design (可數 和 不可數,複數 designs)
- 設計
- 目的,意圖
We have designs on winning the league next season.- 我們的目標是贏得下個賽季的聯賽。
To be hateful of the truth by design.- (請為本使用例添加中文翻譯)
1763, Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz, History of Louisisana, PG,第 40 頁:I give it you without any other design than to shew you that I reckon nothing dear to me, when I want to do you a pleasure.- 我把它給你,沒有任何其他目的,只是想讓你知道,當我想讓你高興時,我什麼都不看重。
1762, Charles Johnstone, The Reverie; or, A Flight to the Paradise of Fools[1], 第 2 卷, Dublin: Printed by Dillon Chamberlaine, →OCLC,第 202 頁:At length, one night, when the company by ſome accident broke up much ſooner than ordinary, ſo that the candles were not half burnt out, ſhe was not able to reſiſt the temptation, but reſolved to have them ſome way or other. Accordingly, as ſoon as the hurry was over, and the ſervants, as ſhe thought, all gone to ſleep, ſhe ſtole out of her bed, and went down ſtairs, naked to her ſhift as ſhe was, with a deſign to ſteal them […]- (請為本引文添加中文翻譯)
2011年6月28日, Piers Newbery, “Wimbledon 2011: Sabine Lisicki beats Marion Bartoli”, 出自 BBC Sport[2]:Lisicki will rise from her current ranking of 62 to at least 35 in the world on the back of her efforts at the All England Club, but she will have serious designs on a first Grand Slam title after overcoming the 2007 runner-up.- (請為本引文添加中文翻譯)
design (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 designs,現在分詞 designing,一般過去時及過去分詞 designed)
- (及物) 設計 (from 17th c.)
1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:She designed his retirement from the Royal Irish Artillery, and had negociated an immediate berth for him on the Staff of the Commander of the Forces, and a prospective one in the household of Lord Townshend […]- (請為本引文添加中文翻譯)
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- (棄用,不及物) 計畫,打算
The king designed to mount an expedition to the New World.- 國王打算遠征新世界。
- (棄用,及物) 分配 (16th–19th c.)
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1700, John Dryden, Translations from Ovid's Epistles, Preface:He was designed to the study of the law.- (請為本引文添加中文翻譯)