capture: [16] Along with its relatives captive, captivity, captivate, and captor, capture is the English language’s most direct lineal descendant of Latin capere ‘take, seize’ (others include capable, case for carrying things, cater, and chase, and heave is distantly connected). First to arrive was captive [14], which was originally a verb, meaning ‘capture’; it came via Old French captiver from Latin captīvus, the past participle of capere.
Contemporary in English was the adjectival use of captive, from which the noun developed. (The now archaic caitiff [13] comes from the same ultimate source, via an altered Vulgar Latin *cactivus and Old French caitiff ‘captive’.) Next on the scene was capture, in the 16th century; originally it was only a noun, and it was not converted to verbal use until the late 18th century, when it replaced captive in this role.
Also 16th-century is captivate, from the past participle of late Latin captivāre, a derivative of captīvus; this too originally meant ‘capture’, a sense which did not die out until the 19th century: ‘The British … captivated four successive patrols’, John Neal, Brother Jonathan 1825. => captive, cater, chase, cop, heave
capture (n.)
1540s, from Middle French capture "a taking," from Latin captura "a taking" (especially of animals), from captus (see captive).
capture (v.)
1795, from capture (n.); in chess, checkers, etc., 1820. Related: Captured; capturing. Earlier verb in this sense was captive (early 15c.).
实用例句
1. Swanson persuaded Hubley to work undercover to capture the killer.
斯旺森说服赫布利去做卧底以便将凶手抓获。
来自柯林斯例句
2. To capture his equity, Murphy must either sell or refinance.
要获得资产净值，墨菲必须出售或者重新融资。
来自柯林斯例句
3. The photographers managed to capture Jane in an unguarded moment.
摄影师抓拍到了简不经意的瞬间。
来自柯林斯例句
4. His paintings capture the essence of France.
他的画描绘出法国的神韵。
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5. His treachery led to the capture and imprisonment of his friend.
