salient
salient 英 [ˈseɪliənt] 美 [ˈseliənt, ˈseljənt]
adj. 显著的；突出的；跳跃的 n. 凸角；突出部分
名词复数:salients
- If something stands out in a very obvious way, it can be called salient. It's time to find new friends if the differences between you and your current friends are becoming more and more salient.
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- adj. 显著的；突出的；跳跃的
- n. 凸角；突出部分
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1. One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much [bull].
我们的文化最显著的特色之一就是有太多的扯淡。
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2. Both pain and pleasure are salient.
其实痛苦与快乐都很突出。
- salient (adj.) 1560s, "leaping," a heraldic term, from Latin salientem (nominative saliens), present participle of salire "to leap," from a PIE root of uncertain form (source also of Sanskrit sisarsi, sisrate "to flow, run, hurry;"Greek hallesthai "to leap," Middle Irish saltraim "I trample," Middle Welsh sathar "trampling").
- salient (n.) 1828, from salient (adj.).
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