invite

英 [ɪn'vaɪt] 美 [ɪn'vaɪt]

invite 邀请，招致

来自拉丁语invito,邀请，挑战，来自in-,进入，使，-vit,词义不详，来自可能PIE*weie,追寻，寻求，词源同virile,Venus,或来自PIE*wekw,说，肯请，词源同voice,invoke.引申词义引来麻烦，招致麻烦。现主要用于邀请义，挑战义已不再使用。

invite: invite: [16] Invite comes from Latin invitāre, probably by way of French inviter, but there our certain knowledge of its ancestry ends; for the Latin verb is something of a mystery word. No one is too sure where the element -vitāre comes from. One suggestion is that it is related to Greek hiesthai ‘be desirous of’.
=> vie
invite (v.): 1530s, a back-formation from invitation, or else from Middle French inviter, from Latin invitare "to invite," also "to summon, challenge." As a noun variant of invitation it is attested from 1650s. Related: Invited; inviting.
invite (n.): 1650s, from invite (v.).

1. "Let's invite her to dinner." — "Over my dead body!": “我们请她来吃晚饭吧。”——“除非我死了！”

3. "Look," she said, getting a brainstorm, "Why don't you invite them here?": “对了，”她灵机一动说道，“你干吗不请他们到这儿来？”

4. He denounced the decision to invite his fellow archbishop to preach.: 他痛斥了邀请其他大主教同仁布道的决定。

5. Their refusal to compromise will inevitably invite more criticism from the UN.: 他们拒绝妥协必然会引发联合国的更多批评。