Gain
[geɪn] or [ɡen]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the amount by which the revenue of a business exceeds its cost of operating.
(verb.) increase (one's body weight); 'She gained 20 pounds when she stopped exercising'.
(verb.) increase or develop; 'the peace movement gained momentum'; 'the car gathers speed'.
(verb.) obtain advantages, such as points, etc.; 'The home team was gaining ground'; 'After defeating the Knicks, the Blazers pulled ahead of the Lakers in the battle for the number-one playoff berth in the Western Conference'.
(verb.) earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages; 'How much do you make a month in your new job?'; 'She earns a lot in her new job'; 'this merger brought in lots of money'; 'He clears $5,000 each month'.
阿加莎手打--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A square or beveled notch cut out of a girder, binding joist, or other timber which supports a floor beam, so as to receive the end of the floor beam.
(a.) Convenient; suitable; direct; near; handy; dexterous; easy; profitable; cheap; respectable.
(v. t.) That which is gained, obtained, or acquired, as increase, profit, advantage, or benefit; -- opposed to loss.
(v. t.) The obtaining or amassing of profit or valuable possessions; acquisition; accumulation.
(n.) To get, as profit or advantage; to obtain or acquire by effort or labor; as, to gain a good living.
(n.) To come off winner or victor in; to be successful in; to obtain by competition; as, to gain a battle; to gain a case at law; to gain a prize.
(n.) To draw into any interest or party; to win to one's side; to conciliate.
(n.) To reach; to attain to; to arrive at; as, to gain the top of a mountain; to gain a good harbor.
(n.) To get, incur, or receive, as loss, harm, or damage.
(v. i.) To have or receive advantage or profit; to acquire gain; to grow rich; to advance in interest, health, or happiness; to make progress; as, the sick man gains daily.
編輯:帕特里克
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Profit, advantage, benefit, emolument, lucre.
v. a. [1]. Get, (by effort), acquire, obtain, procure, achieve, secure, carry, win, earn, get possession of.[2]. Conciliate, persuade, enlist, get the good will of, prevail upon, bring over, win over, gain over.[3]. Reach, attain, arrive at.
克林顿編輯
同義詞及反義詞：
[See GAIN]
SYN:Acquire, get, win, procure, obtain, profit, benefit, earn, attain, realize,achieve, reap, reach
ANT:Lose, forfeit, suffer
埃斯特拉編輯
解釋/意思:
adj. (prov.) near straight.
v.t. to obtain by effort: to earn: to be successful in: to draw to one's own party bribe: to reach: to make advance: (N. T.) to escape.—n. that which is gained: profit.—adj. Gain′able.—n. Gain′er.—adj. Gain′ful.—adv. Gain′fully.—n. Gain′fulness.—n.pl. Gain′ings.—adj. Gain′less.—n. Gain′lessness.—Gain ground (see Ground); Gain upon to overtake by degrees.
手打:托德
例句/造句/用法:
- But her repetition of it would gain time--time for Frederick. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- Then the wise and good will not desire to gain more than his like, but more than his unlike and opposite? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- I try, but every day I lose a little, and feel more sure that I shall never gain it back. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- The clocks thus controlled ought to be so regulated that if left to themselves they would always gain a little, but not more than a few minutes per day. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Only by starting with crude material and subjecting it to purposeful handling will he gain the intelligence embodied in finished material. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- He is apt to denominate, however, his whole gain, profit, and thus confounds rent with profit, at least in common language. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- I attempted to gain time--nay, I did worse. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- This victory gained, Rokesmith made haste to profit by it, for he saw how woefully time had been lost. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- My first most vivid and broad impression of the identity of things seems to me to have been gained on a memorable raw afternoon towards evening. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- As the golden swim of light overhead died out, the moon gained brightness, and seemed to begin to smile forth her ascendancy. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- And it gained its point after all, for I saw it through the window within a few minutes, being nursed by little Jane. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- I gained the top of the stairs and ran along the passage. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Certainly, sir, said Baker, who had risen and tucked his newly gained property under his arm. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- Three brigades held the hill already gained. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- It is well watered, and its affluent vegetation gains effect by contrast with the barren hills that tower on either side. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- His whole gains, however, are commonly called profit, and wages are, in this case, too, confounded with profit. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- That is what happens when you telephone, but when you realize it the mystery gains rather than decreases. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Hence he was not ready to frame excuses for this deliberate pursuit of small gains. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- In 1847, too, Russia began her tremendous march eastward into Central Asia, just as France was solidifying her first gains on the littoral of northern Africa. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- I've no doubt his visit to England was paid for out of his ill-gotten gains. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- When the seeds in our fruits become atrophied, the fruit itself gains largely in size and quality. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- He had not loved her without gaining that instinctive knowledge of what capabilities were in her. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- No one could remember it without gaining faith in the mystery, without the soul's warming with new, deep life-truSt. And Gerald! 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- What thinkst thou of gaining fair lands and livings, by wedding a Saxon, after the fashion of the followers of the Conqueror? 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- The commercial motorcycle is said to be gaining widespread favor, and therein lies its greatest future. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Will not this be worth gaining? 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- It is not a question of gaining a social advantage by a s mattering of foreign languages. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- I asked him a few questions--but not with a view of gaining any particular information--all of which he answered, and I rode off. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
錄入:朱莉