prize
英 [pra?z]
美[pra?z]
- n. 獎(jiǎng)品；獎(jiǎng)賞；戰(zhàn)利品
- vt. 珍視；捕獲；估價(jià)
- adj. 獲獎(jiǎng)的
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詞態(tài)變化
復(fù)數(shù):?prizes;第三人稱單數(shù):?prizes;過(guò)去式:?prized;過(guò)去分詞:?prized;現(xiàn)在分詞:?prizing;
中文詞源
prize 獎(jiǎng)品，獎(jiǎng)賞
來(lái)自古法語(yǔ)pris,價(jià)格，價(jià)值，獎(jiǎng)品，詞源同price,praise.
prize 撬開來(lái)自古法語(yǔ)prise,抓住，來(lái)自（縮寫自）拉丁語(yǔ)prehendere,抓住，詞源同apprise,comprehend. 引申詞義撬開，強(qiáng)力扒開。
英文詞源
- prize
- prize: English has four words prize. The one meaning ‘reward’ [16] is essentially the same word as price. This was originally pris, mirroring its immediate Old French ancestor pris. It became prise, to indicate the length of its vowel i, and in the 16th century this differentiated into price for ‘a(chǎn)mount to pay’ and prize for ‘reward’. (Modern French prix has given English grand prix [19], literally ‘great prize’, first used for a ‘car race’ in 1908.) Prize ‘esteem’ [14] was based on pris-, the stem of Old French preisier ‘praise’ (source of English praise). Prize ‘something captured in war’ [14] comes via Old French prise ‘capture, seizure, booty’ from Vulgar Latin *prēsa or *prēnsa ‘something seized’.
This was a noun use of the past participle of *prēndere ‘seize’, a contraction of classical Latin praehendere (from which English gets prehensile, prison, etc). Another sense of Old French prise was ‘grasp’. English borrowed this in the 14th century as prize ‘lever’, which in due course was turned into modern English’s fourth prize, the verb prize, or prise, ‘lever’ [17]. Pry ‘lever’ [19] is an alteration of prize, based on the misapprehension that it is a third-person singular present form (*pries).
=> grand prix, price; praise; comprehensive, prison, reprehensible; pry - prize (n.1)
- "reward," prise (c. 1300 in this sense), from Old French pris "price, value, worth; reward" (see price (n.)). As an adjective, "worthy of a prize," from 1803. The spelling with -z- is from late 16c. Prize-fighter is from 1703; prize-fight from 1730 (prize-fighter from 1785).
- prize (n.2)
- "something taken by force," mid-13c., prise "a taking, holding," from Old French prise "a taking, seizing, holding," noun use of fem. past participle of prendre "to take, seize," from Latin prendere, contraction of prehendere "lay hold of, grasp, seize, catch" (see prehensile). Especially of ships captured at sea (1510s). The spelling with -z- is from late 16c.
- prize (v.)
- "to estimate," 1580s, alteration of Middle English prisen "to prize, value" (late 14c.), from stem of Old French preisier "to praise" (see praise (v.)). Related: Prized; prizing.
雙語(yǔ)例句
- 1. Each month the total prize kitty is ￡13.5 million.
- 每個(gè)月的彩池獎(jiǎng)金總額達(dá)1,350萬(wàn)英鎊。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 2. Entry to this prize draw is limited to UK residents.
- 這次抽獎(jiǎng)只限英國(guó)公民參加。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 3. During each show we will be raffling a fabulous prize.
- 每場(chǎng)表演期間，我們將以抽彩方法送出大獎(jiǎng)。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 4. He had been on the Nobel Prize committee's list of possibles.
- 他在諾貝爾委員會(huì)列出的獲獎(jiǎng)候選者名單之列.
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 5. The 1990 Nobel Prize for medicine was won by two Americans.
- 1990年諾貝爾醫(yī)學(xué)獎(jiǎng)由兩位美國(guó)人獲得。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句