纽约时报 | 外刊每日一词 · capacious

capacious

adj. /kəˈpeɪʃəs/

having a large capacity or plenty of space; able to contain much. 宽敞的；容积大的；广阔的

Etymology 词源

源自拉丁语 capax（意为 “能容纳的”），词根为 capere（to hold /to take，容纳、拿取），与同根词 capacity（n. 容量；能力）同源。

Synonyms 近义表达

spacious, roomy, ample

Collocations 固定搭配

capacious room/house 宽敞的房间 / 房屋

capacious bag/pocket 大容量的包 / 口袋

capacious memory 广博的记忆力

capacious mind/heart 开阔的心智；宽广的胸怀

New York Times

The word capacious has appeared 82 times on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Oct. 31 in The New York Times Magazine article "'Frankenstein' Has Always Held Up a Mirror. What Does It Show Us Now?" by Parul Sehgal:

capacious一词在过去一年里于《纽约时报》官网出现过 82 次，其中就包括 10 月 31 日《纽约时报杂志》中，帕鲁尔・塞哈格所写文章 ——《〈弗兰肯斯坦〉始终如一面明镜，它如今为我们映照出什么？》：

If Victor was so brilliant and could animate flesh, why couldn't he reanimate an intact body? But this was Shelley's "work," in every sense, the piecing and patching together of parts, of sewing the clothes that might bear a body through new life and death, of weaving a story capacious enough to contain her prodigious self-education, the pain of losing her children, her mother's absence, her father's abandonment, the exhilaration of thinking alongside her husband and friends.

倘若维克多天资卓绝，尚能赋予血肉生命，又为何无法令一具完整的躯体死而复生？可这恰恰是雪莱全方位意义上的 “创作”：将肢体残片拼接缝合，缝制出足以承载一具躯体历经新生与死亡的衣衫，编织出一段格局宏阔的叙事，足以容纳她惊人的自学历程、丧子之痛、母亲缺位的遗憾、父亲遗弃的苦楚，以及与丈夫和挚友并肩思辨的酣畅。