Met

英 [met] 美[mɛt]

基本词汇

Met 气象的，纽约大都会歌剧院，伦敦警队

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

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.).

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。

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。

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。