guest
英 [gest]
美[ɡ?st]
- n. 客人，賓客；顧客
- vt. 款待，招待
- vi. 作客，寄宿
- adj. 客人的；特邀的，客座的
- n. (Guest)人名；(英)格斯特
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詞態(tài)變化
復(fù)數(shù):?guests;第三人稱單數(shù):?guests;過(guò)去式:?guested;過(guò)去分詞:?guested;現(xiàn)在分詞:?guesting;
中文詞源
guest 客人
來(lái)自PIE*ghos, 陌生人，客人，詞源同host, hospitable.
英文詞源
- guest
- guest: [13] Guest comes ultimately from the same source as produced host. Their family tree diverged in prehistoric times, but their close relationship is pointed up by the fact that the related French h?te means both ‘guest’ and ‘host’. The common ancestor was Indo- European *ghostis ‘stranger’, whose Germanic descendant *gastiz produced German and Dutch gast, Swedish g?st, Danish g?st, and English guest.
The Old English version of the word was giest, which would have produced modern English *yest, but it was elbowed out in Middle English times by Old Norse gestr. The spelling gu-, indicating a hard /g/ sound, developed in the 16th century.
=> host, xenophobia - guest (n.)
- Old English g?st, giest (Anglian gest) "an accidental guest, a chance comer, a stranger," from Proto-Germanic *gastiz (cognates: Old Frisian jest, Dutch gast, German Gast, Gothic gasts "guest," originally "stranger"), from PIE root *ghos-ti- "stranger, guest; host" (cognates: Latin hostis, in earlier use "a stranger," in classical use "an enemy," hospes "host," from *hosti-potis "host, guest," originally "lord of strangers;" Greek xenos "guest, host, stranger;" Old Church Slavonic gosti "guest, friend," gospodi "lord, master"); the root sense, according to Watkins, probably is "someone with whom one has reciprocal duties of hospitality," representing "a mutual exchange relationship highly important to ancient Indo-European society." But as strangers are potential enemies as well as guests, the word has a forked path.
Spelling evolution influenced by Old Norse cognate gestr (the usual sound changes from the Old English word would have yielded Modern English *yest). Meaning "person entertained for pay" (at an inn, etc.) is from late 13c. Old English also had cuma "stranger, guest," literally "a comer." Phrase be my guest in the sense of "go right ahead" first recorded 1955. - guest (v.)
- early 14c., "receive as a guest;" 1610s, "be a guest;" 1936, American English, "appear as a guest performer," from guest (n.). Related: Guested; guesting.
雙語(yǔ)例句
- 1. The duke was surprised by his wife's omission from the guest list.
- 公爵對(duì)他的夫人未在獲邀賓客之列感到意外。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 2. Murray was a guest on a live radio show.
- 默里在一個(gè)直播的電臺(tái)節(jié)目里當(dāng)嘉賓。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 3. The boy's room is a complete contrast to the guest room.
- 這個(gè)男孩的房間和客房截然不同。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 4. She has been deliberately left off the guest list.
- 她被故意排除在嘉賓名單之外。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 5. Hospitality at the Presidential guest house was graciously declined.
- 安排下榻總統(tǒng)賓館的接待被婉拒了。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
