Bankrupt
['bæŋkrʌpt]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) someone who has insufficient assets to cover their debts.
(verb.) reduce to bankruptcy; 'My daughter's fancy wedding is going to break me!'; 'The slump in the financial markets smashed him'.
(adj.) financially ruined; 'a bankrupt company'; 'the company went belly-up' .
艾伯纳錄入--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A trader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors.
(n.) A trader who becomes unable to pay his debts; an insolvent trader; popularly, any person who is unable to pay his debts; an insolvent person.
(n.) A person who, in accordance with the terms of a law relating to bankruptcy, has been judicially declared to be unable to meet his liabilities.
(a.) Being a bankrupt or in a condition of bankruptcy; unable to pay, or legally discharged from paying, one's debts; as, a bankrupt merchant.
(a.) Depleted of money; not having the means of meeting pecuniary liabilities; as, a bankrupt treasury.
(a.) Relating to bankrupts and bankruptcy.
(a.) Destitute of, or wholly wanting (something once possessed, or something one should possess).
(v. t.) To make bankrupt; to bring financial ruin upon; to impoverish.
詹森錄入
同義詞及近義詞：
a. Insolvent.
n. Insolvent debtor.
巴顿整理
解釋/意思:
n. one who breaks or fails in business; an insolvent person.—adj. insolvent: destitute (with of).—n. Bank′ruptcy the state of being or act of becoming bankrupt.
卡拉校對
娱乐性解釋/意思：
Denotes partial collapse in business, and weakening of the brain faculties. A warning to leave speculations alone.
哈伦校對
例句/造句/用法:
- Nature grows old, and shakes in her decaying limbs,--creation has become bankrupt! 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- If none, we are bankrupt here, and must go abroad, I suppose. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- If, when the bill becomes due, the acceptor does not pay it as soon as it is presented, he becomes from that moment a bankrupt. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- What a bankrupt he'd make, Sir,' observed Mr. Lowten, who was standing near. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- If I did as you wish me to do, I should be bankrupt in a month; and would my bankruptcy put bread into your hungry children's mouths? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- If the collector himself should become bankrupt, the parish which elects him must answer for his conduct to the receiver-general of the election. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- If any true friend and well-wisher could make you a bankrupt, you would be a Duck; but as a man of property you are a Demon! 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- But the inventor hung on to his faith in this machine, although no one appeared to buy it, and the expense he had gone to in making it had practically bankrupted him. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- This expenditure bankrupted them, as the machines were not at once remunerative, and parliament refused to grant them pecuniary assistance. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- O stockbrokers--bankrupts--used to it, you know, Rawdon replied, cutting a fly off the horse's ear. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- I shouldn't like to think of poor Regina's spending the rest of her life in some shabby foreign watering-place for bankrupts. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- The uncertainty of recovering his money makes the lender exact the same usurious interest which is usually required from bankrupts. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Though all of them may be very likely to become bankrupts, it is a chance if they all become so in so short a time. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Oh, wery well, Sir,' replied Sam, 'we shan't be bankrupts, and we shan't make our fort'ns. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
哈利整理