settlement
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英 ['set(?)lm(?)nt]
美['s?tlm?nt]
- n. 解決，處理；[會計] 結算；沉降；殖民
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詞態變化
復數:?settlements;
中文詞源
settlement 安排，解決，處理
settle,安排，解決，處理，-ment,名詞后綴。
英文詞源
- settlement (n.)
- 1620s, "act of fixing or steadying;" from settle (v.) + -ment. Meaning "a colony," especially a new one, "tract of country newly developed" is attested from 1690s; that of "small village on the frontier" is from 1827, American English. Sense of "payment of an account" is from 1729; legal sense "a settling of arrangements" (of divorce, property transfer, etc.) is from 1670s.
雙語例句
- 1. The village is a settlement of just fifty houses.
- 這個村子里只住了50戶人。
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- 2. There are much brighter prospects for a comprehensive settlement than before.
- 綜合性的社區具有比以前更加光明的前景。
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- 3. Officials have now been delegated to start work on a draft settlement.
- 現在已經委派官員著手起草解決方案。
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- 4. In court filings, they argued that the settlement was inadequate.
- 在法庭訟案中，他們提出和解費數額太少。
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- 5. Without their assent a political settlement cannot be reached.
- 沒有他們的同意，不可能達成政治上的和解。
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