remit

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vt. 宽恕, 赦免, 免除, 汇出, 缓解, 减轻, 把...提交, 使恢复原状, 推迟 vi. 缓解, 汇款 n. 移交的事物

发音

UK /ɹɪˈmɪt/
其它
US /ɹiˈmɪt/
其它
US /ɹɪˈmɪt/
UK /ˈɹiːmɪt/
US /ˈɹimɪt/

词形变化

remits 复数 remits remits 三单 remitted remittest remitteth remitting remitting 现在分词 remitted 过去式 remitted 过去分词

别名

remytte

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Terms of reference; set of responsibilities; scope.

    WHO/TDR should prepare a volume containing ... important issues in the performance of studies that fall outside of the GLP remit.

    However, this is beyond the remit of this particular article.

    Next steps ... Create one IS organisation and extend remit to all HE activities.

    2012, The Economist, Sep 29th 2012 issue, Chile's economic statistics: For richer—or poorer Chile needs to gather together its statisticians into a single agency, such as a new and improved INE, and give it more autonomy and a broader remit.

  2. 2.

    A communication from a superior court to a subordinate court.

    法律
v. C2
  1. 1.

    To transmit or send (e.g. money in payment); to supply.

    汇款

    及物

    The Supreme Court today allowed major sponsors, including LG Electronics India (LGEI), to remit foreign exchange for the tournament.

  2. 2.

    To forgive, pardon (a wrong, offence, etc.).

    及物
  3. 3.

    To refrain from exacting or enforcing; to cancel.

    及物

    to remit the performance of an obligation

    1798, Hannah Brand, Huniades; or, The Siege of Belgrade, Act V, Scene 8, in Plays and Poems, Norwich, p. 131, I knelt for pardon, for this breach of Oath, Which, thou forgiving, I then shall hope Heaven will remit hereafter punishment;

  4. 4.

    To give up; omit; cease doing.

    废旧 及物

    1761, George Colman, The Genius, No. 12, 19 November, 1761, in Prose on Several Occasions, London: T. Cadel, 1787, p. 124, Among our own sex, there is no race of men more apt to indulge a spirit of acrimony, and to remit their natural Good Humour, than authors.

  5. 5.

    To allow (something) to slacken, to relax (one's attention etc.).

    及物
  6. 6.

    To show a lessening or abatement (of a specified quality).

    不及物 废旧

    Great Alexander in the midst of all his prosperity […], when he saw one of his wounds bleed, remembered that he was but a man, and remitted of his pride.

    1775, Samuel Jackson Pratt, The Legend of Benignus, Chapter 5, in Liberal Opinions, upon Animals, Man, and Providence, London: G. Robinson and J. Bew, Volume 1, p. 97, At the end of about two months, the severity of my fate began to remit of its rigour.

  7. 7.

    To diminish, abate.

    不及物 废旧

    1720, Alexander Pope, The Iliad of Homer, London: Bernard Lintott, Volume 6, “Observations on the Twenty-Second Book,” no. 25, p. 52, … this is very agreeable to the Nature of Achilles; his Anger abates very slowly; it is stubborn, yet still it remits:

    1783, Samuel Johnson, letter to James Boswell dated 30 September, 1783, in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, London: Charles Dilly, 1791, Volume 2, p. 467, … I have been for these ten days much harrassed with the gout, but that has now remitted.

  8. 8.

    To refer (something or someone) for deliberation, judgment, etc. (to a particular body or person).

    及物
  9. 9.

    To send back.

    废旧 及物
  10. 10.

    To give or deliver up; surrender; resign.

    古体 及物
  11. 11.

    To restore or replace.

    及物
  12. 12.

    To postpone.

    及物
  13. 13.

    To refer (someone to something), direct someone's attention to something.

    废旧 及物

    1668, Joseph Glanvill, Plus Ultra, or, The Progress and Advancement of Knowledge since the Days of Aristotle, London: James Collins, Preface, These are the things I thought fit to premise to my Discourse, to which now I remit your Eyes, without adding more …

词汇关系

词源

From Middle English remitten, from Latin remittere (“to send, send back”). Compare Old French remettre, remetre, remitter.

来源:wiktionary