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."
双语例句
1. The master bedroom has its own en suite bathroom.
主卧室带有独立卫生间。
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2. The last chords of the suite build to a crescendo.
组曲的最后和音部分渐入高潮。
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3. I suggest we fit you up with an office suite.
我建议我们给你配备一间办公套房。
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4. Morris executed a suite of twelve drawings in 1978.
莫里斯在1978年创作了由12幅画组成的一组作品。
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5. He invited me to his suite. The luxury takes your breath away.
