fetch
verb🔊/fetʃ/
🔊/fetʃ/
Verb Forms
Idioms Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they fetch | 🔊/fetʃ/ 🔊/fetʃ/ |
| he / she / it fetches | 🔊/ˈfetʃɪz/ 🔊/ˈfetʃɪz/ |
| past simple fetched | 🔊/fetʃt/ 🔊/fetʃt/ |
| past participle fetched | 🔊/fetʃt/ 🔊/fetʃt/ |
| -ing form fetching | 🔊/ˈfetʃɪŋ/ 🔊/ˈfetʃɪŋ/ |
- (especially British English)
to go to where somebody/something is and bring them/it back （去）拿来；（去）请来 - fetch somebody/something
to fetch help/a doctor 去请人帮忙；去请医生 The inhabitants have to walk a mile to fetch water. 居民得走一英里路去取水。 🔊🔊 She's gone to fetch the kids from school. 她去学校接孩子了。 🔊🔊 - fetch somebody something
Could you fetch me my bag? 你能帮我去取我的包吗？ 🔊🔊
Extra ExamplesCould you fetch my bag for me? 你能帮我拿包吗？ He fetched a couple of towels from the bathroom. 他从浴室拿了几条毛巾。 He ran to fetch help. 他跑去请人帮忙。
- fetch somebody/something
- fetch something
to be sold for a particular price 售得，卖得（某价）
Word OriginOld English fecc(e)an, variant of fetian, probably related to fatian ‘grasp’, of Germanic origin and related to German fassen.
Idioms
fetch and carry (for somebody)
to do a lot of little jobs for somebody as if you were their servant （为某人）打杂，当听差，跑腿 Most of her day was spent fetching and carrying for her family. 她一整天的时间都花在为家人携带食物上。 She expected him to do all the fetching and carrying. 她希望他能完成所有的拿取和搬运工作。