VIP
['vi 'aɪ 'pi]
- abbr. 大人物，貴賓（Very Important Person）；視頻接口處理器（Video Interface Processor）；可變信息處理（Variable Information Processing）
英文詞源
- VIP (n.)
- also V.I.P., 1933, initialism (acronym) for very important person or personage; not common until after World War II.
At most, the greatest persons, are but great wens, and excrescences; men of wit and delightfull conversation, but as moales for ornament, except they be so incorporated into the body of the world, that they contribute something to the sustentation of the whole. [John Donne, letter to Sir Henry Goodere, Sept. 1608]
雙語例句
- 1. We'll give her some VIP treatment and roll out the red carpet.
- 我們將給予她貴賓級禮遇，並且為她鋪設紅地毯。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. She waited in the VIP lounge.
- 她在貴賓休息室裏等候著。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. to get the VIP treatment
- 得到貴賓待遇
來自《權威詞典》
- 4. He was a VIP, but he had a frugal life.
- 他是位要人, 但生活儉樸.
來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》
- 5. VIP usually means Very Important People , but here VIP means Very Important Pets!
- 實際上, 在世界的某些地方,寵物享受到的是真正的VIP待遇.
來自超越目標英語 第2冊