embassy
英 ['emb?s?]
美 ['?mb?si]
助記提示
1. literally "one going around".
2. ambassador => embassy.
3. ambassador, also embassador.
4. ag- / act- "drive, lead, move" => 變異：ass-.
中文詞源
embassy 大使館來自PIE*ambi-ag, 詞源同ambassador. 來自PIE*ambi, 兩邊，周圍，見ambient，-ag, 做，見agent. -ss，過去分詞后綴。原指國王的封臣，后指大使。
英文詞源
- embassy
- embassy: [16] Ultimately, embassy comes from the same source as ambassador, the Vulgar Latin verb *ambactiāre ‘go on a mission’ (a derivative, via a rather circuitous route, of Latin ambactus ‘vassal’, which was of Celtic origin). From the verb was derived the Old French noun ambassade, which was borrowed into English in the 15th century but was gradually supplanted from the 16th century onwards by embassy, acquired from another Old French derivative ambassee.
=> ambassador - embassy (n.)
- 1570s, "position of an ambassador," from Middle French embassee "mission, charge, office of ambassador," Old French ambassee, from Italian ambasciata, from Old Proven?al ambaisada "office of ambassador," from Gaulish *ambactos "dependant, vassal," literally "one going around," from PIE *amb(i)-ag-to, from *ambi- (see ambi-) + *ambi- "around" (see ambi-) + *ag- "to drive, move" (see act (n.)).
Meaning "official residence and retinue of an ambassador" is from 1764. In earlier use were embassade (late 15c.), ambassade (early 15c.), from Old French variant ambassade.
雙語例句
- 1. Embassy security personnel refused to admit him or his wife.
- 使館保安人員不允許他和夫人進入。
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- 2. One young policeman stood guard outside the locked embassy gates.
- 一位年輕的警察在大門緊閉的使館外站崗。
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- 3. Light and water in embassy buildings were cut off.
- 大使館內的水電都被切斷了。
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- 4. The embassy official claimed diplomatic immunity and was later released.
- 那名使館官員申請外交豁免，隨后被釋放。
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- 5. Police fired on them as they fled into the embassy compound.
- 當他們逃進使館大院時，警察向他們開了槍。
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