Reservation
[rezə'veɪʃ(ə)n] or [,rɛzɚ'veʃən]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the act of keeping back or setting aside for some future occasion.
(noun.) something reserved in advance (as a hotel accommodation or a seat on a plane etc.).
(noun.) a statement that limits or restricts some claim; 'he recommended her without any reservations'.
(noun.) the written record or promise of an arrangement by which accommodations are secured in advance.
(noun.) a district that is reserved for particular purpose.
校對:路易斯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The act of reserving, or keeping back; concealment, or withholding from disclosure; reserve.
(n.) Something withheld, either not expressed or disclosed, or not given up or brought forward.
(n.) A tract of the public land reserved for some special use, as for schools, for the use of Indians, etc.
(n.) The state of being reserved, or kept in store.
(n.) A clause in an instrument by which some new thing is reserved out of the thing granted, and not in esse before.
(n.) A proviso.
(n.) The portion of the sacramental elements reserved for purposes of devotion and for the communion of the absent and sick.
(n.) A term of canon law, which signifies that the pope reserves to himself appointment to certain benefices.
手打:特伦斯
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Concealment, suppression.[2]. Reserve, something reserved.[3]. Salvo, proviso.
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例句/造句/用法:
- With one reservation on my part. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- You will understand directly why I speak with that reservation. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- After the breaking out of the war there was a regiment of volunteer soldiers quartered at Fort Gratiot, the reservation extending to the boundary line of our house. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The ten acres of the reservation offered an excellent opportunity for truck-farming, and the versatile head of the family could not avoid trying his luck in this branch of work. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- I have now recalled all that I think it needful to recall here, of this term of absence--with one reservation. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Nor can we tell much more of the swift spread of Spanish adventurers over the rest of America, outside the Portuguese reservation of Brazil. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Granted that a benefactor's wishes may constitute a claim; there must always be a reservation as to the quality of those wishes. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Do I look as if I suppressed anything, meant anything but what I said, had any reservation at all, no matter what? 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- He also insisted upon a future life, the fear of hell for the negligent and evil, and the reservation of paradise for the believer in the One God. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Stopping behind Shirley's chair, he bent over her, and said, in a low, emphatic voice, I promise all you ask--without comment, without reservation. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- I search my breast, and I commit its secrets, if I know them, without any reservation to this paper. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Again and again he denounced private riches and the reservation of any private life. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- I wish to avoid reservation or concealment, and I fully acknowledge that. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- I had scarcely thought it a reservation a few hours ago, but now that it was gone I felt as if I understood its nature better. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- I could not live and have one reservation, knowing what I know now. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- By-and-by she said: 'Will you tell me what you refer to about reservations in his manner of speaking of me? 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- The Indians of the United States are now largely gathered into reservations and their former dress, arms and habits are being gradually changed for those of the whites. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- He was dragging out all the little private reservations they had made from social service into the light of a universal religious life. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Mental reservations and artful mysteries grew out of these things. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- It had reservations in it which she did not understand; but then she was weak, dizzy, and tired. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- Service, however (with a few limited reservations, genteel but not profitable), they may not do, being of the Dedlock dignity. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- But he always speaks of you with regard and esteem, though now I understand certain reservations in his manner. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- He held himself to be, with some private scholarly reservations, a believing Christian, as to estimates of the present and hopes of the future. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- This was my opinion, and with certain minor reservations, Miss Halcombe's opinion also. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
校對:罗尼