allowance n. 1.零用钱,给与额,津贴,补助,零用钱。 2.【机械工程】(加工)留量;配合公差。 3.斟酌,酌量;预留;容差;【商业】折扣。 4.默许,默认;承认。 5.【体育】给对方的让步。 an allowance of rice 给予一份大米。 a clothing [traveling] allowance 服装[旅]费。 short allowance 给予量不足。 a time allowance (给对方的)时间的宽限。 By your allowance I'd like to leave before you. 对不起,我要先走了。 at no allowance 无限制,尽性 (plunder at no allowance 大肆掠夺)。 make allowance for 1. 留有余地;斟酌,酌量,估量。 2. 原谅,体谅。 3. 扣除 (make an allowance of 10% for cash payment 现款九折)。 vt. 1.给…发津贴。 2.按定量供给。
We must make allowances for his ignorance . 我们对他的无知必须谅解。
We should have a study of allowances for overseas personnel . 我们应该对海外人员的津贴费作一番研究。
I cannot but hope the candid reader will give some allowance for it . 我只有希望公正的读者多少包涵一些。
Mr. darnay as a young gentleman of generosity knows how to make allowance for that circumstance . 代尔先生是宽宏的青年绅士,他知道怎样原恕这种情形的。
However, since the dose rate is steadily decreasing during the exposure, appropriate allowance for this must be made . 可是,由于在辐照过程中剂量率逐步下降,所以必需进行适当的修正。
She thought ralph's judgments distorted by his trials, but she flattered herself she had learned to make allowance for his words . 虽然她认为,拉尔夫的看法总有些故弄玄虚,但她相信她已经懂得怎样来对待他的话。
Even making allowances for the costs involved in urban renewal, it is still rather surprising that so little has taken place . 既使考虑到城市更新存在着这些代价问题,这方面的工作进展如此之缓慢,还是出人意料的。
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. " 安德鲁脑际闪过五天前的种种情景,说到:“那时我有点神魂颠倒,这你恐怕不能见怪。”
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 . 医生的这番话说得从容不迫,十分缓慢,不时停顿下来或拖长语气,但没有给凯瑟琳足够的时间来猜测他的结论。
Allowance for reduction of short - term investment to market 备抵短期投资跌价损失