cater
英 ['ke?t?]
美['ket?]
- vt. 投合，迎合；滿足需要；提供飲食及服務
- n. (Cater)人名；(英)凱特
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詞態變化
第三人稱單數:?caters;過去式:?catered;過去分詞:?catered;現在分詞:?catering;
助記提示
1. catch => cater => "catch one's need or desire".
2. 諧音“給他”。
3. cate 諧音“啃它” => cater.
4. cat貓，er拼：耳。貓耳朵是一種北京小吃，但是迎合了很多人的胃口。
5. => "provide food for"
2. 諧音“給他”。
3. cate 諧音“啃它” => cater.
4. cat貓，er拼：耳。貓耳朵是一種北京小吃，但是迎合了很多人的胃口。
5. => "provide food for"
中文詞源
cater 承辦宴席
詞源同catch, 指抓，拿，購買。后詞義指招待，承辦宴席。
英文詞源
- cater
- cater: [16] Cater is related to French acheter ‘buy’, and originally meant ‘buy provisions’. It comes ultimately from Vulgar Latin *accaptāre, a compound verb formed from the Latin prefix ad- ‘to’ and the verb captāre ‘try to seize’ (source of English catch and chase). This provided the basis for the Anglo-Norman agent noun acatour ‘buyer, purveyor’, which gave English the now obsolete acater.
Losing its a-, this became cater, which until the early 17th century was the word for what we would now call a ‘caterer’. At around the same time cater began to be used as a verb; the first known example of this is in Shakespeare’s As You Like It II, iii: ‘He that doth the ravens feed, yea providently caters for the sparrow’.
=> capture, catch, chase - cater (v.)
- "provide food for," c. 1600, from Middle English catour (n.) "buyer of provisions" (c. 1400; late 13c. as a surname), a shortening of Anglo-French achatour "buyer" (Old North French acatour, Old French achatour, 13c., Modern French acheteur), from Old French achater "to buy," originally "to buy provisions," perhaps from Vulgar Latin *accaptare, from Latin ad- "to" + captare "to take, hold," frequentative of capere "to take" (see capable).
Or else from Vulgar Latin *accapitare "to add to one's capital," with second element from verbal stem of Latin caput (genitive capitis); see capital (adj.). Figuratively from 1650s. Related: Catered; catering.
雙語例句
- 1. The chef is pleased to cater for vegetarian diets.
- 廚師非常樂意為客人做素食。
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- 2. Nunsmere Hall can cater for receptions of up to 300 people.
- 納恩斯米爾酒店最多可以同時接待300人。
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- 3. They maintain a database of hotels that cater for businesswomen.
- 他們維護著一個服務于商界女性的酒店資料庫。
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- 4. Does the school cater for all abilities?
- 學校能夠做到因材施教嗎？
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- 5. Does he cater parties too?
- 他也承辦派對的飲食嗎？
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