| 单词 | due |
| 释义 | due I. 1. 2. obsolete 3. a. < every character gets the reward or the punishment due to his wit and address or his lack of both — J.W.Krutch > < such awe is due to the high name of God — P.B.Shelley > b. < representatives … who have exhibited their full powers found to be in good and due form — Charter of the United Nations > < will exercise this right with due respect to their obligations — Gilbert Seldes > < he has written with care and skill, with due regard for beauty and suitability of style — L.R.McColvin > 4. a. < education for adults is receiving due attention > < walking all the while in due fear of the Lord — Guy McCrone > < seafaring activities which in due course came to be so vital a part of English life — Kemp Malone > b. < indemnity for loss will be paid subject to due proof of loss > — see due process of law 5. < this advance is partly due to a few men of genius — A.N.Whitehead > < his success was due to his persistence > — compare due to 6. 7. < tax legislation that Congress is due to consider > < the train is due at noon > specifically Synonyms: < driving fast but with due caution > < tried according to due processes of law > < with due religious rites > < the parishes sent their due contingent of armed men — J.R.Green > < the characteristically Greek love of moderation, proportion, harmony, and due measure — Lucius Garvin > < so painful a scandal may well be allowed to die out. With due discretion the incident itself may, however, be described — A.C.Doyle > rightful applies to what is right, just, equitable, fair, or fitting; it is commonly used in situations in which these characteristics have been, or are in danger of being, ignored, lost sight of, or flouted < looked askance, jealous of an encroacher on his rightful domain — Nathaniel Hawthorne > < the disloyal subject who had fought against his rightful sovereign — T.B.Macaulay > < happy the man at such a period, who enjoys a bedroom which he can secure with a key — for without such precaution the rightful possessor is not at all unlikely, on entering his own premises, to find three or four somewhat rough-looking strangers — Anthony Trollope > < years of neglect followed, but it finally acquired its rightful place among the nation's hallowed relics — American Guide Series: Pennsylvania > condign indicates what is exactly or fitly deserving or meriting; it now applies more frequently to punishments than to anything else < trembled with rage as he lay, and he resolved on condign revenge — Arthur Morrison > < to defy those papal laws which protected clerical sinners from condign punishment — G.G.Coulton > II. 1. a. < was denied the promotion which his scientific colleagues thought his due — Anthony Harris > < those advanced in culture and in wealth longed to have their due in social recognition — Oscar Handlin > < the southern talent for government has won the recognition which is its due — Adlai Stevenson b. 1900 > b. < revenue … from the feudal dues of his vassals and towns — Hilaire Belloc > c. dues plural < dues are five dollars a year > 2. obsolete 3. Synonyms: < giving each man his due … impartial as the rain from Heaven's face — Vachel Lindsay > < this qualified respect, the old man's due, is paid without reluctance — William Wordsworth > desert is likely to suggest a reward rightly owed in view of ethics, fairness, moral right < the manly desire to exercise the talents which are given us by Heaven and reap the prize of our desert — W.M.Thackeray > < but families of less illustrious fame whose chief distinction is their spotless name must shine by their true desert — William Cowper > merit stresses the existence of qualities or actions worth consideration in connection with rewards or punishments rather than the fact of their being considered or judged < had this latter part of the charge been true, no merits on the side of the question which I took could possibly excuse me — Edmund Burke > < but originality, as it is one of the highest, is also one of the rarest, of merits — E.A.Poe > III. 1. obsolete 2. < the road runs due north > IV. obsolete |
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