英语小点心：接受怎么说？（韦氏词典权威解释）

ac·cept\ik-ˈsept, ak- also ek-\

verb

: to receive or take (something offered)

: to take (something) as payment

: to be able or designed to take or hold (something)

Full Definition

transitive verb

1 a : to receive willingly <accept a gift>

b : to be able or designed to take or hold (something applied or added) <a surface that will not accept ink>

2 : to give admittance or approval to <accept her as one of the group>

3 a : to endure without protest or reaction <accept poor living conditions>

b : to regard as proper, normal, or inevitable <the idea is widely accepted>

c : to recognize as true : believe <refused to accept the explanation>

4 a : to make a favorable response to <accept an offer>

b : to agree to undertake (a responsibility) <accept a job>

5 : to assume an obligation to pay; also : to take in payment <we don't accept personal checks>

6 : to receive (a legislative report) officiallyintransitive verb

: to receive favorably something offered — usually used with of <a heart more disposed to accept of his — Jane Austen>

ac·cept·ing·ly \-ˈsep-tiŋ-lē\ adverb

ac·cept·ing·ness \-tiŋ-nəs\ noun

Examples

They offered him the job, and he accepted it.

They offered him the job, and he accepted.

The store doesn't accept credit cards.

Origin: Middle English, from Anglo-French accepter, from Latin acceptare, frequentative of accipere to receive, from ad- + capere to take — more at heave.

First use: 14th century

Synonyms: take, have

Antonyms: decline, deny, disallow, disapprove, negative, refuse, reject, spurn, turn down, veto

英语小点心：接受怎么说？（韦氏词典权威解释）