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You can picture 'welcome' as the warm open door at the moment someone arrives: you are glad they came, so you greet them and want them to stay. From that one glad-you're-here feeling everything grows — the greeting itself, being glad to receive a thing (not just a person), and the polite 'you're welcome' you give back to a thank-you.

可以想成:welcome 就是有人到的那一刻、那扇打開的暖門——你很高興他來了,於是迎上去打招呼,還希望他留下。從這更多收起可以想成:welcome 就是有人到的那一刻、那扇打開的暖門——你很高興他來了,於是迎上去打招呼,還希望他留下。從這份「很高興你來」的心情,長出整個字:打招呼迎接本身、很高興收到的不只是人也可以是東西、以及別人道謝時你回的那句「不客氣」。

原始詞典資料12 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。

Welcomename

  • 1

    A surname.

welcomeadj/ˈwɛl.kəm/

  • 1

    Whose arrival is a cause of joy; received with gladness; admitted willingly to the house, entertainment, or company.

    • a welcome visitor
    • Refugees are welcome in our city!
  • 2

    Producing gladness.

    • a welcome turn of events;  welcome news
    • “A very welcome, kind, useful present, that means to the parish. By the way, Hopkins, let this go no further. We don't want the tale running round that a rich person has arrived. Churchill, my dear fellow, we have such greedy sharks, and wolves in lamb's clothing. […]”
  • 3

    Followed by to: free to have or enjoy gratuitously.

    • You are welcome to the use of my library.
    • As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish, but I would not go out of my way to protest against it. My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get. I would very gladly make mine over to him if I could.

welcomeintj/ˈwɛl.kəm/

  • 1

    Greeting given upon someone's arrival.

    • Welcome to the life of Electra Heart!

welcomenoun/ˈwɛl.kəm/

  • 1

    The act of greeting someone’s arrival, especially by saying "Welcome!"; reception.

  • 2

    The utterance of such a greeting.

  • 3

    Kind reception of a guest or newcomer.

    • We entered the house and found a ready welcome.
    • Truth finds an entrance and a welcome too.
  • 4

    The state of being a welcome guest; a feeling of one's presence and comfort being desired.

    • The townspeople crossed freely from bank to bank, and it stayed that way until breakup in March or April or, in years when winter outstayed its welcome, maybe even May.

welcomeverb/ˈwɛl.kəm/

  • 1

    To affirm or greet the arrival of someone, especially by saying "Welcome!".

    • But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud,[…]. By the time we reached the house we were thanking our stars she had come. Mrs. Cooke came out from under the port-cochere to welcome her.
    • Finnley is the fourth daughter of Jason and Kylie Kelce, having already welcomed Wyatt, Elliotte and Bennett to the family.
  • 2

    To accept something willingly or gladly.

    • We welcome suggestions for improvement.
    • CPS MerseyCheshire welcomes the jailing of Helen Dove who conned her friend into giving up her job for a dream post that never existed. Kimberley McDonnell lost around £50,000 because of the fraudster.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。