see

英 [siː] 美 [si]

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解释

vt. 看见；理解；领会
vi. 看；看见；领会
n. (See)人名；(英)西伊；(柬)塞；(德)泽

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中文词源

see 看见，看到

来自古英语 seon,看，注视，留意，来自 Proto-Germanic*sehwana,看，注意，来自 PIE*sekw, 看，注意，可能衍生自 PIE*sekw,紧跟，跟随，词源同 sequence,second.引申诸相关词义。

see 圣座，宗座，牧座，主教教区

缩写自 Holy See,圣座，来自 seat 法语拼写变体。

英文词源

see: see: English has two words see. The older is the verb, ‘perceive visually’ [OE]. Like its Germanic cousins, German sehen, Dutch zien, and Swedish and Danish se, it goes back to a prehistoric *sekhwan, which was descended from an Indo-European base *seq-. This may have been the same *seq- that produced Latin sequī ‘follow’ (source of English sequence, sue, etc), in which case see would denote etymologically ‘follow with the eyes’. See ‘diocese’ [13] originally signified ‘bishop’s throne’.

It came via Anglo-Norman se from Vulgar Latin *sedem ‘seat’, descendant of classical Latin sēdem, the accusative case of sēdes ‘seat’. This in turn went back to the Indo- European base *sed- ‘sit’, which also produced English sit.
=> sight; seat, sit
see (v.): Old English seon "to see, look, behold; observe, perceive, understand; experience, visit, inspect" (contracted class V strong verb; past tense seah, past participle sewen), from Proto-Germanic *sekhwan (cognates: Old Saxon, Old High German sehan, Middle High German, German sehen, Old Frisian sia, Middle Dutch sien, Old Norse sja, Gothic saihwan), from PIE root *sekw- (2) "to see," which is probably identical with *sekw- (1) "to follow" (see sequel), a root which produced words for "say" in Greek and Latin, and also words for "follow" (such as Latin sequor), but "opinions differ in regard to the semantic starting-point and sequences" [Buck]. Thus see might originally mean "follow with the eyes."

Used in Middle English to mean "behold in the imagination or in a dream" (c. 1200), "to recognize the force of (a demonstration)," also c. 1200. Sense of "escort" (as in to see (someone) home) first recorded 1607 in Shakespeare. Meaning "to receive as a visitor" is attested from c. 1500. Gambling sense of "equal a bet" is from 1590s. See you as a casual farewell first attested 1891. Let me see as a pausing statement is recorded from 1510s. To have seen everything as a hyperbolic expression of astonishment is from 1957.
When you have seen one of their Pictures, you have seen all. [Blake, c. 1811]
see (n.): c. 1300, "throne of a bishop, archbishop, or pope," also "throne of a monarch, a goddess, Antichrist, etc.," from Old French sie "seat, throne; town, capital; episcopal see," from Latin sedem (nominative sedes) "seat, throne, abode, temple," related to sedere "to sit" (see sedentary). Early 14c. as "administrative center of a bishopric;" c. 1400 as "province under the jurisdiction of a bishop."

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例句和用法

1. Specialists see various reasons for the recent surge in inflation.: 专家们认为目前通货膨胀加剧有多种原因。

2. I don't see the point in it really. It's just stupid.: 我真的不理解这到底有什么意义，简直是愚蠢透顶。

3. He'd phoned Laura to see if she was better.: 他打电话给劳拉看她是不是好些了。

4. The criticisms will not stop people flocking to see the film.: 批评的声音不会阻止人们涌到影院观看这部电影。

5. He could just about see the little man behind the counter.: 他勉强能看到柜台后面的小个子男人。