sanction
sanction 英 [ˈsæŋkʃn] 美 [ˈsæŋkʃən]
n. 制裁，处罚；认可；支持 vt. 制裁，处罚；批准；鼓励
进行时:sanctioning 过去式:sanctioned 过去分词:sanctioned 第三人称单数:sanctions 名词复数:sanctions
- Sanction has two nearly opposite meanings: to sanction can be to approve of something, but it can also mean to punish, or speak harshly to. Likewise, a sanction can be a punishment or approval. Very confusing––the person who invented this word should be publicly sanctioned!
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- n. 制裁，处罚；认可；支持
- vt. 制裁，处罚；批准；鼓励
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1. The church would not sanction his second marriage.
教会不会认可他的第二次婚姻。
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2. In the service of the empress, this inept chauffeur faced no legal sanction for the mishap.
由于服侍太后，这位无能的司机在这场车祸中没有受到任何法律的制裁。
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3. The new restrictions “do not exhaust our opportunities to sanction Iran, ” she said.
她说，新的限制措施“并未用尽我们制裁伊朗的机会”。
- sanction (n.) early 15c., "confirmation or enactment of a law," from Latin sanctionem (nominative sanctio) "act of decreeing or ordaining," also "decree, ordinance," noun of action from past participle stem of sancire "to decree, confirm, ratify, make sacred" (see saint (n.)). Originally especially of ecclesiastical decrees.
- sanction (v.) 1778, "confirm by sanction, make valid or binding;" 1797 as "to permit authoritatively;" from sanction (n.). Seemingly contradictory meaning "impose a penalty on" is from 1956 but is rooted in an old legalistic sense of the noun. Related: Sanctioned; sanctioning.
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