You can picture a ship finally touching the shore after a long crossing: the moment the journey ends and the thing that was travelling is now here. Arrival names that moment — and then, by extension, whoever or whatever has just landed.
From the word’s history
From Anglo-French arrivaille, from Old French ariver, from Vulgar Latin *arripare: ad 'to' + ripa 'shore' — literally 'to come to the shore', the end of a sea voyage. The sea is gone from the modern word, but the shape of it, reaching the end of a journey, is still there.
來自古法語 ariver，再往前是通俗拉丁文 *arripare：ad「到」＋ ripa「岸」，字面就是「靠岸」，指航海的終點。今天講 arrival 早就不限於船，但「一段路程走到底、人到了」這個形狀一直留著，機場的 Arrivals 其實就是現代版的靠岸處。
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原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
arrivalnoun/əˈɹaɪ.vl̩/
- 1
The act of arriving (reaching a certain place).
- The early arrival of the bride created a stir.
- And wander we to see thy honest son, Who will of thy arrival be full joyous.
- 2
The fact of reaching a particular point in time.
- He celebrated the arrival of payday with a shopping spree.
- O gentlemen, the time of life is short! To spend that shortness basely were too long, If life did ride upon a dial’s point, Still ending at the arrival of an hour.
- 3
The fact of beginning to occur; the initial phase of something.
- The arrival of puberty can be especially challenging for transgender youth.
- a raw scraping in the back of his throat, which announced the arrival of a bad cold
- 4
The attainment of an objective, especially as a result of effort.
- The arrival of the railway made the local tourist industry viable.
- All the admirals had grown up in sail, and many of them viewed the arrival of steam with undisguised dislike […]
- 5
A person who has arrived; a thing that has arrived.
- There has been a significant growth in illegal arrivals.
- 1823, Lord Byron, Don Juan, London: John Hunt, Canto 11, stanza 68, p. 137, Saloon, room, hall o’erflow beyond their brink, And long the latest of arrivals halts, ’Midst royal dukes and dames condemned to climb, And gain an inch of staircase at a time.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。