英语词汇“to take savings”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

d. British Navy. In plural. Provisions declined by a sailor for which payment in lieu is received; the payment in lieu so received. to take (up) savings: to accept payment in lieu of declined provisions; (in extended use) to go without having or doing something. Now rare.

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1815 W. Burney Falconer's New Universal Dict. Marine (rev. ed.) Savings of Provisions, implies the bread, wine, spirits, beef, pork, butter, and cheese, which have been saved by the different persons or messes in any of his Majesty's ships, from the established allowance of those species; and for which the purser pays them, at..the credit prices stated in his instructions.

1874 Lancet 25 July 137/1 The navy system of allowing money for savings affords an opportunity to the crew to take savings for fresh meat.

1884 Through Dusty Corners III. iii. xx. 88 Wash up these cups, or you'll have to take up savings for your cocoa.

1901 Westm. Gaz. 28 Aug. 8/2 The Committee dwells upon the difficulty of framing an ideal ration so long as canteens and the ‘savings’ system exist.

1917 H. T. Dorling Sub xii. 298 One may hear the expression, ‘I will take up savings for going ashore to-day’, meaning ‘I will not go ashore’.

1962 W. Granville Dict. Sailors' Slang 100/1 Savings, money taken in lieu of grog, etc. A rating will sometimes refuse a thing, saying, ‘I'll take up savings on that’.

单词	to take savings
释义	> as lemmas to take (up) savings d. British Navy. In plural. Provisions declined by a sailor for which payment in lieu is received; the payment in lieu so received. to take (up) savings: to accept payment in lieu of declined provisions; (in extended use) to go without having or doing something. Now rare. ΚΠ 1815 W. Burney Falconer's New Universal Dict. Marine (rev. ed.) Savings of Provisions, implies the bread, wine, spirits, beef, pork, butter, and cheese, which have been saved by the different persons or messes in any of his Majesty's ships, from the established allowance of those species; and for which the purser pays them, at..the credit prices stated in his instructions. 1874 Lancet 25 July 137/1 The navy system of allowing money for savings affords an opportunity to the crew to take savings for fresh meat. 1884 Through Dusty Corners III. iii. xx. 88 Wash up these cups, or you'll have to take up savings for your cocoa. 1901 Westm. Gaz. 28 Aug. 8/2 The Committee dwells upon the difficulty of framing an ideal ration so long as canteens and the ‘savings’ system exist. 1917 H. T. Dorling Sub xii. 298 One may hear the expression, ‘I will take up savings for going ashore to-day’, meaning ‘I will not go ashore’. 1962 W. Granville Dict. Sailors' Slang 100/1 Savings, money taken in lieu of grog, etc. A rating will sometimes refuse a thing, saying, ‘I'll take up savings on that’. extracted from savingn. < as lemmas
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