watch是什么意思_watch怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort;"I want to see whether she speaks French"
"See whether it works"
"find out if he speaks Russian"
"Check whether the train leaves on time"

中英词源

watch 看，手表

来自PIE*weg,强健的，有活力的，词源同vegetable,wake,引申义看管，看护，插入字母t比较，bake, batch,make,match.同时，用做名词指手表。

watch: watch: [OE] Ultimately, watch and wake are the same word. The two verbs share a common ancestor (prehistoric Germanic *wakōjan), and to begin with watch was used for ‘be awake’ (‘He sleepeth on the day and watcheth all the night’, John Lydgate, 1430). The notion of being ‘alert and vigilant’, of being ‘on the look-out’, is implicit in that of being ‘awake’ (indeed, vigil and vigilant are members of the same word family), but watch did not develop fully into ‘observe, look at closely’ until the 14th century.

The sort of watch that tells the time is probably so called not because you look at it to see what the time is, but because originally it woke you up. The earliest records of the noun’s application to a timepiece (in the 15th century) refer to an ‘alarm clock’; it was not used for what we would today recognize as a ‘watch’ until the end of the 16th century.
=> vegetable, vigil, vigour, waft, wait, wake
watch (v.): Old English wæccan "keep watch, be awake," from Proto-Germanic *wakjan, from PIE *weg- (2) "to be strong, lively;" essentially the same word as Old English wacian "be or remain awake" (see wake (v.)); perhaps a Northumbrian form of it. Meaning "be vigilant" is from c. 1200. That of "to guard (someone or some place), stand guard" is late 14c. Sense of "to observe, keep under observance" is mid-15c. Related: Watched; watching.
watch (n.): Old English wæcce "a watching, state of being or remaining awake, wakefulness;" also "act or practice of refraining from sleep for devotional or penitential purposes;" from wæccan (see watch (v.)). From c. 1200 as "one of the periods into which the night is divided," in reference to ancient times translating Latin vigilia, Greek phylake, Hebrew ashmoreth.
The Hebrews divided the night into three watches, the Greeks usually into four (sometimes five), the Romans (followed by the Jews in New Testament times) into four. [OED]

On þis niht beð fowuer niht wecches: Biforen euen þe bilimpeð to children; Mid-niht ðe bilimpeð to frumberdligges; hanecrau þe bilimpeð þowuene men; morgewile to alde men. [Trinity Homilies, c. 1200]
From mid-13c. as "a shift of guard duty; an assignment as municipal watchman;" late 13c. as "person or group obligated to patrol a town (especially at night) to keep order, etc." Also in Middle English, "the practice of remaining awake at night for purposes of debauchery and dissipation;" hence wacches of wodnesse "late-night revels and debauchery." The alliterative combination watch and ward preserves the old distinction of watch for night-time municipal patrols and ward for guarding by day; in combination, they meant "continuous vigilance."

Military sense of "military guard, sentinel" is from late 14c. General sense of "careful observation, watchfulness, vigilance" is from late 14c.; to keep watch is from late 14c. Meaning "period of time in which a division of a ship"s crew remains on deck" is from 1580s. The meaning "small timepiece" is from 1580s, developing from that of "a clock to wake up sleepers" (mid-15c.).

词态变化

复数 watches;
第三人称单数 watches;
过去式 watched;
过去分词 watched;
现在分词 watching;

权威造句

1. In prison they"d taken away his watch and everything he possessed.: 在监狱，他们把他的手表和其他一切东西都搜走了。

2. I wound up the watch and listened to it tick.: 我给表上紧发条，听着它嘀嗒作响。

3. Outside, Bruce glanced at his watch: "Dear me, nearly oneo"clock.": 出了门，布鲁斯瞥了一眼自己的手表，“天哪，快一点了。”

4. We can"t just sit by and watch you throw your life away.: 我们不能眼睁睁地看着你毁掉自己的生活。

5. "Fourteen minutes," Chris said, taking a peep at his watch.: “14分钟,”克里斯瞥了一眼他的手表说道.

近反义词

attend

guard

look after

look at

note

observe

protect

regard

see

tend

duty

guard

patrol

sentinel

shift

sentry

vigil

watchman

相似短语

watch it 小心,注意,当心点

be on the watch (对...)留神着, (对...)戒备着

watch for v.守候,注意,监视

watch in (除夕)守

on the watch for 密切注意, 守候着监视着, 提防

on the watch 守侯着留心,注意

on watch 值班,值勤,站岗,放哨,在监视

watch out 1. 小心；留神；注意watch out for sb/sth1. 密切注意；留意2. 小心；当心

watch out for v.戒备,提防,密切注意

instant watch n.即时监视

单词分析

这些动词均有“看”之意。
look侧重“看”的动作。
see指看见。
watch指用眼睛跟随某物，以便对每一个变化、运动等进行观察。
observe侧重以客观的态度进行观察。
witness指当场看见，亲眼看见。

记忆方法

1. k -----------------> ch/tch.
2. wake => watch.
3. => keep watch, be awake, be or remain awake.

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