• vt. 招待…吃晚飯；呷，啜
• vi. 啜飲；吃晚飯
• n. 一口，少量
• n. (Sup)人名；(捷)蘇普

來自古英語 supan,喝，吸，品嘗，來自 Proto-Germanic*supanan,喝，吸，來自 PIE*sub,來自 PIE*seue,汁液，液體，詞源同 sip,sop,soup.常用于形容小口喝，吸，啜，抿等。

古義用法，來自古法語 soper,用餐，就餐，通常為把面包片浸在濃湯里面吃，來自 soupe,濃 湯，詞源同 soup.

sup (v.1)

"eat the evening meal," c. 1300, from Old French super, soper "dine, sup, dip bread in soup or wine, sop up" (Modern French souper), which probably is from soupe "broth" (see soup), until recently still the traditional evening meal of French workers.

sup (v.2)

"to sip, to take into the mouth with the lips," Old English supan (West Saxon), suppan, supian (Northumbrian) "to sip, taste, drink, swallow" (strong verb, past tense seap, past participle sopen), from Proto-Germanic *supanan (cognates: Old Norse supa "to sip, drink," Middle Low German supen, Dutch zuipen "to drink, tipple," Old High German sufan, German saufen "to drink, booze"), from PIE *sub-, possibly an extended form of root *seue- (2) "to take liquid" (cognates: Sanskrit sunoti "presses out juice," soma; Avestan haoma, Persian hom "juice;" Greek huetos "rain," huein "to rain;" Latin sugere "to suck," succus "juice, sap;" Lithuanian sula "flowing sap;" Old Church Slavonic soku "sap," susati "suck;" Middle Irish suth "sap;" Old English seaw "sap").

1. He had been invited to sup with a colleague and his wife.

他已經受邀和一位同事及其夫人共進晚餐。

來自柯林斯例句

2. You cannot sell the cow and sup the milk.

不能既想賣乳牛,又想喝牛奶.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

3. "Even the President's staunchest sup-porters have some issues where they simply must break ranks," says Senator Lott.

“即使是總統最忠實的擁護者在某些事情上也會不聽指令，”參議員洛特說。

來自柯林斯例句

4. " Why, robbers, of course -- who'd you reckon? Sunday - school sup'rintendents? "

“ 嘿, 你想還會有誰? 當然是強盜們嘍 —— 難道是主日學校的校長不成? ”

來自英漢文學 - 湯姆歷險

5. It takes a long spoon to sup with him.

和他打交道要小心.

來自辭典例句