Penalty
['pen(ə)ltɪ] or ['pɛnəlti]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) (games) a handicap or disadvantage that is imposed on a competitor (or a team) for an infraction of the rules of the game.
(noun.) the disadvantage or painful consequences of an action or condition; 'neglected his health and paid the penalty'.
(noun.) a payment required for not fulfilling a contract.
贝丽尔整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) Penal retribution; punishment for crime or offense; the suffering in person or property which is annexed by law or judicial decision to the commission of a crime, offense, or trespass.
(n.) The suffering, or the sum to be forfeited, to which a person subjects himself by covenant or agreement, in case of nonfulfillment of stipulations; forfeiture; fine.
(n.) A handicap.
加德纳整理
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Punishment, penal retribution.[2]. Forfeiture, fine.
埃维塔校對
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Pain, punishment, forfeiture, price, fare, retribution, amercement
ANT:Guerdon, wages, reward, premium, prize, douceur, sop, bribe, honorarium,compensation, remuneration
哈里森校對
解釋/意思:
n. punishment: suffering in person or property for wrong-doing or for breach of a law: a fine or loss which a person agrees to pay or bear in case of his non-fulfilment of some undertaking: a fine.—Under penalty of so as to suffer or (after a negative) without suffering the punishment of.
整理:卢修斯
娱乐性解釋/意思：
To dream that you have penalties imposed upon you, foretells that you will have duties that will rile you and find you rebellious. To pay a penalty, denotes sickness and financial loss. To escape the payment, you will be victor in some contest.
吉恩編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- Therefore, those who had died at his hands must have seen him and paid the penalty with their lives. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- At one time I considered whether I should not declare myself guilty, and suffer the penalty of the law, less innocent than poor Justine had been. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- And if any person compounds with the hundred for less than this penalty, he is to be imprisoned for five years; and any other person may prosecute. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The course of action is not intrinsically satisfying; it is a mere means for avoiding some penalty, or for gaining some reward at its conclusion. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- The first two modes of payment are intelligible enough, but what the penalty is I do not understand, or how a penalty can be a payment. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- It is right that I should be chastened in some penalty. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- On the other hand, the majority of the populace unquestionably would demand that we pay the penalty of our sacrilege. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- If imported in ships of any other country, the penalty is forfeiture of ship and goods. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- You have achieved so much, Lady Dedlock, said my guardian, that you pay some little penalty, I dare say. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Besides the forfeiture of the goods, the exporter incurs the penalty of 3s. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- I am feeling the penalty at laSt. My nervous system is shattered; my nights are nights of horror. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- This penalty of being jiggered was a favorite supposititious case of his. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- I have paid the penalty. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Before the thirteenth century the penalty of death had been inflicted but rarely upon heretics and unbelievers. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The curse of Ate is on thee, they cry pitifully, nor will the goddess be satisfied until she has exacted her due penalty for neglect of the Olympians. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- Let his fortune be what it will, whether he is or is not able to pay those heavy penalties, the law means to ruin him completely. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- If mine exacts its pains and penalties all round, so must hers, I suppose. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- I was not allowed to call him uncle, under the severest penalties. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- I foresee, in spite of the penalties which it exacts from me, that I shall have to return to the opium for the hundredth time. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- My immediate comrade and I talked in an undertone about quarantine laws and their penalties, but we found nothing cheering in the subject. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Whereupon the emperor his father published an edict, commanding all his subjects, upon great penalties, to break the smaller end of their eggs. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- But the penalties of smuggling must arise in proportion to the temptation. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The educational equivalents of this doctrine in the uses made of pleasurable rewards and painful penalties are only too obvious. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- The prohibition, notwithstanding all the penalties which guard it, does not prevent the exportation of wool. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- In 1910 the American Banker estimated that there were 1,198 corporations with 8,110 subsidiaries liable to all the penalties of the Sherman Act. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Daniel Doyce faced his condition with its pains and penalties attached to it, and soberly worked on for the work's sake. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- These, said Er, were the penalties and retributions, and there were blessings as great. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- In statecraft the penalties and rewards are tremendous. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
整理:洛蒂