英语单词 | arbiter |
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英美音标 | ['a:bitə(r)] |
中文释义 | n.仲裁者,判优器;(时尚或风格的)权威,决定者 |
vocab简明 | An arbiter is someone selected to judge and settle a dispute. When Doc and Grumpy disagreed over whose turn it was to stay late at the mine, they chose Snow White as an arbiter. |
vocab扩展 | Arbiter, from the Latin, means "one who goes somewhere as witness or judge.” The arbiter of a baseball game is called an umpire. In football and basketball, the arbiter is a referee. Arbitration is a type of conflict resolution in which a neutral person — the arbiter — hears the details of a dispute and makes a legally-binding decision about its resolution. |
真题原句 | The bans, if fully enforced, would suggest to women (and many men) that they should not let others be arbiters of their beauty. |
柯林斯星级 | ★☆☆☆☆ |
柯林斯解释 | 1 [N-COUNT 可数名词]仲裁人;公断人 An arbiter is a person or institution that judges and settles a quarrel between two other people or groups. [FORMAL 正式]
2 [N-COUNT 可数名词](时尚或风格的)权威,决定者 An arbiter of taste or style is someone who has a lot of influence in deciding what is fashionable or socially desirable. [usu N [FORMAL 正式]
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来源 | 2016.1 |
Tags: 单词::2016
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