单词
duty
英 ['dju?t?]
美['d?ti]
基本信息
- n. 责任；[税收] 关税；职务
- n. (Duty)人名；(英)迪蒂
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词态变化
复数:?duties;
助记提示
1. 游戏：Call of Duty: 使命召唤.
中文词源
duty 责任，税
来自due, 欠债的，应当的。引申词义责任，税。
英文词源
- duty
- duty: [13] Duty comes from Anglo-Norman dueté. This was a derivative of Old French deu ‘owed’ (source of English due [13]), which in turn came from Latin dēbitus, past participle of dēbēre ‘owe’ and source of English debit and debt. (Latin dēbēre was originally a compound verb formed from the prefix dē- ‘away’ and habēre ‘have’, literally ‘have away’, that is ‘keep in one’s possession what belongs to someone else’.) So etymologically one’s duty is what one ‘owes’ to others.
=> debit, debt, due - duty (n.)
- late 13c., from Anglo-French duete, from Old French deu "due, owed; proper, just," from Vulgar Latin *debutus, from Latin debitus, past participle of debere "to owe" (see debt). Related: Duties. The sense of "tax or fee on imports, exports, etc." is from late 15c.; duty-free as a noun is attested from 1958.
双语例句
- 1. They clocked off duty and left at ten to three.
- 他们打卡下班，于2点50分离开。
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- 2. The first duty of a director is to recce his location.
- 主管的第一项任务是熟悉所在地区的情况。
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- 3. He had a third examination and was declared unfit for duty.
- 他接受了第三次检查，被告知不宜上班。
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- 4. My mother waxed eloquent on the theme of wifely duty.
- 我母亲大谈为妻之道。
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- 5. The Night Duty Officer was ready to clock off.
- 值夜班的警员准备打卡下班。
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