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appropriateness

/adjective uh-proh-pree-it; verb uh-proh-pree-eyt/US // adjective əˈproʊ pri ɪt; verb əˈproʊ priˌeɪt //

适当性,适宜性,恰当性,妥当性

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : suitable or fitting for a particular purpose, person, occasion, etc.: an appropriate example;an appropriate dress.
    • : belonging to or peculiar to a person; proper: Each played his appropriate part.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    ap·pro·pri·at·ed, ap·pro·pri·at·ing.

    • : to set apart, authorize, or legislate for some specific purpose or use: The legislature appropriated funds for the university.
    • : to take to or for oneself; take possession of.
    • : to take without permission or consent; seize; expropriate: He appropriated the trust funds for himself.
    • : to steal, especially to commit petty theft.

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Examples

  • We focus way more on potential for harm as a result of certain content being amplified on the platform without appropriate context.

  • The medical staff should be wearing appropriate personal protective equipment, and patients should keep their masks on at all times, only lowering them to half-mast for the swab.

  • Without the dogwood and magnolias, with leaves deciding which day to fall, perhaps this Masters should have some special distinction, appropriate to such a dreary yet invaluable semi-year of on-and-off sports.

  • Callers will be screened, and when appropriate for telephone reporting an officer will collect information.

  • To ensure you aren’t bogging down your site with heavy images, try using appropriate image types.

  • These decisions and criteria are referred to as “appropriateness.”

  • “NDSC is trying to decrease and change the appropriateness of imaging,” Bettmann said.

  • She felt so in awe that he expressed interest in her that she never questioned the appropriateness of some of his behavior.

  • There has always been a debate over the appropriateness of judicial review.

  • Marine Le Pen, meanwhile, openly questioned the appropriateness of a presidential candidate visiting the scene of the crime.

  • The question of appropriateness is relative to the particular object we have in view.

  • Human agency has further contributed to the appropriateness of the title.

  • This was Susy's part, and as she said it the audience did not fail to remember its literal appropriateness.

  • Patty realised the appropriateness of this phrase, and cudgelled her brain for an appropriate reply.

  • The appropriateness of this name is apparent to any who have visited the upper ice fields of the Winthrop and Emmons Glaciers.