喜樂美語

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Picture the moment of arrival, and the first thing that meets whoever has just arrived: a person saying hello, a crowd's reaction to a piece of news, or the smell of bread as you open the door. Greet is always about what comes to meet you at the threshold.

可以想成：某個人或某件事剛剛抵達，而畫面裡第一個迎上來的是什麼——可能是一個開口打招呼的人，可能是一群人對一則消息的…更多收起可以想成：某個人或某件事剛剛抵達，而畫面裡第一個迎上來的是什麼——可能是一個開口打招呼的人，可能是一群人對一則消息的反應，也可能是你推開門時撲鼻而來的麵包香。greet 講的一直是「在門口迎上來的那個東西」。

From the picture

以某種態度回應

抵達的東西從人換成消息或做法，迎上去的則是眾人的反應：那個反應就是它一進門收到的招呼。

react to news · verb · B1

If people greet news, an idea, or an action in a particular way, they react to it with that feeling.

以…態度回應；引起…反應

迎面而來的景象

這次迎上來的是景象、聲音或氣味：你一進門，它就在那裡等著你。

first thing noticed · verb · B1

Literary: if a sight, sound, or smell greets you, it is the first thing you notice when you arrive somewhere.

映入眼簾；撲鼻而來；迎面傳來

Also in this word

say hello · verb · B1

To say hello to someone in a friendly way, especially when you or they have just arrived.

問候；打招呼；迎接

原始詞典資料13 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。

Greetname

  • 1

    A surname.

  • 2

    A village in Winchcombe parish, Tewkesbury borough, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SP0229).

  • 3

    A hamlet in Swale borough, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ9255)

  • 4

    A suburb in the City of Birmingham, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SP1084).

  • 5

    A minor river in Nottinghamshire, England, which joins the River Trent at Fiskerton (Notts.).

greetverb詞源 1/ɡɹiːt/

  • 1

    To welcome in a friendly manner, either in person or through another means such as writing.

    • My lord, the mayor of London comes to greet you.
    • Warwick observed, as they passed through the respectable quarter, that few people who met the girl greeted her, and that some others whom she passed at gates or doorways gave her no sign of recognition; from which he inferred that she was possibly a visitor in the town and not well acquainted.
  • 2

    To arrive at or reach, or meet.

    • In vain the Spring my Senſes greets / In all her Colours, all her Svveets; / To me the Roſe / No longer glovvs, / Every Plant / Has loſt its Scent: […]
    • Way deep in left field, where the carpet of green sloped upward to a terrace and greeted the thick line of trees, he reached out his glove.
  • 3

    To accost; to address.

    • Fair on his feet the polish'd sandals shine, And thus he greets the master of the swine:
    • I can be active as long as I stay in the closet. If I go forth as who I am, I will be greeted with closed doors.
  • 4

    archaicTo meet and give salutations.

    • There greet in silence, as the dead are wont, And sleep in peace.
  • 5

    To be perceived by (someone).

    • A brilliant dawn greeted her eyes as she looked out of the window.
    • Muggy heat—temperature in the 90s and high humidity—greeted early arrivals for the 72-hole, three-day test, rated the hardest and most important in the sport.

greetadj詞源 2/ɡɹiːt/

  • 1

    Great.

greetverb詞源 3/ɡɹiːt/

  • 1

    To weep; to cry.

    • And damn't! if he didn't take down her bit things and scone her so sore she grat like a bairn [...].
    • My maw went potty and started greeting.

greetnoun詞源 3/ɡɹiːt/

  • 1

    obsoleteMourning, weeping, lamentation.

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。