| 单词 | meet |
| 释义 | meet (miːt ) Word forms: meets , meeting , met 1. verb A1 If you meet someone, you happen to be in the same place as them and start talking to them. You may know the other person, but be surprised to see them, or you may not know them at all. I have just met the man I want to spend the rest of my life with. [VERB noun] He's the kindest and sincerest person I've ever met. [VERB noun] We met by chance. [VERB] Synonyms: encounter, come across, run into, happen on Meet up means the same as meet. When he was in the supermarket, he met up with a buddy he had at Oxford. [VERB PARTICLE + with] They met up in 1956, when they were both young schoolboys. [VERB PARTICLE] 2. verb A1 If two or more people meet, they go to the same place, which they have earlier arranged to do, so that they can talk or do something together. We could meet for a drink after work. [VERB] Meet me down at the beach tomorrow, at 6am sharp. [VERB noun] Meet up means the same as meet. We tend to meet up for lunch once a week. [VERB PARTICLE] My intention was to have a holiday and meet up with old friends. [VERB PARTICLE + with] 3. verb A1 If you meet someone, you are introduced to them and begin talking to them and getting to know them. Hey, Terry, come and meet my Dad. [VERB noun] Synonyms: be introduced to, get to know, make the acquaintance of 4. verb A2 You use meet in expressions such as ' Pleased to meet you' and ' Nice to have met you' when you want to politely say hello or goodbye to someone you have just met for the first time. [formulae] 'Jennifer,' Miss Mallory said, 'this is Leigh.'—'Pleased to meet you,' Jennifer said. [VERB noun] I have to leave. Nice to have met you. [VERB noun] 5. verb B1 If you meet someone off their train, plane, or bus, you go to the station, airport, or bus stop in order to be there when they arrive. Mama met me at the station. [VERB noun preposition/adverb] Lili and my father met me off the boat. [V n + off] Kurt's parents weren't able to meet our plane so we took a taxi. [VERB noun] 6. verb B1+ When a group of people such as a committee meet, they gather together for a particular purpose. Officials from the two countries will meet again soon to resume negotiations. [VERB] The commission met 14 times between 1988 and 1991. [VERB] Synonyms: gather, collect, assemble, get together 7. verb If you meet with someone, you have a meeting with them. [mainly US] Most of the lawmakers who met with the president yesterday said they backed the mission. [VERB + with] 8. verb If something such as a suggestion, proposal, or new book meets with or is met with a particular reaction, it gets that reaction from people. The idea met with a cool response from various quarters. [VERB + with] We hope today's offer will meet with your approval too. Reagan's speech was met with incredulity in the U.S. [VERB noun + with] 9. verb If something meets a need, requirement, or condition, it is good enough to do what is required. It is up to parents to decide what form of health care best meets their needs. [VERB noun] Out of the original 23,000 applications, 16,000 candidates meet the entry requirements. [VERB noun] 10. verb If you meet something such as a problem or challenge, you deal with it satisfactorily or do what is required. British manufacturing failed to meet the crisis of the 1970s. [VERB noun] It is an enormous challenge but we hope to meet it within a year or 18 months. [VERB noun] They had worked heroically to meet the deadline. [VERB noun] 11. verb If you meet the cost of something, you provide the money that is needed for it. The government said it will help meet some of the cost of the damage. [VERB noun] You need to find the money to meet your monthly repayments. [VERB noun] Synonyms: pay for, clear, settle, square 12. verb If you meet a situation, attitude, or problem, you experience it or become aware of it. I honestly don't know how I will react the next time I meet a potentially dangerous situation. [VERB noun] Never had she met such spite and pettiness. [VERB noun] Synonyms: experience, face, suffer, bear 13. verb You can say that someone meets with success or failure when they are successful or unsuccessful. Attempts to find civilian volunteers have met with embarrassing failure. [VERB + with] The policy met with little success. [VERB with noun] 14. verb When a moving object meets another object, it hits or touches it. You sense the stresses in the hull each time the keel meets the ground. [VERB noun] Nick's head bent slowly over hers until their mouths met. [VERB] 15. verb If your eyes meet someone else's, you both look at each other at the same time. [written] Nina's eyes met her sister's across the table. [VERB noun] I found myself smiling back instinctively when our eyes met. [VERB] 16. verb If two areas meet, especially two areas of land or sea, they are next to one another. It is one of the rare places in the world where the desert meets the sea. [VERB noun] ...the southernmost point of South America where the Pacific and Atlantic oceans meet. [VERB] 17. verb The place where two lines meet is the place where they join together. Parallel lines will never meet no matter how far extended. [VERB] The track widened as it met the road. [VERB noun] 18. verb If two sportsmen, teams, or armies meet, they compete or fight against one another. The two women will meet tomorrow in the final. [VERB] The unevenly matched armies met at Guilford on 15 March 1781. [plural-noun VERB] ...when England last met the Aussies in a cricket Test match. [VERB noun] 19. countable noun A meet is an event in which athletes come to a particular place in order to take part in a race or races. I was competing at a meet in the National Stadium, Kingston. 20. countable noun A meet is when riders and dogs gather somewhere before they set off on a fox hunt. [British] 21. meet sb's eyes/gaze phrase If you do not meet someone's eyes or meet someone's gaze, you do not look at them although they are looking at you, for example because you are ashamed. He hesitated, then shook his head, refusing to meet her eyes. 22. meet one's death/meet one's end phrase If someone meets their death or meets their end, they die, especially in a violent or suspicious way. [written] Jacob Sinclair met his death at the hands of a soldier. No one knows exactly how or where he met his end. 23. to make ends meet phrase If you find it difficult to make ends meet, you can only just manage financially because you hardly have enough money for the things you need. With Betty's salary they barely made ends meet. Synonyms: manage, cope, make do, scrape by 24. there's more to this than meets the eye phrase You say 'there's more to this than meets the eye' when you think a situation is not as simple as it seems to be. This whole business is very puzzling. There is a lot more to it than meets the eye. 25. to meet someone's eyes phrase If something, especially something surprising or impressive, meets your eyes, you see it. The first sight that met my eyes on reaching the front door was the church enveloped in flames. 26. to meet someone halfway phrase If you meet someone halfway, you accept some of the points they are making so that you can come to an agreement with them. The Democrats are willing to meet the president halfway. 27. to meet your match phrase If you meet your match, you find that you are competing or fighting against someone who you cannot beat because they are as good as you, or better than you. I had finally met my match in power and intellect. Phrasal verbs: meet up Idioms: meet someone halfway to accept some of a person's opinions or wishes, so that you can come to an agreement with them or have a better relationship with them Senator Gray said Democrats are willing to meet the president halfway on measures to stimulate the economy. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers meet someone in the flesh or see someone in the flesh to actually meet or see someone, rather than, for example, seeing them in a film or on television But what does Jamie think of his hero now, having met him in the flesh? Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers meet someone's eyes [literary] to look directly into someone's eyes An uneasy moment of frozen silence passed as Steve looked down and then finally up at me, meeting my eyes with an intense glare. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers make ends meet to be able to pay for the things you need in life, often with very little money Many people are struggling to make ends meet because wages are failing to keep pace with rising prices. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers never the twain shall meet or ne'er the twain shall meet said to mean that there are so many differences between two groups of people or two groups of things that people believe that they can never exist together in the same place or situation The education system is notorious for separating the sciences and the humanities. This academic `ne'er the twain shall meet' policy unfortunately does not always reflect the needs of the real world. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers meet your Waterloo to suffer a very severe defeat or failure, especially one which causes you to finally give up what you are trying to do At the foot of cliff I met my Waterloo. The face of the cliff rose sheer above us, and it was clear even to me that we would not be able to climb it. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers meet your match to find that you are competing or fighting with someone who is as good as you or is better than you When I got into the room with Wesley, it was almost like looking into a mirror for me. I had finally met my match in power and intellect. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Collocations: hold a meeting It eventually solved the problem with its logistics technology and by holding a meeting with the postmaster general to ensure nationwide delivery. Times, Sunday Times (2014) A spokesman said: 'We are looking to hold a meeting with the chairman as soon as possible to discuss this unsatisfactory situation. The Sun (2014) But the Lion explained that the animals were holding a meeting, and he judged by their snarling and growling that they were in great trouble. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) The tweet came a day after he held a meeting with air force generals expected to cover the modernisation of the US nuclear triad. Times, Sunday Times (2016) Good luck when arranging to meet a stranger at a station. Times, Sunday Times I am on my way to meet a stranger who might as well be my identical twin. Times, Sunday Times The network found that 16 per cent of childen aged 11 to 15 had agreed to meet a stranger they contacted on the internet. The Sun When you meet a stranger at a wedding, you have opposite lifestyles, but your hearts are in tune. The Sun I would hazard a guess that the other 50% are lying, because who would go and meet a stranger without doing due diligence? Times, Sunday Times And three out of five think their friendships become 'superficial' because they meet online instead of face to face. The Sun Borrowers and lenders meet online and, if the lender likes the deal, it will get funded. Times, Sunday Times Selfie - to take and post a photo of yourself - phablet, a tablet/smartphone mix, and hackerspace - where geeks meet online - all come from the net. The Sun She proposes that we stop being passive in our treatment of the people we meet online and start being active. Times, Sunday Times Nothing strange about that — nowadays, apparently, 20 per cent of married couples meet online. Times, Sunday Times We meet periodically to express why we're doing what we're doing. Christianity Today Most chapters serve a local area and meet periodically to exchange information pertinent to electric transportation. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They would then meet periodically throughout the year. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 If the accelerator doesn't offer a common workspace, the teams will meet periodically. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 All the promoters meet periodically to discuss matters of importance, usually rule changes. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They meet privately every week and what they discuss always remains confidential. The Sun It was agreed he should come without bodyguards, in order that the two might meet privately and try to settle their differences. Times, Sunday Times Typically, countries allow diplomats to meet privately with detainees. Houston Chronicle Despite warnings from local authorities, the group continued to meet privately and attract even more followers. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Meeting privately was impossible, and much of their courtship took place through messages. Times, Sunday Times Ask him to meet regularly so you two stay close. The Sun We have a group of good friends who, in normal times, meet regularly for a drink. Times,Sunday Times I made a covenant with him to meet regularly to do this. Christianity Today Set up a local group to meet regularly and exercise in the park. Times, Sunday Times Groups meet regularly for walks and socialising, and everyone from beginners to seasoned ramblers are welcome. Times, Sunday Times If his love for you was genuine, he would be willing to be open and honest, not meet secretly. The Sun We text constantly and meet secretly. The Sun Although the two are forbidden to see each other, they meet secretly until at last they are caught and forcefully separated. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He arranged with her to meet secretly several times. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Followers there submitted credible reports that they were forced to meet secretly at night, in the fields in order to pray. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Meet separately with the angry persons; get them to concretely identify the issues that have produced the anger; have them see the situation objectively. Christianity Today They refused this and proceeded to meet separately. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The three committees meet separately, as well as in bilateral and tripartite meetings. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Dissent arose over whether the three estates would meet separately, as had been tradition, or as one body. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Young people often meet separately. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 遇见, 相遇 Japanese: ～に会う, 会う |
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