germane
/dʒɜːˈmeɪn/adjective
- relevant to a subject under consideration(与相关主题)有关的:
that is not germane to our theme.
这和我们的主题无关。
派生词
germanely
adverbgermaneness
noun词源
early 17th cent.: variant of GERMAN, with which it was synonymous from Middle English. The current sense has arisen from a usage in Shakespeare's Hamlet.