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扩展解释:
a.1. 渴望的,2. 【语】(指动词)表示愿望的,n.1. 【语】愿望动词
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adjective
1.(in Latin and other inflected languages) denoting a verb formed from another and expressing a desire to do the act denoted by the root verb (such as Latin esurire ‘want to eat’, from edere ‘eat’).
‘This traditional interpretation had to be systematically verified for two reasons: the first was to explain the specificity of the category _desiderative_ inside the complex verbal system of Vedic, and the second was the need to elucidate its historical links, currently claimed by most Indo-Europeanists, with other formally similar categories like the future in Old Greek and Celtic.’
‘An interrogative use of shall with the first person subject forms what we might call _desiderative_ .’
2.Having, expressing, or relating to desire.
‘There is a _desiderative_ state in the animal, which programmes it to pursue or avoid certain things (or, more generally, to act) in various circumstances.’
‘But many of the same issues arise for _desiderative_ conceptions of the good as well, and it will be useful to discuss these at points.’
noun
1.A desiderative verb.
‘And the data also shows that the learner misunderstands how to make the Japanese _desideratives_ polite.’
‘Verbs comprise verbal roots, but also their variations with prefix strings of preverb particles, and secondary formations for causatives, intensives and _desideratives_ .’
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