Obligation
[ɒblɪ'geɪʃ(ə)n] or [,ɑblɪ'ɡeʃən]
解释:
(noun.) a legal agreement specifying a payment or action and the penalty for failure to comply.
(noun.) a personal relation in which one is indebted for a service or favor.
(noun.) the state of being obligated to do or pay something; 'he is under an obligation to finish the job'.
汉弗莱手打--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The act of obligating.
(n.) That which obligates or constrains; the binding power of a promise, contract, oath, or vow, or of law; that which constitutes legal or moral duty.
(n.) Any act by which a person becomes bound to do something to or for anouther, or to forbear something; external duties imposed by law, promise, or contract, by the relations of society, or by courtesy, kindness, etc.
(n.) The state of being obligated or bound; the state of being indebted for an act of favor or kindness; as, to place others under obligations to one.
(n.) A bond with a condition annexed, and a penalty for nonfulfillment. In a larger sense, it is an acknowledgment of a duty to pay a certain sum or do a certain things.
亚伦编辑
同义词及近义词：
n. [1]. Responsibility, accountableness, bond of duty.[2]. Engagement, contract, agreement, stipulation.[3]. Debt of gratitude.
校对:弗恩
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Duty, necessity, compulsion, contract, bond, covenant, belief
ANT:Promise, word, choice, freedom, assurance, declaration, intention, exemption
编辑:卡蒂
娱乐性解释：
To dream of obligating yourself in any incident, denotes that you will be fretted and worried by the thoughtless complaints of others. If others obligate themselves to you, it portends that you will win the regard of acquaintances and friends.
整理:韦尔登
例句:
- I am not under the slightest obligation to go to India, especially with strangers. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- And there could be no obligation, because there is no standard for action there, because no understanding has been reaped from that plane. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- If that were so, my sacrifice was nothing; my plainest obligation to her unfulfilled; and every poor action I had shrunk from, I was hourly doing. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- I will not affect to deny that you are under some obligation to me. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- Obligation may be stretched till it is no better than a brand of slavery stamped on us when we were too young to know its meaning. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- It was meant in kindness, of course; but it was not the sort of obligation one could remain under. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- Here, therefore, we feign a new act of the mind, which we call the willing an obligation; and on this we suppose the morality to depend. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
- Where the tyranny of the governor removes this interest, it also removes the natural obligation to obedience. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
- They felt that this change of period released them from the obligation of re-volunteering. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- Afterwards a sentiment of morals concurs with interest, and becomes a new obligation upon mankind. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
- He will feel highly honoured, and thus you may repay a part of the obligation I owe him, and compensate for the injuries fortune has done him. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- We might as well resolve the obligation to abstain from the possessions of others, into the obligation of a promise, as that of allegiance. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
- You had no more obligation. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
- You have done me many acts of kindness that I can never repay, and have no wish to repay, for I prefer continuing the obligation. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- The difficulties, that occur to us, in supposing a moral obligation to attend promises, we either surmount or elude. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
- Why do you want to put me under such terrible obligations? 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- I am under obligations to you, I know it, a d--d deal too well too; but I won't be always sermonised by you because you're five years my senior. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- That's knowing the obligations of a Alfred David, ain't it? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- Under all these obligations, are our poor modest, humble, and thankful? 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- They each felt his sorrows, and their own obligations, and Marianne, by general consent, was to be the reward of all. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
- It was painful, exceedingly painful, to know that they were under obligations to a person who could never receive a return. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
- His ruling thought, his great contribution to political literature, was that the moral obligations upon ordinary men cannot bind princes. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- As there are here two interests entirely distinct from each other, they must give rise to two moral obligations, equally separate and independent. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
- So far he was reasonably sure of having fulfilled all his obligations. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
- I only want an easy mind, sir; not crushed by crowded obligations. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- In my position you can readily understand that it is unwise to place one's self under obligations. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- I said I owed him more obligations than I could ever repay, and held him in a higher admiration than I could ever express. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- It is not _my_ part, then, I think, to tak fro' _ye_--to be under obligations (as they say) to _ye_. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- If Mrs. Rushworth could imagine any interfering obligations, Julia was certainly able to quit London whenever she chose. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
- He has sustained many losses of late; and these obligations accumulating upon him at once, would crush him to the earth. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
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