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Picture two things coming from different directions and arriving at the same point, so they end up together: two people walking toward each other until they stand face to face. From this one picture grow all the others — meeting a deadline (you and the date arrive together on time), two roads meeting (they touch at one point), meeting a need (what you supply comes up to what was asked). The noun (a sports 'meet') is the same idea frozen into a thing: an occasion where people come together.

可以想成兩個東西從不同方向走過來、在同一個點上相遇、最後湊在一起：兩個人朝彼此走，直到面對面站著。meet 其他所有…更多收起可以想成兩個東西從不同方向走過來、在同一個點上相遇、最後湊在一起：兩個人朝彼此走，直到面對面站著。meet 其他所有意思都從這個畫面長出來——趕上期限（你和那個日期準時在同一點碰頭）、兩條路相交（在一個點接上）、滿足需求（你提供的剛好夠到對方要求的）。名詞的「運動會」則是把這個畫面定格成一件事：一場大家聚在一起的場合。

原始詞典資料21 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。

meetverb詞源 1/miːt/

  • 1

    To make contact (with someone) while in proximity.

    • Fancy meeting you here! Guess who I met at the supermarket today?
    • Yesterday, upon the stair I met a man who wasn’t there He wasn’t there again today I wish, I wish he’d go away[…]
  • 2

    To make contact (with someone) while in proximity.

    • Let's meet at the station at 9 o'clock.
    • With a little manœuvring they contrived to meet on the doorstep which was […] in a boiling stream of passers-by, hurrying business people speeding past in a flurry of fumes and dust in the bright haze.
  • 3

    To make contact (with someone) while in proximity.

    • I'm pleased to meet you! I'd like you to meet a colleague of mine.
    • I met my husband through a mutual friend at a party. It wasn't love at first sight; in fact, we couldn't stand each other at first!
  • 4

    To come together.

    • I met with them several times. The government ministers met today to start the negotiations.
    • At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.[…]In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
  • 5

    To come together.

    • Sir said Epynegrys is þᵗ the rule of yow arraunt knyghtes for to make a knyght to Iuste will he or nyll As for that sayd Dynadan make the redy for here is for me And there with al they spored theyr horses & mett to gyders soo hard that Epynegrys smote doune sir Dynadan
    • Weapons more violent, when next we meet, May serve to better us and worse our foes.
  • 6

    hobbieslifestylesportsTo come together.

    • England and Holland will meet in the final.
  • 7

    To make physical or perceptual contact.

    • The two streets meet at a crossroad half a mile away.
    • Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, her alluring smile; he could not tell what this prisoner might do
  • 8

    To make physical or perceptual contact.

    • The right wing of the car met the column in the garage, leaving a dent.
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  • 9

    To make physical or perceptual contact.

    • The carpet meets the wall at this side of the room. The forest meets the sea along this part of the coast.
  • 10

    To make physical or perceptual contact.

    • Carrados knew quite enough of flint implements—as indeed he seemed to know enough of any subject beneath the sun—to be able to talk on level terms with an expert, and he was quite equal to meeting a reference to Evans or to Nadaillac with another.
    • He met every objection to the trip with another reason I should go.
  • 11

    To satisfy; to comply with.

    • This proposal meets my requirements. The company agrees to meet the cost of any repairs.
    • Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.[…]Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster. Clever financial ploys are what have made billionaires of the industry’s veterans. “Operational improvement” in a portfolio company has often meant little more than promising colossal bonuses to sitting chief executives if they meet ambitious growth targets. That model is still prevalent today.
  • 12

    To balance or come out correct.

    • 1967, Northern Ireland. Parliament. House of Commons, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) House of Commons Official Report In this instance he has chosen an accountant. I suppose that it will be possible for an accountant to make the figures meet.
  • 13

    To perceive; to come to a knowledge of; to have personal acquaintance with; to experience; to suffer.

    • The eye met a horrid sight. He met his fate.
    • Of vice or virtue, whether blest or curst, Which meets contempt, or which compassion first.
  • 14

    To be mixed with, to be combined with aspects of.

    • ‘I’m planning a sort of fabliau comparing this place with a fascist state,’ said Sampson, ‘sort of Animal Farm meets Arturo Ui . . .’

meetnoun詞源 1/miːt/

  • 1

    hobbieslifestylesportsA sports competition, especially for track and field or swimming.

    • track meet
    • swim meet
  • 2

    hobbieshuntinglifestyleA gathering of riders, horses and hounds for foxhunting; a field meet for hunting.

  • 3

    rail-transportrailwaystransportA meeting of two trains in opposite directions on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other cross.

  • 4

    informalA meeting.

    • OK, let's arrange a meet with Tyler and ask him.
    • You feel me? You use these phones to set up a meet, go to that meet… and talk face to face, period.
  • 5

    algebramathematicssciencesThe greatest lower bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol ∧.

meetadj詞源 2/miːt/

  • 1

    archaicSuitable; right; proper.

    • It ſeemes not meete, nor wholeſome to my place, / To be producted, (as, if I ſtay, I ſhall,) / Againſt the Moore. […]
    • And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone: I will make him an helpe meet for him.
  • 2

    obsoleteSubmissive; passive.

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。