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 opportune [,ɒpә'tju:n]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 恰好的, 时机适宜的, 适当的



    opportune
    [ adj ]
    suitable or at a time that is suitable or advantageous especially for a particular purpose
    <adj.all>
    an opportune place to make campan opportune arrival


    Opportune \Op`por*tune"\, a. [F. opporiun, L. opportunus, lit.,
    at or before the port; ob (see {Ob-}) + a derivative of
    portus port, harbor. See {Port} harbor.]
    Convenient; ready; hence, seasonable; timely. --Milton.

    This is most opportune to our need. --Shak.
    -- {Op`por*tune"ly}, adv. --
    {Op`por*tune"ness}, n.


    Opportune \Op`por*tune"\, v. t.
    To suit. [Obs.] --Dr. Clerke(1637).

    1. 'We believe this deal will enable us to compete with anyone,' he said. Hillsdown's timing may also be opportune.
    2. Their eagerly awaited premiere in Japan comes at a particularly opportune time, because Japanese stock prices have been trading near their record highs.
    3. "It's a very opportune moment to start making investments," he said.
    4. We just felt the time was opportune.' The decision appears to reflect concern in Kuala Lumpur that the ban was adversely affecting its economy.
    5. The coffee was especially famous - the best purgative in the east. At opportune times, as in the middle of Christmas dinner, the owner would have full-blooded arguments with his wife.
    6. The official rate is now abolished - so the government must buy foreign exchange at market prices. Finance ministry officials argue that now is an opportune time to end their squeeze and float the rupee.
    7. "I don't think it's the opportune time" to make such an investment, said Luc van Lent, an analyst at Swiss Bank Corp. in London.
    8. "In the spirit of national reconciliation which I am trying to encourage in our long-suffering Nicaragua, this is an opportune moment to make this pardon effective," Mrs. Chamorro's letter said.
    9. He said he's advising clients that now is an opportune time to buy both stocks.
    10. An opportune moment would be in the next few months, in time to hold a presidential election before the March 1993 parliamentary election.
    11. In January 1993, he and Mr Ko signed a manufacturing agreement in London, but it was only yesterday that the financial structure of Avro was resolved. For Taiwan, the offer from BAe came at an opportune time.
    12. He termed threatening to shut down the satellites a "pretty expensive game of chicken." President Bush, forced by a winter storm to cancel a trip to Pennsylvania and Delaware, decided it was "an opportune moment to stay indoors."
    13. A joint communique described the talks as "positive, opportune and constructive, particularly at this critical state of developments in Angola." The statement said the leaders agreed on the need for more discussions.
    14. The statement comes at an opportune time in the continuing debate over the governmental response to the Oct. 19 crash.
    15. And I hope you won't think it excessive opportune if I use the words of a Soviet filmmaker to explain one of them.
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