| 单词 | legitimate |
| 释义 | le·git·i·mate I. 1. < a legitimate child > 2. < the legitimate work of an artist > < many of them had legitimate grievances against him — W.A.Swanberg > 3. a. (1) < a legitimate government > < pharmacies, hospitals, and other legitimate storage places for narcotics — D.W.Maurer & V.H.Vogel > (2) < the legitimate citizen > < it does not occur to the successful racketeer that he is not respectable; he is simply not legitimate — D.W.Maurer > b. < a legitimate king > < a legitimate monarchy > 4. a. < legitimate advertising expenditure for the national advertiser — L.H.Bristol > < Australian notions of legitimate conduct on the cricket field — D.W.Brogan > b. of a taxon 5. < a legitimate result > < a legitimate inference > < from this it would be legitimate to conclude — B.P.Babkin > 6. a. < costs far more to produce a musical than … a standard legitimate play — F.M.Whiting > < the legitimate drama > b. < does not feel that television has hurt the legitimate theatre as yet — Clarissa Start > < a legitimate actor > Synonyms: see lawful II. a. (1) < was legitimated by at most 58.7 percent of the voters — Kurt Glaser > < even to legitimate vice — John Milton > (2) < the untestable absolutes by which so much … human suffering is perennially legitimated — Charles Frankel > b. < the principle that marriage of parents should legitimate prior-born children — Morris Ploscowe > — compare adopt 1 III. 1. < legitimates and natural children — Dublin University Magazine > 2. |
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