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单词 fulfill
释义 ful·fill
transitive verb
or ful·fil \(ˈ)fu̇l|fil sometimes fəlˈf-, rapid sometimes fu̇ˈf- or fəˈf- by l-dissimilation\
(fulfilled ; fulfilled ; fulfilling ; fulfills or fulfils)
Etymology: Middle English fulfillen, from Old English fullfyllan, from full (I) + fyllan to fill — more at full, fill
1. archaic : to make full : fill
 < the world has received animals … and is fulfilled with them — Benjamin Jowett >
 < her subtle, warm, and golden breath … fulfills him with beatitude — Alfred Tennyson >
2. : to supply the missing parts of : make whole : integrate
 < admirable though the illustrations are, their virtue is … that they fulfill the text — Times Literary Supplement >
3.
 a. : to carry out : accomplish, execute
  < he had struck out into the wilderness … partly for reasons of his own, partly to fulfill an order of his superior — Vicki Baum >
 b. : to finish out : bring to an end
  < she came to install herself and fulfill her time at the house — Willa Cather >
 c. : to come up to (as a requirement) : meet, answer, satisfy
  < this work fulfills a need that lawyers have felt for many years — Columbia University Press Books >
4.
 a. : to measure up to : convert into reality
  < pioneering courage balanced by a sense of the failure of life to fulfill its ultimate expectations — Leslie Rees >
 b. : to realize the full potentialities of : develop completely : consummate
  < the inalienable right of a man to realize his potentialities, to fulfill himself, to enter upon his destiny — August Heckscher b. 1913 >
Synonyms: see perform, satisfy
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