mete
mete 英 [mi:t] 美 [mit]
vt. 给予；分配；测量 n. 边界；测量
进行时:meting 过去式:meted 过去分词:meted 第三人称单数:metes 名词复数:metes
- If you "mete out" something (the word is usually followed by "out"), it means you dish it out in very careful measured amounts. Anyone who metes out their love probably isn't someone you want to have a relationship with.
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- vt. 给予；分配；测量
- n. 边界；测量
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1. An algorithm will mete out the offers by weighing customers' past purchases and geographic locations.
分配订单的算法结合了客户的购物历史和地理位置。
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2. The harshness of the punishments they sometimes mete out only seems incomprehensible to the west.
塔利班时常加以运用的惩罚手段在我们西方人看来不可理喻。
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3. Within an hour, plans have been formed to pool the neighbourhood's perishables, to keep them in one cool shared place, and to mete them out, fairly and carefully so they last as long as possible.
在一个小时内，大家就制定出了共享邻居的易腐食物的计划，将它们放到一个共享的阴凉处，仔细而平均地分给每个人以便使它们可以保持得尽可能久。
- mete (n.) "boundary," now only in phrase metes and bounds, late 15c., from Old French mete "limit, bounds, frontier," from Latin meta "goal, boundary, post, pillar."
- mete (v.) "to allot," Old English metan "to measure, mete out; compare, estimate" (class V strong verb; past tense mæt, past participle meten), from Proto-Germanic *metan (source also of Old Saxon metan, Old Frisian, Old Norse meta, Dutch meten, Old High German mezzan, German messen, Gothic mitan "to measure"), from PIE root *med- "take appropriate measures." Used now only with out. Related: Meted; meting.
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