event

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ɪˈvɛnt/    美 /ɪˈvɛnt/|/i-/|/ə-/|/əˈvent/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An occurrence; something that happens.
    — In the event of strong wind…
  2. A prearranged social activity (function, etc.)
    — I went to an event in San Francisco last week.
  3. One of several contests that combine to make up a competition.
  4. An end result; an outcome (now chiefly in phrases).
    — hard beginnings have many times prosperous events […].
  5. A remarkable person. dated,figuratively,uncommon
    — Miss Burton, you are an event! Sleepy, old Lymston's going to love you! Bye-bye. Bye.
  6. A point in spacetime having three spatial coordinates and one temporal coordinate.
  7. A possible action that the user can perform that is monitored by an application or the operating system (event listener). When an event occurs an event handler is called which performs a specific task.
  8. A set of some of the possible outcomes; a subset of the sample space.
    — If X is a random variable representing the toss of a six-sided die, then its sample space could be denoted as {1,2,3,4,5,6}. Examples of events could be: X=1, X=2, X>5,X̸=4, and X isin 1,3,5.
  9. An affair in hand; business; enterprise. obsolete
    — Leave we him to his events.
  10. An episode of severe health conditions.
动词 v.
  1. To occur, take place. obsolete
    — 1590, Robert Greene, Greene’s Never Too Late, in The Life and Complete Works in Prose and Verse of Robert Greene, Volume 8, Huff Library, 1881, p. 33, […] I will first rehearse you an English Historie acted and evented in my Countrey of England […]
  2. To be emitted or breathed out; to evaporate. intransitive,obsolete
    — c. 1597, Ben Jonson, The Case is Altered, Act V, Scene 8, in C. H. Herford and Percy Simpson (editors), Ben Jonson, Volume 3, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1927, p. 178, ô that thou sawst my heart, or didst behold The place from whence that scalding sigh evented.
  3. To expose to the air, ventilate. obsolete,transitive
    — 1559, attributed to William Baldwin, “How the Lorde Clyfford for his straunge and abhominable cruelty came to as straunge and sodayne a death” in The Mirror for Magistrates, Part III, edited by Joseph Haslewood, London: Lackington, Allen & Co., 1815, Volume 2, p. 198, For as I would my gorget have undon To event the heat that had mee nigh undone, An headles arrow strake mee through the throte, Where through my soule forsooke his fylthy cote.

词形变化

events plural events present,singular,third-person eventing participle,present evented participle,past evented past events present,singular,third-person eventing participle,present evented participle,past evented past

词汇关系

下位词
blessed event credit event Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event current events doomsday event episodic events extinction event impact event media event quick time event risk event sentinel event social event speciation event
相关词
event horizon in the event wise after the event

词源

词源 1
From Middle French event, from Latin ēventus (“an event, occurrence”), from ēveniō (“to happen, to fall out, to come out”), from ē (“out of, from”), short form of ex + veniō (“come”); related to venture, advent, convent, invent, convene, evene, etc.
词源 2
From French éventer.
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