Compensation
[kɒmpen'seɪʃ(ə)n] or [,kɑmpɛn'seʃən]
解释:
(noun.) something (such as money) given or received as payment or reparation (as for a service or loss or injury).
(noun.) (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that conceals your undesirable shortcomings by exaggerating desirable behaviors.
彻姬塔编辑--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The act or principle of compensating.
(n.) That which constitutes, or is regarded as, an equivalent; that which makes good the lack or variation of something else; that which compensates for loss or privation; amends; remuneration; recompense.
(n.) The extinction of debts of which two persons are reciprocally debtors by the credits of which they are reciprocally creditors; the payment of a debt by a credit of equal amount; a set-off.
(n.) A recompense or reward for some loss or service.
(n.) An equivalent stipulated for in contracts for the sale of real estate, in which it is customary to provide that errors in description, etc., shall not avoid, but shall be the subject of compensation.
唐纳德录入
同义词及近义词:
n. [1]. Recompense, remuneration, reward.[2]. Requital, satisfaction, indemnity, indemnification, reparation, amends.
安东尼编辑
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Remuneration, equivalent, wages, pay, allowance, restoration, restitution,satisfaction, atonement, expiation, indemnification, amercement, damages
ANT:Deprivation, injury, nonpayment, gratuity, donation, fraudulence, damage
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例句:
- The smoke, gases, and ashes left in the path of a raging forest fire are no compensation to us for the valuable timber destroyed. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- But what, said Mr. Jaggers, swinging his purse,--what if it was in my instructions to make you a present, as compensation? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- Here it should be said that the Wrights are as excellent business men as they are inventors, and intend to receive due compensation for their years of work. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- But, in compensation, there have been several joint-stock companies which have failed, and which he has omitted. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- A compensation of 5000_l. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- It involved the principle of inductive compensation. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- I am quite sure that it is the only compensation you have left it in your power to make. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
- But if you think as Money can make compensation to me for the loss of the little child--what come to the forge--and ever the best of friends! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- The employer must have this compensation, otherwise he cannot, consistently with his own interest, continue the employment. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- It's his only compensation for the outward restraints he puts upon himself. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- When night fell he was then more at rest, for in sleep he found a certain amount of compensation for the woes of his waking hours. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- The belief in such compensation is a great opiate for present miseries. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- So this was what he was asking about; the compensation of irregular service. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- It is such unspeakable moral compensation to Wegg, to be overcome by the consideration that Mr Rokesmith has an underhanded mind! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- What do you--that is, what compensation-- began Jo, not exactly knowing how to express herself. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- She finds compensations, no doubt--I know she borrows money of Gus--but then I'd PAY her to keep him in a good humour, so I can't complain, after all. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
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