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To requite something is to give it back in kind: a kindness for a kindness, a hurt for a hurt, love for love. It is an old, literary verb. You will almost never hear it at the shops. What students meet, over and over, is the adjective unrequited: "unrequited love" is love that was not given back. You can requite a favour (pay it back), requite someone's love (love them in return), or, in older stories, requite a wrong (take revenge). The core idea is return, not the first gift. Though actually, English kept the "not given back" form much more alive than the plain verb.
報答；回報（書面。學生較常碰到的是 unrequited love「單戀／沒有回報的愛」）
組成From Middle English requiten, "to repay": re- ("back") + old quiten ("to pay, repay"), from Old French quitter.
同家族的字
- unrequitedthe common adjective: love or help that was not given back
- requitalthe rare noun for the return gift or the revenge
原始詞典資料14 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。
requiteverb/ɹɪˈkwaɪt/
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To repay (a debt owed); specifically, to recompense or reward someone for (a favour, a service rendered, etc.)
- But remember / (For that's my buſineſſe to you) that you three / From Millaine did ſupplant good Proſpero, / Expos'd vnto the Sea (vvhich hath requit it) / Him, and his innocent childe: for vvhich foule deed, / The Povvres, delaying (not forgetting) haue / Incens'd the Seas, and Shores; yea, all the Creatures / Againſt your peace: […]
- He that requiteth a good turne, muſt imploy ſomevvhat of his ovvne, as he doth vvho repayeth the monie he ovveth: but he layeth out nothing vvho ſatisfieth himſelfe, no more then he giueth, vvho giueth to himſelfe. […] He therefore that requiteth a good turne pleaſureth him againe, from vvhom hee hath receiued any thing.
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To repay (someone) a debt owed; specifically, to recompense or reward (someone) for a favour, a service rendered, etc.
- Sir I am ſo poore to requite you, you muſt looke for nothing but thankes of me, […]
- This place, to vvhich Ariſtotle ovv'd his birth, he aftervvards requited vvith extraordinary gratitude.
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To respond to or reciprocate (feelings, especially affection or love which has been shown).
- My loue is requyted ſo louyngly / That in euery thyng that may delyght my mynde, / My wyt can not wyſhe it ſo well as I fynde
- To love thee boundless, was my bold resolve, / Because my courage fail'd to equal thee. / I then began with thousand tender arts / And pure fraternal love, thy heart to storm. / But cold, proud soul, requitedst thou this love.
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To do or give a thing in return for (something).
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To retaliate or seek revenge for (an insult, a wrong, etc.).; to avenge.
- Let me this craue, ſith firſt I vvas defyde, / That firſt I may that vvrong to him requite: / And if I hap to fayle, you ſhall recure my right.
- And when Joſephs brethren ſaw that their father was dead, they ſaid, Joseph will peraduenture hate vs, and will certainely requite vs all the euill which we did vnto him.
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To retaliate or seek revenge against (someone) for an insult, a wrong, etc.; also (reflexive, rare), to seek revenge for (oneself).
- My Gratious Lord, not ſo much for the iniury hée offred me héere in your preſence, as to delight you with ſome mirth, hath Fauſtus worthily requited this iniurious knight, which being all I deſire, I am content to releaſe him of his hornes: […]
- [B]y kindling a fire in each Image, they made ſuch a ſmoke that the Indians vvounded & ſlevv many Tartars, vvho could not ſee to requite them [i.e., themselves] through the ſmoke: […]
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obsoleteTo greet (someone) in return.
- They him ſaluted ſtanding far afore; / VVho vvell them greeting, humbly did requight, / And asked, to vvhat end they clomb that tedious hight.
- Lovvly they him ſaluted in meeke vviſe, / But he through pride and fatnes gan deſpiſe / Their meaneſſe; ſcarce vouchſafte them to requite.
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obsoleteTo make up for (something); to compensate.
另外 5 個記錄的用法
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obsoleteTo respond to (a question, a statement, etc.).
- Jeſus […] requited their queſtion vvith an other, as though a man ſhoulde dryue out one nayle vvith an other.
- He bowed slightly to K.'s uncle, who appeared very flattered to make this new acquaintance, yet, being by nature incapable of expressing obligation, requited the Clerk of the Court's words with a burst of embarrassed but raucous laughter.
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obsoleteTo take the place of (someone or something); to replace.
- [For if] tranſmutation be made from one mans body into another, as if a piece of fleſh be exchanged from the biciptall muſcle of either parties arme, and about them both, an Alphabet circumſcribed; upon a time appointed as ſome conceptions affirme, they may communicate at vvhat diſtance ſoever. For if the one ſhall prick himſelf in A, the other at the ſame time vvill have a ſenſe thereof in the ſame part; […] vvhich is a vvay of intelligence very ſtrange, and vvould requite the Arte of Pythagoras; vvho could read a reverſe in the Moone.
- This Roman Hierarchy ſhall be Politically killed, deveſted of all Povver and Authority: From vvhence vvill naturally flovv Mourning and Famine, grief of heart, vvith ſcarcity and poverty to requite their luxury before.
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obsoleteOf an action, a quality, etc.: to be a reward for (itself).
- 'Tis all vve beg thee, to conceal from Sight / Thoſe Acts of Goodneſs, vvhich themſelves requite.
- [T]o have saved you requites itself. We who walk the greenwood do many a wild deed, and the Lady Rowena's deliverance may be received as an atonement.
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To recompense, to repay.
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To retaliate, to seek revenge.
- […] Chriſt and his holy apoſtles, exhort euery man to pacience and ſufferance, without requiting of an euil dede or making anye defence but vſing further ſufferance, & doyng alſo good for euill, […]
- Becauſe the ſpoiler is come vpon her, euen vpon Babylon, and her mightie men are taken, euery one of their vowes is broken, for the Lord God of recompenſes ſhall ſurely requite.
requitenoun/ɹɪˈkwaɪt/
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Chiefly in the form in requite for or of: synonym of requital (“compensation for damage or loss; return in kind, recompense, repayment, reward”).
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。