Bank
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解釋/意思:
(noun.) a flight maneuver; aircraft tips laterally about its longitudinal axis (especially in turning); 'the plane went into a steep bank'.
(noun.) a building in which the business of banking transacted; 'the bank is on the corner of Nassau and Witherspoon'.
(noun.) an arrangement of similar objects in a row or in tiers; 'he operated a bank of switches'.
(noun.) a long ridge or pile; 'a huge bank of earth'.
(noun.) sloping land (especially the slope beside a body of water); 'they pulled the canoe up on the bank'; 'he sat on the bank of the river and watched the currents'.
(noun.) a slope in the turn of a road or track; the outside is higher than the inside in order to reduce the effects of centrifugal force.
(noun.) the funds held by a gambling house or the dealer in some gambling games; 'he tried to break the bank at Monte Carlo'.
(noun.) a supply or stock held in reserve for future use (especially in emergencies).
(verb.) cover with ashes so to control the rate of burning; 'bank a fire'.
(verb.) enclose with a bank; 'bank roads'.
(verb.) tip laterally; 'the pilot had to bank the aircraft'.
(verb.) be in the banking business.
(verb.) act as the banker in a game or in gambling.
(verb.) do business with a bank or keep an account at a bank; 'Where do you bank in this town?'.
編輯:谢恩--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A bench; a high seat, or seat of distinction or judgment; a tribunal or court.
(n.) A mound, pile, or ridge of earth, raised above the surrounding level; hence, anything shaped like a mound or ridge of earth; as, a bank of clouds; a bank of snow.
(n.) A steep acclivity, as the slope of a hill, or the side of a ravine.
(n.) The margin of a watercourse; the rising ground bordering a lake, river, or sea, or forming the edge of a cutting, or other hollow.
(n.) An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shoal, shelf, or shallow; as, the banks of Newfoundland.
(n.) The face of the coal at which miners are working.
(n.) A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.
(n.) The ground at the top of a shaft; as, ores are brought to bank.
(v. t.) To raise a mound or dike about; to inclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.
(v. t.) To heap or pile up; as, to bank sand.
(v. t.) To pass by the banks of.
(n.) A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.
(n.) The bench or seat upon which the judges sit.
(n.) The regular term of a court of law, or the full court sitting to hear arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at Nisi Prius, or a court held for jury trials. See Banc.
(n.) A sort of table used by printers.
(n.) A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.
(n.) An establishment for the custody, loan, exchange, or issue, of money, and for facilitating the transmission of funds by drafts or bills of exchange; an institution incorporated for performing one or more of such functions, or the stockholders (or their representatives, the directors), acting in their corporate capacity.
(n.) The building or office used for banking purposes.
(n.) A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.
(n.) The sum of money or the checks which the dealer or banker has as a fund, from which to draw his stakes and pay his losses.
(n.) In certain games, as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.
(v. t.) To deposit in a bank.
(v. i.) To keep a bank; to carry on the business of a banker.
(v. i.) To deposit money in a bank; to have an account with a banker.
編輯:马丁
解釋/意思:
n. a bench in a galley: a tier or rank of oars: the bench on which judges sat.
n. a mound or ridge of earth: the earthy margin of a river lake &c.: the raised edge of a road railway cutting &c.: (min.) the surface at the pit-mouth as in banksman: rising ground in the sea.—v.t. to enclose with a bank: to deposit or pile up: to make up a fire by covering it with a heap of fuel so pressed down as to remain a long time burning slowly—banked fires.—n. Banks′man an overseer at a pit-mouth.—From bank to bank from the time the collier begins to descend the pit for his spell of work till he reaches the top again.
n. a place where money is deposited: an institution for the keeping lending and exchanging &c. of money: in games of hazard the money the proprietor who plays against all the others has before him.—v.t. to deposit in a bank as money.—ns. Bank′-ā′gent the head of a branch bank; Bank′-bill a bill drawn by one bank upon another payable at a future date or on demand; Bank′-cheque an order to pay issued upon a bank; Bank′er one who keeps a bank: one employed in banking business:—fem. Bank′eress; Bank′-hol′iday a day on which banks are legally closed bills falling due on these being payable the following day; Bank′ing the business of a banker.—adj. pertaining to a bank.—ns. Bank′-note a note issued by a bank which passes as money being payable to bearer on demand; Bank′-pap′er bank-notes in circulation; Bank′-stock a share or shares in the capital stock of a bank; Branch′-bank a branch office of a bank; Sav′ings-bank one intended originally to develop a spirit of saving amongst the poor.—Bank annuities the consolidated three per cent. annuities—British Government funds.—Bank of issue one that issues its own notes or promises to pay; Joint-stock bank one of which the capital is subscribed by a large number of shareholders; Private bank one carried on by any number of persons less than ten.—To break the bank to win as in faro from the management a certain sum which has been fixed upon as the limit the bank is willing to lose on any one day; To play against the bank to take the risks of a game against the manager who holds the bank as at rouge-et-noir &c.
整理:雪麗
娱乐性解釋/意思:
To see vacant tellers, foretells business losses. Giving out gold money, denotes carelessness; receiving it, great gain and prosperity. To see silver and bank-notes accumulated, increase of honor and fortune. You will enjoy the highest respect of all classes.
克林顿編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- The Worthingdon bank gang, cried the inspector. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- Then they stood on the bank shivering, and so chagrined and so grieved, that they merited holiest compassion. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- This bank was more liberal than any other had ever been, both in granting cash-accounts, and in discounting bills of exchange. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The swans had gone out on to the opposite bank, the reeds smelled sweet, a faint breeze touched the skin. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- When the notes were due, a messenger came around from the bank with the note and a protest pinned to it for $1. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Payment stopped at the Bank? 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- It was twenty minutes to five when we drew up before the bank in Lombard Street. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- The Memphis and Charleston Railroad strikes the Tennessee at Eastport, Mississippi, and follows close to the banks of the river up to the shoals. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- These ovens were always built on the banks of a stream, a big spring, or pool of water. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- During the night, General Banks fell back to Pleasant Hill, where another battle was fought on the 9th, and the enemy repulsed with great loss. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Its banks were neither formal nor falsely adorned. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- Having received this order I went to New Orleans to confer with Banks about the proposed movement. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- The river was higher than its natural banks from December, 1862, to the following April. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Sherman had written a letter to Banks, proposing a co-operative movement with him against Shreveport, subject to my approval. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- For many precious generations the new-lit fires of the human intelligence were to be seriously banked down by this by-product. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- They banked it up, and laid green turf over it. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- He thought she would be sitting in a sofa-corner near the fire, with azaleas banked behind her on a table. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- When not required to blaze it was probably banked down with ashes. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- I took off the cloth, got out the balls, picked out a cue for Mr. Edison, and when we banked for the first shot I won and started the game. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Of course I was very sorry, said Edison, in speaking of this interview later, for I had banked on that machine bringing me in money. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- The great and general utility of the banking trade, when prudently managed, has been fully explained in the second book of this Inquiry. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- But the revenue of idle people, considered as a class or order, cannot, in the smallest degree, be increased by those operations of banking. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Thus we say that a man's interest is politics, or journalism, or philanthropy, or archaeology, or collecting Japanese prints, or banking. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Mr. Lorry was expected back presently from the Banking House. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior partner in the second largest private banking concern in the City of London. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- She said that her father had spoken of hiring a lodging for a short term, in that Quarter, near the Banking-house. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- The young couple had a house near Berkeley Square and a small villa at Roehampton, among the banking colony there. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
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