Compensation
[kɒmpen'seɪʃ(ə)n] or [,kɑmpɛn'seʃən]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) something (such as money) given or received as payment or reparation (as for a service or loss or injury).
(noun.) (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that conceals your undesirable shortcomings by exaggerating desirable behaviors.
彻姬塔編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The act or principle of compensating.
(n.) That which constitutes, or is regarded as, an equivalent; that which makes good the lack or variation of something else; that which compensates for loss or privation; amends; remuneration; recompense.
(n.) The extinction of debts of which two persons are reciprocally debtors by the credits of which they are reciprocally creditors; the payment of a debt by a credit of equal amount; a set-off.
(n.) A recompense or reward for some loss or service.
(n.) An equivalent stipulated for in contracts for the sale of real estate, in which it is customary to provide that errors in description, etc., shall not avoid, but shall be the subject of compensation.
唐纳德錄入
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Recompense, remuneration, reward.[2]. Requital, satisfaction, indemnity, indemnification, reparation, amends.
安东尼編輯
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Remuneration, equivalent, wages, pay, allowance, restoration, restitution,satisfaction, atonement, expiation, indemnification, amercement, damages
ANT:Deprivation, injury, nonpayment, gratuity, donation, fraudulence, damage
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例句/造句/用法:
- The smoke, gases, and ashes left in the path of a raging forest fire are no compensation to us for the valuable timber destroyed. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- But what, said Mr. Jaggers, swinging his purse,--what if it was in my instructions to make you a present, as compensation? 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- Here it should be said that the Wrights are as excellent business men as they are inventors, and intend to receive due compensation for their years of work. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- But, in compensation, there have been several joint-stock companies which have failed, and which he has omitted. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- A compensation of 5000_l. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- It involved the principle of inductive compensation. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- I am quite sure that it is the only compensation you have left it in your power to make. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- But if you think as Money can make compensation to me for the loss of the little child--what come to the forge--and ever the best of friends! 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- The employer must have this compensation, otherwise he cannot, consistently with his own interest, continue the employment. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- It's his only compensation for the outward restraints he puts upon himself. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- When night fell he was then more at rest, for in sleep he found a certain amount of compensation for the woes of his waking hours. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- The belief in such compensation is a great opiate for present miseries. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- So this was what he was asking about; the compensation of irregular service. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- It is such unspeakable moral compensation to Wegg, to be overcome by the consideration that Mr Rokesmith has an underhanded mind! 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- What do you--that is, what compensation-- began Jo, not exactly knowing how to express herself. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- She finds compensations, no doubt--I know she borrows money of Gus--but then I'd PAY her to keep him in a good humour, so I can't complain, after all. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
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