embassy是什么意思

n. 大使馆；大使馆全体人员

中文词源

embassy 大使馆

来自PIE*ambi-ag, 词源同ambassador. 来自PIE*ambi, 两边，周围，见ambient，-ag, 做，见agent. -ss，过去分词后缀。原指国王的封臣，后指大使。

embassy: embassy: [16] Ultimately, embassy comes from the same source as ambassador, the Vulgar Latin verb *ambactiāre ‘go on a mission’ (a derivative, via a rather circuitous route, of Latin ambactus ‘vassal’, which was of Celtic origin). From the verb was derived the Old French noun ambassade, which was borrowed into English in the 15th century but was gradually supplanted from the 16th century onwards by embassy, acquired from another Old French derivative ambassee.
=> ambassador
embassy (n.): 1570s, "position of an ambassador," from Middle French embassee "mission, charge, office of ambassador," Old French ambassee, from Italian ambasciata, from Old Provençal ambaisada "office of ambassador," from Gaulish *ambactos "dependant, vassal," literally "one going around," from PIE *amb(i)-ag-to, from *ambi- (see ambi-) + *ambi- "around" (see ambi-) + *ag- "to drive, move" (see act (n.)).

Meaning "official residence and retinue of an ambassador" is from 1764. In earlier use were embassade (late 15c.), ambassade (early 15c.), from Old French variant ambassade.

1. literally "one going around".2. ambassador => embassy.3. ambassador, also embassador.4. ag- / act- "drive, lead, move" => 变异：ass-.

1. Embassy security personnel refused to admit him or his wife.: 使馆保安人员不允许他和夫人进入。

2. One young policeman stood guard outside the locked embassy gates.: 一位年轻的警察在大门紧闭的使馆外站岗。

4. The embassy official claimed diplomatic immunity and was later released.: 那名使馆官员申请外交豁免，随后被释放。

5. Police fired on them as they fled into the embassy compound.: 当他们逃进使馆大院时，警察向他们开了枪。