cater

• vt. 投合，迎合；满足需要；提供饮食及服务
• n. (Cater)人名；(英)凯特

词源同catch, 指抓，拿，购买。后词义指招待，承办宴席。

1. provide what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance;

"The hostess provided lunch for all the guests"

2. supply food ready to eat; for parties and banquets

cater

cater: [16] Cater is related to French acheter ‘buy’, and originally meant ‘buy provisions’. It comes ultimately from Vulgar Latin *accaptāre, a compound verb formed from the Latin prefix ad- ‘to’ and the verb captāre ‘try to seize’ (source of English catch and chase). This provided the basis for the Anglo-Norman agent noun acatour ‘buyer, purveyor’, which gave English the now obsolete acater.

Losing its a-, this became cater, which until the early 17th century was the word for what we would now call a ‘caterer’. At around the same time cater began to be used as a verb; the first known example of this is in Shakespeare’s As You Like It II, iii: ‘He that doth the ravens feed, yea providently caters for the sparrow’.
=> capture, catch, chase

cater (v.)

"provide food for," c. 1600, from Middle English catour (n.) "buyer of provisions" (c. 1400; late 13c. as a surname), a shortening of Anglo-French achatour "buyer" (Old North French acatour, Old French achatour, 13c., Modern French acheteur), from Old French achater "to buy," originally "to buy provisions," perhaps from Vulgar Latin *accaptare, from Latin ad- "to" + captare "to take, hold," frequentative of capere "to take" (see capable).

Or else from Vulgar Latin *accapitare "to add to one's capital," with second element from verbal stem of Latin caput (genitive capitis); see capital (adj.). Figuratively from 1650s. Related: Catered; catering.

What does the author say about pre-kindergarten education?It should cater to the needs of individual children.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

They catered to the taste of the younger generation.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

By sanctioning this watered-down version of college, universities are catering to the social and educational needs of wealthy students at the expense of others who won't enjoy the financial backing or social connections of richer students once they graduate.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

At the events, you can meet expert growers and discuss which ones will best suit your conditions, and because these are family affairs, children are well catered for with apple-themed fun and games.

2016年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

The university started some new language programs to cater for the country's Silk Road economic belt.

2015年高考英语江苏卷 单项填空 原文

Well before the arrival of freezers, there was a demand for ice for food preservation and catering, malcolm will explain the history of importing natural ice and the technology of building ice wells, and how London's ice trade grew.

2015年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

Such food service operators range from snack machines to large institutional catering ventures, but most of these businesses are known in the trade as “horeca”： hotels, restaurants and cafes.

出自-2010年考研阅读原文

Demand comes mainly from two sources: independent mom-and-pop grocery stores which, unlike large retail chains, are too small to buy straight from producers, and food service operators that cater to consumers when they don’t eat at home.

出自-2010年考研阅读原文

Most of our work now involves catering for weddings.

我们现在的工作多半是承办婚宴。

牛津词典

Who will be catering the wedding?

谁来承办婚宴？

牛津词典

The class caters for all ability ranges.

这个班对各种不同水平的人都适合。

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They only publish novels which cater to the mass-market.

他们只出版迎合大众市场的小说。

牛津词典

Nunsmere Hall can cater for receptions of up to 300 people...

纳恩斯米尔酒店最多可以同时接待300人。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

The chef is pleased to cater for vegetarian diets...

厨师非常乐意为客人做素食。

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Minorca is the sort of place that caters for families...

梅诺卡岛是那种适合家庭旅游的地方。

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We cater to an exclusive clientele.

我们只接待特定的高端客户。

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We have to cater for demand.

我们得考虑需求。

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...shops that cater for the needs of men...

男性用品商店

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We must work out a plan to cater to the need of our clients.

我们必须想方设法满足客户的需求.

期刊摘选

Felix Babylon had set himself to cater specially for Royalty.

费利克斯?巴比伦尽力满足王室成员的需要.

辞典例句

Marketers of health foods and exercise equipment cater to this trend with appropriate products and communications.

健康食品和健身器材的营销者以适当的产品和信息迎合这种潮流.

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The low tastes just cater his needs.

这些低级趣味正从其所好.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

Most schools cater for children of different abilities.

大多数学校能够满足具有不同天资的儿童的需要.

《简明英汉词典》

The delay distribution diagrams with added delays cater for the evaluation of punctuality time running ( OTR ).

晚点分布图带有更多晚点信息,可用于评估火车的闪准时情况.

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We regret we are unable to cater to people with physical disabilities.

我们很抱歉没法照顾到残障人士.

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Several organisations represent and cater for people working in the news media in Hong Kong.

本港有数个专为新闻从业员而设的组织.

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It will insure the aboriginality and authenticity, and cater for the habit of document searcher.

因它既可确保电子文件的原始性和真实性, 又可迎合查档者的习惯性.

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Eighty is a lot of people to cater for!

为80个人供应伙食真不容易!

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Besides serving individual customers, we also cater banquets and weddings.

除了为散客服务, 我们还承接宴席和婚宴.

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I expect he will be able to cater for your particular needs.

我预计他能满足你的特殊需要.

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We aim to cater for the private individual as well as for group.

我们服务面向团体也面向个人.

英汉 - 翻译样例 - 口语

He has to cater for his boss.

他得迎合他的老板.

期刊摘选

Fifty is a lot of people to cater for!

承办五十人的饮食可够多的!

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Our magazines try to cater for all opinions.

我们的杂志尽量迎合各种各样的意见.

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They carried a good supply of charts so as to cater for such emergencies.

他们带了不少图表,以应这样的一些急需情况.

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I didn't cater for all these problems when I came here.

所有这些问题,在我来这儿时都是没有料到的.

辞典例句

Special bus and rail services are being laid on to cater for the crowds.

正在安排专门的巴士和铁路交通服务以满足群众的需要。

柯林斯例句