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.).
雙語例句
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！”
來自柯林斯例句
2. I invite every citizen to carefully study the document.
我請每位市民都仔細(xì)研讀該文件。
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3. "Look," she said, getting a brainstorm, "Why don't you invite them here?"
“對了，”她靈機(jī)一動(dòng)說道，“你干嗎不請他們到這兒來？”
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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。
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5. Their refusal to compromise will inevitably invite more criticism from the UN.