英语单词 | consign |
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英美音标 | 英 [kən'saɪn] 美 [kən'saɪn] |
中文释义 | vt.交付;放逐;委托 |
英语例句 | (1) The goods were consigned to you by railway. (2) We will consign the goods to him by express. (3) The captured criminals were consigned to the dungeons. (4) He consigned all the unpleasant thoughts to oblivion. (5) The orphan was consigned to her uncle's care. (6) We shall consign our business to you as our sole agent in China. |
中文例句 | (1) 货物已由铁路托运到你处。 (2) 我们将以快递把货物寄给他。 (3) 抓到的罪犯被送进了地牢。 (4) 他把一切不愉快的思想置于脑后。 (5) 那孤儿托给她叔父照料。 (6) 我们将委托贵公司作为我公司在中国的独家业务代理。 |
vocabulary简明 | The verb consign means to transfer permanently to another. You can consign ownership of your old car to your son, an act that will probably make you the "best parent ever" in his eyes. |
vocabulary扩展 | Consign means to commit or relegate. Those platform shoes you still have from high school in the 1970s? You should probably consign them to the trash — of course, they probably should have been consigned in the 1970s! Consign can also be used if you turn over an object for sale where the business making the sale gets a percentage of the profits and so do you. If you don't like the art work you inherited, you might consign it with an auction house and use the profits to buy something you like better. |
柯林斯解释 | 1 [VERB 动词]把…置于;打发 To consign something or someone to a place where they will be forgotten about, or to an unpleasant situation or place, means to put them there. [V n [FORMAL 正式]
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