项工作等的要求。
- faculty:指特殊的才能或智力。
- gift:着重个人的天赋的才能或在某方面的显著本领,常暗含不能用一般规律作解释的意味。
- aptitude:多指先天或后天习得的运用自如的能力,常暗示接受能力强,能迅速掌握一种学术训练或艺术技巧。
同义词
wit / brilliance / genius / intelligence / cleverness / proficiency / keenness / mother / perspicacity
gift / talent / facility / bent / capacity / flair / proneness / endowment / inclination / skill / faculty / tendentiousness / penchant / knack / ability / propensity / capability / proclivity
brain / tendency / understanding / intellect / fitness