observe

英 [əb'zɜːv] 美 [əb'zɝv]

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※ 提供单词"observe"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。

observe 观察，注视，遵行，遵守

ob-,向前，朝向，-serve,注视，观察，保护，词源同conserve,hero.引申词义坚守，遵守，遵行等。

observe: observe: [14] Latin observāre meant ‘watch, pay attention to, look to, comply with’. It was a compound verb, formed with the prefix ob- ‘to’ from servāre ‘keep safe’, hence ‘guard, watch, heed’ (no relation to servīre, source of English serve and servant). The two semantic strands ‘seeing, noting’ and ‘complying’ have remained together in the English verb, but have diverged in its derived nouns, the former going to observation [14], the latter to observance [13].
=> conserve, reserve
observe (v.): late 14c., "to hold to" (a manner of life or course of conduct), from Old French observer, osserver "to observe, watch over, follow" (10c.), from Latin observare "watch over, note, heed, look to, attend to, guard, regard, comply with," from ob "over" (see ob-) + servare "to watch, keep safe," from PIE root *ser- (1) "to protect." Meaning "to attend to in practice, to keep, follow" is attested from late 14c. Sense of "watch, perceive, notice" is 1560s, via notion of "see and note omens." Meaning "to say by way of remark" is from c. 1600. Related: Observed; observing.

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1. The Royal Greenwich Observatory was founded to observe and catalogue the stars.: 当初创立皇家格林尼治天文台就是为了观察星体并对其进行编目。