ready

英 ['red?] 美['r?di]

近義詞fit set

反義詞

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復數:?readies;第三人稱單數:?readies;過去式:?readied;過去分詞:?readied;現在分詞:?readying;比較級:?readier;最高級:?readiest;

ready 準備好的

來自古英語 raede,準備好的，準備好上馬的，詞源同 ride,騎馬。

ready: ready: [12] Ready is a derivative of Old English r?de ‘ready’, which went back to a prehistoric Germanic *raithjō ‘arranged’, hence ‘prepared’. This also produced German bereit ‘ready’, Dutch gereed ‘ready’, and Swedish reda ‘ready’, and it lies behind the second syllable of curry ‘groom a horse’.
ready (adj.): Old English r?de, ger?de "prepared, ready," of a horse, "ready for riding," from Proto-Germanic *garaidijaz "arranged" (cognates: Old Frisian rede "ready," Middle Dutch gereit, Old High German reiti, Middle High German bereite, German bereit, Old Norse greier "ready, plain," Gothic garaits "ordered, arranged"), from PIE root *reidh- "to ride" (see ride (v.)). Lengthened in Middle English by change of ending. Ready-made first attested early 15c.; ready-to-wear is from 1890.
ready (v.): early 13c., "to administer;" c. 1300, "to take aim;" mid-14c., "to prepare, make ready," from ready (adj.). Related: Readied; readying.

1. Fraud squad officers had bugged the phone and were ready to pounce.: 反詐騙小組的警員們已在電話上安裝了竊聽器，并隨時準備突擊。

2. Tamsin materialized at her side, notebook at the ready.: 塔姆辛從她身旁冒了出來，且備好了筆記本。

3. Catherine was ready to explode. "I think you're contemptible!": 凱瑟琳氣得快要炸了。“我覺得你真是可鄙！”

5. The enemy must be digging themselves in now ready for the attack.: 敵人現在一定在挖掩體，準備迎接進攻。