done or achieved in a polite or friendly way and without arguing 心平氣和的;友善的 an amicable relationship 和睦的關系 An amicable settlement was reached. 已達成和解。 In spite of their disagreement they parted on amicable terms. 盡管有分歧,他們還是友好地分手了。 It was an amicable divorce. 那次離婚是和平分手。 The government and the union managed to reach an amicable settlement of the dispute. 政府和工會總算就糾紛達成了和解。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryAmicable is used with these nouns:- divorce
- parting
- settlement
- …
Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘pleasant, benign’, applied to things): from late Latin amicabilis, from Latin amicus ‘friend’.