You can picture debt as something you have taken from someone that still hangs over you until you give it back: money you borrowed and owe. Hold that feeling of an unpaid amount sitting on your shoulders — the word then stretches from owed money to owed thanks.
登入就可以看每一支怎麼連回核心畫面。
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
debtnoun/ˈdɛt/
- 1
An action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another, adopt toward another, or give to another.
- Revenge the jeering and disdain'd contempt / Of this proud king, who studies day and night / To answer all the debt he owes to you / Even with the bloody payment of your deaths.
- This long debt of confidence, due from me to him, whose bane and ruin I have been, shall at length be paid.
- 2
The state or condition of owing something to another.
- I am in your debt.
- We owe them a debt of gratitude for taking care of our pets.
- 3
businessfinanceMoney that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another, generally as a result of a loan or other financial transaction.
- Bolsheviki had repudiated the four-billion-dollar debt which the government of the Tsar had contracted with the bankers.
- Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.
- 4
lawAn action at law to recover a certain specified sum of money alleged to be due
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。