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Allowance Make Money N Count 可数名词 Earn Allowed   [Usu

英语单词 allowance
英美音标 [ə'lauəns]
中文释义 n.津贴,补助,宽容,允许
vt.定量供应
vocab简明 When you're a kid, you might earn an allowance or a sum of money in exchange for doing chores around the house. Your parents' allowance — or tolerance — of your silly behavior will depend on how strict they are.
vocab扩展 An allowance is a quantity of something that's allowed or permitted within a set of rules or for a particular purpose. This could be a weekly allowance you earn as a kid, or it could be the allowance for passengers on a flight to have two carry-on items. To make allowances for someone means to treat someone leniently, or to give them a break.
真题原句 More apparent reasonableness followed. There will now be a seven-day wait for the jobseeker’s allowance.
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[N-COUNT 可数名词](定期发给的)津贴,补助 An allowance is money that is given to someone, usually on a regular basis, in order to help them pay for the things that they need.
  [usu with supp]
  • He lives on a single parent's allowance of £70 a week...

    他靠每周70英镑的单亲家庭生活补助过日子。

  • She gets an allowance for looking after Lillian.

    她因为照顾莉莲而拿补贴。

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[N-COUNT 可数名词](儿童的)零用钱 A child's allowance is money that is given to him or her every week or every month by his or her parents.
  [usu poss N]
  [mainly AM 主美]
    in BRIT, use 英国英语用 pocket money
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    [N-COUNT 可数名词]免税额 Your tax allowance is the amount of money that you are allowed to earn before you have to start paying income tax.
      [usu with supp]
      [BRIT 英]
    • ...those earning less than the basic tax allowance.

      那些收入低于基本免税额的人

    in AM, use 美国英语用 personal exemption
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    [N-COUNT 可数名词]限额;定量 A particular type of allowance is an amount of something that you are allowed in particular circumstances.
      [with supp]
    • Most of our flights have a baggage allowance of 44lbs per passenger.

      我们大多数航班行李限重为每位乘客44磅。

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    [PHRASE 短语]考虑到;将…计算在内;为…酌留余地 If you make allowances for something, you take it into account in your decisions, plans, or actions.
      [V and N inflect]
    • We'll make allowances in the schedule for time off...

      日程安排时我们会把休息时间考虑在内。

    • The raw exam results make no allowance for social background.

      原始的考试成绩是不受社会背景影响的。

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    [PHRASE 短语]体谅;原谅 If you make allowances for someone, you accept behaviour which you would not normally accept or deal with them less severely than you would normally, because of a problem that they have.
      [V inflects]
    • He's tired so I'll make allowances for him.

      他很累,所以我会体谅他。

    来源 2014.1

    Tags: 单词::2014

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