Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular present tense bills, present participle billing, past tense, past participle billed
1N-COUNT (商品或服务费用的)账单 A bill is a written statement of money that you owe for goods or services. →see usage note at:account(商品或服务费用的)账单
They couldn't afford to pay the bills.
他们无力支付这些账单。
He paid his bill for the newspapers promptly.
他立即支付了订报费。
...phone bills.
电话账单
2VERB [no cont]给…开送账单 If you bill someone for goods or services you have provided them with, you give or send them a bill stating how much money they owe you for these goods or services. 给…开送账单 [Also VERB n]
Are you going to bill me for this? [VERB noun + for]
3N-SING (餐馆的)账单The bill in a restaurant is a piece of paper on which the price of the meal you have just eaten is written and which you are given before you pay. (餐馆的)账单 [British]
in AM, use 美国英语用 check
4N-COUNT 纸币;钞票 A bill is a piece of paper money. 纸币;钞票 [US]
5N-COUNT [usually singular]议案;法案 In government, a bill is a formal statement of a proposed new law that is discussed and then voted on. 议案;法案
This is the toughest crime bill that Congress has passed in a decade.
这是十年来国会通过的最严厉的一项刑事法案。
The bill was approved by a large majority.
这项法案得到了绝大多数人的支持。
SYN act of parliament, measure, proposal, piece of legislation
6N-SING 演出人员名单 The bill of a show or concert is a list of the entertainers who will take part in it. 演出人员名单
7VERB [usually passive]宣传(某人)将参加演出 If someone is billed to appear in a particular show, it has been advertised that they are going to be in it. 宣传(某人)将参加演出
She was billed to play the Red Queen in Snow White. [beVERB-ed to-infinitive]
海报宣传她会扮演《白雪公主》中的“红王后”。
billing
...their quarrels over star billing.
他们因为海报上排名的先后顺序而发生的争吵
8VERB 宣传(某人或某物有某种特质或能力) If you bill a person or event as a particular thing, you advertise them in a way that makes people think they have particular qualities or abilities. 宣传(某人或某物有某种特质或能力)
They bill it as Britain's most exciting museum. [VERB noun + as]
11PHRASE 适合需要;符合要求 If you say that someone or something fits the bill or fills the bill, you mean that they are suitable for a particular job or purpose. 适合需要;符合要求