• vt. 挑选；选拔
• adj. 精选的；挑选出来的；极好的
• vi. 挑选
• n. 被挑选者；精萃

se-,分开，-lect,拿，收集，词源同 collect,elect.即拿出来，分开，引申词义选择。

select

select: [16] Select is one of a wide range of English words that go back ultimately to Latin legere ‘choose’ or its past participle lectus (others include collect and elect and, from its later extended meaning ‘read’, lectern and lecture). Addition of the prefix sē- ‘apart’ produced sēligere ‘choose out’, whose past participle sēlectus gave English select, both as adjective and verb.
=> collect, elect, lecture, legible

select (adj.)

1560s, from Latin selectus, past participle of seligere "choose out, single out, select; separate, cull," from se- "apart" (see secret (n.)) + legere "to gather, select" (see lecture (n.)). The noun meaning "a selected person or thing, that which is choice" is recorded from c. 1600. New England selectman first recorded 1640s.

select (v.)

"to single out one or more out of a number of things of the same kind," 1560s, from select (adj.) or from Latin selectus. Related: Selected; selecting.

1. The floorcovering you select will need to be impervious to water.

挑选的地板材料必须是防水的。

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2. A ferocious battle to select a new parliamentary candidate is in progress.

推选一位新的议会候选人的激战正酣。

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3. Christian Lacroix is throwing a very lavish and very select party.

克里斯汀·拉克鲁瓦正在举办一个非常豪华的上流聚会。

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4. Select "Delete all" from the drop-down list.

在下拉列表项中选择“全部删除”。

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5. Be sure to select firm, unblemished fruit.

一定要选坚实、无疤痕的果子。

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