Remit
[rɪ'mɪt] or ['rimɪt]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the topic that a person, committee, or piece of research is expected to deal with or has authority to deal with; 'they set up a group with a remit to suggest ways for strengthening family life'.
(verb.) diminish or abate; 'The pain finally remitted'.
(verb.) forgive; 'God will remit their sins'.
(verb.) refer (a matter or legal case) to another committee or authority or court for decision.
(verb.) release from (claims, debts, or taxes); 'The taxes were remitted'.
(verb.) send (money) in payment; 'remit $25'.
艾达整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To send back; to give up; to surrender; to resign.
(v. t.) To restore.
(v. t.) To transmit or send, esp. to a distance, as money in payment of a demand, account, draft, etc.; as, he remitted the amount by mail.
(v. t.) To send off or away; hence: (a) To refer or direct (one) for information, guidance, help, etc. "Remitting them . . . to the works of Galen." Sir T. Elyot. (b) To submit, refer, or leave (something) for judgment or decision.
(v. t.) To relax in intensity; to make less violent; to abate.
(v. t.) To forgive; to pardon; to remove.
(v. t.) To refrain from exacting or enforcing; as, to remit the performance of an obligation.
(v. i.) To abate in force or in violence; to grow less intense; to become moderated; to abate; to relax; as, a fever remits; the severity of the weather remits.
(v. i.) To send money, as in payment.
整理:奥拉
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. [1]. Return, restore, replace, send back.[2]. Relax, diminish, abate, bate.[3]. Forgive, pardon, absolve, excuse, overlook, pass over.[4]. Resign, surrender, give up, deliver up.[5]. Transmit, forward, send.
v. n. Slacken, abate, lessen, diminish, decrease, grow less.
編輯:蒂姆
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Relax, pardon, absolve, forego, discontinue, surrender, forgive, resign
ANT:Increase, intensity, enforce, exact
克洛伊校對
解釋/意思:
v.t. to relax: to pardon: to resign: to restore: to transmit as money &c.: to put again in custody: to transfer from one tribunal to another: to refer for information.—v.i. to abate in force or violence:—pr.p. remit′ting; pa.t. and pa.p. remit′ted.—n. (law) a communication from a superior court to one subordinate.—ns. Remit′ment act of remitting; Remit′tal a remitting: surrender; Remit′tance that which is remitted: the sending of money &c. to a distance: also the sum or thing sent; Remittēē′ the person to whom a remittance is sent.—adj. Remit′tent increasing and remitting or abating alternately as a disease.—ns. Remit′ter one who makes a remittance; Remit′tor (law) a remitting to a former right or title—(obs.) Remit′ter.
塞西尔手打
例句/造句/用法:
- It might not, however, be necessary to remit any part of the American revenue in gold and silver. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- At length he had got so much of it that I was distressed to think what I should do in case of being called on to remit it. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- His little Petersham-hat seemed to have been _remit de nouveau_, for the third time, at leaSt. Lord! 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- Horace Walpole, writing in 1760, states: I passed through Sheffield, a business town in a charming situation, with 22,000 inhabitants, and they remit £11,000 a week to London. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- He accepted, and promised to remit me what he owed me out of the first money he should receive; but I never heard of him after. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Their rents are remitted to them in sugar and rum, the produce of their estates. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- He remitted, however, to his brother punctually, and wrote to his little boy regularly every mail. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- So the fines were remitted, and Mr. Jinks found a couple of bail in no time. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Mr. Dick is wild with joy, and my aunt remits me a guinea by the next post. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
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