| 单词 | commit |
| 释义 | com·mit I. transitive verb 1. a. < commit all executive, legislative, and judicial powers to one man — A.T.Vanderbilt > b. (1) < commit a criminal to prison > : sentence to punishment < committed Anne Boleyn to a criminal death — Francis Hackett > (2) < a patient committed by the court to a state hospital > c. < turning the scenes … over in his mind … before he started committing his ideas to paper — Ernest Newman > < commit a poem to memory > d. < commit the papers to the fire > < commit his body to the earth > e. 2. < convicted of committing crimes against the state > < commit suicide > < committing an even greater folly — O.S.Nock > 3. a. obsolete b. < should … Company C be unable to take the objectives, then Company A will be committed — Infantry Journal > c. < committing his letters to the dangers of censorship — Marcia Davenport > d. (1) < a resolution committing the party to build 300,000 houses a year — B.C.L.Keelan > < this belief in science, to which our forefathers then committed themselves — A.J.Toynbee > (2) < the government has committed 135 million dollars worth of surplus commodities in foreign barter activity > (3) < cautiously refusing to commit himself on any controversial subject > intransitive verb 1. obsolete < commit not with man's sworn spouse — Shakespeare > 2. < officers without power to commit > Synonyms: < on landing in Boston in 1872, my father and I were able safely to commit our trunk to the expressman — George Santayana > < in some districts of Hungary women … run around the herd before they drive it out and commit it to the care of the herdsmen — J.G.Frazer > < into thy hands I commit my spirit — Ps 31:5 (Revised Standard Version) > < the principal State institution for the mentally ill, caring for about 1,000 committed patients — American Guide Series: Delaware > entrust is to deliver with trust and confidence, with appeal to or security in another's good faith < all he would do was to put the investigation into the hands of a detective, and entrust him with the business of collecting evidence — Rose Macaulay > < the governor is entrusted with broad executive powers — American Guide Series: New Hampshire > confide heightens suggestions of trust and good faith < the right of naturalization was therefore, with one accord, surrendered by the States, and confided to the Federal Government — R.B.Taney > < our customers over there seem not to be able to confide their property to us fast enough — Charles Dickens > consign implies a delivering or transferring with or as if with formality, certification, or finality < the gaol to which he was consigned by the victorious Cavaliers — T.B.Macaulay > < the orthodox consigned the heretics and the heretics consigned the bishops to eternal flames — G.M.Trevelyan > < wrapping the ivory carefully in a handkerchief of fine white silk, he consigned it to his pocket — Elinor Wylie > relegate indicates consigning to a particular class, position, or sphere, often a secondary or less favored one < within three years overland staging was relegated to a secondary place in frontier life by the coming of the railroad — R.A.Billington > < and it is not inherent in the astronomical category either, though it was for many years relegated there — E.M.Forster > < the stylistic and philosophical difficulty of Valéry's art would seem to relegate him to a very small circle of initiates — Wallace Fowlie > II. |
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