capital
n. 首都, 大写字母, 资本 a. 首都的, 重要的
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教材释义与例句
首都的；重要的；大写的
a capital letter is one that is written or printed in its large form
释义与例句
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1.
Money and wealth: the means to acquire goods and services, especially in a non-barter system.
资本
不可数 商务 金融 可数Near-synonym: assets
He does not have enough capital to start a business.
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2.
Already-produced durable goods available for use as a factor of production, such as tools and bulldozers (equipment) and office buildings (structures).
不可数 金融 可数Near-synonym: assets
He pointed out that it takes both labour and capital to produce goods.
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3.
The capitalist class; investors considered collectively with respect to their societal (economic, political, cultural, etc.) influence.
不可数 政治 可数The markets crashing symbolized capital’s discontent with the tax reforms passed.
He warned us darkly that capital will never be sated.
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4.
A city designated as a legislative seat by the government or some other authority, often the city in which the government is located; otherwise the most important city within a country or a subdivision of it.
可数 不可数Washington D.C. is the capital of the United States of America.
The Welsh government claims that Cardiff is Europe’s youngest capital.
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5.
The most important city in the field specified.
可数 不可数Hollywood is the film capital, New York the theater capital, Las Vegas the gambling capital.
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An uppercase letter.
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Knowledge; awareness; proficiency.
不可数 可数Interpreters need a good amount of cultural capital in order to function efficiently in the profession.
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The chief or most important thing.
可数 引申义 不可数 -
1.
The uppermost part of a column.
柱头
可数 建筑
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Of prime importance.
主要的
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Chief (in a political sense, as being the seat of the general government of a state or nation).
London and Paris are capital cities.
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Excellent.
优秀
英国 过时That is a capital idea!
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4.
Punishable by, or involving punishment by, death.
capital punishment; capital murder
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5.
Uppercase.
大写的
大写
One begins a sentence with a capital letter.
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6.
Uppercase.
used to emphasise greatness or absoluteness
You're a genius with a capital G!
He's dead with a capital D!
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7.
Of or relating to the head.
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used as an expression of approval, satisfaction, or delight.
过时 俚语That's an amazing idea! Capital!
词汇关系
同义词 7
上位词 8
下位词 10
部分词 2
整体词 2
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词源
From Middle English capital, borrowed partly from Old French capital and partly from Latin capitālis (“of the head”) (in sense “head of cattle”), from caput (“head”) (English cap) + -ālis (suffix forming adjectives). Use in trade and finance originated in Medieval economies when a common but expensive transaction involved trading heads of cattle. The noun is from the adjective. Compare chattel and kith and kine (“all one’s possessions”), which also use “cow” to mean “property”. Doublet of cattle and chattel.
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