• adj. 有彈性的；靈活的；易伸縮的
• n. 松緊帶；橡皮圈

來自希臘文elastos, 延展的，有彈性的。

elastic

elastic: [17] Greek elaúnein meant ‘drive’. From it was derived the late Greek adjective elastikós, which had the sense ‘driving, propelling’. Its Latin version elasticus was used by the French scientist Jean Pecquet (1622–74) in describing the expansive properties of gases, and that is the sense in which it was originally adopted into English. Its transference to the wider meaning ‘returning to a former state after contracting’ took place towards the end of the 17th century.

elastic (adj.)

1650s, formerly also elastick, coined in French (1650s) as a scientific term to describe gases, from Modern Latin elasticus, from Greek elastos "ductile, flexible," related to elaunein "to strike, beat out," which is of uncertain origin; according to Watkins from an extended form of the PIE base *ele- "to go." Applied to solids from 1670s. Figurative use by 1859. The noun meaning "piece of elastic material," originally a cord or string woven with rubber, is from 1847, American English.

1. Pull the elastic tight and knot the ends.

把橡皮筋拽緊，兩頭打上結。

來自柯林斯例句

2. This skirt needs some new elastic in the waist.

這條裙子需要換一根松緊腰帶。

來自《權威詞典》

3. The new policy was sufficiently elastic to accommodate both views.

新政策充分靈活地適用兩種觀點.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

4. I stretched that piece of elastic to its fullest extent.

我將這條橡皮筋拉長到最大限度.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

5. She tied the end of her pigtails with an elastic band.

她用一根松緊帶扎緊辮梢.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》