vt. 提供；规定；准备；装备
vi. 规定；抚养；作准备
英 [prə'vaɪd] 美 [prə'vaɪd]
权威例句
- Poland provide the opposition for the Scots' last warm-up match at home.
苏格兰队在国内最后一场热身赛的对手是波兰队。
来自柯林斯例句 - New ways to treat arthritis may provide an alternative to painkillers.
关节炎的新疗法可能是止痛药之外的另一种选择。
来自柯林斯例句 - Nursing auxiliaries provide basic care, but are not qualified nurses.
助理护士只提供基本护理，不具备护士资格。
来自柯林斯例句 - Light colours provide an effective backdrop for pictures or a mirror.
浅色是挂放图画或镜子很有效果的衬托。
来自柯林斯例句 - The least his hotel could do is provide a little privacy.
他的酒店至少应该提供一点隐私保护。
来自柯林斯例句
中文词源
provide 提供，供应，规定
pro-,提前，-vid,看，词源同evident,visit.即提前看到的，有预见性的，引申词义准备，未雨绸缪，后用于指提供，供应，规定等。
英文词源
provide
**provide: **[15] The _-vide _of _provide _goes back to Latin _vidēre _‘see’ (source of English vision), which is a long way from the English verb’s main present-day meaning, ‘supply’. Its Latin ancestor prōvidēre, formed with the prefix prō- ‘before’, meant ‘foresee’ – a sense which survived into English: ‘evident and sufficient signs, whereby may be provided and foreseen the aborcement [abortion] before it comes’, Thomas Raynalde, _Birth of Mankind _1545.
But already in Latin it had moved on to ‘exercise foresight by making preparations’, and this formed the basis of the later ‘supply’. Other English descendants of _prōvidēre _include improvise, _provident _[15] (a close relative of prudent), _provision _[14], _proviso _[15], and _purvey _[13].
=> improvise, provision, proviso, prudent, purvey, vision
provide (v.)
early 15c., from Latin providere "look ahead, prepare, supply, act with foresight," from pro- "ahead" (see pro-) + videre "to see" (see vision). Related: Provided; providing. Earlier in same sense was purvey, which is the same word as deformed in Old French.
