英语词典 · 单词释义
embrace
英 [ɪm'breɪs; em-] 美 [ɪm'bres]
这里集中整理“embrace”的音标、翻译、词源、例句和近反义词，方便快速确认词义并顺手做词汇积累。
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词义详解
翻译 · 词源 · 例句- vt. 拥抱；信奉，皈依；包含
- vi. 拥抱
- n. 拥抱
延伸内容
词源 · 例句 · 用法词态变化
第三人称单数: embraces;过去式: embraced;过去分词: embraced;现在分词: embracing;
中文词源
embrace 拥抱
em-, 进入，使。brace, 胳膊，箍子。
英文词源
- embrace
- embrace: [14] To embrace someone is literally to ‘put your arms round’ them. It comes via Old French from Vulgar Latin *imbracchiāre, a compound verb formed from the prefix in- ‘in’ and Latin bracchium ‘arm’ (ultimate source of English brace, bracelet, and bra, and of French bras ‘arm’). The transferred sense ‘include’ developed in the 17th century (a course also taken by modern French embrasser, whose original ‘clasp in the arms’ has moved on to ‘kiss’ in response to the progression of baiser from ‘kiss’ to ‘have sex with’).
=> bra, brace, bracelet - embrace (v.)
- mid-14c., "clasp in the arms," from Old French embracier (12c., Modern French embrasser) "clasp in the arms, enclose; covet, handle, cope with," from assimilated form of en- "in" (see en- (1)) + brace, braz "the arms," from Latin bracchium (neuter plural brachia); see brace (n.). Related: Embraced; embracing; embraceable. Replaced Old English clyppan (see clip (v.2)), also fæðm (see fathom (v.)). Sexual sense is from 1590s.
- embrace (n.)
- "a hug," 1590s, from embrace (v.). Earlier noun was embracing (late 14c.). Middle English embrace (n.) meant "bribery."
双语例句
- 1. I couldn't find it in me to embrace him.
- 我打心眼里不想拥抱他。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. She broke loose from his embrace and crossed to the window.
- 她从他怀抱里挣脱出来，走到窗前。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. John gently disengaged himself from his sister's tearful embrace.
- 约翰轻轻推开抱着他哭泣的妹妹。
来自柯林斯例句
- 4. The marriage signalled James's embrace of the Catholic faith.
- 这桩婚姻标志着詹姆斯皈依了天主教.
来自柯林斯例句
- 5. They'll be ready to embrace the new technology when it arrives.
- 他们随时准备迎接新技术的问世。
来自柯林斯例句
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