bill
英 [b?l]
美[b?l]
- n. [法] 法案；廣告；賬單；[金融] 票據；鈔票；清單
- vt. 宣布；開賬單；用海報宣傳
TOEFLCET4TEM4IELTS考研CET6中高頻詞基本詞匯
詞態變化
復數:?bills;第三人稱單數:?bills;過去式:?billed;過去分詞:?billed;現在分詞:?billing;
中文詞源
bill 帳單，法案，鳥喙
1.法案，詞源同ball, 球，此處指小蠟球。指舊時官方文件通常用封蠟封印，代指官方文件。
2.鳥喙， 來自PIE *bheie, 砍，劈，可能同bite, boat.
英文詞源
- bill
- bill: There are three distinct words bill in English (not counting the proper name), and of them all, the most recent is the commonest. Bill ‘note of charges’ [14] comes from Anglo-Latin billa, which is probably a variant of Latin bulla ‘_document, seal’ (as in ‘papal bull’). English billet [15], as in ‘billeting soldiers on a house’, was originally a diminutive form of billa (French billet ‘letter’ comes from the same source). Bill ‘hook-bladed weapon’ [OE], now found mainly in billhook, comes from a prehistoric West Germanic *bilja, which may be based ultimately on Indo-European *bhid-, source of English bite. Bill ‘beak’ [OE] may be related to bill ‘weapon’, but this is not clear.
The verbal sense ‘caress’, as in ‘bill and coo’, is 16th-century; it arose from the courting behaviour of doves stroking each other’s beaks.
=> billet - bill (n.1)
- "written statement," mid-14c., from Anglo-French bille, Anglo-Latin billa "list," from Medieval Latin bulla "decree, seal, sealed document," in classical Latin "bubble, boss, stud, amulet for the neck" (hence "seal;" see bull (n.2)). Sense of "account, invoice" first recorded c. 1400; that of "order to pay" (technically bill of exchange) is from 1570s; that of "paper money" is from 1660s. Meaning "draft of an act of Parliament" is from 1510s.
- 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 a common Germanic word for cutting or chopping weapons (compare Old High German bihal, Old Norse bilda "hatchet," Old Saxon bil "sword"), from PIE root *bheie- "to cut, to strike" (cognates: Armenian bir "cudgel," Greek phitos "block of wood," Old Church Slavonic biti "to strike," Old Irish biail "ax"). Used also in Middle English of beak-like projections of land (such as Portland Bill).
- bill (v.)
- "to send someone a bill of charge," 1864, from bill (n.1). Related: Billed; billing.
- bill (n.3)
- ancient weapon, Old English bill "sword (especially one with a hooked blade), chopping tool," common Germanic (compare Old Saxon bil "sword," Middle Dutch bile, Dutch bijl, Old High German bihal, German Beil, Old Norse bilda "hatchet." See bill (n.2).
雙語例句
- 1. You have to pay your outstanding bill before joining the scheme.
- 在參加該項目之前必須結清余賬。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. The waiter returned with their order and Graham signed the bill.
- 侍者把他們點的餐端了過來，格雷厄姆簽了單。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. The administration has now endorsed the bill and can't turn back.
- 政府部門如今已經簽署了那項法案，沒有挽回的余地。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. It's been 200 years since the passage of the Bill of Rights.
- 《人權法案》通過已經200年了。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. Come on, Bill. Send Tom a card and make his day.
- 來吧，比爾。給湯姆寄張卡片讓他高興高興吧。
來自柯林斯例句