compose

英[k?m'p??z] 美[k?m'poz]

第三人稱單數:?composes;過去式:?composed;過去分詞:?composed;現在分詞:?composing;

1. com- "together" + pos- + -e.
2. 含義："put together, arrange, write" a work.
3. com- "intensive prefix" + pos- (paus-) + -e.

compose 組成

com-, 強調。-pos, 放置，詞源同opponent, position. 即放在一起的。

compose: compose: [15] Etymologically, compose means simply ‘put together’; it comes, via Old French composer, from compos-, the perfect stem of Latin compōnere, a compound verb formed from the prefix com- ‘with’ and pōnere ‘place, put’, source of English position. Amongst its many descendants and derivatives are compound, component [17] (from the Latin present participle compōnent-), composite [16] (from the Latin past participle compositus), and compost [14] (which originally meant ‘stewed fruit’, like the later-borrowed compote [17]).
=> component, composite, compost, compote, compound, position
compose (v.): c. 1400, compousen, from Old French composer "put together, arrange, write" a work (12c.), from com- "with" (see com-) + poser "to place," from Late Latin pausare "to cease, lay down" (see pause (n.)). Meaning influenced in Old French by componere (see composite; also see pose (v.)). Musical sense is from 1590s. Related: Composed; composing.

1. They must each compose a poem in strict alliterative metre.: 他們必須每人作一首嚴格押頭韻的詩。

2. Protein molecules compose all the complex working parts of living cells.: 活細胞中所有復雜的運行成分都由蛋白質分子構成。

3. Most software programs allow you to compose emails offline.: 大部分軟件程序允許用戶在脫機狀態下寫電子郵件。