fetch

Word family

fetch1 /fetʃ/ S3 verb [transitiveT]

1 especially British EnglishBrETAKE/BRING to go and get something or someone and bring them back （去）拿来；（去）请来；（去）找来

Quick! Go and fetch a doctor.

快！去请医生来。

Shannon went upstairs to fetch some blankets.

香农上楼去拿些毯子。

fetch somebody/something from something

Would you mind going to fetch the kids from school?

你去接孩子们放学好吗？

fetch somebody something/fetch something for somebody

Fetch me some coffee while you’re up.

反正你已经起来了，就给我弄些咖啡来吧。

2 COSTto be sold for a particular amount of money, especially at a public sale – used especially in news reports 卖得，售得〔尤用于新闻报道〕

The painting is expected to fetch at least $20 million.

这幅画预计至少能卖两千万美元。

► see thesaurus at cost

3 fetch and carry WORK HARDto do simple and boring jobs for someone as if you were their servant 做杂务，打杂

Am I supposed to fetch and carry for him all day?

难道要我整天替他打杂吗？

Examples from the Corpus

fetch and carry• She has a positive knack of getting one to fetch and carry.• Some one had to go round with the coals, wash up, sweep, scrub, polish, fetch and carry.• The two girls' job was to clear the table between courses, fetch and carry dishes.

4 British EnglishBrETAKE/BRING to make people react in a particular way 使作出〔某种反应〕；吸引来；引起

This announcement fetched a huge cheer from the audience.

这一宣告博得听众极其热烈的欢呼声。

5 fetch up phrasal verbphr v British EnglishBrE informal [always + adverbadv/prepositionprep]ARRIVE to arrive somewhere without intending to 意外到达 SYN end up

I fell asleep on the train and fetched up in Glasgow.

我在火车上睡着了，竟然到了格拉斯哥。

Examples from the Corpus

fetch• Martha fetched a towel from the bathroom.• It's a very old car, but I'm still hoping it'll fetch around £200.• Somehow he'd have to get up to the wood today to fetch down his Dad's clippers and wire.• Truck doan come to fetch, eh?• Trondur had hurried forward to fetch his biggest harpoon which he kept strapped across the bows.• For a moment Rex and I gaped, and then Rex dived into the cabin to fetch his camera.• Where's your mug? Go and fetch it.• Could you fetch me a screwdriver?• Van Gogh's "Sunflowers' was expected to fetch more than $20 million.• Some properties have fetched prices in the $4 million range.• It is the first time a sculpture from the period has fetched such a sum.• As she fetched sugar and milk and her favourite cup and saucer, she made up her mind to break with him.• Rushworth went to fetch the key to the gate.• Jim's gone to fetch the police.• I turned to the older boy and told him to fetch them from the refrigerator.• Nat let him in and went to fetch Tony who appeared wearing a pair of boxer shorts and a big smile.

fetch somebody something/fetch something for somebody• Tommy Wright fetched up at Oldham for £80,000.• It is expected to fetch about £100 million for a consortium of land owners.• Voice over Meanwhile back at Tenbury, the holly and mistletoe were fetching up to a pound for a pound in weight.• Fonti is a voluble man, with a fetching smile which disappears for days on end when the pressure is on.• Continued to go about opening cupboards, fetching what she needed for making pastry.• Gretzky had none the less produced exactly the sort of moment that enabled scalpers to fetch hundreds of dollars for tickets.• The prefabricated avatar fetches bits of knowledge for you, based on a profile you create.

fetch2 noun

1.play fetch if you play fetch with a dog, you throw something for the dog to bring back to you 〔与狗〕玩抛物衔回

Examples from the Corpus

play fetch• After that, they played fetch with a stick Master found.

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fetch• But I act as general dogsbody, carry books, go fetch, good boy, that kind of thing.• On the other hand fetch is the limiting factor in the height of waves generated by easterly winds over the North Sea.

Origin fetch1

Old English fetian, feccan

fetch1 verbfetch2 noun

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