英语词汇option的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	option
词源	option [M16th] This goes back to Latin optare ‘choose’. Keep your options open is only recorded from the 1960s. You choose a specific child for adoption [ME] and this comes from the related word adopatare ‘choose for yourself’.
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