invite

英 [?n'va?t] 美[?n'va?t]

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第三人稱單數:?invites;過去式:?invited;過去分詞:?invited;現在分詞:?inviting;

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。

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’.
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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!": “我們請她來吃晚飯吧。”——“除非我死了！”

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？”

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。

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。