duty
英['dju?t?]
美['d?ti]
- n. 責任；[稅收] 關稅；職務
- n. (Duty)人名；(英)迪蒂
詞態變化
復數:?duties;
助記提示
1. 游戲：Call of Duty: 使命召喚.
中文詞源
duty 責任，稅
來自due, 欠債的，應當的。引申詞義責任，稅。
英文詞源
- duty
- duty: [13] Duty comes from Anglo-Norman dueté. This was a derivative of Old French deu ‘owed’ (source of English due [13]), which in turn came from Latin dēbitus, past participle of dēbēre ‘owe’ and source of English debit and debt. (Latin dēbēre was originally a compound verb formed from the prefix dē- ‘away’ and habēre ‘have’, literally ‘have away’, that is ‘keep in one’s possession what belongs to someone else’.) So etymologically one’s duty is what one ‘owes’ to others.
=> debit, debt, due - duty (n.)
- late 13c., from Anglo-French duete, from Old French deu "due, owed; proper, just," from Vulgar Latin *debutus, from Latin debitus, past participle of debere "to owe" (see debt). Related: Duties. The sense of "tax or fee on imports, exports, etc." is from late 15c.; duty-free as a noun is attested from 1958.
雙語例句
- 1. They clocked off duty and left at ten to three.
- 他們打卡下班，于2點50分離開。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. The first duty of a director is to recce his location.
- 主管的第一項任務是熟悉所在地區的情況。
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- 3. He had a third examination and was declared unfit for duty.
- 他接受了第三次檢查，被告知不宜上班。
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- 4. My mother waxed eloquent on the theme of wifely duty.
- 我母親大談為妻之道。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. The Night Duty Officer was ready to clock off.
- 值夜班的警員準備打卡下班。
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