1 N-VAR 債務;欠款 A
debt is a sum of money that you owe someone.
債務;欠款 -
Three years later, he is still paying off his debts.
都3年了,他仍在償還債務。
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Shrinking economies mean falling tax revenues and more government debt.
經濟收縮意味着稅收的減少和政府債務的增加。
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...reducing the country's $18 billion foreign debt.
削減該國所欠的 180 億美元外債
3 N-UNCOUNT 負債(狀態) Debt is the state of owing money.
負債(狀態) If you are
in debt or
get into debt, you owe money. If you are
out of debt or
get out of debt, you succeed in paying all the money that you owe.
4 N-COUNT [usually singular, oft in poss N] (表示感激)我欠你個人情/我受你的恩惠 You use
debt in expressions such as
I owe you a debt or
I am in your debt when you are expressing gratitude for something that someone has done for you.
(表示感激)我欠你個人情/我受你的恩惠 [formal, feelings] -
He was so good to me that I can never repay the debt I owe him.
他對我太好了,我永遠也還不清這份人情。
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I owe a debt of thanks to Joyce Thompson, whose careful and able research was of great help.
我要衷心地感謝喬伊斯·湯普森先生,他嚴謹而卓著的研究給予了我極大的幫助。
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I know I shall feel for ever in her debt.
我知道我將會永遠感激她。
Quotations
In the midst of life we are in debt Ethel Watts Mumford et al. Altogether New Cynic's Calendar Debt is the worst poverty Thomas Fuller Gnomologia Word Partnership | Use debt with: |
VERB. | pay off a debt, repay a debt 1 incur debt, reduce debt 2 |
ADV. | deeply in debt 2 |
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