appropriate
a. 适当的 [经] 适当的, 拨出, 占用
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教材释义与例句
占用，拨出
to take something for yourself when you do not have the right to do this
适当的；恰当的；合适的
correct or suitable for a particular time, situation, or purpose
释义与例句
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1.
To take to oneself; to claim or use, especially as by an exclusive right.
独占
及物Let no man appropriate the use of a common benefit.
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2.
To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, especially in exclusion of all others; with to or for.
及物A spot of ground is appropriated for a garden.
to appropriate money for the increase of the navy
2012, The Washington Post, David Nakamura and Tom Hamburger, "Put armed police in every school, NRA urges" "I call on Congress today to act immediately to appropriate whatever is necessary to put armed police officers in every single school in this nation," LaPierre said.
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To annex (for example a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property).
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To make suitable to; to suit.
古体 及物
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1.
Suitable or fit; proper; felicitous.
适当
恰当
The headmaster wondered what an appropriate measure would be to make the pupil behave better.
1798-1801, Beilby Porteus, Lecture XI delivered in the Parish Church of St. James, Westminster in its strict and appropriate meaning
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2.
Suitable to the social situation or to social respect or social discreetness; socially correct; socially discreet; well-mannered; proper.
I don't think it was appropriate for the cashier to tell me out loud in front of all those people at the checkout that my hairpiece looked like it was falling out of place.
While it is not considered appropriate for a professor to date his student, there is no such concern once the semester has ended.
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3.
Set apart for a particular use or person; reserved.
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4.
Of an action or thing: morally good; positive.
Rescuing animals is an appropriate thing to do.
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Of an action or thing: pleasant.
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From Middle English appropriaten, from appropriat (“appropriated”) + -en, borrowed from Latin appropriātus, perfect passive participle of appropriō (“to make one's own”), from ad (“to”) + propriō (“to make one's own”), from proprius (“one's own, private”) + -ō (first conjugation verb-forming suffix).
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