Confer
[kən'fɜː] or [kən'fɝ]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) have a conference in order to talk something over; 'We conferred about a plan of action'.
(verb.) present; 'The university conferred a degree on its most famous former student, who never graduated'; 'bestow an honor on someone'.
整理:桑娅--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To bring together for comparison; to compare.
(v. t.) To grant as a possession; to bestow.
(v. t.) To contribute; to conduce.
(v. i.) To have discourse; to consult; to compare views; to deliberate.
錄入:厄普顿
同義詞及近義詞：
v. n. Converse, discourse, parley, advise, talk, hold a conference, talk together.
v. a. [Appropriately used when the gift is from a person of superior rank to another of lower rank.] Bestow, give, grant, vouchsafe.
佛瑞德整理
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Compare, collate, discuss, deliberate, converse, consult, give, present
ANT:Dissociate, contrast, hazard, conjecture, withhold, withdraw
阿方索整理
解釋/意思:
v.t. to give or bestow: to compare (notes) collate—abbrev. cf.—v.i. to talk or consult together:—pr.p. confer′ring; pa.p. conferred′.—ns. Conferee′ one conferred with; Con′ference the act of conferring: an appointed meeting for instruction or discussion.—adjs. Conferen′tial; Confer′rable.—n. Confer′rer one who confers.
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例句/造句/用法:
- If I spoke, my speaking would confer advantage on no one. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- I was an untaught shepherd-boy, when Adrian deigned to confer on me his friendship. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- 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.
- My dear Watson, you would confer a great favor upon me by coming. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- I shall confer estates on both--which is not being troublesome, I trust? 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Then I shall release my birds, you know, and confer estates. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- But does he therefore confer no benefit when he works for nothing? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- His father had never conferred a favour or shewn a kindness more to his satisfaction. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- Certainly, if years of residence may establish a claim to so--ha--honourable a title, I may accept the--hum--conferred distinction. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- But as one invention has succeeded another people have grown wiser, and realized that each has conferred a benefit rather than taken away a right. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- The solitary woman felt an interest in the ambitious girl, and kindly conferred many favors of this sort both on Jo and the Professor. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- He was indeed an officer and a gentleman--a title conferred on many, but deserved by so few. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- She was not sure if she would go where permission was given so like a favour conferred. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- It looked an insignificant thing to have conferred upon the world of science and mechanics such a mighty extension of their dominions as it has. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Only application tests them, and only testing confers full meaning and a sense of their reality. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- The emperor also confers on him some public mark of his favour, and proclamation is made of his innocence through the whole city. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- Analytical Chemist goes to the door, confers angrily with unseen tapper, appears to become mollified by descrying reason in the tapping, and goes out. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Miss Stepney, when her first fright had subsided, began to feel the superiority that greater breadth of mind confers. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- What is it that confers the noblest delight? 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- For it builds up a social interest and confers the intelligence needed to make that interest effective in practice. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Chemistry especially has always had irresistible attractions for me from the enormous, the illimitable power which the knowledge of it confers. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- In one respect it was better, as it gave him the means of conferring a kindness where he wished to oblige. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- For my own part, when I am employed in serving others, I do not look upon myself as conferring favours, but as paying debts. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- How lightly I valued the obligation I was conferring on my friend Mr. Charles! 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
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