see

• vt. 看見；理解；領會
• vi. 看；看見；領會
• n. (See)人名；(英)西伊；(柬)塞；(德)澤

來自古英語 seon,看，注視，留意，來自 Proto-Germanic*sehwana,看，注意，來自 PIE*sekw, 看，注意，可能衍生自 PIE*sekw,緊跟，跟隨，詞源同 sequence,second.引申諸相關詞義。

縮寫自 Holy See,聖座，來自 seat 法語拚寫變體。

see

see: English has two words see. The older is the verb, ‘perceive visually’ [OE]. Like its Germanic cousins, German sehen, Dutch zien, and Swedish and Danish se, it goes back to a prehistoric *sekhwan, which was descended from an Indo-European base *seq-. This may have been the same *seq- that produced Latin sequī ‘follow’ (source of English sequence, sue, etc), in which case see would denote etymologically ‘follow with the eyes’. See ‘diocese’ [13] originally signified ‘bishop’s throne’.

It came via Anglo-Norman se from Vulgar Latin *sedem ‘seat’, descendant of classical Latin sēdem, the accusative case of sēdes ‘seat’. This in turn went back to the Indo- European base *sed- ‘sit’, which also produced English sit.
=> sight; seat, sit

see (v.)

Old English seon "to see, look, behold; observe, perceive, understand; experience, visit, inspect" (contracted class V strong verb; past tense seah, past participle sewen), from Proto-Germanic *sekhwan (cognates: Old Saxon, Old High German sehan, Middle High German, German sehen, Old Frisian sia, Middle Dutch sien, Old Norse sja, Gothic saihwan), from PIE root *sekw- (2) "to see," which is probably identical with *sekw- (1) "to follow" (see sequel), a root which produced words for "say" in Greek and Latin, and also words for "follow" (such as Latin sequor), but "opinions differ in regard to the semantic starting-point and sequences" [Buck]. Thus see might originally mean "follow with the eyes."

Used in Middle English to mean "behold in the imagination or in a dream" (c. 1200), "to recognize the force of (a demonstration)," also c. 1200. Sense of "escort" (as in to see (someone) home) first recorded 1607 in Shakespeare. Meaning "to receive as a visitor" is attested from c. 1500. Gambling sense of "equal a bet" is from 1590s. See you as a casual farewell first attested 1891. Let me see as a pausing statement is recorded from 1510s. To have seen everything as a hyperbolic expression of astonishment is from 1957.

When you have seen one of their Pictures, you have seen all. [Blake, c. 1811]

see (n.)

c. 1300, "throne of a bishop, archbishop, or pope," also "throne of a monarch, a goddess, Antichrist, etc.," from Old French sie "seat, throne; town, capital; episcopal see," from Latin sedem (nominative sedes) "seat, throne, abode, temple," related to sedere "to sit" (see sedentary). Early 14c. as "administrative center of a bishopric;" c. 1400 as "province under the jurisdiction of a bishop."

1. Specialists see various reasons for the recent surge in inflation.

專家們認為目前通貨膨脹加劇有多種原因。

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2. I don't see the point in it really. It's just stupid.

我真的不理解這到底有什麽意義，簡直是愚蠢透頂。

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3. He'd phoned Laura to see if she was better.

他打電話給勞拉看她是不是好些了。

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4. The criticisms will not stop people flocking to see the film.

批評的聲音不會阻止人們湧到影院觀看這部電影。

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5. He could just about see the little man behind the counter.

他勉強能看到櫃台後麵的小個子男人。

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