address

英 [ə'dres] 美 [ə'drɛs]

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解释

vt. 演说；从事；忙于；写姓名地址；向…致辞；与…说话；提出；处
n. 地址；演讲；致辞；说话的技巧；称呼

※ 提供单词"address"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

中文词源

address 地址,演说

前缀ad-, 去，往。-dress同direct, 指导，导引。词根rect, 直，对，同right.

英文词源

address: address: [14] Address originally meant ‘straighten’. William Caxton, for example, here uses it for ‘stand up straight’: ‘The first day that he was washed and bathed he addressed him[self] right up in the basin’ Golden Legend 1483. This gives a clue to its ultimate source, Latin dīrectum ‘straight, direct’. The first two syllables of this seem gradually to have merged together to produce *drictum, which with the addition of the prefix ad- was used to produce the verb *addrictiāre.

Of its descendants in modern Romance languages, Italian addirizzare most clearly reveals its source. Old French changed it fairly radically, to adresser, and it was this form which English borrowed. The central current sense of ‘where somebody lives’ developed in the 17th and 18th centuries from the notion of directing something, such as a letter, to somebody.
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address (v.): early 14c., "to guide or direct," from Old French adrecier "go straight toward; straighten, set right; point, direct" (13c.), from Vulgar Latin *addirectiare "make straight," from Latin ad "to" (see ad-) + *directiare, from Latin directus "straight, direct" (see direct (v.)). Late 14c. as "to set in order, repair, correct." Meaning "to write as a destination on a written message" is from mid-15c. Meaning "to direct spoken words (to someone)" is from late 15c. Related: Addressed; addressing.
address (n.): 1530s, "dutiful or courteous approach," from address (v.) and from French adresse. Sense of "formal speech" is from 1751. Sense of "superscription of a letter" is from 1712 and led to the meaning "place of residence" (1888).

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例句和用法

1. Someone cranked up the volume of the public address system.: 有人调大了公共广播系统的音量。

2. I looked your address up in the personnel file.: 我在人事档案里找到了你的地址。

3. Send your details on a card to the following address.: 在明信片上写明你的近况寄到下面的地址。

4. He took my name and address, scribbling it down in his notebook.: 他要了我的姓名和地址，匆匆写在他的笔记本上。

5. The President gave an address to the American people.: 总统向美国民众发表了演说。