Met

• v. 遇见（meet的过去式和过去分词）
• n. (Met)人名；(瑞典)梅特

中文词源

缩写自Meteorological,the Metropolitan Opera House in New York,the Metropolitan Police in London.

英文词源

Met (n.)

1879 as colloquial shortening of Metropolitan (n.) "member of the New York Metropolitan Base-Ball Club."

THE baseball season has opened, and along with the twittering of the birds, the budding of the trees, and the clattering of the truck, comes the news that the "Mets were beaten yesterday 17 to 5." It is an infallible sign of spring when the Mets are beaten 17 to 5, and we invariably put on our thinner clothing when we read that refreshing, though perennial news in the papers. ["Life," May 12, 1887]

Used variously to abbreviate other proper names beginning with Metropolitan, such as "Metropolitan Museum of Art" (N.Y.), by 1919; "Metropolitan Railway" (stock), by 1890; "Metropolitan Opera Company (N.Y.), by 1922. Related: Mets.

met (v.)

past tense and past participle of meet (v.).

双语例句

1. The unevenly matched armies met at Guilford on 15 March 1781.

1781年3月15日，力量悬殊的两支队伍在吉尔福德狭路相逢。

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2. They had met by chance at university and finished up getting married.

他们在大学偶遇，最后结了婚。

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3. She met Mr and Mrs Ricciardi, who were very nice to her.

她见到了里恰尔迪夫妇，他们对她非常友好。

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4. She had met both sons and did not care for either.

两个儿子她都见了，一个都不喜欢。

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5. I met him only the once, and that was enough.

我就见过他那一次，那就让我受够了。

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