英语单词 | admit |
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英美音标 | 英 [əd'mɪt] 美 [əd'mɪt] |
中文释义 | vt.承认;允许进入;给…进入的权利;容纳 vi.承认;允许进入;允许 |
英语例句 | (1) We have to admit that there is still room for improvement. (2) Each ticket admits two people to the party. (3) I reluctantly admitted to being nervous about the test. (4) He was admitted to the hospital suffering from burns. (5) This sentence admits of several interpretations. |
中文例句 | (1) 我们不得不承认,在这方面有尚待改进的地方。 (2) 每张票可供两人入场参加聚会。 (3) 我勉强承认我对测试感到紧张。 (4) 他由于烧伤,被送入医院治疗。 (5) 这个句子可以有多种解释。 |
vocabulary简明 | When you admit something, you confess that it happened. It wasn't easy to admit that you'd broken the vase, but how else could you explain that your hand was glued to it? |
vocabulary扩展 | Besides meaning "confess," admit can also mean "let in," like a theater ticket that says "ADMIT ONE." If you admit that you have a bag of popcorn hidden in your backpack, you might not be admitted to the movie. A doorway admits you into a room, and if a room can hold up to 50 people, that room admits 50. You can even use admit for metaphorical entrances, like the way your wild style admits you into high fashion circles. |
柯林斯解释 | 1 [VERB 动词](常指不情愿地)承认,供认 If you admit that something bad, unpleasant, or embarrassing is true, you agree, often unwillingly, that it is true. [V that] [V [V -ing] [V n] [V with quote]
2 [VERB 动词]接受(入院);收治 If someone is admitted to hospital, they are taken into hospital for treatment and kept there until they are well enough to go home. [ [ [usu passive]
3 [VERB 动词]准许…加入;接纳;招收 If someone is admitted to an organization or group, they are allowed to join it. [ [V n]
4 [VERB 动词]准许…进入 To admit someone to a place means to allow them to enter it. [V n] [V n
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