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ecbatic

[ek'bætik]

adj. 表示结果而不表示目的或用意的

英文词源

ecbatic (adj.): "drawn from the relationship of cause and effect," especially of arguments, 1836, from ecbasis, from Latin ecbasis, from Greek ekbasis "a going out, issue, event," from ek- "out" (see ex-) + basis "a step, a base," from bainein "to go, step" (see come).