1670s, "train of followers or attendants," from French suite, from Old French suite, sieute "act of following, attendance" (see suit (n.), which is an earlier borrowing of the same French word). The meanings "set of instrumental compositions" (1680s), "connected set of rooms" (1716), and "set of furniture" (1805) were imported from French usages or re-spelled on the French model from suit in its sense of "a number of things taken collectively and constituting a sequence; collection of things of like kind."
雙語(yǔ)例句
1. The master bedroom has its own en suite bathroom.
主臥室?guī)в歇?dú)立衛(wèi)生間。
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2. The last chords of the suite build to a crescendo.
組曲的最后和音部分漸入高潮。
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3. I suggest we fit you up with an office suite.
我建議我們給你配備一間辦公套房。
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4. Morris executed a suite of twelve drawings in 1978.
莫里斯在1978年創(chuàng)作了由12幅畫組成的一組作品。
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5. He invited me to his suite. The luxury takes your breath away.