allow

动词 v.
中文释义
发音 ə-lou'

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To let one have as a suitable share of something. ditransitive
    — to allow a servant his liberty; to allow a free passage; to allow one day for rest
  2. To present something as possible or reasonable. intransitive
    — The event allows of only one interpretation.
  3. To permit, to give permission to. catenative,transitive
    — I will allow my son to be absent.
  4. To not bar or obstruct.
    — Although I don't consent to their holding such meetings, I will allow them for the time being.
  5. To acknowledge, accept the truth of; to concede; to accede to an opinion; to say something one agrees on in the context of a larger disagreement or reluctance. transitive
    — to allow a right; to allow a claim; to allow an appeal
  6. To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; especially to abate or deduct. transitive
    — to allow a sum for leakage
  7. To make an allowance, to take into account when making plans. transitive
    — When calculating a budget for a construction project, always allow for contingencies.
  8. To render physically possible. transitive
    — The inlet allowed a facility to bring the money in a boat secretly and at night to the very foot of the hill.
  9. To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction. obsolete,transitive
    — Truly ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your fathers
  10. To sanction; to invest; to entrust. obsolete
    — Therefore so please thee to return with us, And of our Athens—thine and ours—to take The captainship, thou shalt be met with thanks, Allow'd with absolute power, and thy good name Live with authority. So soon we shall drive back Of Alcibiades the approaches wild, Who, like a boar too savage, doth root up His country's peace.
  11. To like; to be suited or pleased with. obsolete,transitive
    — How allow you the model of these clothes?
  12. To decide (a request) in favour of the party who raised it; to grant victory to a party regarding (a request). transitive
    — to allow an objection
    to find in favour of the objection and forbid the conduct objected to
  13. To forgo bothering with, to let slide. Multicultural-London-English,transitive
    — Easy on violence, now I doubt it I could’ve banged this face but allowed it

词形变化

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词汇关系

反义词
ban forbid prohibit
衍生词
allowability allowable allowance allowee allower allow for allowingly allow it allowment allow nature to take her its course disallowance reallow unallowing
相关词
allowance disallow

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Proto-Italic *ad-
Latin ad-
Latin laus
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin laudō
Latin allaudō
Old French aloer
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Latin ad-
Proto-Indo-European *stel-der.
Proto-Italic *stlokos?
Old Latin stlocus
Latin locus
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Latin -ō
Latin locō
Latin allocō
Old French aloer
Anglo-Norman alouerbor.
Middle English allowen
English allow
From Middle English allowen, alowen, a borrowing from Anglo-Norman allouer, alouer, from Medieval Latin allaudāre, merged with alouer, from Medieval Latin allocō (“to assign”). Doublet of allaud (via allaudāre) or allocate (via allocāre).
The similarity with Middle English alyfen (from Old English ālīefan) and German erlauben, both from Proto-Germanic *uzlaubijaną (“to allow”) is unrelated.
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