invite
英 [?n'va?t]
美[?n'va?t]
- vt. 邀請，招待；招致
- n. 邀請
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詞態變化
第三人稱單數:?invites;過去式:?invited;過去分詞:?invited;現在分詞:?inviting;
中文詞源
invite 邀請，招致
來自拉丁語invito,邀請，挑戰，來自in-,進入，使，-vit,詞義不詳，來自可能PIE*weie,追尋，尋求，詞源同virile,Venus,或來自PIE*wekw,說，肯請，詞源同voice,invoke.引申詞義引來麻煩，招致麻煩。現主要用于邀請義，挑戰義已不再使用。
英文詞源
- invite
- invite: [16] Invite comes from Latin invitāre, probably by way of French inviter, but there our certain knowledge of its ancestry ends; for the Latin verb is something of a mystery word. No one is too sure where the element -vitāre comes from. One suggestion is that it is related to Greek hiesthai ‘be desirous of’.
=> vie - invite (v.)
- 1530s, a back-formation from invitation, or else from Middle French inviter, from Latin invitare "to invite," also "to summon, challenge." As a noun variant of invitation it is attested from 1650s. Related: Invited; inviting.
- invite (n.)
- 1650s, from invite (v.).
雙語例句
- 1. "Let's invite her to dinner." — "Over my dead body!"
- “我們請她來吃晚飯吧。”——“除非我 了！”
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. I invite every citizen to carefully study the document.
- 我請每位市民都仔細研讀該文件。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. "Look," she said, getting a brainstorm, "Why don't you invite them here?"
- “對了，”她靈機一動說道，“你干嗎不請他們到這兒來？”
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. He denounced the decision to invite his fellow archbishop to preach.
- 他痛斥了邀請其他大主教同仁布道的決定。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. Their refusal to compromise will inevitably invite more criticism from the UN.
- 他們拒絕妥協必然會引發聯合國的更多批評。
來自柯林斯例句