单词 | fulfill |
释义 | ful·fill or ful·fil 1. archaic < 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. < admirable though the illustrations are, their virtue is … that they fulfill the text — Times Literary Supplement > 3. a. < he had struck out into the wilderness … partly for reasons of his own, partly to fulfill an order of his superior — Vicki Baum > b. < she came to install herself and fulfill her time at the house — Willa Cather > c. < this work fulfills a need that lawyers have felt for many years — Columbia University Press Books > 4. a. < pioneering courage balanced by a sense of the failure of life to fulfill its ultimate expectations — Leslie Rees > b. < 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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