VIP
['vi 'aɪ 'pi]
- abbr. 大人物，贵宾（Very Important Person）；视频接口处理器（Video Interface Processor）；可变信息处理（Variable Information Processing）
英文词源
- VIP (n.)
- also V.I.P., 1933, initialism (acronym) for very important person or personage; not common until after World War II.
At most, the greatest persons, are but great wens, and excrescences; men of wit and delightfull conversation, but as moales for ornament, except they be so incorporated into the body of the world, that they contribute something to the sustentation of the whole. [John Donne, letter to Sir Henry Goodere, Sept. 1608]
双语例句
- 1. We'll give her some VIP treatment and roll out the red carpet.
- 我们将给予她贵宾级礼遇，并且为她铺设红地毯。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. She waited in the VIP lounge.
- 她在贵宾休息室里等候着。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. to get the VIP treatment
- 得到贵宾待遇
来自《权威词典》
- 4. He was a VIP, but he had a frugal life.
- 他是位要人, 但生活俭朴.
来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
- 5. VIP usually means Very Important People , but here VIP means Very Important Pets!
- 实际上, 在世界的某些地方,宠物享受到的是真正的VIP待遇.
来自超越目标英语 第2册