- 把(费用、价格等)打折扣;从费用(或账单、价格等)中打去(一部分)折扣:
The store promised to discount prices at 10%.
该店承诺所有商品打10%的折扣。
All bills that are paid promptly will be discounted at three percent.
对所有即付的账单都将打去3%的折扣。
- 削(或减)价出售,打折扣卖:
The store discounted all computers for the sale.
该店削价出售全部待售的电脑。
Automakers discounted their overpriced cars.
汽车制造商打折扣卖掉定价过高的汽车。
- (受票人或持票人)把(期票、汇票等)贴现:
The rate was discounted at 4% a year.
利率以每年 4% 进行贴现。
- 不考虑;漠视,无视,藐视;不信:
I think we shouldn't discount the possibility completely.
我认为我们不应完全不考虑这种可能性。
- 不全信,怀疑地看待,对…持怀疑态度,估计到…有偏见(或夸大、不可靠、不相关等)的成分在内:
Knowing her political bias we discounted most of her story.
由于了解她的政治偏见,我们对她的大部分报道都持怀疑态度。
- 低估;贬抑,贬低,减损:
We shouldn't discount the effect of AIDS.
我们不应低估艾滋病的影响。
- (根据目前的情况)预料到(将发生的事)(以减轻其影响);预先采取行动,在(某事)发生前采取措施:
We had discounted the effect of an earthquake.
我们在地震发生前采取了预防措施。