Defray
[dɪ'freɪ] or [dɪ'fre]
解释:
(v. t.) To pay or discharge; to serve in payment of; to provide for, as a charge, debt, expenses, costs, etc.
(v. t.) To avert or appease, as by paying off; to satisfy; as, to defray wrath.
弗洛西录入
同义词及近义词：
v. a. Pay, discharge, settle, bear.
录入:史黛西
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Meet, liquidate, pay, settle, bear, discharge, quit
ANT:Dishonor, repudiate, dissatisfy, misappropriate, embezzle
整理:皮尔斯
解释:
v.t. to discharge the expenses of anything: to pay: (Spens.) to appease:—pr.p. defray′ing; pa.p. defrayed′.—ns. Defray′ment Defray′al.
录入:普勒斯顿
例句:
- As to reward, my profession is its own reward; but you are at liberty to defray whatever expenses I may be put to, at the time which suits you best. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- A favorable report having been made by that body, the Board of Ordnance and Fortification recommended a grant of fifty thousand dollars to defray the expen ses of further research. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- In these circumstances, the rent of a great landed estate might, upon ordinary occasions, very well defray all the necessary expenses of government. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- I am prepared to defray all charges. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- The work was continued during the following twenty years, the English government contributing about $85,000 to defray its cost. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- It is natural, indeed, to suppose, that so great an annual expense must have been defrayed from a great annual produce. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- The revenues from the province of Asia defrayed the expenses of the Roman state. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- There is no impropriety, therefore, in its being defrayed by the general contribution of the whole society. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- The rent of a very moderate landed estate might be fully sufficient for defraying all the other necessary expenses of government. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- The institutions for the education of the youth may, in the same manner, furnish a revenue sufficient for defraying their own expense. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
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