Debt
[det] or [dɛt]
解释:
(noun.) an obligation to pay or do something.
(noun.) money or goods or services owed by one person to another.
(noun.) the state of owing something (especially money); 'he is badly in debt'.
校对:路易丝--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) That which is due from one person to another, whether money, goods, or services; that which one person is bound to pay to another, or to perform for his benefit; thing owed; obligation; liability.
(n.) A duty neglected or violated; a fault; a sin; a trespass.
(n.) An action at law to recover a certain specified sum of money alleged to be due.
校对:菲利斯
同义词及近义词:
n. [1]. Due, obligation.[2]. Trespass, offence, transgression, sin, fault, crime.
编辑:史蒂夫
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Debit, liability, default, obligation, claim, score, something_due
ANT:Liquidation, assets, credit, trust, grace, favor, obligation, accommodation,gift, gratuity
手打:拉蒙纳
解释:
n. what one owes to another: what one becomes liable to do or suffer: a state of obligation or indebtedness: a duty: (B.) a sin.—p.adj. Debt′ed (Shak.) indebted obliged to.—ns. Debt′ee a creditor; Debt′or one who owes a debt: the side of an account on which debts are charged.—Debt of honour a debt not recognised by law but binding in honour—esp. gambling and betting debts; Debt of nature death.—Active debt a debt due to one as opposed to Passive debt a debt one owes; Floating debt miscellaneous public debt like exchequer and treasury bills as opposed to Funded debt that which has been converted into perpetual annuities like consols in Britain.—In one's debt under a pecuniary obligation to one.
校对:威尔默
娱乐性解释:
Debt is rather a bad dream, foretelling worries in business and love, and struggles for a competency; but if you have plenty to meet all your obligations, your affairs will assume a favorable turn.
录入:希莉娅
娱乐性解释:
n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slave-driver.
汉尼巴尔手打
娱乐性解释:
A big word beginning with Owe, which grows bigger the more it is contracted.
校对:罗赞
例句:
- You have saved my life: I have a pleasure in owing you so immense a debt. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- It is not contrary to justice, that both Ireland and America should contribute towards the discharge of the public debt of Great Britain. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- How can I pay my debt? 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- I'm sure it's no pleasure to me to go today, but it's a debt we owe society, and there's no one to pay it but you and me. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- Even the enormous debt of Great Britain might in this manner soon be paid. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- I suspect some imprudence of Mr. Franklin's on the Continent--with a woman or a debt at the bottom of it--had followed him to England. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- Oh, no, my Lady; I would have paid any debt, and joyful. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- Then comes debt and the cutting down of his property. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- I was always in debt to him, always under his thumb, always a working, always a getting into danger. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- Then there was another man who had lost a thousand pounds, and went to the broker's next day to sell stock, that he might pay the debt. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- In raising the price of commodities, the rise of wages operates in the same manner as simple interest does in the accumulation of debt. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- And there was not only the actual debt; there was the certainty that in his present position he must go on deepening it. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- What is called the unfunded debt of Great Britain, is contracted in the former of those two ways. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- He shot a man in a duel--he's over head and ears in debt, and he's robbed me and mine of the best part of Miss Crawley's fortune. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- Papa said he could do nothing about the debt--if he paid this, there would be half-a-dozen more. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- I do not understand economy, and am frightened to death at debts. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- In consequence of this law, when Memphis was occupied the provost-marshal had forcibly collected all the evidences he could obtain of such debts. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
- Why do not you article yourself then to a baker of it, I observed, and so pay some of your debts? 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- Secondly, In a private copartnery, each partner is bound for the debts contracted by the company, to the whole extent of his fortune. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Her half-brother had now ample means again, but what with debts and what with new madness wasted them most fearfully again. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- If her debts press, and she decides on sending it away, then we have our man ready, and we meet the Moonstone on its arrival in London. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- To tell the truth and pay your debts? 柏拉图. 理想国.
- Apart from debts and duns and all such drawbacks, I am not fit even for this employment. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- We live very quietly, sir, the three of us; and we keep a roof over our heads and pay our debts, if we do nothing more. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- Edison changed bookkeepers, but never thereafter counted anything real profit until he had paid all his debts and had the profits in the bank. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- Nor will the bailiff or the constable enter; for _Industry pays debts, while despair increaseth them_. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- You bring me a writing from Bulstrode to say he doesn't believe you've ever promised to pay your debts out o' my land. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- I have paid my debts, and find money in my pocket. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- His efforts to paint historical pictures rather than portraits, and his share in paying off certain debts of his father’s, had made great inroads on the money he had saved. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- It tells me she has debts she daren't acknowledge, that must be paid. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
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