gift的意思|gift的解释-里氏词典

Gift \Gift\, n. [OE. gift, yift, yeft, AS. gift, fr. gifan to
give; akin to D. & G. gift, Icel. gift, gipt, Goth. gifts (in
comp.). See {Give}, v. t.]
1. Anything given; anything voluntarily transferred by one
person to another without compensation; a present; an
offering.

Shall I receive by gift, what of my own, . . .
I can command ? --Milton.

2. The act, right, or power of giving or bestowing; as, the
office is in the gift of the President.

3. A bribe; anything given to corrupt.

Neither take a gift, for a gift doth blind the eyes
of the wise. --Deut. xvi.
19.

4. Some exceptional inborn quality or characteristic; a
striking or special talent or aptitude; power; faculty;
as, the gift of wit; a gift for speaking.

5. (Law) A voluntary transfer of real or personal property,
without any consideration. It can be perfected only by
deed, or in case of personal property, by an actual
delivery of possession. --Bouvier. --Burrill.

{Gift rope} (Naut), a rope extended to a boat for towing it;
a guest rope.

Syn: Present; donation; grant; largess; benefaction; boon;
bounty; gratuity; endowment; talent; faculty.

Usage: {Gift}, {Present}, {Donation}. These words, as here
compared, denote something gratuitously imparted to
another out of one's property. A gift is something
given whether by a superior or an inferior, and is
usually designed for the relief or benefit of him who
receives it. A present is ordinarly from an equal or
inferior, and is always intended as a compliment or
expression of kindness. Donation is a word of more
dignity, denoting, properly, a gift of considerable
value, and ordinarly a gift made either to some public
institution, or to an individual on account of his
services to the public; as, a donation to a hospital,
a charitable society, or a minister.

Gift \Gift\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Gifted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Gifting}.]
To endow with some power or faculty. See {gift}[4].

He was gifted . . . with philosophical sagacity. --I.
Taylor.

Cilea knew all the tricks but his invention is weak. In the well-known arias he explores a genuine gift for rather flaccid melancholy reflection.
If you are lucky, and you or your driver are savvy enough, the 'Aids test' can be circumvented by a small 'gift' at the border.
I am like an overweight chocoholic trying to kick the habit whose friends keep bringing gift boxes of sinfully fattening hard and soft centres. My problem is fast cars.
Burns, author of the best-selling novel "Gracie: A Love Story," about his late wife Gracie Allen, planned to formally announce the gift to reporters later in the day.
Last fall, the school's 800 first-year students were required for the first time to take a three-week course in ethics, spurred in large part by a $20 million gift from former Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman John Shad.
The gift would be one of the biggest ever made to a U.S. university or medical center.
Steve Carroll, 30, called the baby a "a gift from heaven" and said that he hopes he and his wife can adopt him.
Children turned up with their holiday gift savings.
Give yourself a Christmas gift and think about it.
Mr. Newman said he considered giving a gift of stock to four people who contributed to the venture but Mr. Gold was not one of them.
Even after the tax benefits, gift annuities generally cost more than annuities from insurance companies or brokerage firms.
"I don't think I had a great natural gift for acting, the way I believe Patty (Wettig) does," Olin says in the Oct. 1 issue of US magazine.
Southern New England Telecommunications Corp. gave gift coupons to 2,000 employees who spent substantial working time driving without an accident last year.
The newspaper said two employees saw a company memorandum saying the unpaid balance was a "gift" from Rozet.
Stephen Holbrook, project coordinator, said the Episcopal gift was the largest received to date and raises donations to $2.7 million.
In the meantime a $50,000 gift has been sent to allow local officials to purchase needed goods, Ms. Gautier said.
Under the Freddie Mac program, borrowers must put down 5%, of which 2% may be in the form of a gift from a relative or an unsecured loan from the Amalgamated Bank of New York, which is union-owned.
"I'm glad (Quayle) got it, instead of Dukakis, because I'm going for Bush," Elway said when informed of the gift.
Bob Binsky, Decor chairman, said that about 30 employees have been fired as a result of suspected theft at the company's card and gift stores.
Then they opened small gift shops mostly aimed at Japanese tourists.
"Our going-away gift to the globalist ideologues should be to tell the Third World we are not sending the gunboats to collect our debts, but nor are we sending more money," he says.
But in this case, the Justice Department asserts that the recipient of a gift of money that is criminal profit may not claim she is an innocent owner of property bought with the money.
British playwright Simon Gray has a gift for making us care for unlovable people.
A man who did not give his name telephoned the Police Department's Organized Crime Control Bureau and said, "`There is a gift for John Gotti at the social club,"' according to police Sgt. Raymond O'Donnell.
But Sen. Dan Quayle (R., Ind.), a member of the labor panel, criticized the provision as an unwarranted gift to employees.
"I think chocolate in the past, and foods packaged as gift items in general, have proved fairly recession-proof," he said. "Godiva is an affordable luxury.
TT lacks the gift of his master, Leonard Bernstein for drawing 'natural' playing from his orchestra; they sounded thoroughly practised, hardly ever spontaneous. Yet the Scherzo was dazzling, kaleidoscopic.
"A gift horse has delivered something you didn't expect.
"It gives you a feeling of freedom and space." Mrs. VanDerveen, who works at a gift shop in Rancho Santa Margarita, acknowledges that the town doesn't sizzle with excitement.
Japan's chief business newspaper, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun, calls the mandated spending program "a gift from the U.S." Perhaps equally significant, the money will start to flow just when Japan's economy may need stimulating.

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