One way to hold it: calling something forward by name so everyone can see it. You name the example that backs you up, or the exact words you are borrowing, or the person the court wants standing in front of it, or the soldier whose bravery is being read out. In every case a name is spoken aloud and the thing it names is brought into view.
From the word’s history
Cite is from Old French citer and Latin citare "to summon, urge, call; put in sudden motion, call forward" (PIE root *keie- "to set in motion"). The legal "summon officially" sense is the earliest in English (mid-15c.); "call forth a passage of writing, quote another's words" appears in the 1530s; "mention in an official dispatch" (public commendation) dates from 1918.
cite 來自古法語 citer、拉丁語 citare「傳喚、催促、叫喚；使突然動起來、叫到前面來」。英語裡最早的意思正是法律上的「正式傳喚」（十五世紀中葉）；「把一段文字叫出來、引述他人的話」出現在 1530 年代；「在正式公報中被提名嘉獎」則要到 1918 年。所以引用、傳喚、表揚三種用法，共通的是「把名字叫出來」這個動作。
Etymonline (etymonline.com/word/cite)
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原始詞典資料6 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。
citeverb詞源 1/saɪt/
- 1
To quote; to repeat, as a passage from a book, or the words of another.
- WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, but could not prove, and would cite as they took to the streets.
- 2
To mention; to make mention of.
- Until then, the Sunak administration remains a study in ineffectuality on multiple fronts, leading Goldsmith to cite, not unreasonably, “a kind of paralysis”.
- 3
To mention; to make mention of.
- Citing the risk involved with being out as a gay person and a union activist while simultaneously dealing with racism, Susan notes that there are no out gays or lesbians of color in her local, though its membership is about 80 percent people of color.
- Jonathan Hill, professor of international relations in the School of Security Studies at King’s College London, points to ongoing social unrest among rural youths in Morocco as another key reason why the law was passed. He cites the 2011 Arab Spring as an indicator of where such behaviour might lead if left unchecked.
- 4
To list the source(s) from which one took information, words or literary or verbal context.
- This Act may be cited as the Boiler Explosions Act, 1882.
- 5
lawTo summon officially or authoritatively to appear in court.
- According to the tribe’s chairman, rangers cited five of the demonstrators, who had traveled to Nevada from New York, Washington, California and the European country of Malta. The chairman did not say what they were cited for.
citenoun詞源 2/saɪt/
- 1
informalA citation.
- We used the number of cites as a rough measure of the significance of each published paper.
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。