invite
英 [ɪn'vaɪt]
美 [ɪn'vaɪt]
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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。
- 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.).
- 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！”
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- 2. I invite every citizen to carefully study the document.
- 我请每位市民都仔细研读该文件。
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- 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？”
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- 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。
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- 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。
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