Fee
[fiː] or [fi]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) an interest in land capable of being inherited.
(noun.) a fixed charge for a privilege or for professional services.
吉米編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) property; possession; tenure.
(n.) Reward or compensation for services rendered or to be rendered; especially, payment for professional services, of optional amount, or fixed by custom or laws; charge; pay; perquisite; as, the fees of lawyers and physicians; the fees of office; clerk's fees; sheriff's fees; marriage fees, etc.
(n.) A right to the use of a superior's land, as a stipend for services to be performed; also, the land so held; a fief.
(n.) An estate of inheritance supposed to be held either mediately or immediately from the sovereign, and absolutely vested in the owner.
(n.) An estate of inheritance belonging to the owner, and transmissible to his heirs, absolutely and simply, without condition attached to the tenure.
(v. t.) To reward for services performed, or to be performed; to recompense; to hire or keep in hire; hence, to bribe.
弗恩手打
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Charge (for professional service), compensation, pay.[2]. Feud, fief.
v. a. Pay, reward, recompense, give a fee to.
伊恩校對
解釋/意思:
n. price paid for services as to a lawyer or physician: recompense wages: the sum exacted for any special privilege: a grant of land for feudal service: an unconditional inheritance—Fee′-sim′ple possession: ownership.—v.t. to pay a fee to: to hire:—pr.p. fee′ing; pa.p. feed.—ns. Fee′-grief (Shak.) a private grief; Fee′ing-mar′ket (Scot.) a fair or market at which farm-servants are hired for the year or half-year following; Fee′-tail an entailed estate which on failure of heirs reverts to the donor.—Base fee a qualified fee a freehold estate of inheritance to which a qualification is annexed; Conditional fee a fee granted on condition or limited to particular heirs: the estate of a mortgagee of land possession of which is conditional on payment; Great fee the holding of a tenant of the Crown.
黛拉校對
例句/造句/用法:
- I shall then have done what I undertook to do--and I'll take my fee. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Who could be interested in the fate of a murderer, but the hangman who would gain his fee? 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- The fee or honorary, which the scholar pays to the master, naturally constitutes a revenue of this kind. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Many refused to pay a fee, and voted him _ignorantus, ignoranta, ignorantum! 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- My little servant, after helping me to clean my house, was gone, well satisfied with the fee of a penny for her aid. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- I have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what have I gained? 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- The Steward's fee is limited to three Guineas. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Certainly, certainly, said Marks, with a conciliatory tone; it's only a retaining fee, you see,--he! 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- I don't care about his Xisuthrus and Fee-fo-fum and the rest; but then he doesn't care about my fishing-tackle. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Porochial officers are not so well paid that they can afford to refuse any little extra fee, when it comes to them in a civil and proper manner. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- My mistress had her cheque-book on the table when we entered the room--no doubt to pay the Sergeant his fee. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- She talked about great people as if she had the fee-simple of May Fair, and when the Court went into mourning, she always wore black. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Look here; not an opinion given yet, on any one of these cases; and an expedition fee paid with all of 'em. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- The first is, to gain over my adversary's lawyer with a double fee, who will then betray his client by insinuating that he hath justice on his side. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- But the sum he exacted as a fee for my apprenticeship displeased my father, and I was taken home again. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- The post-boys wondered at the fees he flung amongst them. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Now, if I had stayed at Badger's I should have been obliged to spend twelve pounds at a blow for some heart-breaking lecture-fees. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Nor would you say that medicine is the art of receiving pay because a man takes fees when he is engaged in healing? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- The fees annually paid to lawyers and attorneys, amount, in every court, to a much greater sum than the salaries of the judges. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- He had always doubled, and sometimes quadrupled, his fees. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- How extravagant soever the fees of counsellors at law may sometimes appear, their real retribution is never equal to this. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- You haven't made me out that little list of the fees that I'm in your debt, have you? 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up with these requirements. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- The fees of court seem originally to have been the principal support of the different courts of justice in England. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- They stopped in a side room while Perker paid the court fees; and here, Mr. Pickwick was joined by his friends. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Of course I ordered an investigation, and found that the patent solicitor had drawn from the company the fees for filing all these applications, but had never filed them. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- In Athens fees were paid to citizens even for attending the general assembly. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Instead of being paid a salary or fees, he is allowed to make a profit. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Both get very comfortable fees, and altogether they make a mighty snug little party. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- The reward of the schoolmaster, in most cases, depends principally, in some cases almost entirely, upon the fees or honoraries of his scholars. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
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