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单词 dole
释义

dole1 /dōl/

noun
  1. A dealing out
  2. Something given in charity (old)
  3. A payment made by the state to unemployed people (informal)
  4. A share (archaic)
  5. A small portion
transitive verb

(usu with out) to deal out in small portions

ORIGIN: OE dāl; related to deal1

doleˈ-bludger noun (Aust and NZ slang)

One who evades work and lives off state benefits

on the dole (informal)

Living on unemployment or other benefit

dole2 /dōl/, also (obsolete) dool or doole /dool/

noun
  1. Pain or grief (archaic and dialect)
  2. Heaviness at heart (archaic and poetic)
ORIGIN: OFr doel (Fr deuil) grief, from L dolēre to feel pain

doleˈful adjective

  1. Full of dole or grief
  2. Melancholy

doleˈfully adverb

doleˈfulness noun

doˈlent adjective (obsolete)

doleˈsome adjective

Dismal

doleˈsomely adverb

dole3 /dōl/

noun
  1. Guile (obsolete)
  2. Criminal intention (Scots law)
ORIGIN: L dolus, from Gr dolos guile
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