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mete

英 [miːt] 美[mit]
  • vt. 给予;分配;测量
  • n. 边界;测量
  • n. (Mete)人名;(意、土、乍、中非)梅特

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词态变化


第三人称单数: metes;过去式: meted;过去分词: meted;现在分词: meting;

中文词源


mete 分配,测量,给予惩罚

来自古英语metan,测量,分配,估计,来自PIE*med,测量,词源同measure,medical.引申词义合理的惩罚,给予惩罚。

英文词源


mete
mete: see meet
mete (v.)
"to allot," Old English metan "to measure, mete out; compare, estimate" (class V strong verb; past tense mæt, past participle meten), from Proto-Germanic *metan (cognates: Old Saxon metan, Old Frisian, Old Norse meta, Dutch meten, Old High German mezzan, German messen, Gothic mitan "to measure"), from PIE *med- "to take appropriate measures" (see medical). Used now only with out. Related: Meted; meting.
mete (n.)
"boundary," now only in phrase metes and bounds, late 15c., from Old French mete "limit, bounds, frontier," from Latin meta "goal, boundary, post, pillar."

双语例句


1. Schools should not mete out physical punishment to children.
学校不应该体罚学生.

来自《简明英汉词典》

2. Duly mete out rewards and punishments.
有赏有罚.

来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

3. You did not know the measure you were going to mete me.
因为您不知道您要用什么量器量给我.

来自辞典例句

4. He saddled Mutz, promising to mete out cruel punishment to the thief.
他跨上马,保证要狠狠地治那个贼子.

来自辞典例句

5. I will estimate the size of the garden at 1000 square mete.
我估计这个花园的面积有1千平方米.

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