Scot
[skɒt] or [skɑt]
解釋/意思:
(n.) A name for a horse.
(n.) A native or inhabitant of Scotland; a Scotsman, or Scotchman.
(n.) A portion of money assessed or paid; a tax or contribution; a mulct; a fine; a shot.
校對:托妮
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Tax, contribution, reckoning.
海丝特編輯
解釋/意思:
n. a native of Scotland: one of the Scoti or Scots a Celtic race who migrated from Ireland—the original Scotia—before the end of the 5th century.—n. Scō′tia Scotland.—Scots Greys a famous regiment of dragoons established in 1683; Scots Guards the Scottish force which served the kings of France from 1418 down to the battle of Minden (1759) nominally retained however down to 1830: a well-known regiment of Guards in the British army formerly Scots Fusiliers.—Pound Scots 1s. 8d.
n. a payment esp. a customary tax—also Shot.—adj. Scot′-free free from scot or payment: untaxed: unhurt safe.—Scot and lot an old legal phrase embracing all parochial assessments for the poor the church lighting cleansing and watching.
恩里克錄入
例句/造句/用法:
- She paid scot and she paid lot when she had money to pay; she worked when she could, and she starved when she must. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Of Dolly's journey to Wales with Mr. Scot. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- It was seldom indeed that we escaped, to use an old-fashioned phrase, scot free. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- You are not to pocket other people's pounds, shillings, and pence and escape scot-free. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- It is that which enables me to speak French so well: a gude Scots tongue always succeeds well at the French. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Charles Morrison in 1753, in the _Scots Magazine_, proposed a telegraph system of insulated wires with a corresponding number of characters to be signalled between two stations. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
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