proffer

英 [ˈprɒfə(r)]

美 [ˈprɑːfər]

v.  端着(给…); 递上; 提出，提供(建议、解释等)

过去式：proffered　过去分词：proffered　现在分词：proffering　第三人称单数：proffers　

GRE

Collins.1 / BNC.14641 / COCA.15510

牛津词典

verb

• 端着（给…）；递上
  to offer sth to sb, by holding it out to them
  1. ‘Try this,’ she said, proffering a plate.
     “尝尝这个吧。”她端上一盘菜说。
• 提出，提供（建议、解释等）
  to offer sth such as advice or an explanation
  1. What advice would you proffer to someone starting up in business?
     您对初入商界的人有何建议？
  2. What advice would you proffer her?
     您对她有什么忠告？
  3. A solution proffered itself.
     一个解答自然出现了。

柯林斯词典

• VERB 提供；拿出；递给
  If youproffersomething to someone, you hold it towards them so that they can take it or touch it.
  1. He rose and proffered a silver box full of cigarettes.
     他站起身，伸手递过一个装满香烟的银盒子。
• VERB 提出，提供（建议等）
  If youproffersomething such as advice to someone, you offer it to them.
  1. The army has not yet proffered an explanation of how and why the accident happened.
     军队还没有对这次事件发生的经过和原因给出解释。

英英释义

noun

• a proposal offered for acceptance or rejection
  1. it was a suggestion we couldn't refuse
  Synonym:suggestionproposition

verb

• present for acceptance or rejection
  1. She offered us all a cold drink
  Synonym:offer

双语例句

• Trees and bushes proffer their seeds to the forest animals.
  树木为森林里的动物提供种子。
• College merging proffer spacious platform for library salutatory development, bring out choice and challenge.
  高等院校的合并为图书馆实现跨越性发展提供了广阔的平台，给高校图书馆带来史无前例的机遇和挑战。
• They proffer claims of being "essential,"" pure," and" crystal-fresh," but are bottled waters anything more than glorified tap water?
  标榜“天然”、“纯净”和“绝对新鲜”的瓶装水，和披上美丽包装的自来水有什么不同么？
• So, the application of electromagnetic filed can proffer a clean and novel method in material processing.
  因此，电磁场能提供一种非常清洁的材料加工手段。
• The main way of achieving the fairness of rural compulsory education is to proffer excellent teaching resources to children of school age as well as to improve the teaching quality.
  实现农村义务教育公平的根本在于为每个适龄儿童提供优质的教学资源，提高教学质量。
• May we proffer you our congratulations?
  请让我们向你表示祝贺？
• I didn't think it wise to proffer an opinion.
  我认为提出意见不明智。
• Leonard: I don't know. I've never reneged on a proffer of sperm before.
  我不知道，我以前从来没有在捐献精子中途走人过。
• You can not see all efforts that I make for you forever, you will only think I am making trouble wilfully, it thinks to be I in proffer a love or affection which is not reciprocated.
  你永远也看不到我对你做的所有努力，你只是认为我在有意制造麻烦，似乎我在提供一段没有回报的爱情或者感情。
• Surveying popular language of campus is conducive to perceive the new direction of psychological change of modern collegians and may proffer a new research method of going into their psychological features.
  考察校园流行语的修辞格有助于把握大学生心理变化的新动向，为探究大学生的心理特征提供新的研究视角。