provide

provide 的核心意思是“提前准备并提供所需之物”，也可表示供养、规定或为某事作准备。

💡 记忆钩子

把 provide 想成“事先把需要的东西放到位”：给家人生活费是供养，给别人设备是提供，给某人配备资源是 supply；提前防灾是作准备，合同提前写明条件则是规定。

📝 学习建议

不要把 provide 只理解成“提供物品”；provide for 常表示“供养某人”或“为某事作准备”，含义要看搭配。
优先掌握 provide something、provide someone with something 和 provide for someone 这几种常见结构，再学习较正式的 provide that。

📖 中文释义

verb

core 供养；挣钱维持生活

📖 provide for someone 表示靠工作或收入满足某人的生活需要，通常指供养家人或受扶养者。它延续了“提前把生活所需准备好”的核心概念。

💡 常用句型是 provide for + 人，也可说 provide for oneself 表示养活自己。这里的 for 不是简单的“给”，而是“负责满足生活需要”；不要误套成 provide someone。

She works two jobs to provide for her children.

她做两份工作来养活孩子。
common 为……作准备；防备

📖 provide against something 表示提前采取措施，以防某种危险或困难发生，也就是先把应对办法准备好。

💡 常用句型是 provide against + 风险或灾害。这个用法较正式，日常口语中也常用 prepare for 或 guard against；不要把 against 后面接成受益者。

The emergency fund helps us provide against unexpected expenses.

这笔应急基金帮助我们防备意外开支。
common 规定；约定

📖 在合同、法律或正式文件中，provide that 表示提前写明某个条件、规则或安排，相当于“规定……”。

💡 常用句型是 the contract or law provides that + 从句。这个结构正式，that 后通常接完整句子；不要把它当作普通的 provide someone with 来使用。

The agreement provides that either side can end the contract with thirty days' notice.

协议规定，任何一方提前三十天通知都可以终止合同。
core 提供所需之物

📖 provide something 表示把别人需要或想要的东西准备好并交给他们，尤其常指设备、食物、信息和服务等基本所需。

💡 常用句型是 provide + 物品或服务，也可用 provide something for someone。它比 give 更正式、更强调按需要准备和供应；不要在直接宾语后无依据地加 to。

The hotel provides free breakfast for all guests.

这家酒店为所有客人提供免费早餐。

The school will provide the necessary equipment.

学校会提供必要的设备。
core 向某人供应；为某处配备

📖 provide someone or something with something 表示把某项资源配给某人、某组织或某处，使其拥有所需之物。重点仍是“把资源准备到位”。

💡 最常见句型是 provide + 人或地点 + with + 物，也可说 provide + 物 + for + 人或地点。不要说 provide someone something；标准表达通常需要 with 或 for。

The charity provides local families with fresh food.

这家慈善机构为当地家庭提供新鲜食物。

The clinic provides patients with free advice.

这家诊所为患者提供免费建议。
common 使……成为可能；提供选择

📖 provide someone with something 也可以表示给某人带来一种机会、方法或选择，使某事更容易实现，而不一定是交付实体物品。

💡 常用句型是 provide someone with an opportunity, option, or way to do something。此处的宾语常是抽象资源；不要把它误解为保证结果，provide 只是提供条件或可能性。

The course provides students with a chance to practice speaking.

这门课程为学生提供了练习口语的机会。
rare 预见；预先考虑

📖 这是较旧且现已少用的正式义，表示提前想到某种情况并据此采取准备措施，可看作 provide 核心“未雨绸缪”的来源。

💡 多见于历史文本或仿古正式文体，现代英语通常用 foresee、anticipate 或 prepare for。学习时只需认识其含义，不要在普通会话中主动使用。

Latinism obsolete
rare 预先任命教会职位

📖 这是历史教会用语，指在职位空缺前预先指定某人担任教会职位，属于“提前安排”的专门用法。

💡 只见于教会史或历史法律语境，现代日常英语中不使用。不要把它与普通的“提供”或“任命”混用。

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📘 英文释义 (WordNet) 共 7 组

take measures in preparation for

同义词集: provide

provide for the proper care of the passengers on the cruise ship

上位: fix, gear up, prepare, ready, set, set up

determine (what is to happen in certain contingencies), especially by including a proviso condition or stipulation;

同义词集: provide

The will provides that each child should receive half of the money

The Constitution provides for the right to free speech

上位: condition, qualify, specify, stipulate

give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance

同义词集: provide supply ply cater

The hostess provided lunch for all the guests

上位: give 下位: accommodate, board, cater, conform to, dish, dish out, dish up, feed, fill, fit, fulfil, fulfill, give, gratify, gutter, help, horse, indulge, meet, nourish, nurture, pander, pimp, power, procure, regale, satisfy, serve, serve up, shower, staff, sustain, treat

supply means of subsistence; earn a living;

同义词集: provide bring home the bacon

He provides for his large family by working three jobs

Women nowadays not only take care of the household but also bring home the bacon

上位: support

give something useful or necessary to

同义词集: supply provide render furnish

We provided the room with an electrical heater

上位: give 下位: afford, air-condition, air-cool, arm, articulate, bed, berth, border, bottom, bush, buy in, canal, canalise, canalize, capitalise, capitalize, caption, causeway, charge, coal, costume, curtain, date, edge, equip, extend, feed, fire, fit, fit out, flood, fret, fuel, fund, furnish, gate, give, glass, glaze, glut, grate, hat, headline, heat, hydrate, index, joint, kern, key, leverage, match, offer, outfit, oversupply, partner, patch, pour, provision, pump, purvey, rail, railroad, ramp, retrofit, rim, scant, seat, shelter, skimp, step, stint, stock, stock up, subtitle, tap, terrace, terrasse, theme, ticket, toggle, tool, top, top out, tube, uniform, water, wharf, yield

mount or put up;

同义词集: put up provide offer

put up a good fight

offer resistance

上位: engage, wage

make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain; ; ; ;

同义词集: leave allow for allow provide

This leaves no room for improvement

The evidence allows only one conclusion

allow for mistakes

leave lots of time for the trip

This procedure provides for lots of leeway

上位: afford, give, yield

🌳 词源

源自中古英语，来自拉丁语，原义与“预见、未雨绸缪”有关；purvey 与它同源。

Inherited from Middle English providen, from Latin prōvidēre (“to foresee, act with foresight”). Doublet of purvey.

🔄 变式

- imperat provided 1st_sg providedst archaic provides present providest archaic provideth archaic providing present

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