visit

词根"it"表示"go"的意思，vis=see，则visit（vis+it）去看则就是去访问，参观

来自拉丁语videre,看，来自PIE*weid,去看，知晓，词源同video,wise,wit,-it,表反复或过去分词后缀。该词原指神灵到人间巡视，后词义通用化。

visit

visit: [13] Visit is one of a large family of English words that go back to Latin vidēre ‘see’. This in turn was descended from the Indo-European base *woid-, *weid-, *wid-, which also produced English wise and wit. Other members of the family include envy, revise [16], survey, video [20], view, visa, visage, visible [14], vision [13], visor, vista [17], and visual [15]. Visit itself comes from the Latin derivative visitāre, which meant literally ‘go to see’.
=> envy, revise, survey, video, view, visa, visible, vision, visor, vista, visual, wise, wit

visit (v.)

c. 1200, "come to (a person) to comfort or benefit," from Old French visiter "to visit; inspect, examine; afflict" (12c.) and directly from Latin visitare "to go to see, come to inspect," frequentative of visere "behold, visit" (a person or place), from past participle stem of videre "to see, notice, observe" (see vision). Originally of the deity, later of pastors and doctors (c. 1300), general sense of "pay a call" is from mid-13c. Meaning "come upon, afflict" (in reference to sickness, punishment, etc.) is recorded in English from mid-14c. Related: Visited; visiting.

visit (n.)

1620s, "friendly or formal call upon someone," from visit (v.) and from French visite (n.). From 1800 as "short or temporary trip to some place." With pay (v.) since 1650s.

1. You are welcome to visit the hospital at any time.

你可以随时来医院。

2. Don't expect me to come and visit you there.

别指望我会去那儿看你。

3. "Have they been to visit you yet?" — "Just the once, yeah."

“他们来看过你吗?”——“来过,就一次.”

4. The President is about to wind up his visit to Somalia.

总统即将结束对索马里的访问。

5. Think of the clammy hands you get when you visit the dentist!

想想你去看牙医时那双黏糊糊的手！