酷兔词典首页

sanction

美音:[´sæŋkʃən ]点这儿播放单词美音发声
英音:[´sæŋkʃən ]点这儿播放单词英音发声
n.批准,同意,支持,制裁,认可 v.批准,同意,支持,鼓励,认可

难易程度:

sanction为短语/超纲词汇   词频:4333

词形变化:

动词过去式:sanctioned 过去分词:sanctioned 现在分词:sanctioning 第三人称单数:sanctions

词根

sacr,sanct,secr=sacred(神圣的)

近义词, 同义词

相关词

O.K.  accept  allow  approve  authorize  license  permit  support  interdict    

sanction


/'sæŋkʃn; `sæŋkʃən/
n
1 [U] permission or approval for an action, a change, etc (对某种行动、变化等的)认可, 批准
*The book was translated without the sanction of the author. 这本书未经作者许可就给翻译了.
* The government gave its sanction to what the Minister had done. 政府对这位部长的做法均已认可.
* These measures have the sanction of tradition, ie seem justified because they have often been taken before. 这些措施已约定俗成.
2 [C] reason that stops people disobeying laws, rules, etc 使人们不违背法律、规定等的因素或约束力
*Is prison the best sanction against a crime like this? 为遏止这类罪行, 监禁手段是否是上策?
* The fear of ridicule is a very effective sanction. 人们不做违法乱纪的事, 其中一个重要因素就是怕人耻笑.
3 measure taken to force a country to obey international law (迫使某国服从国际法的)处罚措施, 制裁
*apply economic sanctions against a repressive regime 对一压制人民的政体实行经济制裁.

v [Tn, Tg, Tsg] give one's permission for (sth); authorize or approve 同意(某事); 批准; 认可
*I can't sanction your methods. 我不能同意你的办法.
* Who sanctioned bombing the town? 是谁批准轰炸那座城的?
* They won't sanction our spending on this scale. 他们不会同意我们这么大的开支.
1. To those of us who are immigrants, the bill seems simply to sanction a policy secretly implemented by U.S. industry for nearly four decades — namely, stealing brains from the third world.
    对我们这些移民来说,这一议案只不过是正式批准一项美国工业界已秘密地执行了近40年的政策而已——即从第三世界窃取人才的政策。

更多句子>>>