use
n. 使用, 习惯, 使用价值, 用法, 使用权 vt. 使用, 利用, 运用, 耗费 vi. 惯常
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教材释义与例句
使用；用途；发挥
the action or fact of using something
利用；耗费
to take an amount of something from a supply of food, gas, money etc
释义与例句
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The act of using.
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利用
可数 不可数The use of torture has been condemned by the United Nations.
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The act of consuming alcohol or narcotics.
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Usefulness, benefit.
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不可数 可数What's the use of a law that nobody follows?
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A function; a purpose for which something may be employed.
可数 不可数This tool has many uses.
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Occasion or need to employ; necessity.
可数 不可数I have no further use for these textbooks.
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Common occurrence; ordinary experience.
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Interest for lent money; premium paid for the use of something; usury.
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Continued or repeated practice; usage; habit.
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A special form of a rite adopted for use in a particular context, often a diocese.
可数 不可数 宗教the Sarum, or Canterbury, use; the York use; the Ordinariate use
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A slab of iron welded to the side of a forging, such as a shaft, near the end, and afterward drawn down, by hammering, so as to lengthen the forging.
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To utilize or employ.
To exploit.
及物You never cared about me; you just used me!
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To utilize or employ.
To consume (alcohol, drugs, etc), especially regularly.
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及物He uses cocaine.
I have never used drugs.
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To utilize or employ.
To employ; to apply; to utilize.
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及物Use this knife to slice the bread.
We can use this mathematical formula to solve the problem.
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To utilize or employ.
To expend; to consume by employing.
及物I used the money they allotted me.
We should use up most of the fuel.
She used all the time allotted to complete the test.
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To behave toward; to act with regard to; to treat.
过时to use an animal cruelly
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To utilize or employ.
To consume a previously specified substance, especially a drug to which one is addicted.
不及物Richard began experimenting with cocaine last year; now he uses almost every day.
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To accustom; to habituate. (Now common only in participial form. Uses the same pronunciation as the noun; see usage notes.)
To accustom oneself.
废旧1742, Samuel Richardson, Pamela, London: S. Richardson, 4th edition, Volume 3, Letter 12, p. 53, So that reading constantly, and thus using yourself to write, and enjoying besides the Benefit of a good Memory, every thing you heard or read, became your own […]
1769, John Leland, Discourses on Various Subjects, London: W. Johnston and J. Dodsley, Volume 1, Discourse 16, p. 311, […] we must be constant and faithful to our Words and Promises, and use ourselves to be so even in smaller Matters […]
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To behave, act, comport oneself.
废旧1551, Thomas More, Utopia, London: B. Alsop & T. Fawcet, 1639, “Of Bond-men, Sicke persons, Wedlocke, and divers other matters,” page 231, They live together lovingly: For no Magistrate is either haughty or fearefull. Fathers they be called, and like fathers they use themselves.
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To utilize or employ.
To benefit from; to be able to employ or stand.
及物I could use a drink.
My car could use a new coat of paint.
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To utilize or employ.
To suggest or request that other people employ a specific set of gender pronouns when referring to the subject.
及物I use they/them pronouns.
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To accustom; to habituate. (Now common only in participial form. Uses the same pronunciation as the noun; see usage notes.)
soldiers who are used to hardships and danger
to use the soldiers to hardships and danger
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To habitually do; to be wont to do. (Now chiefly in past-tense forms; see used to.)
不及物I used to get things done.
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Noun from Middle English use, from Old French us, from Latin ūsus (“use, custom, skill, habit”), from past participle stem of ūtor (“use”). Displaced native Middle English note (“use”) (see note) from Old English notu; Middle English nutte (“use”) from Old English nytt; as well as Old English fricu and Old English sidu. Verb from Middle English usen, from Old French user (“use, employ, practice”), from Medieval Latin usare (“use”), frequentative form of past participle stem of Latin uti (“to use”). Displaced native Middle English noten, nutten (“to use”) (from Old English notian, nēotan, nyttian) and Middle English brouken, bruken (“to use, enjoy”) (from Old English brūcan).
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