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 giving ['gɪvɪŋ]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 礼物, 给予物

[法] 给予物, 礼物


  1. Making something by hand has become the exception in many countries today -- so much so that giving a homemade gift is sometimes considered extraordinary.
    当今用手做东西,在许多国家已经成为很特殊--如此地特殊,以致赠送自制礼物有时被认为是不寻常的。
  2. As far as Christmas presents were concerned, the family agreed that Aunt Helen had hit the bull's eye by giving them a sledge.
    谈到圣诞礼物,全家都认为海伦姑妈说到点子上了,那就是送给他们一付雪橇。
  3. Mr White has worded for the company for30 years and now they're giving him the chop.
    怀特先生在该公司干了30年,现在却要被解雇了。


giving
[ noun ]
  1. the act of giving

  2. <noun.act>
  3. the imparting of news or promises etc.

  4. <noun.communication>
    he gave us the news and made a great show of the giving
    giving his word of honor seemed to come too easily
  5. disposing of property by voluntary transfer without receiving value in return

  6. <noun.act>
    the alumni followed a program of annual giving
[ adj ]
  1. given or giving freely

  2. <adj.all>
    was a big tipper
    the bounteous goodness of God
    bountiful compliments
    a freehanded host
    a handsome allowance
    Saturday's child is loving and giving
    a liberal backer of the arts
    a munificent gift
    her fond and openhanded grandfather


Giving \Giv"ing\, n.
1. The act of bestowing as a gift; a conferring or imparting.

2. A gift; a benefaction. [R.] --Pope.

3. The act of softening, breaking, or yielding. ``Upon the
first giving of the weather.'' --Addison.

{Giving in}, a falling inwards; a collapse.

{Giving out}, anything uttered or asserted; an outgiving.

His givings out were of an infinite distance
From his true meant design. --Shak.


Give \Give\ (g[i^]v), v. t. [imp. {Gave} (g[=a]v); p. p. {Given}
(g[i^]v"'n); p. pr. & vb. n. {Giving}.] [OE. given, yiven,
yeven, AS. gifan, giefan; akin to D. geven, OS. ge[eth]an,
OHG. geban, G. geben, Icel. gefa, Sw. gifva, Dan. give, Goth.
giban. Cf. {Gift}, n.]
1. To bestow without receiving a return; to confer without
compensation; to impart, as a possession; to grant, as
authority or permission; to yield up or allow.

For generous lords had rather give than pay.
--Young.

2. To yield possesion of; to deliver over, as property, in
exchange for something; to pay; as, we give the value of
what we buy.

What shall a man give in exchange for his soul ?
--Matt. xvi.
26.

3. To yield; to furnish; to produce; to emit; as, flint and
steel give sparks.

4. To communicate or announce, as advice, tidings, etc.; to
pronounce; to render or utter, as an opinion, a judgment,
a sentence, a shout, etc.

5. To grant power or license to; to permit; to allow; to
license; to commission.

It is given me once again to behold my friend.
--Rowe.

Then give thy friend to shed the sacred wine.
--Pope.

6. To exhibit as a product or result; to produce; to show;
as, the number of men, divided by the number of ships,
gives four hundred to each ship.

7. To devote; to apply; used reflexively, to devote or apply
one's self; as, the soldiers give themselves to plunder;
also in this sense used very frequently in the past
participle; as, the people are given to luxury and
pleasure; the youth is given to study.

8. (Logic & Math.) To set forth as a known quantity or a
known relation, or as a premise from which to reason; --
used principally in the passive form given.

9. To allow or admit by way of supposition.

I give not heaven for lost. --Mlton.

10. To attribute; to assign; to adjudge.

I don't wonder at people's giving him to me as a
lover. --Sheridan.

11. To excite or cause to exist, as a sensation; as, to give
offense; to give pleasure or pain.

12. To pledge; as, to give one's word.

13. To cause; to make; -- with the infinitive; as, to give
one to understand, to know, etc.

But there the duke was given to understand
That in a gondola were seen together
Lorenzo and his amorous Jessica. --Shak.

14. To afford a view of; as, his window gave the park.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

{To give away}, to make over to another; to transfer.

Whatsoever we employ in charitable uses during our
lives, is given away from ourselves. --Atterbury.

{To give back}, to return; to restore. --Atterbury.

{To give the bag}, to cheat. [Obs.]

I fear our ears have given us the bag. --J. Webster.

{To give birth to}.
(a) To bear or bring forth, as a child.
(b) To originate; to give existence to, as an enterprise,
idea.

{To give chase}, to pursue.

{To give ear to}. See under {Ear}.

{To give forth}, to give out; to publish; to tell. --Hayward.

{To give ground}. See under {Ground}, n.

{To give the hand}, to pledge friendship or faith.

{To give the hand of}, to espouse; to bestow in marriage.

{To give the head}. See under {Head}, n.

{To give in}.
(a) To abate; to deduct.
(b) To declare; to make known; to announce; to tender;
as, to give in one's adhesion to a party.

{To give the lie to} (a person), to tell (him) that he lies.


{To give line}. See under {Line}.

{To give off}, to emit, as steam, vapor, odor, etc.

{To give one's self away}, to make an inconsiderate surrender
of one's cause, an unintentional disclosure of one's
purposes, or the like. [Colloq.]

{To give out}.
(a) To utter publicly; to report; to announce or declare.

One that gives out himself Prince Florizel.
--Shak.

Give out you are of Epidamnum. --Shak.
(b) To send out; to emit; to distribute; as, a substance
gives out steam or odors.

{To give over}.
(a) To yield completely; to quit; to abandon.
(b) To despair of.
(c) To addict, resign, or apply (one's self).

The Babylonians had given themselves over to
all manner of vice. --Grew.

{To give place}, to withdraw; to yield one's claim.

{To give points}.
(a) In games of skill, to equalize chances by conceding a
certain advantage; to allow a handicap.
(b) To give useful suggestions. [Colloq.]

{To give rein}. See under {Rein}, n.

{To give the sack}. Same as {To give the bag}.

{To give and take}.
(a) To average gains and losses.
(b) To exchange freely, as blows, sarcasms, etc.

{To give time}
(Law), to accord extension or forbearance to a debtor.
--Abbott.

{To give the time of day}, to salute one with the compliment
appropriate to the hour, as ``good morning.'' ``good
evening'', etc.

{To give tongue}, in hunter's phrase, to bark; -- said of
dogs.

{To give up}.
(a) To abandon; to surrender. ``Don't give up the ship.''

He has . . . given up
For certain drops of salt, your city Rome.
--Shak.
(b) To make public; to reveal.

I'll not state them
By giving up their characters. --Beau. & Fl.
(c) (Used also reflexively.)

{To give up the ghost}. See under {Ghost}.

{To give one's self up}, to abandon hope; to despair; to
surrender one's self.

{To give way}.
(a) To withdraw; to give place.
(b) To yield to force or pressure; as, the scaffolding
gave way.
(c) (Naut.) To begin to row; or to row with increased
energy.
(d) (Stock Exchange). To depreciate or decline in value;
as, railroad securities gave way two per cent.

{To give way together}, to row in time; to keep stroke.

Syn: To {Give}, {Confer}, {Grant}.

Usage: To give is the generic word, embracing all the rest.
To confer was originally used of persons in power, who
gave permanent grants or privileges; as, to confer the
order of knighthood; and hence it still denotes the
giving of something which might have been withheld;
as, to confer a favor. To grant is to give in answer
to a petition or request, or to one who is in some way
dependent or inferior.

  1. Prosecutors have arrested 12 people on suspicion of giving or taking bribes or violating security laws.
  2. They did so for one inning before giving up.
  3. Parris and Coleman have charged that Trible is giving up his Senate seat to avoid a tough campaign against former Gov. Charles S. Robb, the Democratic nominee for the Senate.
  4. The report indicated inflation was being held in check, giving the Fed more leeway to ease rates without fanning the fires of inflation.
  5. They're afraid that the FDA's bureaucrats, many of whom are fighting the proposal, will drag their feet in giving formal approval for drugs being distributed to patients under the new rules.
  6. Judge Rice ruled that a new stock ownership plan giving NCR employees 8% of the stock made "a mockery" of that vote.
  7. Officials said that Mr. Garrett, like senior officials from the other services, was ordered to keep quiet about the Seawolf decision and to refrain from giving details to even his top planners.
  8. Second, she said, "We are down to problems in this country that can only be resolved by some group giving up something for another. For a long time we solved problems by putting new money on the table.
  9. Shultz's trip is aimed at giving Central American leaders forceful assurances of U.S. support and at seeking common approaches for dealing with Nicaragua.
  10. One alert reader received a mail shot from Sharelink giving him the chance to invest in one of two indexed funds via a personal equity plan.
  11. He did not elaborate on what if any legal guarantees would be taken that the party was giving up its leading role.
  12. And to hunt down those bears that nevertheless remain destructive, the authorities are increasingly giving special permits to sport hunters, leaving less work for professional hunters like Mr. Paque.
  13. IMA also has agreed to assume $1.42 billion in debt, giving the acquisition a total indicated value of about $3.35 billion.
  14. The government seeks to make the official and commercial rates converge, possibly as soon as Jan. 1, giving the zloty a convertible value that would ensure Western companies a way to translate profits into other currencies.
  15. Mr Heseltine had been drafted in to answer Mr Smith because Mr Norman Lamont, the chancellor, was giving evidence to the Treasury committee. Mr Smith used his opening speech to review the government's pledges of an early economic upturn.
  16. There appears to be growing sentiment in Congress to plug this loophole, while giving regulators more time to determine the potential competitive impact of proposed takeovers.
  17. A long-awaited formal pact with Baghdad, giving Kurds autonomy, still hasn't been signed.
  18. Svend Jakobsen, the neutral mediator charged with sounding out eight parties on a national program, said he could not bring enough parties together to form a stable government and was giving up his task.
  19. He was released in the early 1980s but subsequently was arrested in the United States on charges of rape and armed robbery, the DEA said without giving the outcome of those cases.
  20. Holding enough votes this time to override a veto, Democrats are forcing a second election-year showdown with President Reagan over giving workers advance notice of plant closings and large layoffs.
  21. "There has never been in our country's history this degree of community sharing," Riley said. "You can bet your bottom dollar that the next city that has a disaster, Charleston will be represented" in giving aid.
  22. The Canadian Museum of Civilization opens Thursday on the banks of the Ottawa River, giving Canada an extravagant combination of high-tech and culture aimed at luring more visitors to the national capital.
  23. The latest approach, Rosenberg said, "is giving the highest response rate I'm aware of in patients with melanoma.
  24. Rep. Dennis Eckart of Ohio, giving the Democrats' response, said Dukakis and Bentsen would do more than the Republicans to answer Americans' most pressing concerns.
  25. It also proposed giving the state stronger powers to recover from polluters the governmental costs of responding to spills and other environmental emergencies.
  26. Some involve 'gene therapy' - giving patients perfect copies of defective genes.
  27. This is because Securitas intends to distribute its 45 per cent stake to shareholders in what is effectively a demerger. Securitas said its net debt would fall to nil from SKr400m giving it a strong financial base from which to expand.
  28. 'It would be wrong to put words into his mouth if they were not correct, but where you have a civil servant giving evidence on behalf of a department, many hands contribute,' he said.
  29. "I tell them American and British Jews aren't replenishing our manpower and therefore they aren't giving Israel what Israel needs most," he says.
  30. "You can't have a news conference to say 'Gee, (OPEC) production is down,' when King Fahd just announced he will be giving discounts" to sell more oil, Mr. Higby said.
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