extant
- adj. 现存的;显著的
中文词源
ex-, 向外。-st, 站,词源同stand, exist. 即还存在的。
英文词源
- extant (adj.)
- 1540s, "standing out above a surface," from Latin extantem (nominative extans), present participle of extare "stand out, be visible, exist," from ex- "out" (see ex-) + stare "to stand," from PIE root *sta- "to stand" (see stet). Sense of "in existence" attested in English by 1560s. Related: Extance; extancy, both 17c., both obsolete.
双语例句
- 1. Two fourteenth-century manuscripts of this text are still extant.
- 这个文本仍有两份14世纪手抄本存世。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. extant remains of the ancient wall
- 尚存的古城墙遗迹
来自《权威词典》
- 3. Some of Washington's letter are extant.
- 华盛顿的有些信件仍然被保留着.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 4. The oldest extant document is dated 1492.
- 现存最古老的文献出自1492年。
来自辞典例句
- 5. This is the only picture extant of a stereognathus.
- 这是仅存的一幅始祖鸟画像.
来自辞典例句