offer: [OE] Latin offerre was a compound verb formed from the prefix ob- ‘to’ and ferre ‘bring, carry’ (a distant relative of English bear), and it meant ‘present, offer’. It was borrowed into Old English from Christian Latin texts as offrian, in the specific sense ‘offer up a sacrifice’; the more general spread of modern meanings was introduced via Old French offrir in the 14th century. The past participle of offerre was oblātus, from which English gets oblation [15]. => bear, oblation
offer (v.)
Old English ofrian "to offer, show, exhibit, sacrifice, bring an oblation," from Latin offerre "to present, bestow, bring before" (in Late Latin "to present in worship"), from ob "to" (see ob-) + ferre "to bring, to carry" (see infer). The Latin word was borrowed elsewhere in Germanic: Old Frisian offria, Middle Dutch offeren, Old Norse offra. Non-religious sense reinforced by Old French offrir "to offer," from Latin offerre. Related: Offered; offering.
offer (n.)
early 15c., from Old French ofre "act of offering; offer, proposition" (12c.), verbal noun from offrir (see offer (v.)). The native noun formation is offering.
雙語例句
1. Slimming snacks that offer miraculous weight loss are a con.
有神奇減肥效果的瘦身點心是一個騙局。
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2. Leningrad was the third alien city to offer him a surrogate home.
列寧格勒是他在異地安家的第三個外國城市。
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3. Contemporary African cinema has much to offer in its vitality and freshness.
當代非洲電影在活力和新穎性上頗足稱道。
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4. I still think I have a bit more to offer.
我還是認為我能再稍微多付出一點兒。
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5. You may feel unworthy of the attention and help people offer you.