| 单词 | incur |
| 释义 | incur (once / 448 pages) v To incur is to get or receive — and usually it's something you brought upon yourself. If you don't pay your credit card bills on time, you'll likely incur lots of fees and some serious debt. Generally, when you incur something, that something is undesirable. You can incur penalties, expenses, a parking ticket, or a friend’s wrath, for example. But it's pretty unlikely that you'd incur free tickets to the World Series. Frederick Douglass once famously said, “I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence." WORD FAMILYincur: incuring, incurred, incurrence, incurring, incurs, incursion+/incursion: incursions USAGE EXAMPLESBut he incurred huge debts because of the failure of his airline. BBC(Jan 01, 2017) Meanwhile, community colleges in Tacoma and Spokane that volunteered to test the system are incurring overtime costs trying to get it to work. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) Returns up to three months late will incur a fine of at least £100. BBC(Dec 29, 2016) 1v make oneself subject to; bring upon oneself; become liable to People who smoke incur a great danger to their health Hypo|Hyper run be affected by; be subjected to subject cause to experience or suffer or make liable or vulnerable to 2v receive a specified treatment (abstract) Syn|Hypo|Hyper find, get, obtain, receive acquire, get come into the possession of something concrete or abstract take ascertain or determine by measuring, computing or take a reading from a dial change undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature |
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