喜樂美語

核心畫面

You can picture a 'suit' as a matching set whose parts belong together and go as one — a jacket and trousers cut from the same cloth. From there 'suit' stretches two ways: things that form one matching set (an outfit, a set of cards), and the verb idea of one thing fitting or going well with another.

可以把 suit 想成「一整套、配在一起、彼此相襯」的東西——一件外套配一條長褲，用同一塊布裁出來，看起來就是一組。…更多收起可以把 suit 想成「一整套、配在一起、彼此相襯」的東西——一件外套配一條長褲，用同一塊布裁出來，看起來就是一組。從這個畫面出發，suit 往兩邊延伸：一邊是「成套相配」的東西（一身行頭、一門花色的牌），另一邊是動詞「某物正好合得來、配得上」的意思。

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。

Suitname

  • 1

    A surname.

suitnoun/sjuːt/

  • 1

    businessclothingfashionA set of clothes to be worn together, now especially a man's matching jacket and trousers (also business suit or lounge suit), or a similar outfit for a woman.

    • A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe.
    • Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.
  • 2

    A garment or set of garments suitable and/or required for a given task or activity: space suit, boiler suit, protective suit, swimsuit.

  • 3

    A dress.

  • 4

    derogatoryslangA person who wears matching jacket and trousers, especially a boss or a supervisor.

    • Be sure to keep your nose to the grindstone today; the suits are making a "surprise" visit to this department.
    • You had an army / Of suits behind you
  • 5

    A full set of armour.

  • 6

    lawThe attempt to gain an end by legal process; a process instituted in a court of law for the recovery of a right or claim; a lawsuit.

    • If you take my advice, you'll file a suit against him immediately.
  • 7

    Petition, request, entreaty.

    • Tam[burlaine]. Are you the wittie King of Perſea? Myc[etes]. I marrie am I: haue you any ſute to me? Tam[burlaine]. I woulde intreate you to ſpeake but three wiſe wordes.
  • 8

    obsoleteThe act of following or pursuing; pursuit, chase.

另外 7 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    Pursuit of a love-interest; wooing, courtship.

    • Rebate your loves, each rival suit suspend, Till this funereal web my labors end.
  • 10

    obsoleteThe act of suing; the pursuit of a particular object or goal.

    • Thenceforth the suitt of earthly conquest shonne.
  • 11

    The full set of sails required for a ship.

  • 12

    card-gamesgamesEach of the sets of a pack of cards distinguished by colour and/or specific emblems, such as the spades, hearts, diamonds, or clubs of traditional Anglo, Hispanic, and French playing cards.

    • To deal and shuffle, to divide and sort Her mingled suits and sequences.
  • 13

    obsoleteRegular order; succession.

    • Every five and thirty years the same kind and suit of weather comes again.
  • 14

    archaicA company of attendants or followers; a retinue.

  • 15

    archaicA group of similar or related objects or items considered as a whole; a suite (of rooms etc.)

    • "You must wear these to-day, my dear child," said Lord Norbourne, as, entering the dressing-room of his daughter, he laid a suit of pearls on her table

suitverb/sjuːt/

  • 1

    To make proper or suitable; to adapt or fit.

    • but let your owne Diſcretion be your Tutor: Sute the Action to the Word, the Word to the Action,
  • 2

    To be suitable or apt for one's image.

    • The ripped jeans didn't suit her elegant image.
    • That new top suits you. Where did you buy it?
  • 3

    To be appropriate or apt for.

    • The nickname "Bullet" suits her, since she is a fast runner.
    • Ill suits his cloth the praise of railing well.
  • 4

    To dress; to clothe.

    • So went he suited to his watery tomb.
  • 5

    To please; to make content; to fit someone's (or one's own) taste.

    • will build to suit   [on for-sale signs marking vacant lots]
    • He is well suited with his place.
  • 6

    To agree; to be fitted; to correspond (usually followed by to, archaically also followed by with).

    • The place itself was suiting to his care.
    • Give me not an office / That suits with me so ill.

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。