Gift
[gɪft] or [ɡɪft]
解释:
(v. t.) Anything given; anything voluntarily transferred by one person to another without compensation; a present; an offering.
(v. t.) The act, right, or power of giving or bestowing; as, the office is in the gift of the President.
(v. t.) A bribe; anything given to corrupt.
(v. t.) Some quality or endowment given to man by God; a preeminent and special talent or aptitude; power; faculty; as, the gift of wit; a gift for speaking.
(v. t.) A voluntary transfer of real or personal property, without any consideration. It can be perfected only by deed, or in case of personal property, by an actual delivery of possession.
(v. t.) To endow with some power or faculty.
伊妮德编辑
同义词及近义词：
n. [1]. Donation, present, benefaction, boon, gratuity, grant, offering, contribution, subscription, donative, largess, SUBSIDY, allowance, endowment, bounty, bequest, legacy, dower, demise, dotation, DOUCEUR.[2]. Talent, power, faculty, capability, capacity, ability, endowment, genius, FORTE, turn.
伊丽莎白手打
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Donation, present, grant, boon, gratuity, benefaction, endowment, talent,faculty, alms, douceur
ANT:Reservation, refusal, wages, purchase, earnings, compensation, remuneration,inanity, stupidity, forfeit, penalty, fine, surrender
整理:昆廷
解释:
n. a thing given: a bribe: a quality bestowed by nature: the act of giving.—v.t. to endow with any power or faculty.—adj. Gift′ed endowed by nature: intellectual.—ns. Gift′-horse a horse given as a gift; Gift′ling a little gift.—Look a gift horse in the mouth to criticise a gift.
加勒特录入
娱乐性解释：
To dream that you receive gifts from any one, denotes that you will not be behind in your payments, and be unusually fortunate in speculations or love matters. To send a gift, signifies displeasure will be shown you, and ill luck will surround your efforts. For a young woman to dream that her lover sends her rich and beautiful gifts, denotes that she will make a wealthy and congenial marriage.
手打:莫尔
例句:
- But liberty had been a useless gift to me had I not, as I awakened to reason, at the same time awakened to revenge. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
- Nor has he--except for their one great gift to him. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- This invention is practically a gift to the workingmen of the world and their families. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- During the Tudor and Stuart reigns a fashionable gift at christenings was the apostle, so called because at the end of the handle was the figure of an apostle. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- Gramercy for the gift, bold yeoman, said the Knight; and better help than thine and thy rangers would I never seek, were it at my utmost need. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- He had a penny too--a gift of Sowerberry's after some funeral in which he had acquitted himself more than ordinarily well--in his pocket. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- To you, therefore, the gift is of little value,--and to me, what I part with is of much less. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- And without doubt the lady so crushed with gifts would find them irresistible. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- Under such circumstances a judicious man changes the topic and enters on ground where his own gifts may be more useful. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- Neither must we sing to them of 'Gifts persuading gods, and persuading reverend kings. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- And it was from the gifts bestowed upon him towards the execution of this benevolent purpose, that he recruited his finances, as just now observed. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- They also bear abundant evidence of the compatibility of these two widely divergent gifts existing, even to a high degree, in the same person. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- One of Lydgate's gifts was a voice habitually deep and sonorous, yet capable of becoming very low and gentle at the right moment. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- These brooches and these rings, of a beauty so gracious and celestial, were what one called, with the permission of Monsieur, nuptial gifts. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- I mean to say that there do exist natures gifted with those opposite qualities. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- The contest,' said Pott, 'shall be prolonged so long as I have health and strength, and that portion of talent with which I am gifted. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- Who was better framed than this highly-gifted youth to love and be beloved, and to reap unalienable joy from an unblamed passion? 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- The directness and endurance of the influence of this trained veteran on his gifted son a hundred fine incidents attest. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- But observation shows that children are gifted with an equipment of the first order for social intercourse. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- And may we not say, Adeimantus, that the most gifted minds, when they are ill-educated, become pre-eminently bad? 柏拉图. 理想国.
- America had also received the taint; and, were it yellow fever or plague, the epidemic was gifted with a virulence before unfelt. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
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