to
英 [t?; before a vowel; t?; stressed; tu?]
美 [tu,t?]
- adv. 向前；（門等）關上
- prep. 到；向；（表示時間、方向）朝…方向
- n. (To)人名；(柬)多；(中)脫(普通話·威妥瑪)
中文詞源
to 朝，向來自古英語 to,朝向，在某方向，來自 West-Germanic*to,朝向，來自 PIE*do,指示代詞詞干， 朝，向，衍生前綴 de-.
英文詞源
- to
- to: [OE] To comes from a prehistoric West Germanic *tō, which also produced German zu and Dutch toe. This went back ultimately to an Indo-European *do, which also produced Russian do ‘to’. Too is historically the same word as to.
=> too - to (prep.)
- Old English to "in the direction of, for the purpose of, furthermore," from West Germanic *to (cognates: Old Saxon and Old Frisian to, Dutch too, Old High German zuo, German zu "to"), from PIE pronominal base *do- "to, toward, upward" (cognates: Latin donec "as long as," Old Church Slavonic do "as far as, to," Greek suffix -de "to, toward," Old Irish do, Lithuanian da-), from demonstrative *de-.
Not found in Scandinavian, where the equivalent of till (prep.) is used. In Old English, the preposition (go to town) leveled with the adverb (the door slammed to) except where the adverb retained its stress (tired and hungry too); there it came to be written with -oo (see too).
The nearly universal use of to with infinitives (to sleep, to dream, etc.) arose in Middle English out of the Old English dative use of to, and it helped drive out the Old English inflectional endings (though in this use to itself is a mere sign, without meaning).
Commonly used as a prefix in Middle English (to-hear "listen to," etc.), but few of these survive (to-do, together, and time references such as today, tonight, tomorrow -- Chaucer also has to-yeere). To and fro "side to side" is attested from mid-14c. Phrase what's it to you "how does that concern you?" (1819) is a modern form of an old question:
Hu?d is eec e?s?
[John xxi:22, in Lindisfarne Gospel, c.950]
雙語例句
- 1. I think he means "at" rather than "to"
- 我想，他是想說at，而不是to。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. Beauty is an attitude. It has nothing to do with age.
- 美是一種態度，與年齡無關。
來自金山詞霸
- 3. The best thing to do when entering unknown territory is smile.
- 踏入未知地帶最好的對策就是微笑。
來自美劇《凱莉日記》
- 4. No matter where you go in life or how old you get, there's always something new to learn about. After all, life is full of surprises.
- 不管你生活在哪里，你有多少歲，總有新東西要學習，畢竟，生活總是充滿驚喜。
來自金山詞霸 每日一句
- 5. For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?
- 我們活著是為了什么？不就是給鄰居當笑柄，再反過來笑他們。
來自《傲慢與偏見》