advert
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advertisement 的截断形式。
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advert (复数 adverts)
- (英国，非正式) 广告
- 2011 3月 1, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2 - 1 Man Utd”, 出自 BBC[1]:
- This was a wonderful advert for the Premier League, with both Chelsea and United intent on all-out attack - but Ferguson will be concerned at how his side lost their way after imperiously controlling much of the first period.
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- 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, ISBN 978-1846684777，页号 41:
- When I was writing my 'Tube Talk' column, a man sent me a letter complaining about the advertisement of cars on the Underground. Why would the Underground masochistically promote a rival transport mode? The answer, I discovered, was that the adverts on the network must not 'harm the brand', and a car advert per se was not deemed to do that. However, a car advert that said 'Why are you using this horrible Tube when you could be driving one of our lovely cars?' would not be allowed.
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- 2013 5月 25, “No hiding place”, 出自 The Economist[2], 卷 407, 期 8837，页号 74:
- In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result.
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词源2 编辑
源自中古英语 adverten，源自古法语 advertir (“注意”)，源自拉丁语 advertere (“转向”)。参见adverse。
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advert (第三人称单数简单现在时 adverts，现在分词 adverting，一般过去时及过去分词 adverted)
- (不及物) 留意，注意 (+ to) （自15世纪）
- 2007 September 9, the Vatican (trans.), Pope Benedict XVI (speaker), speaking in German at St. Stephen's Cathedral, Austria:
- At a time when creation seems to be endangered in so many ways through human activity, we should consciously advert to this dimension of Sunday, too.
- 2007 September 9, the Vatican (trans.), Pope Benedict XVI (speaker), speaking in German at St. Stephen's Cathedral, Austria:
- (弃用，及物) 把注意力转移到；注意到 （15–19世纪）
- (不及物) 引起注意 （自18世纪）
- 1842, Edgar Allan Poe, ‘The Mystery of Marie Rogêt’:
- ‘I have before suggested that a genuine blackguard is never without a pocket-handkerchief. But it is not to this fact that I now especially advert.’
- 1860, Wilkie Collins, The Woman In White:
- As soon as Miss Fairlie had left the room he spared us all embarrassment on the subject of the anonymous letter, by adverting to it of his own accord.
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- 1961 July, “Editorial: Sir Brian begs the questions”, 出自 Trains Illustrated，页号 386:
- In this context, it is worth remark that Sir Brian should have paid particular attention to the importance of a reserve of power in locomotives. He adverted to this in a discussion of punctuality, making first the highly debatable assertion that "a very high proportion" of steam locomotives today were being worked to the limit of their capacity, with little or no reserve in hand, [...].
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- 1842, Edgar Allan Poe, ‘The Mystery of Marie Rogêt’: