喜樂美語

核心畫面

Picture yourself present at something — you are physically there, in the room, for the duration. That being-there is the picture inside attend. Stretch it over a long period and it becomes going regularly; put a person at the centre of it and being there turns into looking after them; take the person away and one event simply accompanies another.

可以想成：你人在現場——在那個房間裡，從頭待到尾。attend 的核心比較像這個「人在那裡」。把它拉長成一段時間，就…更多收起可以想成：你人在現場——在那個房間裡，從頭待到尾。attend 的核心比較像這個「人在那裡」。把它拉長成一段時間，就變成固定去某個地方；把一個需要人的病人放在中間，「在旁邊」就成了照料；把人整個拿掉，只剩下兩件事同時在場，就是「伴隨」。所以理解這個字，先抓住「在場」再看是誰在場。

From the picture

在旁邊照料

在場的對象換成一個需要人的人：待在他身邊，並且做事情照顧他。

care for (patient) · verb · B1

To take care of someone, especially someone ill, often as a doctor or nurse.

照料／看護

兩件事同時發生

在場的不是人而是事：某個狀況一直跟著另一個狀況出現，像隨行一樣。

accompany; go with · verb · B1

To come along with something else, happening or existing alongside it.

伴隨

Also in this word

attend an event · verb · B1

To go to an event such as a meeting, class, or ceremony.

出席／參加

attend regularly · verb · B1

To go regularly to a school, church, or similar place.

就讀／定期參加

原始詞典資料22 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

attendverb/əˈtɛnd/

  • 1

    Senses relating to caring for or waiting on someone, or accompanying or being present.

    • The fift [beadsman] had charge ſick perſons to attend, / And comfort thoſe, in point of death vvhich lay; […]
    • VVe had at this Time a great many frightful Stories told us of Nurſes and VVatchmen, vvho looked after the dying People, that is to ſay, hir'd Nurſes, vvho attended infected People, uſing them barbarouſly, ſtarving them, ſmothering them, or by other vvicked Means, haſtening their End, that is to ſay, murthering of them: […]
  • 2

    Senses relating to caring for or waiting on someone, or accompanying or being present.

    • Servants attend the king day and night.
    • I thinke your Lordſhip is not ignorant / Hovv his companion, youthfull Valentine, / Attends the Emperour in his royall Court.
  • 3

    Senses relating to caring for or waiting on someone, or accompanying or being present.

    • Children must attend primary school.
    • Andreas too attended Church; yet more like a parade-duty, for which he in the other world expected pay with arrears,— […]
  • 4

    Senses relating to caring for or waiting on someone, or accompanying or being present.

  • 5

    Senses relating to caring for or waiting on someone, or accompanying or being present.

    • a measure attended with ill effects
    • [I] haue alſo attended them vvith briefe obſeruations, ſuch as to my vnderſtandinge, offer noe violence to the ſence, though I knovve they may bee applyed to a more diuine vſe: […]
  • 6

    archaicobsoleteSenses relating to caring for or waiting on someone, or accompanying or being present.

    • They [plate and jewels] are in a Trunke / Attended by my men: I vvill make bold / To ſend them to you, onely for this night: […]
    • One ſeek the harbour vvhere the veſſels moor, / And bring thy friends, Telemachus! aſhore, / (Leave only tvvo the gally to attend) / Another to Laerceus muſt vve ſend, […]
  • 7

    Senses relating to caring for or waiting on someone, or accompanying or being present.

    • Valets attend to their employers’ wardrobes.
    • Lenny still went to church—a church a long way off in another parish—but the sermons did not do him the same good as Parson Dale's had done; and the clergyman, who had his own flock to attend to, did not condescend, as Parson Dale would have done, to explain what seemed obscure, and enforce what was profitable, in private talk, with that stray lamb from another's fold.
  • 8

    Senses relating to caring for or waiting on someone, or accompanying or being present.

    • [H]e entertained a gard of three thovvſand about him, beſides a band of young gentlemen of the order of knightes that attended alvvayes upon his perſone ready at commaundement, vvhom he called the garde againſt the Senate.
    • Th' officious Nymphs, attending in a Ring, / VVith VVaters dravvn from their perpetual Spring, / From earthly dregs his Body purify, / And rub his Temples, vvith fine Tovvels, dry: / Then load the Tables vvith a lib'ral Feaſt, / And honour vvith full Bovvls their friendly Gueſt.
另外 14 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    Senses relating to caring for or waiting on someone, or accompanying or being present.

    • He died (according to Hermippas) at Piſa, embracing his ſon, victor in the Olympick games, of the cæſtus, the vveakneſſe of his age overcome vvith exceſſe of joy; all vvho vvere preſent at the great aſſembly attended on his funeralls, […]
    • All persons, of whatever rank, attended at the County Courts, but they did not go there as judges, they went to sue for justice; to be informed of their duty, and to be bound to the performance of it. Thus all sorts of people attended at the Wittenagemotes, not to make laws, but to attend at the promulgation of the laws; as among so free a people every institution must have wanted much of its necessary authority, if not confirmed by the general approbation.
  • 10

    Senses relating to caring for or waiting on someone, or accompanying or being present.

    • Secretaries attend to correspondence.
    • [T]he two captains, Peleg and Bildad, could attend to everything necessary to fit the vessel for the voyage.
  • 11

    Senses relating to caring for or waiting on someone, or accompanying or being present.

    • But I aſſeſt the gods, your full conſent, / Gaue vvings to my propenſion, and cut off / All feares attending on ſo dire a proiect, […]
    • [K]novvledge dravvne freſhly and in our vievv out of particulers, knovveth the vvaie beſt to particulers againe. And it hath much greater life for practiſe: vvhen the diſcourſe attendeth vpon the Example, then vvhen the example attenddeth^([sic]) vpon the diſcourſe.
  • 12

    archaicSenses relating to directing one's attention.

    • Pyrocles minde was all thius while so fixed upon another devotion, that he no more attentively marked his friends discourse, then […] the diligent pilot in a dangerous tempest doth attend the unskilful words of a passinger: […]
    • Avvay, I do condemne mine eares, that haue / So long attended thee.
  • 13

    obsoleteSenses relating to directing one's attention.

    • If thou attendeſt thy Philosophy, I am glad of it, for that in truth is to be in health. VVithout it the minde is ſicke, and the bodie alſo notvvithſtanding it be ſtrong and able: for it is no othervviſe healthie then as a man might ſay, the bodie of one that is madde and troubled vvith the frenſie.
    • Attend thy footſteps vvhen thou dravveſt near / The House of God; […]
  • 14

    Senses relating to directing one's attention.

    • Wherfore ye muſt needs be ſubiect [to rulers], not onely for wrath, but alſo for conſcience ſake. For, for this cauſe pay you tribute alſo: for they are Gods ministers, attending continually vpon this very thing.
    • [T]here is a Griſon Regiment kept ſtill in pay by the Spaniards, there are in it tvvelve Companies of fifty a piece, and the Captains have a thouſand Crovvns pay, tho they are not obliged to attend upon the ſervice: […]
  • 15

    archaicSenses relating to directing one's attention.

    • Thoſe Vnckles vvhich you vvant, vvere dangerous, / Your Grace attended to their ſugred vvords, / But lookt not on the poiſon of their hearts: […]
    • Heare the right, O Lord, attend vnto my crie, giue eare vnto my prayer, that goeth not out of fained lips.
  • 16

    archaicobsoleteSenses relating to waiting for something.

    • Ægyptian ingenuity vvas more unſatisfied, contriving their bodies in ſvveet conſiſtences, to attend the return of their ſouls. But all vvas vanity, feeding the vvinde, and folly.
    • Three days I promis'd to attend my Doom, / And tvvo long days and nights are yet to come: […]
  • 17

    archaicobsoleteSenses relating to waiting for something.

    • Yet ſatteſt thou an idle looker on, / And glad attendeſt vvhich ſide vvonne or loſt: […]
    • This offer vvas contumeliouſly rejected; the Capuans relying on their ovvne ſtrength, and the ſuccours attended from Hannibal.
  • 18

    archaicobsoleteSenses relating to waiting for something.

    • To him, I ſay, vvho hath a proſpect of the different State of perfect Happineſs or Miſery that attends all Men after this Life, depending on their Behaviour here, the meaſures of Good and Evil, that govern his choice, are mightily changed.
  • 19

    archaicobsoleteSenses relating to waiting for something.

    • […] God knocketh at the doore of our hearts, but vvorketh nothing in our hearts, till vve firſt of our ſelues aſſent to let him in. He attendeth till vve open him the gates, and then he vvith his heauenly gifts vvill enter in; […]
    • The lady attended as if ſhe expected I ſhould go on.
  • 20

    archaicobsoleterareSenses relating to waiting for something.

  • 21

    archaicobsoleteSenses relating to waiting for something.

  • 22

    obsoleteTo intend (something).

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。