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T0334000 (trēt)v. treat·ed, treat·ing, treats v.tr.1. To act or behave in a specified manner toward: treated me fairly.2. To regard and handle in a certain way. Often used with as: treated the matter as a joke.3. To deal with in writing or speech; discuss: a book that treats all aspects of health care.4. To deal with or represent artistically in a specified manner or style: treats the subject poetically.5. a. To provide with food, entertainment, or gifts at one's own expense: treated her sister to the theater.b. To give (someone or oneself) something pleasurable: treated herself to a day in the country.6. To subject to a process, action, or change, especially to a chemical or physical process or application: treated the cloth with bleach.7. a. To give medical aid to (someone): treated many patients in the emergency room.b. To give medical aid to counteract (a disease or condition): treated malaria with quinine.v.intr.1. To deal with a subject or topic in writing or speech. Often used with of: The essay treats of courtly love.2. To pay for another's entertainment, food, or drink.3. To engage in negotiations, as to reach a settlement or agree on terms: "Both sides nonetheless are quite willing to treat with [the king]" (Gregory J. Wallance).n.1. Something, such as one's food or entertainment, that is paid for by someone else.2. A source of a special delight or pleasure: His trip abroad was a real treat.

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[Middle English tretien, from Old French traitier, from Latin tractāre, frequentative of trahere, to draw.]

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treat′er n.

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(triːt) n1. a celebration, entertainment, gift, or feast given for or to someone and paid for by another2. any delightful surprise or specially pleasant occasion3. the act of treatingvb4. (tr) to deal with or regard in a certain manner: she treats school as a joke. 5. (Medicine) (tr) to apply treatment to: to treat a patient for malaria. 6. (tr) to subject to a process or to the application of a substance: to treat photographic film with developer. 7. (tr; often foll by to) to provide (someone) (with) as a treat: he treated the children to a trip to the zoo. 8. formal (usually foll by: of) to deal (with), as in writing or speaking9. (intr) formal to discuss settlement; negotiate[C13: from Old French tretier, from Latin tractāre to manage, from trahere to drag] ˈtreatable adj ˈtreater n

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v.t. 1. to act or behave toward in some specified way: to treat someone with respect. 2. to consider or regard in a specified way: to treat a matter as unimportant. 3. to deal with in a specified way; handle. 4. to deal with (a disease, patient, etc.) in order to relieve or cure. 5. to subject to some agent or action in order to bring about a particular result: to treat a substance with an acid. 6. to provide with food, entertainment, gifts, etc., at one's own expense. 7. to provide with as a source of pleasure or enjoyment. 8. to deal with in speech or writing; discuss. 9. to deal with or represent artistically, esp. in some specified manner or style: to treat a theme realistically. v.i. 10. to deal with a subject in speech or writing; discourse (usu. fol. by of). 11. to give, or bear the expense of, a treat. 12. to carry on negotiations with a view to a settlement; negotiate. n. 13. entertainment, food, drink, etc., given by way of compliment or as an expression of friendly regard. 14. anything that affords particular pleasure or enjoyment. 15. the act of treating. 16. one's turn to treat. [1250–1300; Middle English treten (v.) < Old French tretier,traitier < Latin tractāre to drag, handle, frequentative of trahere to drag. compare tractable] treat′er, n.

treat

Past participle: treated
Gerund: treating

Imperative
treat
treat

Present
I treat
you treat
he/she/it treats
we treat
you treat
they treat

Preterite
I treated
you treated
he/she/it treated
we treated
you treated
they treated

Present Continuous
I am treating
you are treating
he/she/it is treating
we are treating
you are treating
they are treating

Present Perfect
I have treated
you have treated
he/she/it has treated
we have treated
you have treated
they have treated

Past Continuous
I was treating
you were treating
he/she/it was treating
we were treating
you were treating
they were treating

Past Perfect
I had treated
you had treated
he/she/it had treated
we had treated
you had treated
they had treated

Future
I will treat
you will treat
he/she/it will treat
we will treat
you will treat
they will treat

Future Perfect
I will have treated
you will have treated
he/she/it will have treated
we will have treated
you will have treated
they will have treated

Future Continuous
I will be treating
you will be treating
he/she/it will be treating
we will be treating
you will be treating
they will be treating

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been treating
you have been treating
he/she/it has been treating
we have been treating
you have been treating
they have been treating

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been treating
you will have been treating
he/she/it will have been treating
we will have been treating
you will have been treating
they will have been treating

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been treating
you had been treating
he/she/it had been treating
we had been treating
you had been treating
they had been treating

Conditional
I would treat
you would treat
he/she/it would treat
we would treat
you would treat
they would treat

Past Conditional
I would have treated
you would have treated
he/she/it would have treated
we would have treated
you would have treated
they would have treated

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	treat - something considered choice to eat dainty, goody, kickshaw, delicacyaliment, alimentation, nourishment, nutriment, sustenance, victuals, nutrition - a source of materials to nourish the bodychoice morsel, tidbit, titbit - a small tasty bit of foodsavoury, savory - an aromatic or spicy dish served at the end of dinner or as an hors d'oeuvreconfection, sweet - a food rich in sugarnectar, ambrosia - (classical mythology) the food and drink of the gods; mortals who ate it became immortaljelly, gelatin - an edible jelly (sweet or pungent) made with gelatin and used as a dessert or salad base or a coating for foodsbone marrow, marrow - very tender and very nutritious tissue from marrowbones
	2.	treat - an occurrence that causes special pleasure or delighthappening, natural event, occurrence, occurrent - an event that happens
Verb	1.	treat - interact in a certain way; "Do right by her"; "Treat him with caution, please"; "Handle the press reporters gently"do by, handletreat - regard or consider in a specific way; "I treated his advances as a joke"bemock, mock - treat with contempt; "The new constitution mocks all democratic principles"deal, plow, handle, treat, cover, address - act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression; "This book deals with incest"; "The course covered all of Western Civilization"; "The new book treats the history of China"disregard, ignore, snub, cut - refuse to acknowledge; "She cut him dead at the meeting"interact - act together or towards others or with others; "He should interact more with his colleagues"wrong - treat unjustly; do wrong tohandle with kid gloves - handle with great care and sensitivity; "You have to handle the students with kid gloves"criminalize - treat as a criminalnurse - treat carefully; "He nursed his injured back by lying in bed several hours every afternoon"; "He nursed the flowers in his garden and fertilized them regularly"strong-arm - handle roughly; "He was strong-armed by the policemen"ride roughshod, run roughshod - treat inconsiderately or harshlyupstage - treat snobbishly, put in one's placerough-house - treat in a rough or boisterous mannerbrutalise, brutalize - treat brutallydo well by - treat with respect and consideration; "children should do well by their parents"gloss over, skate over, skimp over, slur over, smooth over - treat hurriedly or avoid dealing with properlyabuse, ill-treat, ill-use, maltreat, mistreat, step - treat badly; "This boss abuses his workers"; "She is always stepping on others to get ahead"baby, cocker, coddle, cosset, featherbed, mollycoddle, pamper, spoil, indulge - treat with excessive indulgence; "grandparents often pamper the children"; "Let's not mollycoddle our students!"
	2.	treat - subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition; "process cheese"; "process hair"; "treat the water so it can be drunk"; "treat the lawn with chemicals" ; "treat an oil spill"processpropagate - cause to propagate, as by grafting or layeringaffect, bear upon, impact, bear on, touch on, touch - have an effect upon; "Will the new rules affect me?"iodise, iodize - treat with iodine; "iodize salt"nitrate - treat with nitric acid, so as to change an organic compound into a nitrate; "nitroglycerin is obtained by nitrating glycerol"tank - treat in a tank; "tank animal refuse"oxygenate, oxygenise, oxygenize, aerate - impregnate, combine, or supply with oxygen; "oxygenate blood"mercerise, mercerize - treat to strengthen and improve the luster; "mercerize cotton"malt - treat with malt or malt extract; "malt beer"fluoridate, fluoridise, fluoridize - subject to fluoridation; treat with fluoride; "fluoridized water"; "fluoridize the teeth of children"creosote - treat with creosote; "creosoted wood"chlorinate - treat or combine with chlorine; "chlorinated water"carbonate - treat with carbon dioxide; "Carbonated soft drinks"camphorate - treat with camphorbromate, brominate - treat with bromineammoniate - treat with ammoniairradiate, ray - expose to radiation; "irradiate food"scald - treat with boiling water; "scald tomatoes so that they can be peeled"refine - treat or prepare so as to put in a usable condition; "refine paper stock"; "refine pig iron"; "refine oil"nitrogenise, nitrogenize, nitrify - treat with nitrogen or a nitrogen compoundreverberate - treat, process, heat, melt, or refine in a reverberatory furnace; "reverberate ore"curry - treat by incorporating fat; "curry tanned leather"seed - sprinkle with silver iodide particles to disperse and cause rain; "seed clouds"dose - treat with an agent; add (an agent) to; "The ray dosed the paint"sulfur, sulphur - treat with sulphur in order to preserve; "These dried fruits are sulphured"vulcanise, vulcanize - subject to vulcanization; "vulcanized rubber"chrome - treat with a chromium compoundbituminise, bituminize - treat with bitumenAgenise, Agenize - age or bleach flour with Agene (nitrogen trichloride)run - cause to perform; "run a subject"; "run a process"carboxylate - treat (a chemical compound) with carboxyl or carboxylic acidbeneficiate - process (ores or other raw materials), as by reductiondigest - convert food into absorbable substances; "I cannot digest milk products"fumigate, fume - treat with fumes, expose to fumes, especially with the aim of disinfecting or eradicating pestsair-condition - control the humidity and temperature of; "The room was cool because it had been air-conditioned"
	3.	treat - provide treatment for; "The doctor treated my broken leg"; "The nurses cared for the bomb victims"; "The patient must be treated right away or she will die"; "Treat the infection with antibiotics"care forhyperventilate - produce hyperventilation in; "The nurses had to hyperventilate the patient"massage - give a massage to; "She massaged his sore back"purge - excrete or evacuate (someone's bowels or body); "The doctor decided that the patient must be purged"correct - treat a defect; "The new contact lenses will correct for his myopia"insufflate - treat by blowing a powder or vapor into a bodily cavitydetox, detoxify - treat for alcohol or drug dependence; "He was detoxified in the clinic"irrigate - supply with a constant flow or sprinkling of some liquid, for the purpose of cooling, cleansing, or disinfecting; "irrigate the wound"iodise, iodize - treat with iodine so as to prevent infection; "iodize a wound"doctor - give medical treatment tovet - provide (a person) with medical carenurse - try to cure by special care of treatment, of an illness or injury; "He nursed his cold with Chinese herbs"manipulate - treat manually, as with massage, for therapeutic purposeddispense, administer - give or apply (medications)remedy, relieve - provide relief for; "remedy his illness"dress - apply a bandage or medication to; "dress the victim's wounds"splint - support with a splint; "splint a broken finger"operate on, operate - perform surgery on; "The doctors operated on the patient but failed to save his life"medicine, medicate - treat medicinally, treat with medicineleech, phlebotomise, phlebotomize, bleed - draw blood; "In the old days, doctors routinely bled patients as part of the treatment"cup, transfuse - treat by applying evacuated cups to the patient's skinshock - subject to electrical shockspack - treat the body or any part of it by wrapping it, as with blankets or sheets, and applying compresses to it, or stuffing it to provide cover, containment, or therapy, or to absorb blood; "The nurse packed gauze in the wound"; "You had better pack your swollen ankle with ice"cauterise, cauterize, burn - burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent; "The surgeon cauterized the wart"psychoanalyse, psychoanalyze, analyse, analyze - subject to psychoanalytic treatment; "I was analyzed in Vienna by a famous psychiatrist"
	4.	treat - act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression; "This book deals with incest"; "The course covered all of Western Civilization"; "The new book treats the history of China"deal, plow, handle, cover, addressbroach, initiate - bring up a topic for discussiontheologise, theologize - treat from a theological viewpoint or render theological in characterdiscourse, discuss, talk about - to consider or examine in speech or writing; "The author talks about the different aspects of this question"; "The class discussed Dante's `Inferno'"do by, treat, handle - interact in a certain way; "Do right by her"; "Treat him with caution, please"; "Handle the press reporters gently"embrace, encompass, comprehend, cover - include in scope; include as part of something broader; have as one's sphere or territory; "This group encompasses a wide range of people from different backgrounds"; "this should cover everyone in the group"
	5.	treat - provide with a gift or entertainment; "Grandmother always treated us to the circus"; "I like to treat myself to a day at a spa when I am depressed"regale, treat - provide with choice or abundant food or drink; "Don't worry about the expensive wine--I'm treating"; "She treated her houseguests with good food every night"gift, present, give - give as a present; make a gift of; "What will you give her for her birthday?"
	6.	treat - provide with choice or abundant food or drink; "Don't worry about the expensive wine--I'm treating"; "She treated her houseguests with good food every night"regalewine - treat to wine; "Our relatives in Italy wined and dined us for a week"alcoholize - subject to the influence of alcohol; "After we finished dinner, we were thoroughly alcoholized"feast, feed - gratify; "feed one's eyes on a gorgeous view"cater, ply, provide, supply - give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance; "The hostess provided lunch for all the guests"treat - provide with a gift or entertainment; "Grandmother always treated us to the circus"; "I like to treat myself to a day at a spa when I am depressed"
	7.	treat - engage in negotiations in order to reach an agreement; "they had to treat with the King"negociate - confer with another in order to come to terms or reach an agreement; "The parties negociated all night"
	8.	treat - regard or consider in a specific way; "I treated his advances as a joke"react, respond - show a response or a reaction to somethingdo by, treat, handle - interact in a certain way; "Do right by her"; "Treat him with caution, please"; "Handle the press reporters gently"

treat

verb1. behave towards, deal with, handle, act towards, use, consider, serve, manage, regard, look upon He treated most women with indifference.2. take care of, minister to, attend to, give medical treatment to, doctor (informal), nurse, care for, medicate, prescribe medicine for, apply treatment to An experienced nurse treats all minor injuries.3. cure, heal, remedy, make better For centuries it was used to treat indigestion.4. prime, cover, process, prepare About 70% of the area is treated with insecticide.5. provide, give, buy, stand (informal), pay for, entertain, feast, lay on, regale, wine and dine, take out for, foot or pay the bill She was always treating him to ice cream.6. deal with, consider, study, cover, discuss, review, handle, go into, refer to, tackle, investigate, explore, analyse, critique, touch on a working method for treating subjects in the theater7. negotiate, bargain, consult, have talks, confer, come to terms, parley, make a bargain, make terms They assumed we were treating with the rebels.noun1. entertainment, party, surprise, gift, celebration, feast, outing, excursion, banquet, refreshment a birthday treat2. present, gift, luxury, indulgence, delicacy, extravagance, goodie (informal), titbit, little something He never failed to return without a special treat for them.3. pleasure, delight, joy, thrill, satisfaction, enjoyment, gratification, source of pleasure, fun It's a real treat to see someone doing justice to the film.treat of something deal with, discuss, go into, be concerned with, touch upon, discourse upon part of Christian theology that treats of the afterlife

treat

verb1. To behave in a specified way toward:deal with, handle.2. To be occupied or concerned with:consider, deal with, take up.Idiom: have to do with.3. To pay for the food, drink, or entertainment of (another):Informal: set up, stand.Slang: blow.Idiom: stand treat.4. To give medical aid to:Informal: doctor.nounSomething fine and delicious, especially a food:dainty, delicacy, morsel, tidbit.Informal: goody.

Translations

款待请客交涉医治商议

treat

(triːt) verb1. to deal with, or behave towards (a thing or person), in a certain manner. The soldiers treated me very well; The police are treating his death as a case of murder. 對待，把...看作... 对待，把...看作... 2. to try to cure (a person or disease, injury etc). They treated her for a broken leg. 醫治 医治3. to put (something) through a process. The woodwork has been treated with a new chemical. 處理 处理4. to buy (a meal, present etc) for (someone). I'll treat you to lunch; She treated herself to a new hat. 款待，請客 款待，请客 5. to write or speak about; to discuss. 交涉，商議 交涉，商议 noun something that gives pleasure, eg an arranged outing, or some special food. He took them to the theatre as a treat. 請客 请客ˈtreatment noun (an) act or manner of treating. This chair seems to have received rough treatment; This patient/disease requires urgent treatment. 處理，治療 处理，治疗

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