单词
mete
英 [mi?t]
美[mit]
基本信息
- vt. 给予；分配；测量
- n. 边界；测量
- n. (Mete)人名；(意、土、乍、中非)梅特
GRE低频词扩展词汇
词态变化
第三人称单数:?metes;过去式:?meted;过去分词:?meted;现在分词:?meting;
中文词源
mete 分配，测量，给予惩罚
来自古英语metan,测量，分配，估计，来自PIE*med,测量，词源同measure,medical.引申词义合理的惩罚，给予惩罚。
英文词源
- mete
- mete: see meet
- mete (v.)
- "to allot," Old English metan "to measure, mete out; compare, estimate" (class V strong verb; past tense m?t, past participle meten), from Proto-Germanic *metan (cognates: Old Saxon metan, Old Frisian, Old Norse meta, Dutch meten, Old High German mezzan, German messen, Gothic mitan "to measure"), from PIE *med- "to take appropriate measures" (see medical). Used now only with out. Related: Meted; meting.
- mete (n.)
- "boundary," now only in phrase metes and bounds, late 15c., from Old French mete "limit, bounds, frontier," from Latin meta "goal, boundary, post, pillar."
双语例句
- 1. Schools should not mete out physical punishment to children.
- 学校不应该体罚学生.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 2. Duly mete out rewards and punishments.
- 有赏有罚.
来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- 3. You did not know the measure you were going to mete me.
- 因为您不知道您要用什么量器量给我.
来自辞典例句
- 4. He saddled Mutz, promising to mete out cruel punishment to the thief.
- 他跨上马,保证要狠狠地治那个贼子.
来自辞典例句
- 5. I will estimate the size of the garden at 1000 square mete.
- 我估计这个花园的面积有1千平方米.
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