late 15c., from Middle French mobile (14c.), from Latin mobilis "movable, easy to move; loose, not firm," figuratively, "pliable, flexible, susceptible, nimble, quick; changeable, inconstant, fickle," contraction of *movibilis, from movere "to move" (see move (v.)). Sociology sense from 1927. Mobile home first recorded 1940.
Mobile
city in Alabama, U.S., attested c. 1540 in Spanish as Mauvila, referring to an Indian group and perhaps from Choctaw (Muskogean) moeli "to paddle." Related: Mobilian.
mobile (n.)
early 15c. in astronomy, "outer sphere of the universe," from mobile (adj.); the artistic sense is first recorded 1949 as a shortening of mobile sculpture (1936). Now-obsolete sense of "the common people, the rabble" (1670s) led to mob (n.).
雙語例句
1. In the summer her mobile home heats up like an oven.
夏天一到，她的活動住房就變得像烤爐一樣熱。
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2. Most mobile robots are still in the design stage.
大多數移動機器人仍處在設計階段。
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3. The Party has been unable to attract upwardly mobile voters.
該黨一直不能吸引那些追求更高社會地位的選民。
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4. The mobile phone business was actually his bread and butter.
移動電話業(yè)務實際上是他的主業(yè)。
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5. There has been consistent growth in GSM mobile subscribers.