Met是什么意思

Met

英 [met] 美 [m?t]

Met 氣象的，紐約大都會歌劇院，倫敦警隊

縮寫自Meteorological,the Metropolitan Opera House in New York,the Metropolitan Police in London.

Met (n.): 1879 as colloquial shortening of Metropolitan (n.) "member of the New York Metropolitan Base-Ball Club."
THE baseball season has opened, and along with the twittering of the birds, the budding of the trees, and the clattering of the truck, comes the news that the "Mets were beaten yesterday 17 to 5." It is an infallible sign of spring when the Mets are beaten 17 to 5, and we invariably put on our thinner clothing when we read that refreshing, though perennial news in the papers. ["Life," May 12, 1887]
Used variously to abbreviate other proper names beginning with Metropolitan, such as "Metropolitan Museum of Art" (N.Y.), by 1919; "Metropolitan Railway" (stock), by 1890; "Metropolitan Opera Company (N.Y.), by 1922. Related: Mets.
met (v.): past tense and past participle of meet (v.).

1. The unevenly matched armies met at Guilford on 15 March 1781.: 1781年3月15日，力量懸殊的兩支隊伍在吉爾福德狹路相逢。

2. They had met by chance at university and finished up getting married.: 他們在大學(xué)偶遇，最后結(jié)了婚。

3. She met Mr and Mrs Ricciardi, who were very nice to her.: 她見到了里恰爾迪夫婦，他們對她非常友好。