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verb fɛtʃfɛtʃ [with object]1Go for and then bring back (someone or something) for someone. （为某人）去取来，去拿来 他跑去求援。 with two objects she fetched me a cup of tea 她去给我端了一杯茶来。 Example sentencesExamples - He bends down and tosses a stick to Baxter, who obligingly fetches it and brings it back.
- Cox goes to fetch a cup of tea and returns with more numbers.
- To get my birth certificate in my Dutch home town, I have to ask my mother to mobilize my 80-year old uncle, the last family member to live in this city, so he can fetch it in person.
- We trained him to fetch it and bring it back repeatedly.
- So he called a servant to fetch a candle and led the way upstairs, the stranger following without effort despite his burden.
- The boys' contribution is mainly to collect wood and sometimes fetch water.
- One moment of reality that was to haunt me for a long time was what happened when I went to fetch Stephen's death certificate at the Hallamshire hospital in Sheffield, where he had died.
- They give you a plastic slate with a number; you drive up, and the bags are fetched from a conveyor belt that carries big numbered tubs.
- Lee was left to play by himself when his cousins left the house and his mother went to fetch a cup of tea for Lee's disabled great-grandmother, Margaret Duplex.
- As she conducts household errands, fetching apples or replating candlesticks, she seeks ‘her own secret’.
- Luckily, I had a boy with me, who I sent to fetch a morgue vehicle to bring them to the city for proper burial.
- I fetched my guitar and led in a quick rendition of This Land Is Your Land.
- Mr Tembani then told me he would personally fetch the parcel and deliver it to my house.
- After a breakfast of pasta and 3 cups of tea, I went to the garage to fetch my bike only to find my Dad, who looked more nervous than me, frantically pumping up my tyres.
- It took me a while to fetch the car and bring it up to the church to get my parents.
- Can you imagine a moggie carrying Sunday papers with all those supplements, or fetching letters without scratching them to shreds?
- In the afternoon, one guest said, the bride was fetched and brought to the party.
- Once we reached the library, we three signed in, and Kelsey surreptitiously drifted away, fetching the large tome and bringing it to the room where we were doing our shift.
- In the dry season, the women would fetch it and carry it home in jars on their heads, or from dirty tanks which gave us diseases.
- I had a need to go fetch his last belongings and bring them home to my house to wash them.
Synonyms get, go and get, go for, call for, summon, pick up, collect, bring, carry, deliver, convey, ferry, transport escort, conduct, lead, usher in - 1.1archaic Bring forth (blood or tears)
〈古〉使出（血）；使流（泪） kind offers fetched tears from me 好心的施予令我潸然泪下。 Example sentencesExamples - His voice was musical and strong, which he managed in such a manner as, one while, to make soft impressions on the heart, and fetch tears from the eyes.
- I likewise promise that I shall not be obliged to fetch blood with the scourge.
- 1.2archaic Take a (breath); heave (a sigh).
〈古〉吸（一口气）；叹（一口气） Example sentencesExamples - Her death took a heavy toll on Elizabeth, one observer noting, ‘I never knew her fetch a sigh, but when the Queen of Scots was beheaded.’
- Men of wisdom fetch their breath up from deep inside and below, while others breathe with their voice box alone.
2Achieve (a particular price) when sold. 卖得，售得（某个价钱） the land could fetch over a million pounds 这块地可以卖100多万英镑。 Example sentencesExamples - The words that the verses of the Qur'an should not be sold for a paltry price do not mean that they can be sold if they fetch a high price.
- Also, the companies offered for sale would fetch a lower kitty, much below expectations.
- A similar load of peaches or lychees could easily fetch double that.
- It is a collective wish of the people here that if this district is brought on the tourist map, it is bound to fetch fortunes for the state in general and the residents of Kupwara district in particular.
- It will surely fetch a better price with new gutters, tiles, gates, fences, sand-blasted and pointed.
- In today's market yesterday's playthings fetch serious prices and last year was a bumper year for toys and related ephemera.
- Today, crude oil trades for around $30 a barrel while the same quantity of blood fetches $20,000.
- Later this month two retail units on Mainguard Street will go to auction and are expected to fetch a combined price of around €1 million.
- In the tourist shops of Toraja heirlooms fetch high prices as objets d' art, and land too is sometimes sold for government projects or tourist developments.
- It is not that the fish is set to fetch a higher price.
- Second, because of that lessened demand, the oil they do sell fetches a lower price.
- Land like this is fetching significant prices which does not compare with the rental income.
- Hong Kong share prices closed off their lows as property stocks rebounded in late trade on hopes that next week's government land auction will fetch high prices and trigger a rally in the sector.
- All such people do is to buy commodities in the expectation that they will fetch a higher price later.
- Oil is sold wherever it can fetch the highest price.
- The collection is expected to fetch a total of about £25 million in a landmark sale lasting two days, on February 19 and 20.
- The price of vineyard land is not directly proportional to the price fetched by grapes grown on it, however.
- Mr. Zhang says he is confident that his will fetch the highest prices.
- With the luxury market now soaring, Ng is not resting on his laurels and says he expects a duplex on the 79th and 80th floors to fetch an even higher price.
- If you are ready to sell now the rising demand for Teps means that you are likely to be able to fetch a higher price than you could a few years ago.
Synonyms sell for, bring in, raise, realize, yield, make, earn, command, cost, be priced at, come to, amount to informal go for, set one back, pull in, rake in British informal knock someone back 3informal with two objects Inflict (a blow or slap) on (someone) 〈非正式〉给（某人）以（重重的一击或一巴掌） that brute Cullam fetched him a wallop Example sentencesExamples - And the man took a club, came up to them and aimed at the lion's head and fetched him a wallop.
- He has wounded him in the small of the back, as the gesture of the beast indicates, and running up behind him, wheels about to fetch a blow.
- One of the children, not understanding the kneeling order, and standing up, the mother fetched her a slap on the ear, crying, ‘Drat it, Jane, kneel down.’
- The best she could do was to fetch a slap at tall Charley's head.
4dated, informal Cause great interest or delight in (someone) 〈非正式，旧〉引起（某人）的极大兴趣；使（某人）高兴 that air of his always fetches women Example sentencesExamples - I find anything in the way of politics fetches women.
- Her song has something that fetches an audience.
noun fɛtʃfɛtʃ 1The distance travelled by wind or waves across open water. 风（或风浪）区长度，风（浪）区 Example sentencesExamples - Wave disturbance was estimated by measuring the fetch for wave height on maps as the width of the river perpendicular to the center of the riverbank site.
- The fetch of the Trade winds would weaken in their equator-ward extent.
- Waves with a fetch of thousands of miles come to land here, in a crashing fury some days, or gently, as today.
- Flow rates over the substratum and around submerged objects depend on wind strength and fetch, and in streams, on stream gradients and hydraulic input.
- 1.1 The distance a vessel must sail to reach open water.
风（或风浪）区长度，风（浪）区 Example sentencesExamples - He later demonstrated experimentally that the action of even sluggish winds over open fetches of water produces long avenues of counter-rotating eddies with bands of sinking water between them.
- For an area of sea so protected from the winds and enormous fetches of the Atlantic or Pacific, the sheer number of wrecks at first seems disproportionate.
2archaic A stratagem or trick. Example sentencesExamples - In ‘the wily fetches of lawyers,’ we see the handiwork of our Speaker, whose zeal in Richard's cause never relaxed until the Parliament had exhausted every resource.
- It is no ingenious fetches of argument that we want.
PhrasesPerform a succession of menial tasks for someone as if one was their servant. Example sentencesExamples - This week, the PM meets with the new resident of the White House, and will do his best to show he can fetch and carry.
- For he can fetch and carry, which is patience in employment.
- The comments by some Madrid players have been clearly self-serving (none of them want to fetch and carry - the role they see for Vieira) and contradictory.
- Lord Duvalier is certainly able to fetch and carry for Veronique.
Phrasal VerbsArrive or come to rest somewhere, typically by accident or unintentionally. 〈非正式〉（尤指偶然或无意中）到达，来到 all four of them fetched up in the saloon bar of the Rose and Crown Example sentencesExamples - After a nervous breakdown and suicide attempt he eventually fetches up in New York, where he makes good as an art dealer and critic while experimenting with booze, pills and sex.
- After two hours of dodge-and-pray, we fetched up beneath a rocky overhang and collapsed.
- Without a pitch of their own, teams would fetch up in a farmer's field to start a game and sometimes have to finish it in another field up the road.
- These people seem to travel constantly, fetching up at the key events that punctuate the shifting circuit.
- One's envy increases when he fetches up at Pembroke College, Cambridge, to read English.
- One night, Chesnutt fetched up at a party and started singing a couple of his songs.
- Instead, given their abject beginning to the season, they fetched up in Milan in an anxious state looking only for a performance.
- There was no way any of the international lads could have gone but some of the others could easily have fetched up there.
- Many of the musical types who have recently chosen to make their home in Montreal have an interesting story to tell as to how and why they fetched up there.
- After Rio, he fetched up in Valparaiso in Chile and spent a day in a school telling children about his life and how rowing became part of it.
- It was here that Mary Salomé (mother of James and John), Mary Jacobé (sister of the Virgin) and an A list of other early-Christian celebrities fetched up after being set adrift in a boat from Palestine.
- He liked to work in sequence, creating a kind of photographic flick book of the places he fetched up in and somehow endowing his work with a sense of restless narrative.
- A rumbustious English beachcomber, Barker, has fetched up on its shores after half a lifetime at sea.
- Timothy Spall fetches up as a blithering British expatriate in regulation grubby white suit, on hand to instruct Tom - and us - about what's supposed to be going on.
- Houllier fetches up at Lyon where he inherits the most eye-catching team in Europe.
- A classically trained viola player, John Cale took career advice from Bernstein and Copland before fetching up at the Factory with Warhol, Nico and Lou Reed.
- They even managed to tempt their father into the studio, to play some slide on a track that has fetched up on the new album as Voices.
- With a frightful inevitability I fetched up in an empty disabled space right by the loudspeakers outside the new store.
- Always on the run from creditors, the baron fetched up in Naples a year before Hamilton arrived.
- We fetched up at the bottom of the spur little better than a mob, but still with our wounded.
Synonyms end up, finish up, turn up, arrive, appear, pop up, materialize, find itself
Derivativesnoun My role is usually the driver and fetcher and carrier. Example sentencesExamples - The courts look expansive and realistic, and are full of neat little touches like ball fetchers kneeled pensively at the ends of the net and lingering footprints on the clay court surface.
- But perhaps more significantly, this fetcher and carrier has lacked top class support around him.
- ‘I was hired pretty much as a fetcher to work in a men's clothing factory,’ he explained.
- They are their dogs' ventriloquists and mind readers, as well as parents, entertainers, waiters, nurses and fetchers.
OriginOld English fecc(e)an, variant of fetian, probably related to fatian 'grasp', of Germanic origin and related to German fassen. Rhymesetch, ketch, kvetch, lech, outstretch, retch, sketch, stretch, vetch, wretch noun fɛtʃfɛtʃ The apparition or double of a living person, formerly believed to be a warning of that person's impending death. 〈英，主古〉（活人的）灵魂（旧时认为是那人的死亡征兆） Example sentencesExamples - In the following weeks the fetch was seen on a number of occasions.
- That's when Sky realizes he has a ‘fetch’: an apparition or wraith (‘hamr’ in Norwegian) that can connect with his ancestors.
OriginLate 17th century: of unknown origin. verbfeCHfɛtʃ [with object]1Go for and then bring back (someone or something) for someone. （为某人）去取来，去拿来 他跑去求援。 Example sentencesExamples - In the afternoon, one guest said, the bride was fetched and brought to the party.
- To get my birth certificate in my Dutch home town, I have to ask my mother to mobilize my 80-year old uncle, the last family member to live in this city, so he can fetch it in person.
- It took me a while to fetch the car and bring it up to the church to get my parents.
- Mr Tembani then told me he would personally fetch the parcel and deliver it to my house.
- I fetched my guitar and led in a quick rendition of This Land Is Your Land.
- One moment of reality that was to haunt me for a long time was what happened when I went to fetch Stephen's death certificate at the Hallamshire hospital in Sheffield, where he had died.
- Cox goes to fetch a cup of tea and returns with more numbers.
- Lee was left to play by himself when his cousins left the house and his mother went to fetch a cup of tea for Lee's disabled great-grandmother, Margaret Duplex.
- We trained him to fetch it and bring it back repeatedly.
- Can you imagine a moggie carrying Sunday papers with all those supplements, or fetching letters without scratching them to shreds?
- He bends down and tosses a stick to Baxter, who obligingly fetches it and brings it back.
- As she conducts household errands, fetching apples or replating candlesticks, she seeks ‘her own secret’.
- They give you a plastic slate with a number; you drive up, and the bags are fetched from a conveyor belt that carries big numbered tubs.
- I had a need to go fetch his last belongings and bring them home to my house to wash them.
- Luckily, I had a boy with me, who I sent to fetch a morgue vehicle to bring them to the city for proper burial.
- So he called a servant to fetch a candle and led the way upstairs, the stranger following without effort despite his burden.
- In the dry season, the women would fetch it and carry it home in jars on their heads, or from dirty tanks which gave us diseases.
- The boys' contribution is mainly to collect wood and sometimes fetch water.
- Once we reached the library, we three signed in, and Kelsey surreptitiously drifted away, fetching the large tome and bringing it to the room where we were doing our shift.
- After a breakfast of pasta and 3 cups of tea, I went to the garage to fetch my bike only to find my Dad, who looked more nervous than me, frantically pumping up my tyres.
Synonyms get, go and get, go for, call for, summon, pick up, collect, bring, carry, deliver, convey, ferry, transport - 1.1archaic Bring forth (blood or tears)
〈古〉使出（血）；使流（泪） kind offers fetched tears from me 好心的施予令我潸然泪下。 Example sentencesExamples - I likewise promise that I shall not be obliged to fetch blood with the scourge.
- His voice was musical and strong, which he managed in such a manner as, one while, to make soft impressions on the heart, and fetch tears from the eyes.
- 1.2archaic Draw or take a (breath); heave (a sigh).
〈古〉吸（一口气）；叹（一口气） Example sentencesExamples - Men of wisdom fetch their breath up from deep inside and below, while others breathe with their voice box alone.
- Her death took a heavy toll on Elizabeth, one observer noting, ‘I never knew her fetch a sigh, but when the Queen of Scots was beheaded.’
2Achieve (a particular price) when sold. 卖得，售得（某个价钱） handwoven blankets and rugs that can fetch as much as $45,000 Example sentencesExamples - The words that the verses of the Qur'an should not be sold for a paltry price do not mean that they can be sold if they fetch a high price.
- Later this month two retail units on Mainguard Street will go to auction and are expected to fetch a combined price of around €1 million.
- If you are ready to sell now the rising demand for Teps means that you are likely to be able to fetch a higher price than you could a few years ago.
- Hong Kong share prices closed off their lows as property stocks rebounded in late trade on hopes that next week's government land auction will fetch high prices and trigger a rally in the sector.
- A similar load of peaches or lychees could easily fetch double that.
- Mr. Zhang says he is confident that his will fetch the highest prices.
- The price of vineyard land is not directly proportional to the price fetched by grapes grown on it, however.
- The collection is expected to fetch a total of about £25 million in a landmark sale lasting two days, on February 19 and 20.
- In the tourist shops of Toraja heirlooms fetch high prices as objets d' art, and land too is sometimes sold for government projects or tourist developments.
- It is a collective wish of the people here that if this district is brought on the tourist map, it is bound to fetch fortunes for the state in general and the residents of Kupwara district in particular.
- It is not that the fish is set to fetch a higher price.
- Second, because of that lessened demand, the oil they do sell fetches a lower price.
- With the luxury market now soaring, Ng is not resting on his laurels and says he expects a duplex on the 79th and 80th floors to fetch an even higher price.
- All such people do is to buy commodities in the expectation that they will fetch a higher price later.
- Also, the companies offered for sale would fetch a lower kitty, much below expectations.
- Today, crude oil trades for around $30 a barrel while the same quantity of blood fetches $20,000.
- It will surely fetch a better price with new gutters, tiles, gates, fences, sand-blasted and pointed.
- Oil is sold wherever it can fetch the highest price.
- Land like this is fetching significant prices which does not compare with the rental income.
- In today's market yesterday's playthings fetch serious prices and last year was a bumper year for toys and related ephemera.
Synonyms sell for, bring in, raise, realize, yield, make, earn, command, cost, be priced at, come to, amount to 3informal with two objects Inflict (a blow or slap) on (someone) 〈非正式〉给（某人）以（重重的一击或一巴掌） he always used to slam the gate and try and fetch her shins a wallop 他过去关大门总是很重，以图给她的胫部重重一击。 Example sentencesExamples - And the man took a club, came up to them and aimed at the lion's head and fetched him a wallop.
- He has wounded him in the small of the back, as the gesture of the beast indicates, and running up behind him, wheels about to fetch a blow.
- The best she could do was to fetch a slap at tall Charley's head.
- One of the children, not understanding the kneeling order, and standing up, the mother fetched her a slap on the ear, crying, ‘Drat it, Jane, kneel down.’
4dated, informal Cause great interest or delight in (someone) 〈非正式，旧〉引起（某人）的极大兴趣；使（某人）高兴 Nadine thought his deductions were good, but she was not as fetched by them as Larry was Example sentencesExamples - I find anything in the way of politics fetches women.
- Her song has something that fetches an audience.
nounfeCHfɛtʃ 1The distance traveled by wind or waves across open water. 风（或风浪）区长度，风（浪）区 Example sentencesExamples - Flow rates over the substratum and around submerged objects depend on wind strength and fetch, and in streams, on stream gradients and hydraulic input.
- The fetch of the Trade winds would weaken in their equator-ward extent.
- Waves with a fetch of thousands of miles come to land here, in a crashing fury some days, or gently, as today.
- Wave disturbance was estimated by measuring the fetch for wave height on maps as the width of the river perpendicular to the center of the riverbank site.
- 1.1 The distance a vessel must sail to reach open water.
风（或风浪）区长度，风（浪）区 Example sentencesExamples - For an area of sea so protected from the winds and enormous fetches of the Atlantic or Pacific, the sheer number of wrecks at first seems disproportionate.
- He later demonstrated experimentally that the action of even sluggish winds over open fetches of water produces long avenues of counter-rotating eddies with bands of sinking water between them.
2archaic A contrivance, dodge, or trick. 〈古〉计谋；诡计 it is no ingenious fetches of argument that we want 我们所要的绝不只是巧妙的辩术。 Example sentencesExamples - It is no ingenious fetches of argument that we want.
- In ‘the wily fetches of lawyers,’ we see the handiwork of our Speaker, whose zeal in Richard's cause never relaxed until the Parliament had exhausted every resource.
PhrasesRun backward and forward bringing things to someone in a servile fashion. 做杂务，当听差，跑腿 neither is anyone going to fetch and carry for you when you are in bed with influenza Example sentencesExamples - Lord Duvalier is certainly able to fetch and carry for Veronique.
- The comments by some Madrid players have been clearly self-serving (none of them want to fetch and carry - the role they see for Vieira) and contradictory.
- For he can fetch and carry, which is patience in employment.
- This week, the PM meets with the new resident of the White House, and will do his best to show he can fetch and carry.
Phrasal VerbsArrive or come to rest somewhere, typically by accident or unintentionally. 〈非正式〉（尤指偶然或无意中）到达，来到 Example sentencesExamples - Instead, given their abject beginning to the season, they fetched up in Milan in an anxious state looking only for a performance.
- Houllier fetches up at Lyon where he inherits the most eye-catching team in Europe.
- With a frightful inevitability I fetched up in an empty disabled space right by the loudspeakers outside the new store.
- After two hours of dodge-and-pray, we fetched up beneath a rocky overhang and collapsed.
- One's envy increases when he fetches up at Pembroke College, Cambridge, to read English.
- Many of the musical types who have recently chosen to make their home in Montreal have an interesting story to tell as to how and why they fetched up there.
- One night, Chesnutt fetched up at a party and started singing a couple of his songs.
- There was no way any of the international lads could have gone but some of the others could easily have fetched up there.
- We fetched up at the bottom of the spur little better than a mob, but still with our wounded.
- A classically trained viola player, John Cale took career advice from Bernstein and Copland before fetching up at the Factory with Warhol, Nico and Lou Reed.
- Always on the run from creditors, the baron fetched up in Naples a year before Hamilton arrived.
- After a nervous breakdown and suicide attempt he eventually fetches up in New York, where he makes good as an art dealer and critic while experimenting with booze, pills and sex.
- He liked to work in sequence, creating a kind of photographic flick book of the places he fetched up in and somehow endowing his work with a sense of restless narrative.
- Without a pitch of their own, teams would fetch up in a farmer's field to start a game and sometimes have to finish it in another field up the road.
- They even managed to tempt their father into the studio, to play some slide on a track that has fetched up on the new album as Voices.
- A rumbustious English beachcomber, Barker, has fetched up on its shores after half a lifetime at sea.
- These people seem to travel constantly, fetching up at the key events that punctuate the shifting circuit.
- It was here that Mary Salomé (mother of James and John), Mary Jacobé (sister of the Virgin) and an A list of other early-Christian celebrities fetched up after being set adrift in a boat from Palestine.
- After Rio, he fetched up in Valparaiso in Chile and spent a day in a school telling children about his life and how rowing became part of it.
- Timothy Spall fetches up as a blithering British expatriate in regulation grubby white suit, on hand to instruct Tom - and us - about what's supposed to be going on.
Synonyms end up, finish up, turn up, arrive, appear, pop up, materialize, find itself
OriginOld English fecc(e)an, variant of fetian, probably related to fatian ‘grasp’, of Germanic origin and related to German fassen. nounfɛtʃfeCH The apparition or double of a living person, formerly believed to be a warning of that person's impending death. 〈英，主古〉（活人的）灵魂（旧时认为是那人的死亡征兆） Example sentencesExamples - In the following weeks the fetch was seen on a number of occasions.
- That's when Sky realizes he has a ‘fetch’: an apparition or wraith (‘hamr’ in Norwegian) that can connect with his ancestors.
OriginLate 17th century: of unknown origin. |