Qualify
['kwɒlɪfaɪ] or [ˈkwɑləˌfaɪ]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) make more specific; 'qualify these remarks'.
(verb.) make fit or prepared; 'Your education qualifies you for this job'.
(verb.) describe or portray the character or the qualities or peculiarities of; 'You can characterize his behavior as that of an egotist'; 'This poem can be characterized as a lament for a dead lover'.
(verb.) pronounce fit or able; 'She was qualified to run the marathon'; 'They nurses were qualified to administer the injections'.
(verb.) prove capable or fit; meet requirements.
丹尼整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To make such as is required; to give added or requisite qualities to; to fit, as for a place, office, occupation, or character; to furnish with the knowledge, skill, or other accomplishment necessary for a purpose; to make capable, as of an employment or privilege; to supply with legal power or capacity.
(v. t.) To give individual quality to; to modulate; to vary; to regulate.
(v. t.) To reduce from a general, undefined, or comprehensive form, to particular or restricted form; to modify; to limit; to restrict; to restrain; as, to qualify a statement, claim, or proposition.
(v. t.) Hence, to soften; to abate; to diminish; to assuage; to reduce the strength of, as liquors.
(v. t.) To soothe; to cure; -- said of persons.
(v. i.) To be or become qualified; to be fit, as for an office or employment.
(v. i.) To obtain legal power or capacity by taking the oath, or complying with the forms required, on assuming an office.
校對:奥斯瓦德
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. [1]. Fit, adapt, capacitate, propose, empower, enable, make fit, make suitable, make capable.[2]. Modify, limit, restrict, restrain.[3]. Soften, abate, diminish, mitigate, ease, assuage, moderate, temper.
古斯塔夫校對
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Fit, prepare, adapt, capacitate, limit, restrict, enable, render_capable
ANT:Unfit, misprepare, misqualify, disqualify, incapacitate, free, absolve
狄伦編輯
解釋/意思:
v.t. to render capable or suitable: to furnish with legal power: to limit by modifications: to soften: to abate: to reduce the strength of: to vary: (Scots law) to prove confirm.—v.i. to take the necessary steps to fit one's self for a certain position.—adj. Qual′ifiable.—ns. Qualificā′tion that which qualifies: a quality that fits a person for a place &c.: (logic) the attaching of quality or the distinction of affirmative and negative to a term: abatement: (Shak.) pacification; Qual′ificātive that which qualifies modifies or restricts: a qualifying term or statement; Qual′ificātor (R.C.) one who prepares ecclesiastical causes for trial.—adj. Qual′ificātory.—p.adj. Qual′ified fitted: competent: modified: limited.—adv. Qual′ifiedly.—ns. Qual′ifiedness; Qual′ifier.—adj. Qual′ifying.—Property qualification the holding of a certain amount of property as a condition to the right of suffrage &c.
校對:韦恩
例句/造句/用法:
- I know none whose knowledge, sagacity, and impartiality qualify him so thoroughly for such a service as yours do you. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- No apprenticeship has ever been thought necessary to qualify for husbandry, the great trade of the country. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Pears that he can't qualify, neither. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- We'll say, strictly in confidence among ourselves, wearing; we won't qualify it,' the cherub stoutly admitted. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- You have no reason to fear me, Rebecca, said the Templar; or if I must so qualify my speech, you have at least NOW no reason to fear me. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- I should like to qualify it, if you have no objection. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- But he was far too shrewd and subtle not to qualify his apparent approval of the conditions he describes. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Perhaps, said Darcy, I should have judged better, had I sought an introduction; but I am ill-qualified to recommend myself to strangers. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- I incautiously gave a qualified assent to this. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Like himself they had failed to grasp the necessity of entrusting the work of settlement to more specially qualified men. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Or, perhaps she may not have resources enough in herself to be qualified for a country life. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- The native faculties of his mind qualified him to penetrate into every science: and his unremitted diligence left no field of knowledge unexplored. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- The threat is qualified. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- To have served an apprenticeship in the town, under a master properly qualified, is commonly the necessary requisite for obtaining this freedom. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- A gentleman,' Mrs Wilfer answered, qualifying the low expression, 'undoubtedly occupies our first floor. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Appears to be rather a cracked old cock,' thought Silas, qualifying his former good opinion, as the other ambled off. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- He was immediately qualifying himself to form an opinion, by giving her very proper attention, after the introduction had passed. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- All his widowed mother could spare had been spent in qualifying him for his profession. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Well, my dear, returned Caddy, I am indeed, for to tell you a grand secret, I am qualifying myself to give lessons. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- The wine Mrs. Boultby insisted on mingling with hot water, and qualifying with sugar and nutmeg. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
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