deliver: [13] To deliver something is etymologically to ‘set it free’. The word comes via Old French delivrer from late Latin dēlīberāre, a compound verb formed from the intensive prefix dē- and Latin līberāre ‘set free’, a derivative of the adjective līber ‘free’. Its meaning developed through ‘set free’ to ‘give up, surrender’ and finally ‘hand over to someone else’. (Classical Latin dēlīberāre, source of English deliberate [15], is an entirely different verb, derived from Latin lībra ‘scales’.) => liberate
deliver (v.)
c. 1200, "save, rescue, set free, liberate," from Old French delivrer "to set free; remove; save, preserve; hand over (goods)," also used of childbirth, from Late Latin deliberare, from de- "away" (see de-) + Latin liberare "to free" (see liberal (adj.)).
Childbirth sense in English, "to bring (a woman) to childbirth," is from c. 1300. Sense of "hand over, give, give up, yield" is c. 1300. in English, which brings it in opposition to its root. Meaning "project, throw" is 1590s. Related: Delivered; delivering.
双语例句
1. I have orders to deliver it to Mr Demiris personally.
我奉命要把它送给德米里斯先生本人。
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2. The Canadians plan to deliver more food to southern Somalia.
加拿大计划向索马里南部地区运送更多的食品。
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3. As long as I deliver the goods, my boss is very happy.
只要我做好本职工作，我的老板就很高兴。
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4. They have yet to show that they can really deliver working technologies.
他们尚未证明自己真的能够开发出实用技术。
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5. The spy returned to deliver a second batch of classified documents.
