equip: [16] Etymologically, equip means ‘fit out or provide crew for a ship’. Its immediate source was French équiper, but this appears to have been a borrowing from Old Norse skipa ‘fit out a ship’, a verb derived from skip ‘ship’ (first cousin of English ship). The carliest examples of its use in English are in the much broader sense ‘supply with necessary materials’, and its specific links with the sea were soon severed. => ship
equip (v.)
1520s, from Middle French équiper "to fit out," from Old French esquiper "fit out a ship, load on board" (12c.), probably from Old Norse skipa "arrange, place in order," usually "fit out a ship," but also of warriors manning a hall and trees laden with ripe fruit, from skip "ship" (see ship (n.)). Related: Equipped; equipping. Similar words in Spanish and Portuguese ultimately are from Germanic.
雙語例句
1. Owners of restaurants would have to equip them to admit disabled people.
餐廳老板將必須在餐廳里配備能夠接納殘疾人的設(shè)施。
來自柯林斯例句
2. Your education will equip you to earn a good living.
你所受的教育會使你過上富裕的生活.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
3. We equip our children with a good education.
我們使孩子們受到良好的教育.
來自《現(xiàn)代英漢綜合大詞典》
4. So he gives millions of yuan to equip others for their research in agriculture.
equip為及物動詞,在此作“使有能力;使有資格;賦予”解.
來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
5. The country did not possess the modern guns to equip the reserve army properly.