| 单词 | especial |
| 释义 | especial (once / 40 pages) adj Something especial is even greater or more than it usually is. The letters you get from your Japanese pen pal will be of especial interest to your brother, who collects foreign stamps. You can use the adjective especial to emphasize the unusual or singular nature of something, or its importance. Doctors and nurses need to take especial care to wash their hands often, and it might give your grandmother especial joy to see all of her thirteen grandchildren pose for a photograph together. Especial is less common than its near-relation, special, and both words come from the Latin specialis, "particular." WORD FAMILYespecial: especially USAGE EXAMPLESIt is applied with notably especial enthusiasm to black women. The Guardian(Nov 12, 2016) Trump’s ties to the Kremlin and Russian President Vladimir Putin have faced especial scrutiny of late. Salon(Nov 01, 2016) The bulk of its sales now comes from Mexican beers like Corona Extra and Modelo Especial, which it bought for the U.S. market in 2013. Wall Street Journal(Oct 16, 2016) adj surpassing what is common or usual or expected he paid especial attention to her Syn exceptional, particular, special uncommon not common or ordinarily encountered; unusually great in amount or remarkable in character or kind |
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