embrace
embrace 英 [ɪmˈbreɪs] 美 [ɛmˈbres]
vt. 拥抱；信奉；包含 n. 拥抱
进行时:embracing 过去式:embraced 过去分词:embraced 第三人称单数:embraces 名词复数:embraces
- To embrace something is to welcome it with open arms, hold, hug, accept completely. You might embrace your sweetheart, or even changes in technology.
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- vt. 拥抱；信奉；包含
- n. 拥抱
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1. Why not embrace that?...
为何不拥抱这个呢？
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2. They embrace.
他们拥抱。
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3. embrace it!
拥抱它吧！
- embrace (n.) "a hug," 1590s, from embrace (v.). Earlier noun was embracing (late 14c.). Middle English embrace (n.) meant "bribery."
- embrace (v.) mid-14c., "clasp in the arms," from Old French embracier (12c., Modern French embrasser) "clasp in the arms, enclose; covet, handle, cope with," from assimilated form of en- "in" (see en- (1)) + brace, braz "the arms," from Latin bracchium (neuter plural brachia) "an arm, a forearm," from Greek brakhion "an arm" (see brachio-). Related: Embraced; embracing; embraceable. Replaced Old English clyppan (see clip (v.2)), also fæðm (see fathom (v.)). Sexual sense is from 1590s.
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