compound
compound 英 [ˈkɒmpaʊnd] 美 [ˈkɑmpaʊnd]
n. [化学] 化合物；混合物 adj. 复合的；混合的 v. 合成，混合；恶化
进行时:compounding 过去式:compounded 过去分词:compounded 第三人称单数:compounds 名词复数:compounds
- If you compound a problem you add something to it to make it worse, like say, putting water on a grease fire. Compound means to combine; a compound is a combination or mixture of two or more things.
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- n. [化学] 化合物；混合物
- adj. 复合的；混合的
- v. 合成，混合；恶化
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1. Common salt is a compound of sodium and chlorine.
普通食盐是钠和氯的化合物。
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2. a prison compound
监狱场地
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3. A compound sentence contains two or more clauses.
复合句包含两个或多个从句。
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4. The problems were compounded by severe food shortages.
严重的食物短缺使问题进一步恶化。
- compound (adj.) late 14c., originally compouned, "composed of two or more elements, mixed, blended," past participle of compounen (see compound (v.)). Of flowers from 1660s; compound eye is attested from 1836; compound sentence, one consisting of two or more full clauses, is from 1772.
- compound (n.1) "enclosed residence," 1670s, "the enclosure for a factory or settlement of Europeans in the East," via Dutch (kampoeng) or Portuguese, from Malay (Austronesian) kampong "village, group of buildings." Spelling influenced by compound (v.). Later used of South African diamond miners' camps (1893), then of large fenced-in residences generally (1946).
- compound (n.2) "a compound thing, something produced by the combination of two or more ingredients," mid-15c., from compound (adj.).
- compound (v.) late 14c., compounen, "to put together, to mix, to combine; to join, couple together," from Old French compondre, componre "arrange, direct," and directly from Latin componere "to put together," from com "with, together" (see com-) + ponere "to place" (see position (n.)). The unetymological -d appeared 1500s in English by the same process that yielded expound, propound, etc. Intransitive sense is from 1727. Related: Compounded; compounding.
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