please
中文来自 ECDICT
- adv.
- 请
- vt.
- 使高兴，合...的心意，取悦
- vi.
- 使人满意，讨好，愿意，敬请
1词源 1
演变路径（由近及远）
词源说明
From Middle English plesen, plaisen, borrowed from Old French plaise, conjugated form of plaisir or plaire, from Latin placeō (“to please, to seem good”), from the Proto-Indo-European *pleHk- (“pleasingness, permission”). In this sense, displaced native Old English līcian, whence Modern English like.
释义（英文）
词族
2词源 2
演变路径（由近及远）
- 英语
- 仿译自 ←法语 s'il vous plaît
词源说明
Short for if you please, an intransitive, ergative form taken from if it please you which is a calque of French s'il vous plaît, which replaced pray. If it please you is a present subjunctive form, but most current uses of please are not parsed that way.
释义（英文）
副词 Adverb
- Used to make a polite request.
3词源 3
词源说明
Semantic loan from German bitte (“please; excuse me”).
释义（英文）
感叹词 Interjection
- (Cincinnati) Said as a request to repeat information.