• vt. 俘獲；奪得；捕捉，拍攝
• n. 捕獲；戰(zhàn)利品，俘虜

來自詞根cap, 抓，拿，握，見captive。

capture

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.).

1. Swanson persuaded Hubley to work undercover to capture the killer.

斯旺森說服赫布利去做臥底以便將兇手抓獲。

來自柯林斯例句

2. To capture his equity, Murphy must either sell or refinance.

要獲得資產(chǎn)凈值，墨菲必須出售或者重新融資。

來自柯林斯例句

3. The photographers managed to capture Jane in an unguarded moment.

攝影師抓拍到了簡不經(jīng)意的瞬間。

來自柯林斯例句

4. His paintings capture the essence of France.

他的畫描繪出法國的神韻。

來自《權(quán)威詞典》

5. His treachery led to the capture and imprisonment of his friend.

由于他的背叛,他的朋友被捕入獄.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》