dole

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /dəʊl/|[dɒʊl]    美 /doʊl/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Money or other goods given as charity.
    — So sure the dole, so ready at their call, / They stood prepar'd to see the manna fall.
  2. A sorrow or grief; dolour. archaic,uncountable
    — Syr said sir gyngalyn I wote not what knyȝt he was / but wel I wote that he sygheth and maketh grete dole. "Sir, said Sir Gingalin, I wot not what knight he was, but well I wot that he sigheth, and maketh great dole."
  3. Alternative form of dhole (“Asian wild dog”). alt-of,alternative
  4. Distribution; dealing; apportionment.
    — c. 1650s, John Cleveland, Upon Phillis Walking in a Morning before Sun-rising At her general dole, / Each receives his ancient soul.
  5. Dolus. Scotland,uncountable
  6. Payment by the state to the unemployed; unemployment benefits. informal
    — I get my dole paid twice a week.
  7. A boundary; a landmark.
    — Curſed be he which tranſlateth the bounds and dolles of his Neighbor.
  8. A void space left in tillage. UK,dialectal
动词 v.
  1. To distribute in small amounts; to share out small portions of a meager resource.

词形变化

doles present,singular,third-person doling participle,present doled participle,past doled past doles plural

词汇关系

衍生词
dole bludger dole bread dole head dolehead doleite dole meadow dole merchant dole queue doleful dolesome dolewave

词源

词源 1
From Middle English dol, from Old English dāl (“portion, share, division, allotment”), from Proto-Germanic *dailą (“part, deal”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰayl- (“part, watershed”). Cognate with Old Church Slavonic дѣлити (děliti, “divide”). More at deal.
词源 2
From Middle English dole (“grief”), from Old French doel (compare French deuil), from Late Latin dolus, from Latin doleo.
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