Allow
[ə'laʊ]
解释:
(verb.) allow or plan for a certain possibility; concede the truth or validity of something; 'I allow for this possibility'; 'The seamstress planned for 5% shrinkage after the first wash'.
(verb.) give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause; 'I will earmark this money for your research'; 'She sets aside time for meditation every day' .
(verb.) allow the presence of or allow (an activity) without opposing or prohibiting; 'We don't allow dogs here'; 'Children are not permitted beyond this point'; 'We cannot tolerate smoking in the hospital'.
(verb.) let have; 'grant permission'; 'Mandela was allowed few visitors in prison'.
(verb.) grant as a discount or in exchange; 'The camera store owner allowed me $50 on my old camera'.
布兰卡德录入--From WordNet
解释:
(v. t.) To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction.
(v. t.) To like; to be suited or pleased with.
(v. t.) To sanction; to invest; to intrust.
(v. t.) To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have; as, to allow a servant his liberty; to allow a free passage; to allow one day for rest.
(v. t.) To own or acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to accede to an opinion; as, to allow a right; to allow a claim; to allow the truth of a proposition.
(v. t.) To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; esp. to abate or deduct; as, to allow a sum for leakage.
(v. t.) To grant license to; to permit; to consent to; as, to allow a son to be absent.
(v. i.) To admit; to concede; to make allowance or abatement.
录入:莫伊拉
同义词及近义词：
v. a. [1]. Admit, acknowledge, confess, own, concede, take for granted.[2]. Permit, let, authorize, grant leave to, give permission to.[3]. Suffer, tolerate, endure, bear, put up with, bear with.[4]. Grant, give, yield, relinquish, spare.[5]. Approve, sanction, justify.[6]. Remit, abate, bate, deduct.
v. n. Make allowance or provision.
本校对
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Concede, apportion, allot, assign, afford, tolerate, authorize, grant, remit,recognize, acknowledge, avow, confess, admit, permit, suffer, sanction, yield
ANT:Withhold, withdraw, resume, refuse, deny, disallow, repudiate, protest,Withstand, resist, disapprove, reject
整理:康拉德
解释:
v.t. to grant: to permit: to acknowledge: to abate: make allowance for: (obs.) invest entrust: assert say (coll. in U.S.).—adj. Allow′able that may be allowed: not forbidden: lawful.—n. Allow′ableness.—adv. Allow′ably.—n. Allow′ance that which is allowed: a limited portion of anything: a stated quantity—of money &c. to meet expenses: abatement: approbation: permission.—v.t. to put any one upon an allowance: to supply anything in limited quantities.—To make allowance for to take excusing circumstances into account.
校对:凯尔西
例句:
- I can't allow people in my way. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- My--hum--conscience would not allow it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- A cocoanut shell always has a soft spot at one end because this is the provision nature has made to allow the embryo of the future tree to push its way out of the hard shell. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- You must therefore allow me to follow the dictates of my conscience on this occasion, which leads me to perform what I look on as a point of duty. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
- But instead of narrowing the scope of politics, to avoid it, the only sensible thing to do is to invent methods which will allow needs and problems and group interests avenues into politics. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- But I don't allow anybody to ride over that turf. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- Do not allow a trivial misunderstanding to wither the blossoms of spring, which, once put forth and blighted, cannot be renewed. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- She had provided a plentiful dinner for them; she wished she could know that they had been allowed to eat it. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
- At length, Mr Boffin entreated to be allowed a quarter of an hour's grace, and a cooling walk of that duration in the yard. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- Old New York scrupulously observed the etiquette of hospitality, and no discussion with a guest was ever allowed to degenerate into a disagreement. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
- With a man on each side holding these ropes, the mule was released from his other bindings and allowed to rise. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- Such misrepresentations cannot be allowed by us. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- I received a prompt letter in reply decidedly disapproving my proposition, and urging that the lad should be allowed to accompany me. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- This letter I had wisely allowed to reach its destination, feeling at the time that it could do no harm, and might do good. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- After a moment she spoke once more, but without turning round, without allowing me to catch the smallest glimpse of her face. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Make the best of it, my dear sir, said Stryver; say no more about it; thank you again for allowing me to sound you; good night! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- Carez, a printer of Toul, who, in 1791, endeavoured to obtain casts in lead from a page of type, by allowing it to drop on the fused metal when it was in a state of setting. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
- But allowing the colony security to be perfectly good, ?100, payable fifteen years hence, for example, in a country where interest is at six per cent. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- The Japanese produce them by fastening a piece of mother-of-pearl in the shells of the pearl-oyster and allowing it to remain there for a number of years. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- They talked about art in a merely sensuous way, dwelling on outside effects, instead of allowing themselves to learn what it has to teach. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
- How many there are I did not ask; but I could not think of allowing them to pillage the house, as it were. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- Indeed throughout the Republic he allows the lower ranks to fade into the distance. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- The freedom of choice which this allows him, is therefore much greater, and the difficulty of his task much more diminished, than at first appears. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Wherever the law allows it, and the nature of the work can afford it, therefore, he will generally prefer the service of slaves to that of freemen. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- They are called wives, though I believe the Koran only allows four genuine wives--the rest are concubines. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- Fire melts ore and allows of the forging of iron, as in the blacksmith's shop, and of the fashioning of innumerable objects serviceable to man. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- I have told him the whole story of our becoming acquainted, and he allows me to walk with you. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- Its function is like that of a hinge, which allows the diaphragm to freely swing inward. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
整理:拉尔夫