| 单词 | deserve |
| 释义 | de·serve transitive verb 1. a. < we have the poetry we deserve, just as we have the painting we deserve — Herbert Read > < rebels deserve no consideration — Kenneth Roberts > < a people indifferent to their civil liberties do not deserve to keep them — W.O.Douglas > also < a drunken driver deserves to have his driving license suspended > < he deserves to lose because of his unsportsmanlike tactics > b. < a laboratory that hardly deserved the name > < the question deserves dispassionate consideration — Vera M. Dean > < what crimes deserve the death penalty? > < that his country's new society deserved all his energies — Jay Leyda > < acute and liberating observations which deserve to be widely disseminated — M.R.Cohen > 2. obsolete 3. < they cannot command prosperity or continuing employment, but they are certainly doing their best to deserve them — Sam Pollock > < I do not know how he had deserved our disrespect — Mary Austin > 4. obsolete intransitive verb 1. < that the Tudor translators have become recognized as they deserve — T.S.Eliot > < as one who had deserved well of his country — G.L.Dickinson > 2. obsolete Synonyms: < if he [Dr. Johnson] inserts the poems of some who can hardly be said to deserve such an honor — William Cowper > < liberty is easier to win than to deserve, and if it is treated as either a license or a vacuum, the police will come or the walls will fall in — Curtis Bok > < a second point deserves renewed emphasis — Zechariah Chafee > earn may suggest a due reward or recompense according to a systematic or regulated plan of evaluation < since he has not missed any hours of work I suppose that he has earned his salary, but from the caliber of his work I do not think that he deserves it > < advanced work … by men already graduates of theological schools earns the degree of Master or Doctor of Theology — Official Register of Harvard University > More certainly than the others in this set earn suggests previous sustained expenditure of energy, effort, and time < we had earned that right … no group of men can grant other men rights of any kind; they are achieved — H.D.Skidmore > merit may be used in reference to lasting traits, rather than sustained action, more readily than earn < the idle politicos of the country do not merit our trust, but her zealous partisans have earned it > merit highly stresses the fact of worthiness fit for reward or consideration but implies less about the fact of being rewarded than the others of this group < a boost which in a sense it does merit — T.S.Eliot > < if hope's familiar whispers merit faith — William Wordsworth > rate in this sense may stress the idea of being fit or suited for some special reward or consideration in addition to what is officially earned and paid or conferred through rank, status, or connection < important statesmen in the United Sates have usually rated eulogistic titles — E.C.Smith > < not that I rated the governor's suite on my own — Bennett Cerf > |
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