| 单词 | grant |
| 释义 | grant I. transitive verb 1. a. < after a conference the judge granted counsel his request > < grant a child his wish > b. obsolete c. < grant himself a quick view of the treasured letter > < grant a few moments' conversation to his admirers > < the sixty-six-pound free luggage allowance granted by the transatlantic airlines — Richard Joseph > < seek the seclusion that a cabin grants — W.S.Gilbert > 2. < granted a sum of $2000 to the student to help him continue his education > < granted a large acreage to deserving settlers > < grant a doctor's degree to a graduate student > < save every drop of rain the heavens grant — Russell Lord > < grant a loan to an applicant > < the government granted full diplomatic recognition to the new nation > specifically 3. a. obsolete b. < grant a proposition is true > < grant that the man was lying > < I grant I was wrong > < the government is granting no preference as between types of small business in applying for financial assistance — W.B.Barnes > c. < granted that the novelist has talent, he can nevertheless sometimes expect a hard time finding a publisher > intransitive verb obsolete Synonyms: < granted leave of absence for a year, he went abroad — Allen Johnson > < at the close of the Civil War a bounty of $100 was granted to those who had served three years — J.W.Oliver > < was granted the triumphal insignia and the right to be consul before the legal age — John Buchan > award, often interchangeable with grant, may apply to giving something adjudged merited or condign < awarded him a medal as champion > < his land, awarded him by the Indians in 1835 in acknowledgment of his long service in their behalf — American Guide Series: Louisiana > < a certain difficulty arises in writing about a book to which one awards an unreserved enthusiasm — Carl Van Vechten > concede indicates a giving, giving in, or yielding to some rightful request or compelling claim < because physics, history, and religion have their different valuations of experience, we are obliged to concede a large measure of autonomy to the different studies — W.R.Inge > < even his harshest critics concede him a rocklike integrity, boundless courage, and an immobile sort of dignity — Time > accord may indicate a granting, sometimes reluctant, of what is due < treated bishops with the superficial deference that a sergeant-major accords to a junior subaltern — Compton Mackenzie > < children easily appreciate justice, and will readily accord to others what others accord to them — Bertrand Russell > < the central fact to which … prevailing creeds refuse to accord sufficiently serious attention is the obvious impossibility of attaining omniscience — M.R.Cohen > vouchsafe may indicate a grant, especially in response to a petition or request, explicit or implicit, by a person in power < the occasional answers that Stalin used to vouchsafe to inquiries from American correspondents — Elmer Davis > < a kindly Being, who, in return for due rites and offerings, will vouchsafe nourishing rains and golden harvests — L.P.Smith > • - take for granted II. 1. a. obsolete (1) (2) b. < his grant of the election to his opponent > : allowing < opposed the grant of absentee voting > : a bestowing or conferring < the grant of exclusive privileges in a railroad station — O.W.Holmes †1935 > 2. < subsidized by a grant of two million pounds yearly from the British government > < a grant of land to any member who could establish a specific number of settlers — American Guide Series: New Jersey > < obtained a grant to study abroad for a year > < the university gave the scholar a grant of the sum of $2000 to continue his research > 3. a. b. c. English law 4. 5. in livestock judging • - lie in grant |
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