Summons
['sʌm(ə)nz] or ['sʌmənz]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a writ issued by authority of law; usually compels the defendant's attendance in a civil suit; failure to appear results in a default judgment against the defendant.
(noun.) an order to appear in person at a given place and time.
手打:梅尔瓦--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v.) The act of summoning; a call by authority, or by the command of a superior, to appear at a place named, or to attend to some duty.
(v.) A warning or citation to appear in court; a written notification signed by the proper officer, to be served on a person, warning him to appear in court at a day specified, to answer to the plaintiff, testify as a witness, or the like.
(v.) A demand to surrender.
(v. t.) To summon.
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同義詞及近義詞:
n. Citation, official call or notice.
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例句/造句/用法:
- The pleasanter face which had replaced his, on the occasion of my last visit, answered to our summons, and went before us to the drawing-room. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- The prayer-bell rang; I obeyed its summons. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- The ordinary Roman citizen, like the ordinary Boer, was a farmer; at the summons of his country he went on commando. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The summons was almost magical. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- To my surprise, it was a woman who answered the summons, a large, coarse-faced, elderly woman, in an apron. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- Reader, it was on Monday night--near midnight--that I too had received the mysterious summons: those were the very words by which I replied to it. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- No, I sent for him: but you know, you affirmed that I might do this with safety, since you were sure he would not obey my summons. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
編輯:塞格雷