bill
bill 英 [bɪl] 美 [bɪl]
n. 账单； 法案 vt. 开账单；宣传为
进行时:billing 过去式:billed 过去分词:billed 第三人称单数:bills 名词复数:bills
- When thinking about all the many meanings of the simple word bill think of the bill you get in a restaurant. A piece of paper that someone pushes toward you, right?
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- n. 账单； 法案
- vt. 开账单；宣传为
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1. the telephone bill, the electricity bill, the gas bill
电话费╱电费╱煤气费账单
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2. We ran up amassive hotel bill.
我们累积了大笔的旅馆费。
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3. She always pays her bills on time.
她总是按时支付账单。
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4. Let's ask for the bill.
我们结账吧。
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5. a ten-dollar bill
一张十元的钞票
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6. to introduce a bill, to approve a bill, to reject a bill
提出╱通过╱否决一项议案
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7. the Education Reform Bill
教育改革法案
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8. Please bill me for the books.
请就所购的书给我开列账单。
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9. He was billed as the new Tom Cruise.
他被宣传为新汤姆 · 克鲁斯。
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10. She was billed to speak on ‘China—Yesterday and Today’.
海报上说她要发表题为“中国 — 昨天和今天”的演讲。
- bill (n.1) "written statement," late 14c., "formal document; formal plea or charge (in a court of law); personal letter," from Anglo-French bille, Anglo-Latin billa "a writing, a list, a seal," from Medieval Latin bulla "decree, seal, sealed document," in classical Latin "bubble, boss, stud, amulet for the neck" (hence "seal"); see bull (n.2).
- bill (n.2) "bird's beak," Old English bill "bill, bird's beak," related to bill, a poetic word for a kind of sword (especially one with a hooked blade), from Proto-Germanic *bili-, a word for cutting or chopping weapons (see bill (n.3)). Used also in Middle English of beak-like projections of land (such as Portland Bill).
- bill (n.3) ancient weapon, Old English bill "sword (especially one with a hooked blade), chopping tool," from Proto-Germanic *bili-, a word for cutting or chopping weapons (compare Old Saxon bil "sword," Middle Dutch bile, Dutch bijl, Old High German bihal, German Beil, Old Norse bilda "hatchet"), possibly from PIE root *bheie- "to cut, to strike" (source also of Armenian bir "cudgel," Greek phitos "block of wood," Old Church Slavonic biti "to strike," Old Irish biail "ax").
- bill (v.1) "to send someone a bill of charge," 1864, from bill (n.1). Related: Billed; billing.
- bill (v.2) "to stroke beaks," as doves do, hence, of lovers, "caress fondly," 1590s, from bill (n.2)). Paired with coo at least since 1764; Century Dictionary [1902] defines bill and coo (by 1768) as "to kiss and caress and talk nonsense, as lovers." Related: Billed; billing.
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