喜樂美語
  1. 1nB2/ˈriːbeɪt/退款／退稅

    An amount of money that is paid back to you, especially because you paid too much tax or rent, or because a shop gives money back after a purchase.

    示範例句 · Example

    Mum was happy to get a tax rebate after she checked the forms.

    逐字媽媽在她檢查表格之後很高興拿到一筆退稅。

    「rebate」核心意思是「錢先付出去，後來又退回一部分」。常見畫面：tax rebate（退稅）、rent rebate（租金退還）、a cash rebate on a purchase（買東西後的現金回饋）。核心畫面可以想成「多付／先付的錢，退回一截」。跟 refund 容易搞混：refund 常因退貨或不滿意而整筆退回；rebate 多半是稅、租金，或商家主動給的回饋／折扣退還。

    常見搭配

    • tax rebate

      退稅

      money paid back because you paid too much tax

      We were delighted to hear that we were entitled to a tax rebate.

    • rent rebate

      租金退還

      money paid back on rent, often when income is low

      They filled in a form to get a rent rebate.

    • get / receive a rebate

      拿到退款／退稅

      to be given money back as a rebate

      You can get a rebate if you paid too much last year.

    • offer a rebate

      提供回饋／退款優惠

      to promise buyers money back after a purchase

      The card offers a five percent rebate on new bikes.

    • claim a rebate

      申請退款／退稅

      to ask officially for money that should be paid back

      Dad claimed a rebate and waited for the letter.

    • cash rebate

      現金回饋／現金退款

      money given back in cash after you buy something

      Buyers are offered a cash rebate on the laptop.

    意思相反

    surchargeextra charge

core核心畫面

Picture money that has already left your hand — you paid the tax, the rent, the price on the label — and then part of it travels back to you. Not a gift and not a discount taken off at the counter: the payment happened first, and the return trip comes afterwards.

可以想成：錢已經付出去了——稅、房租、商品的定價——然後其中一部分又走回你手上。它跟「打折」的差別在時間順序：打折是結帳當下就少付，rebate 是先照原價付完，之後才退回來。所以看到這個字，畫面裡通常已經有一筆完成的付款，還有一張後來寄來的支票或一筆入帳。

容易混在一起的字在訂閱裡。容易混在一起的字需要訂閱帳號。

複數 rebates

意思相反

surchargeextra charge

原始詞典資料13 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。

rebatenoun/ˈɹiːbeɪt/

  • 1

    A deduction from an amount that is paid; an abatement.

  • 2

    The return of part of an amount already paid.

  • 3

    artshobbieslifestyleThe edge of a roll of film, from which no image can be developed.

  • 4

    A rectangular groove made to hold two pieces (of wood etc) together; a rabbet.

    • For your existing windows, the glazing rebates will also have to be deepened to provide the extra gap.
  • 5

    A piece of wood hafted into a long stick, and serving to beat out mortar.

  • 6

    An iron tool sharpened something like a chisel, and used for dressing and polishing wood.

  • 7

    A kind of hard freestone used in making pavements.

rebateverb/ˈɹiːbeɪt/

  • 1

    To deduct or return an amount from a bill or payment

  • 2

    To diminish or lessen something

  • 3

    To beat to obtuseness; to deprive of keenness; to blunt; to turn back the point of, as a lance used for exercise.

    • But doth rebate and blunt his natural edge.
    • Then near the corslet, at the monarch’s heart, With all his strength, the youth directs his dart: But the broad belt, with plates of silver bound, The point rebated, and repell’d the wound.
  • 4

    To cut a rebate (or rabbet) in something

  • 5

    To abate; to withdraw.

    • he began a little to rebate from certain points of popery
  • 6

    falconryhobbieshuntingOf a falcon: to return to the hand after bating; see bate².

    • The ſecunde is rebate youre hawke: to yowre fyſt, ⁊ thatt is whan yowre hawke batith, the leeſt meuyng that ye can make with yowre fyſt ſhe will rebate ayen vppon yowre fyſt[.]

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