Dispense
[dɪ'spens] or [dɪ'spɛns]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) grant a dispensation; grant an exemption; 'I was dispensed from this terrible task'.
巴纳德編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To deal out in portions; to distribute; to give; as, the steward dispenses provisions according directions; Nature dispenses her bounties; to dispense medicines.
(v. t.) To apply, as laws to particular cases; to administer; to execute; to manage; to direct.
(v. t.) To pay for; to atone for.
(v. t.) To exempt; to excuse; to absolve; -- with from.
(v. i.) To compensate; to make up; to make amends.
(v. i.) To give dispensation.
(v. t.) Dispensation; exemption.
(n.) Expense; profusion; outlay.
手打:奥齐
同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. [1]. Distribute, apportion, allot, deal out.[2]. Administer, apply, execute, carry out.
哈迪編輯
解釋/意思:
v.t. to deal out in portions: to distribute: to administer: (Spens.) to pay for.—n. expense: profession: abundance.—adj. Dispensed′.—n. Dispens′er.—Dispense with to permit the want of: to do without.
手打:莫尔
例句/造句/用法:
- It was impossible for Monseigneur to dispense with one of these attendants on the chocolate and hold his high place under the admiring Heavens. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- I was so much better that I thought I could dispense with one. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- He hoped that with intelligent assistance I should meet with little to discourage me, and should soon be able to dispense with any aid but his. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- He had heard from my guardian of my having been called away on some uncommon business and said so to dispense with any explanation. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- One of the facts quickly rumored was that Lydgate did not dispense drugs. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- And will you consent to dispense with a great many conventional forms and phrases, without thinking that the omission arises from insolence? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- In all ordinary telegraph lines, advantage is taken of this fact to utilize the earth as a conductor and to dispense with one wire. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- I expressed myself much obliged to him, but did not think it necessary to add that I readily dispensed with this attention. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- I always showed him, for one, that I could have dispensed with his company with the greatest pleasure. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- But he, with a perfect stoicism, did without any before and after, dispensed with all illusion. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- The shuttle was thus dispensed with, and an entirely new departure was made in the art. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- But any answer was dispensed with by the entrance of three gentlemen, with whom there were greetings more or less cordial. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Nor was it expected that human hands could be dispensed with in the cutting out of garments. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- The rest of this eloquent epistle may be dispensed with. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- In 1882, however, a machine for doing this was invented, thereby dispensing with the old hand method and cheapening the operation. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- These and other kindred characteristics are proper to democracy, which is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing equality to equals and unequals alike. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- It foresees the facility of borrowing, and therefore dispenses itself from the duty of saving. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Among the recent devices is one which dispenses with the expensive and skilful work by hand of drawing the warp threads into the eyes of the heddles and through the reed of the loom. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Indeed--indeed--when you were a mere boy I used to see both: far more then than now--for now you are strong, and strength dispenses with subtlety. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- This dispenses with auxiliary refrigerants, and causes the expanding gases to supply the cold required for their own liquefaction by an entirely mechanical process. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
手打:内蒂