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- facile[facile 词源字典]
- facile: see faculty
[facile etymology, facile origin, 英语词源] - facile (adj.)
- late 15c., "easy to do," from Middle French facile "easy," from Latin facilis "easy to do" and, of persons, "pliant, courteous, yielding," from facere "to do" (see factitious). Usually now with depreciatory implication. Of persons, "easily led," from 1510s.