Privilege
['prɪvɪlɪdʒ] or ['prɪvlɪdʒ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a special advantage or immunity or benefit not enjoyed by all.
(noun.) (law) the right to refuse to divulge information obtained in a confidential relationship.
(verb.) bestow a privilege upon.
埃尔默編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A peculiar benefit, advantage, or favor; a right or immunity not enjoyed by others or by all; special enjoyment of a good, or exemption from an evil or burden; a prerogative; advantage; franchise.
(n.) See Call, Put, Spread, etc.
(v. t.) To grant some particular right or exemption to; to invest with a peculiar right or immunity; to authorize; as, to privilege representatives from arrest.
(v. t.) To bring or put into a condition of privilege or exemption from evil or danger; to exempt; to deliver.
整理:普雷斯利
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Prerogative, right, claim, advantage, immunity, franchise, liberty, favor.
手打:尤赖亚
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Prerogative, im-munity, franchise, right, liberty, advantage, claim, exemption
ANT:Disfranchisement, disqualification, exclusion, prohibition, inhibition
整理:梅纳德
解釋/意思:
n. an advantage to an individual: a right enjoyed only by a few: freedom from burdens borne by others: prerogative: a sacred and vital civil right: (Shak.) superiority.—v.t. to grant a privilege to: to exempt: to authorise license.—adj. Priv′ileged.—Breach of privilege any interference with or slight done to the rights or privileges of a legislative body; Question of privilege any question arising out of the rights of an assembly or of its members; Writ of privilege an order for the release of a person from custody.
編輯:露西尔
例句/造句/用法:
- If such is the case, and Mr. Micawber forfeits no privilege by entering on these duties, my anxiety is set at rest. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- He said he had entreated her to favour him by maintaining her privilege of fixing the time for the marriage at her own will and pleasure. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- He described this republic; shewed how it gave privilege to each individual in the state, to rise to consequence, and even to temporary sovereignty. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- For a time it was my privilege to work under him on an investigation of the Money Power. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- You think we live ON the rich, rather than with them: and so we do, in a sense--but it's a privilege we have to pay for! 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- An average size ocean liner pays about $5,000 for the privilege of sailing through this great ditch. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- But the beneficiaries of privilege, the Bourbon reactionaries, the short-sighted ultra-conservatives, turned down Turgot; and then found that instead of him they had obtained Robespierre. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Thou knowest best thine own privileges, said De Bracy. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- I had as many privileges as any boy in the village, and probably more than most of them. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- There are no privileges, no rebates, and no excuses in the Kingdom of Heaven. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Once clear of the grounds, the duties of hospitality (in Betteredge's code of morals) ceased, and the privileges of curiosity began. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- You'll get your privileges soon enough,' retorted the jailer, 'and pepper with 'em. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Such companies, whether regulated or joint-stock, sometimes have, and sometimes have not, exclusive privileges. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Those masters do not appear to have had either salaries or exclusive privileges of any kind. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The doors of Skuytercliff were rarely and grudgingly opened to visitors, and a chilly week-end was the most ever offered to the few thus privileged. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- Each watch had its own individuality as a separate creation, and only the privileged few were able to carry them. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Our modern idea, that any one in the state is a citizen, would have shocked the privileged democrats of Athens profoundly. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Those privileged to enter it shivered there, and spoke of it as handsome. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- The reader is privileged to remain, and try what he can make of the discourse. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- This is considered as a privileged place, and stands like the land of Goshen amid the plagues of Egypt. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- We are privileged to enter that front door, and to penetrate to the domestic sanctum. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
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