contact

英 ['kɒntækt] 美['kɑntækt]

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第三人称单数: contacts;过去式: contacted;过去分词: contacted;现在分词: contacting;

contact 接触

con-, 强调。-tact, 接触，词源同tactile, tangible.

contact: contact: [17] The underlying notion of contact is not surprisingly one of ‘touching’. It comes ultimately from Latin tangere ‘touch’, source of English tactile, tangent, and tangible. Using the prefix com- ‘together’ this was formed into a compound verb contangere ‘touch, border on’, whose past participle contāctus was borrowed into English, originally as a noun (its use as a verb is a surprisingly late development, which did not happen until the late 19th century). Also derived from Latin contangere is contagion [14], and contaminate is probably related.
=> contagion, contaminate, tactile, tangent, tangible
contact (v.): 1834, "put in contact," from contact (n.). Meaning "get in touch with" is 1927, American English. Related: Contacted; contacting.
contact (n.): 1620s, "action of touching," from Latin contactus "a touching," from past participle of contingere "to touch, seize," from com- "together" (see com-) + tangere "to touch" (see tangent (adj.)).

Figurative sense of "connection, communication" is from 1818. As a signal to the person about to spin an aircraft propeller that the ignition is switched on, the word was in use by 1913. Contact lens is first recorded 1888; short form contact is from 1961.

1. Friendship means understanding, not agreement. It means forgiveness, not forgetting.It means the memories last, even if contact is lost.: 友情是理解，不是妥协；是原谅，不是遗忘。即使不联系，感情依然在。

2. The college has brought me into contact with western ideas.: 上大学使我接触了西方的思想。

3. He made contact with someone with an idea for reconditioning laser copiers.: 他联系了一个会修理激光复印机的人。

4. The exiles had been cut off from all contact with their homeland.: 流亡者被切断了与家乡的所有联系。

5. This morning he had tried every way possible to contact her.: 他今天早晨已想尽办法与她联系。