visit: [13] Visit is one of a large family of English words that go back to Latin vidēre ‘see’. This in turn was descended from the Indo-European base *woid-, *weid-, *wid-, which also produced English wise and wit. Other members of the family include envy, revise [16], survey, video [20], view, visa, visage, visible [14], vision [13], visor, vista [17], and visual [15]. Visit itself comes from the Latin derivative visitāre, which meant literally ‘go to see’. => envy, revise, survey, video, view, visa, visible, vision, visor, vista, visual, wise, wit
visit (v.)
c. 1200, "come to (a person) to comfort or benefit," from Old French visiter "to visit; inspect, examine; afflict" (12c.) and directly from Latin visitare "to go to see, come to inspect," frequentative of visere "behold, visit" (a person or place), from past participle stem of videre "to see, notice, observe" (see vision). Originally of the deity, later of pastors and doctors (c. 1300), general sense of "pay a call" is from mid-13c. Meaning "come upon, afflict" (in reference to sickness, punishment, etc.) is recorded in English from mid-14c. Related: Visited; visiting.
visit (n.)
1620s, "friendly or formal call upon someone," from visit (v.) and from French visite (n.). From 1800 as "short or temporary trip to some place." With pay (v.) since 1650s.
雙語例句
1. You are welcome to visit the hospital at any time.
你可以隨時來醫院。
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2. Don't expect me to come and visit you there.
別指望我會去那兒看你。
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3. "Have they been to visit you yet?" — "Just the once, yeah."
“他們來看過你嗎?”——“來過,就一次.”
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4. The President is about to wind up his visit to Somalia.
總統即將結束對索馬里的訪問。
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5. Think of the clammy hands you get when you visit the dentist!