英语单词 | impose |
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英美音标 | 英 [ɪm'pəʊz] 美 [ɪm'poʊz] |
中文释义 | v.强加;课征;强迫;征收(税款) |
英语例句 | (1) I don't want to impose on you by staying too long. (2) Do not try to impose your belief upon others. (3) We could not impose our own standards on others. (4) He helped the Mongols impose taxes, interceding with the Khan to prevent reprisals when rebellions broke out. (5) For their part, the rich countries want the poorer countries to lower the tariffs they impose on imported industrial goods. |
中文例句 | (1) 我不想打扰你,不多耽搁了。 (2) 别试图把你的信仰强加在别人头上。 (3) 我们不能把我们的标准强加于他人。 (4) 因害怕在诺夫哥罗德人造反时遭到报复,他协助蒙古人征敛赋税。 (5) 但是,欧美等富裕国家则希望穷国降低对进口工业品征收的关税。 |
vocabulary简明 | To impose means to force or inflict something on someone else. If you want to impose your musical taste on your parents, play your tunes all day at top volume. |
vocabulary扩展 | The verb impose emerged in the 1580s, meaning "to lay on as a burden," which is very similar to the modern meaning. Governments often impose taxes, legal restrictions, and other burdensome things on citizens, for example. But you should remember what Confucius once wisely said: "Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire." |
柯林斯解释 | 1 [VERB 动词]强制实行;强加 If you impose something on people, you use your authority to force them to accept it. [V n [V n] [V-ed]
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2 [VERB 动词]把(看法、信仰)强加(于…) If you impose your opinions or beliefs on other people, you try and make people accept them as a rule or as a model to copy. [V n
3 [VERB 动词]使遭受,使承受(压力、痛苦等) If something imposes strain, pressure, or suffering on someone, it causes them to experience it. [V n [V-ed]
4 [VERB 动词]把…硬加给;把…强塞给;勉强(某人)做事 If someone imposes on you, they unreasonably expect you to do something for them which you do not want to do. [V
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5 [VERB 动词]使打扰;使硬缠 If someone imposes themselves on you, they force you to accept their company although you may not want to. [V pron-refl
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