sophisticate: [14] As those who hanker for the ancestral meanings of words never tire of pointing out, sophisticated originally meant ‘adulterated, corrupted’. The modern approbatory sense ‘worldly-wise, cultured’ did not emerge (via an intermediate ‘lacking primitive or original naturalness or naivety’) until the end of the 19th century; and ‘refined and elaborate’ (as in ‘a sophisticated missile system’) is more recent still, not being recorded until after World War II.
The verb was adapted from the past participle of medieval Latin sophisticāre. This was derived from Latin sophisticus, a borrowing from Greek sophistikós, which in turn was derived from sophistés, a noun which meant literally ‘expert, deviser’, but was also used for a school of 5thcentury BC Greek philosophers (the Sophists) who came to be despised for their specious and intellectually dishonest reasoning (hence English sophistry [14]). Sophistés itself came via sophízesthai ‘play subtle tricks’ from sophós ‘skilled, clever, wise’, a word of unknown origin. Sophomore ‘second-year student’ [17] is an alteration of an earlier sophumer ‘arguer’, a derivative of sophum, which is a now defunct variant of sophism. => sophistry, sophomore
sophisticate (v.)
c. 1400, "make impure by admixture," from Medieval Latin sophisticatus, past participle of sophisticare (see sophistication). From c. 1600 as "corrupt, delude by sophistry;" from 1796 as "deprive of simplicity." Related: Sophisticated; sophisticating. As a noun meaning "sophisticated person" from 1921.
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1. Daniel Wong a smile a sophisticate smile that inspired the reporters.
黃博士臉上露出的一絲深沉的微笑啟迪了在場記者.
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2. You are a sophisticate.
你是見過世面的人.
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3. But the deeper you understand the sophisticate mankind, the more desperate you feel.
但你愈是了解復雜的人類, 你愈是感到沮喪絕望.
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4. Peonies You are sophisticate. You believe things should be done right or not at all.
如果你喜歡牡丹,你是個成熟、老練的人. 你認為事情要么一定要做好,要么壓根兒就不去做它.
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5. The relation of the literature and history were presented by way of entwine mutually of sophisticate.