Impose
[ɪm'pəʊz] or [ɪm'poz]
解释:
(v. t.) To lay on; to set or place; to put; to deposit.
(v. t.) To lay as a charge, burden, tax, duty, obligation, command, penalty, etc.; to enjoin; to levy; to inflict; as, to impose a toll or tribute.
(v. t.) To lay on, as the hands, in the religious rites of confirmation and ordination.
(v. t.) To arrange in proper order on a table of stone or metal and lock up in a chase for printing; -- said of columns or pages of type, forms, etc.
(v. i.) To practice trick or deception.
(n.) A command; injunction.
加德纳整理
同义词及近义词:
v. a. [1]. Put, lay, set, place.[2]. Prescribe, enjoin, appoint.[3]. Obtrude, palm, pass off.
整理:史黛丝
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Lay, inflict, fix, set, place, enjoin
ANT:Remove, disburden
希勒尔录入
解释:
v.t. to place upon: to lay on: to enjoin or command: to put over by authority or force: to obtrude unfairly: to pass off: (print.) to arrange or place in a chase as pages of type.—v.i. (with upon) to mislead or deceive: act with constraining effect.—n. (Shak.) command injunction.—adjs. Impos′able capable of being imposed or laid on; Impos′ing commanding: adapted to impress forcibly.—adv. Impos′ingly.—ns. Impos′ingness; Imposi′tion a laying on: laying on of hands in ordination: a tax a burden: a deception.
手打:维罗妮卡
例句:
- Oh, yes, said Alvanly, you will give yourself a good character of course; but I shall not impose upon your goodness by doing anything half so rude. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- I mention this in your hearing, Jane, that you may not attempt to impose on Mr. Brocklehurst. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- And surely, said he, this is not a very severe order which we impose upon them. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- I am sure he still means to impose on me if possible, and get a cousin of his own into a certain mill, which I design for somebody else. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
- But this could not impose on Fanny. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
- Still more so, by the stipulation of implicit confidence which I beg to impose. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- The ruler may impose the laws and institutions which we have been describing, and the citizens may possibly be willing to obey them? 柏拉图. 理想国.
- They imposed another pirate upon us at Nazareth--another invincible Arab guard. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- To Elizabeth, however, he voluntarily acknowledged that the necessity of his absence _had_ been self-imposed. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
- The limits imposed practically were such as to require that the system should not cost more than a cable road to install. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- The tax of a guinea a-head for every man-servant, which has lately been imposed in Great Britain, is of the same kind. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- In this respect he is far below Aristotle, who is comparatively seldom imposed upon by false analogies. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- To have imposed any derogatory work upon him, would have been to inflict a wanton insult on the feelings of a most respectable man. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- The old subsidy was imposed indifferently upon exportation, as well as importation. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- The coach-tax and plate tax are examples of the former method of imposing; the greater part of the other duties of excise and customs, of the latter. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- I exclaimed, as I looked round; for I had never before seen any half so imposing. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- It was impossible to see this grand and imposing sight, and not to feel its singleness, if we may so speak. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
- I am surprised to find him a meeker man than I had thought, and less imposing in appearance. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- I was convinced upon this return trip that there was a future for the horseless carriage, although I did not at that time expect it to be so brilliant and imposing. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- Riviere had succeeded in imposing himself: Archer, reddening slightly, dropped into his chair again, and signed to the young man to be seated. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
- It was not a very good day for a visit, he said; he would have preferred the first day of term; but it was imposing, it was imposing. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- Even the experimental work imposes no slight burden on it. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- It was a profound observation when Bernard Shaw said that men dread liberty because of the bewildering responsibility it imposes and the uncommon alertness it demands. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- In some provinces of France, the king not only imposes what taxes he thinks proper, but assesses and levies them in the way he thinks proper. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- The want of parsimony, in time of peace, imposes the necessity of contracting debt in time of war. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- This danger imposes upon the school a steadying and integrating office. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- The act of the mind, exprest by a promise, is not a resolution to perform any thing: For that alone never imposes any obligation. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
- When we observe them separated in any person's character, this imposes a kind of violence on our imagination, and is disagreeable. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
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