喜樂美語
  1. 1vB2/ˌriːəmˈbɜːrs/ · /ˌriːəmˈbɜːs/報銷／償還

    正式To pay money back to someone when they have spent or lost money, especially for work, travel, or an agreed cost.

    示範例句 · Example

    Pay for the hotel room when you leave, and the company will reimburse you later.

    逐字你離開時付旅館房間的錢，然後公司之後會報銷你。

    「reimburse」核心意思是「別人先花了錢（或丟了錢），之後你把錢還給對方」。常見畫面：reimburse somebody for expenses（替某人報銷費用）、the company will reimburse you later（公司之後會報銷給你）。核心畫面可以想成「你先墊錢，之後別人把錢還給你」。跟 pay back 近但不同：pay back 多半是還借來的錢；reimburse 多半是因公／約定支出後的償付。跟 refund 也容易混：refund 常因退貨或不滿意而退錢；reimburse 是把已墊付的費用還給對方。

    常見搭配

    • reimburse somebody for something

      因某事向某人報銷／償還

      to pay someone back for a cost they already paid

      The company will reimburse you for travel expenses.

    • reimburse somebody's expenses

      報銷某人的費用

      to pay back money someone spent, often for work

      Your expenses will usually be reimbursed within one month.

    • reimburse costs / the cost

      報銷／償還費用

      to pay back money spent on something

      The school reimbursed the cost of the bus tickets.

    • the company will reimburse you

      公司會報銷給你

      an employer or firm will pay your money back later

      Buy the train ticket now; the company will reimburse you later.

    • be reimbursed by somebody

      由某人報銷／獲得償還

      to receive money back from a person or group

      We are reimbursed by the landlord for the repairs.

    • reimburse travel expenses

      報銷差旅費

      to pay back money spent on travel

      Please keep receipts so we can reimburse travel expenses.

    意思相近

    repayrefundcompensatepay back

    意思相反

    chargeowewithhold

core核心畫面

Picture someone paying out of their own pocket first — the train ticket, the client dinner — and the organisation later putting that exact amount back. The money travels out and then returns; nobody is being given extra, they are being made whole.

可以想成：一個人先自掏腰包墊了錢——車票、招待客戶的餐費——之後公司再把同樣的金額補回去。錢先出去、再回來；這裡沒有人多拿，只是把墊出去的部分補平。

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。

同家族的字

過去式 reimbursed過去分詞 reimbursed-ing reimbursing三單 reimburses

意思相近

repayrefundcompensatepay back

意思相反

chargeowewithhold

原始詞典資料2 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。

reimburseverb/ˌɹiːɪmˈbɜː(ɹ)s/

  • 1

    To compensate (someone) with payment; especially, to repay money spent on someone's behalf.

    • The company will reimburse you for your expenses for the business trip.
    • You can tell this funny monkey story, but please keep and mind and tell people that the man who lost all his fruit to the monkeys was entirely reimbursed.
  • 2

    To recoup (funds spent).

    • He has spent many years on the automaton, and it must have cost thousands of pounds in experiment and construction. He makes no secret of hoping to reimburse his outlay.

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。