| 释义 |
claim /kleɪm/ vt. | vi. | n. | phr.
I ❶ vt.
1. 对(头衔、财产、名声等)提出要求；认领；索取
claim an island 对一个岛屿提出主权要求
He claims a record in the high jump. 他是跳高纪录的保持者。
She can claim credit for the success. 她可以要求人们承认这次成功归功于她。
claim payment from (或of) sb. 要求某人付款
Has anyone claimed the watch? 有人来认领这块表吗?
They went to claim their luggage at the station. 他们去车站提取行李。
claim a debt 讨债
2. 要求；需要；值得
The matter claims our attention. 这事需要我们予以注意。
claim respect 值得尊敬
3. 导致…的损失(或死亡)
The explosion claimed 24 lives. 这次爆炸使24人丧生。
4. 声称有，拥有，具有
A caller to the broadcasting station claimed responsibility for the bombing. 有人打电话给广播电台，声称对这次爆炸负责。
The candidate claimed six primary victories over his opponent. 那候选人在6次预选中击败了对手。
The group now claims 3000 members. 这个团体现有成员3000人。
The city claims the highest jobless rate in their country. 这个城市的失业率在他们国家是最高的。
the claimed range of a TV camera transmitter 一架电视摄像发射机的设计射程
claim the family long nose 长着这一家人特有的长鼻子
5. 声称；主张；断言
Don't claim to know what you don't know. 不要强不知以为知。
The boy claimed to have told the truth. 这男孩声称他说的是实话。
She claimed that she had been there. 她声称她到过那儿。
It is claimed to be true. 人们说这是确实的。
❷ vi.
1. 提出要求
No one turned up to claim on a single article. 没有人前来认领任何一件物品。
They claimed on the carriers for the loss involved. 他们向运输公司就有关损失提出赔偿要求。
2. 主张；断言
3. (凭借所有权)占用土地
II n.
1. 要求；书面要求；认领；索赔；赔款
The present era makes great claims upon us. 时代对我们提出很高的要求。
The test is entirely physical, laying no claims on the entrants' intelligence. 这次测验完全是测体力，对参加者的智力不提任何要求。
claims on the offshore waters 对沿海水域提出的主权要求
territorial claims 领土要求
set up (renounce) one's claim to the throne 提出(放弃)王位要求
make a claim to sth. 提出要得到某物(或认领某物)
a claim check 领取(寄存物)凭证
make (或put forward) a claim for compensation 索赔
file a malpractice claim 对医疗事故提出赔偿要求
2. 权利；所有权；要求权
Patricia's claim to fame was her one and only novel. 帕特利夏因为写了她那惟一的一部小说而出了名。
She has no claim on me. 她管不着我。
The poor have a claim to (或on) our sympathy. 穷苦人理应得到我们的同情。
a man in his seventies who refuses to admit the claims of time 一个70多岁还不服老的男子
3. 要求物；(移民、开矿者等)申请产权(或标定)的土地
4. 声称；主张；断言
He made no claims to sound scholarship. 他并不自以为有什么大学问。
The victory claims on the part of the aggressors were mere propaganda. 侵略者声称打了胜仗，这纯粹是宣传。
His claim to know the answer was not believed. 他自称知道答案，这可没人相信。
Though the work is broad in scope, it makes no claim to completeness. 尽管该作品涉及面很广，但它并不追求面面俱到。
5. 专利申请
[<OFr claimer to call, appeal < L clāmāre to shout] phr. hold down a claim 留居一地以便取得对土地的所有权 jump a claim 强占别人已申请的土地 (或矿产等) lay claim to 1. 对…提出所有权 (或权利)要求，坚持对…的所有权 (或权利)lay claim to a house lot 对一块宅基地提出产权要求 2. 自以为 I have never laid claim to being an expert in this field. 我从不认为自己是这方面的专家。put in a claim (for sth.) (就某物的损坏)提出赔偿要求 stake a claim to= lay claim to
stake out a claim立桩标明土地所有权 |