喜樂美語
  1. 1(動詞)交談；(名詞)相反的說法

    This word has two very different uses. As a verb (said as "con-VERSE"), to converse means to talk with someone. As a noun or adjective (said as "CON-verse"), the converse of a statement is its reversed or opposite version, often used in logic or math — for example, the converse of "if it rains, the ground gets wet" is "if the ground is wet, it rained," which isn't always true.

core核心畫面

組成The two meanings actually come from two different Latin words that both ended up spelled "converse" in English — one about keeping company and talking, the other about turning something around.

同家族的字

  • conversationshares the root behind the "talk" meaning
  • convertshares the root behind the "opposite/reverse" meaning

原始詞典資料11 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Conversename

  • 1

    A surname.

  • 2

    A shoe of an American-based brand of that name.

converseverb詞源 1/kənˈvɜːs/

  • 1

    formalTo talk; to engage in conversation.

    • Companions[…] That do converse and waste the time together.
    • We had conversed so often on that subject.
  • 2

    To keep company; to hold intimate intercourse; to commune.

    • To seek the distant hills, and there converse With nature.
    • But to converse with heaven — This is not easy.
  • 3

    obsoleteTo have knowledge of something, from long talk or study.

    • according as the objects they converse with afford greater or less variety

conversenoun詞源 1/kənˈvɜːs/

  • 1

    literaryFree verbal interchange of thoughts or views; conversation; chat.

    • Twice ere the sun descends, with zeal inspir'd, / From the vain converse of the world retir'd, / She reads the psalms and chapters for the day […]
    • [R]eturn to thy maſter, and tell him, e'er vve liquidate our differences by the ſvvord, Manfred vvould hold ſome converſe vvith him.

converseadj詞源 2/ˈkɒnvɜːs/

  • 1

    Opposite; reversed in order or relation; reciprocal.

    • a converse proposition

conversenoun詞源 2/ˈkɒnvɜːs/

  • 1

    The opposite or reverse.

  • 2

    human-scienceslogicmathematicsOf a proposition or theorem consisting of a statement of the form "If A is true, then B is true", the statement "If B is true, then A is true" which need not be equivalent to the first one.

    • All trout are fish, but the converse, that all fish are trout, is not true.
  • 3

    human-scienceslinguisticssciencesOne of a pair of terms that name or describe a relationship from opposite perspectives; converse antonym; relational antonym.

  • 4

    graph-theorymathematicssciencesSynonym of transpose.

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