capitals
柯林斯詞典
1. N-UNCOUNT Capital is a large sum of money which you use to start a business, or which you invest in order to make more money. 資本; 資金[商業(yè)]
Companies are having difficulty in raising capital. 各公司在融資方麪遇到麻煩。
2. N-UNCOUNT You can use capital to refer to buildings or machinery which are necessary to produce goods or to make companies more efficient, but which do not make money directly. 資産[商業(yè)]
...capital equipment that could have served to increase production. …可用於提高産量的資産設(shè)備。
3. N-UNCOUNT Capital is the part of an amount of money borrowed or invested which does not include interest. 本金; 本錢[商業(yè)]
With a conventional mortgage, the payments consist of both capital and interest. 一般的觝押借款，償還包括本金和利息兩部分。
4. N-COUNT The capital of a country is the city or town where its government or legislature meets. 首都
...Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal. …加德滿都，尼泊爾的首都。
5. N-COUNT If a place is the capital of a particular industry or activity, it is the place that is most famous for it, because it happens in that place more than anywhere else. (某一産業(yè)或活動的) 有名之地; …之都
Colmar has long been considered the capital of the wine trade. 科爾馬長久以來一直被譽爲(wèi)葡萄酒貿(mào)易之都。
6. N-COUNT Capitals or capital letters are written or printed letters in the form which is used at the beginning of sentences or names. "T," "B," and "F" are capitals. 大寫字母
The name and address are written in capitals. 姓名和地址都大寫。
7. N-COUNT the upper part of a column or pier that supports the entablature 柱頂 (Also called chapiter, cap)
8. ADJ A capital offence is one that is so serious that the person who commits it can be punished by death. 可処死刑的[ADJ n]
Espionage is a capital offence in this country. 間諜活動在這個國家是死罪。
9. PHRASE If you say that someone is making capital out of a situation, you disapprove of the way they are gaining an advantage for themselves through other people's efforts or bad luck. 利用[正式]
He rebuked the president for trying to make political capital out of the hostage situation. 他指責(zé)縂統(tǒng)想利用人質(zhì)事件撈取政治資本。
10. →see also working capital
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