recommend

名词 n. 动词 v.
/ˌɹɛkəˈmɛnd/    /ˌɹɛkəˈmɛnd/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A recommendation. colloquial
    — "I'm glad to have a recommend from that quarter. Airheart's skipper of the San Jose now. […]"
动词 v.
  1. To bestow commendation on; to represent favorably; to suggest, endorse or encourage as an appropriate choice. transitive
    — The board recommends Philips, given his ample experience in similar positions.
  2. To make acceptable; to attract favor to. transitive
    — A city that has much to recommend it.
  3. To advise, propose, counsel favorably. transitive
    — The therapist recommends resting the mind and exercising the body.
  4. To commit, to confide to another's care, confidence or acceptance, with favoring representations. archaic,transitive
    — A medieval oblate's parents recommended the boy for life to God and the monastery.

词形变化

recommends present,singular,third-person recommending participle,present recommended participle,past recommended past recommends plural

词源

词源 1
From Middle English recommenden, from Old French recommender (compare French recommander), from Latin re- + commendāre (“to commend, commit; to recommend”), from con- + mandāre (“commit, intrust, enjoin”), from manus (“hand, handwriting, power”) + dare (“to give; to offer or render”).
Compare typologically Bulgarian препоръчам (preporǎčam), Serbo-Croatian препоручити, Slovene priporočiti, Czech doporučit, Slovak odporučiť (the same meaning); Russian поручи́ться (poručítʹsja), пору́ка (porúka), поручи́тельство (poručítelʹstvo) (close meaning), all related to Proto-Slavic *rǫka (Bulgarian ръка (rǎka), Russian рука́ (ruká)).
词源 2
From Middle English recommenden, from Old French recommender (compare French recommander), from Latin re- + commendāre (“to commend, commit; to recommend”), from con- + mandāre (“commit, intrust, enjoin”), from manus (“hand, handwriting, power”) + dare (“to give; to offer or render”).
Compare typologically Bulgarian препоръчам (preporǎčam), Serbo-Croatian препоручити, Slovene priporočiti, Czech doporučit, Slovak odporučiť (the same meaning); Russian поручи́ться (poručítʹsja), пору́ка (porúka), поручи́тельство (poručítelʹstvo) (close meaning), all related to Proto-Slavic *rǫka (Bulgarian ръка (rǎka), Russian рука́ (ruká)).
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