The verb is pronounced /pə'mɪt/. The noun is pronounced /'pɜːmɪt/ 动词读作 /pə'mɪt/,名词读作 /'pɜːmɪt/。
- VERB 允许;准许
If someone permits something, they allow it to happen. If they permit you to do something, they allow you to do it.
- He can let the court's decision stand and permit the execution...
他有权维持法庭判决,批准死刑生效。 - The guards permitted me to bring my camera and tape recorder...
卫兵准许我带相机和录音机。 - Employees are permitted to use the golf course during their free hours...
准许雇员在业余时间使用高尔夫球场。 - No outside journalists have been permitted into the country...
禁止外国记者进入该国。 - If they appear to be under 12, then the doorman is not allowed to permit them entry to the film.
如果他们看起来不到12岁,门卫不得允许其进入观看该影片。
- N-COUNT 许可证;特许证
A permit is an official document which says that you may do something. For example you usually need a permit to work in a foreign country.
- The majority of foreign nationals working here have work permits...
大多数在这里工作的外国人都有工作许可证。 - He has to apply for a permit, and we have to find him a job.
他必须要申请工作许可证,我们得给他找份工作。
- VERB 允许;使有可能
If a situation permits something, it makes it possible for that thing to exist, happen, or be done or it provides the opportunity for it.
- He sets about creating an environment that just doesn't permit experiment, it encourages it...
他着手营造一种不仅可以进行试验而且鼓励进行试验的环境。 - Try to go out for a walk at lunchtime, if the weather permits...
只要天气不太差,中午尽量出去散散步。 - This method of cooking also permits heat to penetrate evenly from both sides.
这种烹饪方法也能使两面均匀受热。
- VERB 破例做;放纵
If you permit yourself something, you allow yourself to do something that you do not normally do or that you think you probably should not do.
- Captain Bowen permitted himself one cigar a day...
鲍恩上尉破例允许自己每天抽一支雪茄。 - Only once in his life had Douglas permitted himself to lose control of his emotions.
道格拉斯一生中只有一次情绪失控。
- PHRASE (用于提出建议)请允许我
You can use permit me when you are about to say something or to make a suggestion.
- Permit me to give you some advice...
请允许我给你提点建议。 - Permit me to offer you my sincere congratulations.
谨致衷心祝贺。