vouchsafe

英语

词源

源自vouch +‎ safe，中古英语和早期现代英语中写作两个词。

发音

• (标准英音，通用美式) 国际音标^(帮助): /ˌvaʊt͡ʃˈseɪf/
• (加拿大) 国际音标^(帮助): [ˌvʌʊtʃˈseɪf]

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• 韵部：-eɪf
• 断字：vouch‧safe

动词

vouchsafe (第三人称单数简单现在时 vouchsafes，现在分词 vouchsafing，一般过去时及过去分词 vouchsafed)

1. （以很高的地位慷慨地）给予，赋予，赐予；告知，传达

   近义词：(古旧) vouch

   • 1599?, William Shakespeare, Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies, London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, 出版于 1623, →OCLC, Julius Caesar, Act III, scene i，第 119 页:

     If Brutus will vouchſafe that Antony / May ſafely come to him ...

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   • 1609, William Shakespeare, Shake-speares sonnets: Neuer before Imprinted‎^[1], London: G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe], and are to be solde by William Aspley, →OCLC, sonnet 135:

     Wilt thou, whoſe will is large and ſpacious, / Not once vouchſafe to hide my will in thine?

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   • 1964 July, “The mythology of monorails”, 出自 Modern Railways，第 57 页:

     Needless to say, we have been vouchsafed no idea of what this might cost the innocent victims, the ratepayers.

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2. （以很高的地位）接受
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3. 告知，告诉，透露

   She vouchsafed to me that she regretted ever marrying him.

   她和我说她后悔嫁给了他。

   • 1879, F. D. Morice, Pindar, chapter 8，第 129 页:

     His predictions were at first to be guided by direct intimations vouchsafed to him by the god; […]

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近义词

• deign

相关词汇

• vouchsafement
• vouchsafing

参考资料

• “vouchsafe”，Lexico，Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press，2019–present年.