allowance n. 1.零用錢,給與額,津貼,補助,零用錢。 2.【機械工程】(加工)留量;配合公差。 3.斟酌,酌量;預留;容差;【商業】折扣。 4.默許,默認;承認。 5.【體育】給對方的讓步。 an allowance of rice 給予一份大米。 a clothing [traveling] allowance 服裝[旅]費。 short allowance 給予量不足。 a time allowance (給對方的)時間的寬限。 By your allowance I'd like to leave before you. 對不起,我要先走了。 at no allowance 無限制,盡性 (plunder at no allowance 大肆掠奪)。 make allowance for 1. 留有余地;斟酌,酌量,估量。 2. 原諒,體諒。 3. 扣除 (make an allowance of 10% for cash payment 現款九折)。 vt. 1.給…發津貼。 2.按定量供給。
We must make allowances for his ignorance . 我們對他的無知必須諒解。
We should have a study of allowances for overseas personnel . 我們應該對海外人員的津貼費作一番研究。
I cannot but hope the candid reader will give some allowance for it . 我只有希望公正的讀者多少包涵一些。
Mr. darnay as a young gentleman of generosity knows how to make allowance for that circumstance . 代爾先生是寬宏的青年紳士,他知道怎樣原恕這種情形的。
However, since the dose rate is steadily decreasing during the exposure, appropriate allowance for this must be made . 可是,由于在輻照過程中劑量率逐步下降,所以必需進行適當的修正。
She thought ralph's judgments distorted by his trials, but she flattered herself she had learned to make allowance for his words . 雖然她認為,拉爾夫的看法總有些故弄玄虛,但她相信她已經懂得怎樣來對待他的話。
Even making allowances for the costs involved in urban renewal, it is still rather surprising that so little has taken place . 既使考慮到城市更新存在著這些代價問題,這方面的工作進展如此之緩慢,還是出人意料的。
Reliving mentally, the events of three days earlier, andrew said, "you will have to make allowance for my having been a little dazed at the time. " 安德魯腦際閃過五天前的種種情景,說到:“那時我有點神魂顛倒,這你恐怕不能見怪。”
The doctor delivered himself of these remarks slowly, deliberately, with occasional pauses and prolongations of accent, which made no great allowance for poor catherine's suspense as to his conclusion . 醫生的這番話說得從容不迫,十分緩慢,不時停頓下來或拖長語氣,但沒有給凱瑟琳足夠的時間來猜測他的結論。
Allowance for reduction of short - term investment to market 備抵短期投資跌價損失