equip: [16] Etymologically, equip means ‘fit out or provide crew for a ship’. Its immediate source was French équiper, but this appears to have been a borrowing from Old Norse skipa ‘fit out a ship’, a verb derived from skip ‘ship’ (first cousin of English ship). The carliest examples of its use in English are in the much broader sense ‘supply with necessary materials’, and its specific links with the sea were soon severed. => ship
equip (v.)
1520s, from Middle French équiper "to fit out," from Old French esquiper "fit out a ship, load on board" (12c.), probably from Old Norse skipa "arrange, place in order," usually "fit out a ship," but also of warriors manning a hall and trees laden with ripe fruit, from skip "ship" (see ship (n.)). Related: Equipped; equipping. Similar words in Spanish and Portuguese ultimately are from Germanic.
实用例句
1. Owners of restaurants would have to equip them to admit disabled people.
餐厅老板将必须在餐厅里配备能够接纳残疾人的设施。
来自柯林斯例句
2. Your education will equip you to earn a good living.
你所受的教育会使你过上富裕的生活.
来自《简明英汉词典》
3. We equip our children with a good education.
我们使孩子们受到良好的教育.
来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
4. So he gives millions of yuan to equip others for their research in agriculture.
equip为及物动词,在此作“使有能力;使有资格;赋予”解.
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5. The country did not possess the modern guns to equip the reserve army properly.
