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aspect
1、 A part of something.
2、 A certain way in which something appears or may be regarded.
🌱Many experts believe the mental aspect of distance racing is more important than the physical aspect. 🌳Since aspectus in Latin means "looked at," an aspect of something is basically the direction from which it's looked at. So we may say that travel is your favorite aspect of your job, or that eating well is one aspect of a healthy life. If you look at a stage set from the front, it looks completely different than from behind, where all the mechanisms are visible, and both aspects are important. The word can be very useful when you're analyzing something, and it's used a great deal in the writings of scholars. prospect 1、 The possibility that something will happen in the future.
2、 An opportunity for something to happen.
🌱There was little prospect of a breakthrough in the negotiations before the elections. 🌳Since the Latin prefix pro- often means "forward" （See PRO,） prospect refers to looking forward. The prospect of a recession may lead investors to pull their money out of the stock market. Graduates of a good law school usually have excellent prospects for finding employment. Prospective students roam campuses with their parents in the year before they plan to enter college. perspective 1、 Point of view; the angle, direction, or standpoint from which a person looks at something.
2、 The art or technique of painting or drawing a scene so that objects in it seem to have depth and distance.
🌱From the perspective of the lowly soldier, the war looked very different. 🌳To the modern mind, it's hard to believe that perspective had to be "discovered," but before the 1400s paintings simply lacked accurate perspective. Instead, important people and objects were simply shown larger than less important ones; and although distant objects were sometimes shown smaller than near ones, this wasn't done in a regular and accurate way. Just as odd, many paintings didn't represent the other meaning of perspective either—that is, a scene might not be shown as if it were being seen from one single place. Today, perspective is used much like standpoint. Just as standpoint once used to mean simply the physical place where you stand but today also means the way you "see" things as a result of who you are and what you do, the same could be said about perspective. prospectus A printed statement that describes something （such as a new business or a stock offering） and is sent out to people who may be interested in buying or investing.
🌱The prospectus for the mutual fund says nothing about how its profit forecasts were calculated. 🌳Like prospect, prospectus looks forward. Thus, a prospectus originally outlined something that didn't yet exist, describing what it would become. This might even be a book; the great dictionary of Noah Webster, like that of Samuel Johnson, was first announced in the form of a prospectus, so that well-to-do people might actually subscribe to it—that is, pay for it in advance so that Webster would have money to live on while writing it. Soon, prospectus was being used to mean a description of a private school or college, intended to attract new students. Today the word very often means a description of a stock offering or mutual fund, whether new or not.
2、 A certain way in which something appears or may be regarded.
🌱Many experts believe the mental aspect of distance racing is more important than the physical aspect. 🌳Since aspectus in Latin means "looked at," an aspect of something is basically the direction from which it's looked at. So we may say that travel is your favorite aspect of your job, or that eating well is one aspect of a healthy life. If you look at a stage set from the front, it looks completely different than from behind, where all the mechanisms are visible, and both aspects are important. The word can be very useful when you're analyzing something, and it's used a great deal in the writings of scholars. prospect 1、 The possibility that something will happen in the future.
2、 An opportunity for something to happen.
🌱There was little prospect of a breakthrough in the negotiations before the elections. 🌳Since the Latin prefix pro- often means "forward" （See PRO,） prospect refers to looking forward. The prospect of a recession may lead investors to pull their money out of the stock market. Graduates of a good law school usually have excellent prospects for finding employment. Prospective students roam campuses with their parents in the year before they plan to enter college. perspective 1、 Point of view; the angle, direction, or standpoint from which a person looks at something.
2、 The art or technique of painting or drawing a scene so that objects in it seem to have depth and distance.
🌱From the perspective of the lowly soldier, the war looked very different. 🌳To the modern mind, it's hard to believe that perspective had to be "discovered," but before the 1400s paintings simply lacked accurate perspective. Instead, important people and objects were simply shown larger than less important ones; and although distant objects were sometimes shown smaller than near ones, this wasn't done in a regular and accurate way. Just as odd, many paintings didn't represent the other meaning of perspective either—that is, a scene might not be shown as if it were being seen from one single place. Today, perspective is used much like standpoint. Just as standpoint once used to mean simply the physical place where you stand but today also means the way you "see" things as a result of who you are and what you do, the same could be said about perspective. prospectus A printed statement that describes something （such as a new business or a stock offering） and is sent out to people who may be interested in buying or investing.
🌱The prospectus for the mutual fund says nothing about how its profit forecasts were calculated. 🌳Like prospect, prospectus looks forward. Thus, a prospectus originally outlined something that didn't yet exist, describing what it would become. This might even be a book; the great dictionary of Noah Webster, like that of Samuel Johnson, was first announced in the form of a prospectus, so that well-to-do people might actually subscribe to it—that is, pay for it in advance so that Webster would have money to live on while writing it. Soon, prospectus was being used to mean a description of a private school or college, intended to attract new students. Today the word very often means a description of a stock offering or mutual fund, whether new or not.
SPECT comes from the Latin verb specere, meaning "to look at," and produces several familiar English words. Spectacles can be glasses that you look through; but a spectacle can also be a remarkable sight—in Roman times, perhaps a spectacular chariot race or a spectacularly bloody battle between gladiators and wild beasts, mounted for the pleasure of its spectators.🌸