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/pɑːrˈtɪsɪpeɪt/ · /pɑːˈtɪsɪpeɪt/
To take part in an activity or event together with other people.
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過去式 participated過去分詞 participated-ing participating三單 participates
核心畫面
Picture something already going on - a class discussion, a game, a project meeting - and you are not standing at the edge watching, you are inside it, doing your own share alongside everyone else. To participate is to become one of the people the activity is actually made of.
可以想成 participate 的畫面是這樣:一件事情正在進行——課堂討論、一場比賽、一個計畫的會議——而你不是站…更多收起
可以想成 participate 的畫面是這樣:一件事情正在進行——課堂討論、一場比賽、一個計畫的會議——而你不是站在旁邊看,是走進去、跟大家一起做自己那一份。它強調的是「有份」,不只是「人有到」。原始詞典資料4 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。
participateverb/pɑːˈtɪs.ɪ.peɪt/
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To join in, to take part, to involve oneself (in something).
- For the second year, foreign amateur runners were allowed to participate in a 10-kilometer race, a half-marathon or a full marathon in Pyongyang, the capital. The races were a part of the April 15 birthday celebration of Kim Il-sung, the former leader of North Korea and father of his successors: Kim Jong-il, a son, and Kim Jong-un, a grandson.
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obsoleteTo share, to take part in (something).
- A spirit I am indeed; But am in that dimension grossly clad Which from the womb I did participate.
- [The Persees] are tollerated all sorts of meat; but (in obedience to the Mahomitan and Bannyan ’mongst whom they live) refraine Beefe and Hog flesh: they seldome feed together, lest they might participate one anothers impurity: each has his owne cup […].
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obsoleteTo share (something) with others; to transfer (something) to or unto others.
- 1661, Thomas Salusbury, Galilaeus Galilaeus Lyncaeus, His Systeme of the World, Second Dialogue, in Mathematical Collections and Translations, London, p. 105, Make the Earth […] turn round its own axis in twenty four hours, and towards the same point with all the other Spheres; and without participating this same motion to any other Planet or Star, all shall have their risings, settings, and in a word, all their other appearances.
participateadj/pɑːˈtɪs.ɪ.peɪt/
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obsoleteActing in common; participating.
- And, mutually participate, did minister Unto the appetite and affection common Of the whole body.
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。