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Exempt English French Latin Buy Originally 12273.Exempt 英

正面 12273.exempt
英 [ɪg'zem(p)t; eg-]美 [ɪg'zɛmpt]

背面
释义:
vt. 免除;豁免adj. 被免除的;被豁免的n. 免税者;被免除义务者
例句:
1. The fund was in danger of losing its tax-exempt status.该基金面临不再享受免税待遇的风险。

蛇不喜欢吃玉米,所以非常鄙视玉米。
exempt 免除ex-, 向外。-em, 拿出,带出,词源同example, sample. 即拿出来的,免除或豁免。
exemptexempt: see exampleexempt (adj.)late 14c., from Old French exempt (13c.) and directly from Latin exemptus, past participle of eximere "remove, take out, take away; free, release, deliver, make an exception of," from ex- "out" (see ex-) + emere "buy," originally "take," from PIE root *em- "to take, distribute" (cognates: Latin sumere "to take, obtain, buy," Old Church Slavonic imo "to take," Lithuanian imui, Sanskrit yamati "holds, subdues"). For sense shift from "take" to "buy," compare Old English sellan "to give," source of Modern English sell "to give in exchange for money;" Hebrew laqah "he bought," originally "he took;" and colloquial English I'll take it for "I'll buy it."exempt (v.)c. 1400, "to relieve or exempt," from Anglo-French and Middle French exempter, from exempt (adj.); see exempt (adj.). Related: Exempted; exempting."

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