• vi. 達(dá)到；延伸；伸出手；傳開
• vt. 達(dá)到；影響；抵達(dá)；伸出
• n. 范圍；延伸；河段；橫風(fēng)行駛
• n. (Reach)人名；(柬)列

來自古英語 reccan,伸出，來自 Proto-Germanic*reig,伸出，來自 PIE*reig,*reg,伸出，拉直， 詞源同 regulate,rack.引申詞義到達(dá)，抵達(dá)及諸相關(guān)詞義。

reach

reach: [OE] Reach goes back ultimately to a prehistoric West Germanic *raikjan, a word of uncertain origin which also produced German reichen and Dutch reiken. It originally meant ‘stretch out the hand’, and ‘a(chǎn)ttain’ and ‘a(chǎn)rrive at’ are secondary semantic developments.

reach (v.)

Old English r?can, reccan "reach out, stretch out, extend, hold forth," also "succeed in touching, succeed in striking; address, speak to," also "offer, present, give, grant," from West Germanic *raikjan "stretch out the hand" (cognates: Old Frisian reka, Middle Dutch reiken, Dutch reiken, Old High German and German reichen), from Proto-Germanic *raikijanau, perhaps from PIE root *reig- "to stretch out" (cognates: Sanskrit rjyati "he stretches himself," riag "torture" (by racking); Greek oregein "to reach, extend;" Lithuanian rai?ius "to stretch oneself;" Old Irish rigim "I stretch").

Shakespeare uses the now-obsolete past tense form raught (Old English r?hte). Meaning "arrive at" is early 14c.; that of "succeed in influencing" is from 1660s. Related: Reached; reaching. Reach-me-down "ready-made" (of clothes) is recorded from 1862, from notion of being on the rack in a finished state.

reach (n.)

1520s, from reach (v.); earliest use is of stretches of water. Meaning "extent of reaching" is from 1540s; that of "act of reaching" is from 1560s.

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
Or what's a heaven for?

[Browning, "Andrea del Sarto"]

1. It was the uncommitted that Labour needed to reach.

工黨需要拉攏的是未表態(tài)者。

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2. I tried to reach the foot brakes but I couldn't.

我試圖去夠腳剎，但是沒能踩到。

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3. He recovered from a 4-2 deficit to reach the quarter-finals.

他在2比4落后的情況下實(shí)現(xiàn)逆轉(zhuǎn)闖進(jìn)1/4決賽。

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4. Amy went and kissed him, and then danced out of his reach.

埃米過去吻了他一下，接著就從他懷里跳開了。

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5. I got a message you were trying to reach me.

我收到一條留言，說你想跟我聯(lián)系。

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