| 单词 | dole |
| 释义 | doleWord family adjectivedolefuldolentdolesomeadverbdolefullydolesomelynoundolefulnessdole Welfare dole1 /dəʊl $ doʊl/ noun [uncountableU] informal 1 PEW British EnglishBrE money given by the government in Britain to people who are unemployed 〔英国政府发放的〕失业救济金 be/go on the dole (=be unemployed and receiving money from the government) 领取政府的失业救济金 Too many young people are still on the dole. 还在吃政府救济的年轻人太多了。 The number claiming dole went up by 3,500. 申请领取救济金者增加了3,500人。 2 the dole queue/dole queues informal British EnglishBrE the number of people who are unemployed and claiming money from the government, or a line of people waiting to claim this money each week 领取失业救济金的人数；等待领取失业救济金的队伍 As two factories closed today, 500 people joined the dole queue. 由于今天两家工厂倒闭，又有500人加入了领取失业救济金的行列。 Dole queues lengthened. 领失业救济金的人数增加了。 3 the dole informal American EnglishAmE money given by the government in the US to people who need financial help 救济金 SYN welfare on the dole How many people are on the public dole? 有多少人在领取政府救济金？ Examples from the Corpus the public dole• I want to be on the public dole. Examples from the Corpus dole• Surely they didn't collect dole cheques from the society they so obviously rejected?• She was an alien in the country with no dole to fall back on, didn't have much money.• I want to be on the public dole.• I brace myself for the sight of the posters, unrolled and exposed, and the dole cards.• If the unemployed learned to be better managers ... I fancy it would not be long before the dole was docked correspondingly.• Surely this term should be used to describe some one who lives and works - or draws the dole - in Scouserpool?• I said the bankers were the first to go on the dole.• I was on the dole then, getting £5.50 a week and the rent was £2.50. claiming dole• In Northern Ireland, last year saw some 5,000 redundancies, while the number claiming dole went up by 3,500. dole2 verb 1 dole something ↔ out phrasal verbphr v informal GIVEto give something such as money, food, advice etc to more than one person 发放，分发〔钱、食物等〕；〔给多人〕提供〔建议〕 to Vera was doling out candy to all the kids. 维拉正在给所有的孩子分发糖果。 Examples from the Corpus dole out• Mr James rationally doling it out.• She liked to be frugal: to have money and carefully dole it out.• On the campaign trail, Dole has ruled out cutting defense, Social Security and Medicare.• If Dole figures out how to take his vaunted inside political skills public, watch out.• Doctors tended to dole them out liberally.• In 1988, soon after losing the Illinois primary to George Bush, Dole dropped out of the race.• It s going to take a bit of time for the factories to dole us out some more.• How does Dole reach out to a rival who has no reason to quit? dole to• How does Dole reach out to a rival who has no reason to quit? Examples from the Corpus dole• It must also dole out a level of punishment so severe that it precludes any further response.• So to save costs -- many millions a year, experts say -- the company stopped doling out awards.• They've been doling out compassion long before the late Princess Diana invented it.• Its board has adopted a streamlined procedure for doling out emergency loans.• Local officials traditionally lavish entertainment on national officials who dole out money for public works and other local projects. From Longman Business Dictionary doledole /dəʊldoʊl/ noun [uncountableU] British EnglishBrE informal old-fashioned in Britain, money that the government gives to people who are looking for workSYN AmE welfare A whole generation of miners ended up on the dole. unemployed demonstrators protesting at dole cuts Old English dal “part, share” |
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