reach

英[ri?t?] 美[rit?]

反義詞start

第三人稱單數:?reaches;過去式:?reached;過去分詞:?reached;現在分詞:?reaching;

reach 到達，抵達

來自古英語 reccan,伸出，來自 Proto-Germanic*reig,伸出，來自 PIE*reig,*reg,伸出，拉直，詞源同 regulate,rack.引申詞義到達，抵達及諸相關詞義。

reach: reach: [OE] Reach goes back ultimately to a prehistoric West Germanic *raikjan, a word of uncertain origin which also produced German reichen and Dutch reiken. It originally meant ‘stretch out the hand’, and ‘attain’ and ‘arrive at’ are secondary semantic developments.
reach (v.): Old English r?can, reccan "reach out, stretch out, extend, hold forth," also "succeed in touching, succeed in striking; address, speak to," also "offer, present, give, grant," from West Germanic *raikjan "stretch out the hand" (cognates: Old Frisian reka, Middle Dutch reiken, Dutch reiken, Old High German and German reichen), from Proto-Germanic *raikijanau, perhaps from PIE root *reig- "to stretch out" (cognates: Sanskrit rjyati "he stretches himself," riag "torture" (by racking); Greek oregein "to reach, extend;" Lithuanian rai?ius "to stretch oneself;" Old Irish rigim "I stretch").

Shakespeare uses the now-obsolete past tense form raught (Old English r?hte). Meaning "arrive at" is early 14c.; that of "succeed in influencing" is from 1660s. Related: Reached; reaching. Reach-me-down "ready-made" (of clothes) is recorded from 1862, from notion of being on the rack in a finished state.
reach (n.): 1520s, from reach (v.); earliest use is of stretches of water. Meaning "extent of reaching" is from 1540s; that of "act of reaching" is from 1560s.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
Or what's a heaven for?

[Browning, "Andrea del Sarto"]

3. He recovered from a 4-2 deficit to reach the quarter-finals.: 他在2比4落后的情況下實現逆轉闖進1/4決賽。

4. Amy went and kissed him, and then danced out of his reach.: 埃米過去吻了他一下，接著就從他懷里跳開了。