tenant
英 ['tenənt]
美 ['tɛnənt]
- n. 承租人；房客；佃戶；居住者
- vt. 租借（常用於被動語態）
- n. (Tenant)人名；(法)特南
助記提示
1. ten- + -ant.
2. => person who holds lands by title or by lease.
3. 螞蟻搬家，十隻螞蟻成了房客。
4. 十隻螞蟻租我的房子，並為我工作。=> 房客，佃戶。
5. Tenant：十隻螞蟻找家——房客
6. 〔房客一巴掌，揍扁十(ten)螞蟻(ant)〕
中文詞源
tenant 租客，租戶ten-,持有，握住，-ant,人。引申詞義租客，租戶。
英文詞源
- tenant
- tenant: [14] A tenant is etymologically a ‘holder’. The word comes from Old French tenant, a noun use of the present participle of tenir ‘hold’. This in turn went back to Latin tenēre ‘hold’, a descendant of the Indo-European base *ten- ‘stretch, extend’ (source also of English tend, tense, thin, etc). Also from Latin tenēre come English tenacious [16], tenement [14], tenet [17], and tenor, not to mention contain, continue, detain, maintain, obtain, retain, etc, while French tenir has additionally produced tenable [16], tenon [15], tenure [15], and probably tennis.
=> contain, continue, detain, maintain, obtain, retain, tenable, tenacious, tend, tenement, tenet, tennis, tenon, tenor, tense, tenure, thin - tenant (n.)
- early 14c., "person who holds lands by title or by lease," from Anglo-French tenaunt (late 13c.), Old French tenant "possessor; feudal tenant" (12c.), noun use of present participle of tenir "to hold," from Latin tenere "hold, keep, grasp" (see tenet). Related: Tenancy. Tenant-farmer attested from 1748.
雙語例句
- 1. If you are a council tenant call the housing department about it.
- 市建住房租戶請就該問題致電住房部。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. Landowners frequently left the management of their estates to tenant farmers.
- 地主們經常將土地的管理交給佃農。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. Mowing lawns and taking out the trash are jobs for the tenant.
- 刈剪草坪、倒掉垃圾是房客該做的事。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. The tenant was dispossessed for not paying his rent.
- 那名房客因未付房租而被趕走.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 5. The tenant received two month's notice.
- 房客得到兩個月後搬出的通知.
來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》