invite
英 [ɪn'vaɪt]
美 [ɪn'vaɪt]
- vt.邀请,招待;招致
- n.邀请
中文词源
invite 邀请,招致
来自拉丁语invito,邀请,挑战,来自in-,进入,使,-vit,词义不详,来自可能PIE*weie,追寻,寻求,词源同virile,Venus,或来自PIE*wekw,说,肯请,词源同voice,invoke.引申词义引来麻烦,招致麻烦。现主要用于邀请义,挑战义已不再使用。
英文词源
- 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.).
双语例句
- 1. "Let's invite her to dinner." — "Over my dead body!"
- “我们请她来吃晚饭吧。”——“除非我死了!”
- 来自柯林斯例句
- 2. I invite every citizen to carefully study the document.
- 我请每位市民都仔细研读该文件。
- 来自柯林斯例句
- 3. "Look," she said, getting a brainstorm, "Why don't you invite them here?"
- “对了,”她灵机一动说道,“你干吗不请他们到这儿来?”
- 来自柯林斯例句
- 4. He denounced the decision to invite his fellow archbishop to preach.
- 他痛斥了邀请其他大主教同仁布道的决定。
- 来自柯林斯例句
- 5. Their refusal to compromise will inevitably invite more criticism from the UN.
- 他们拒绝妥协必然会引发联合国的更多批评。
- 来自柯林斯例句
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