| 单词 | invite |
| 释义 | in·vite I. transitive verb 1. a. < the book invites interest > < writes about the people and places that invite his pen — Atlantic > < rock-strewn streams invite the fisherman — American Guide Series: New Jersey > < virgin spaces of America invited colonization — Douglas Bush > < I loaf and invite my soul — Walt Whitman > b. < to shrink from responsibility is to invite social and economic insecurity — H.G.Armstrong > < so long as there is starvation and joblessness in the midst of abundance we are inviting the deluge — Ruth Benedict > < lurid emotionalism and tear-jerking nostalgia … inviting sighs and hisses — Leslie Rees > < wandered slowly along … in that wholly relaxed state which always seems to invite small adventures — William Beebe > 2. a. < invite guests to dinner > < invite educators to a conference > < invite a team to a tournament > < open the door and invite him in > especially < an affair open only to those who had been invited > b. < invite him to be chief executive > < invited her to give a talk on flower arrangement > < it is not as yet very clear which … are invited to consider becoming signatories — I.A.Richards > c. < leaned forward … and invited me to continue in English — Barbara Henderson > < inviting him to put his own motives under examination — Lionel Trilling > < invite bids on a contract > < invites oral suggestions from his three clerks — J.P.Frank > < his manner did not invite approach — H.E.Starr > intransitive verb < he did not invite: he commanded — Max Beerbohm > < the spacious campus … invites to the enjoyment of the out-of-doors — Catalog of Hollins College > II. now chiefly dialect < you sound like you didn't get no invite to the dance — Richard Bissell > |
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