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单词

attend

读音

əˈtend

美式

英式

词根

"Attend"的词根是拉丁文的"ad-" 和"tendere"，"ad-"表示"向"，"tendere"表示"伸展"或"延伸"。所以，"attend"的基本含义可以理解为"朝向......伸展"，进一步理解为"关注"，"出席"。从这个词根，我们还可以衍生出很多其他单词，如"tendency"(趋势)，"extend"（延伸），"pretend"（假装）。

释义

vt. 出席；上（大学等）；照料；招待；陪伴 vi. 出席；致力于；照料；照顾 [ 第三人称单数 attends 现在分词 attending 过去式 attended 过去分词 attended ]

例句

Which school do they attend?

他们上的是哪一所学校？

It was incumbent on them to attend.

他们必须出席。

Our children attend the same school.

我们的孩子上同一所学校。

强化记忆

为了更好记住"attend"这个单词，尝试将其与日常生活中的活动关联起来，比如每天都要去上学或去上班，也就是"attend school"或 "attend work"。"Attend"这个单词源于14世纪的中古英语，原意是"留意，注意"。后来，随着社会和文化的变迁，词义发生了扩展，从"留意"拓展到了"看护"、"参与"。

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But despite this clear recognition by early people that other animalsattend to their dead,it's only fairly recently that science has really turned its attention

but the mayor of Copenhagen had invited200 mayors to attend.They came, they stayed, and they found ways

And that's, of course, what this is about.Attend to other lives,other visions.

but if I want to go to get an abortion,or attend a political meeting,or even just call in sick and play hooky and go to the beach ...

He spent nearly a month in the hospital,unable to attend Mom's funeraland undergoing multiple, excruciating skin graft surgeries.

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