喜樂美語
  1. 1vB2/weɪv/免除；放棄

    正式to say officially that a right, rule, fee, or requirement does not have to be used, paid, or followed.

    示範例句 · Example

    The library agreed to waive Mei's late fee after she explained what happened.

    逐字圖書館同意在美解釋發生什麼事之後免除她的逾期費用。

    「waive」是正式場合裡「官方宣布這次可以不算」的動詞：費用可以不收、規則可以不強制、權利可以主動不用。常見說法：waive a fee / charge（免除費用）、waive a rule / requirement（這次不強制執行規定）、waive a right / claim（放棄自己擁有的權利）。跟 wave 同音但意思完全不同——wave 是揮手；waive 是正式的免除／放棄。跟 exempt 近：exempt 常是「給某人長期特別許可不用做某事」；waive 更常是「這一次／這筆費用／這條權利，官方或本人決定不算」。

    常見搭配

    • waive a fee / charge

      免除費用／收費

      officially allow someone not to pay a fee

      The bank waived the monthly charge on her student account.

    • waive a rule / requirement

      免除／不強制執行某項規定

      say officially that a rule need not be followed this time

      The school waived the uniform rule for Spirit Day.

    • waive a right / claim

      放棄權利／請求

      choose not to use a right or claim that you have

      She waived her claim to the first prize and shared it with her teammate.

    • waive tuition / admission fees

      免除學費／入場費

      not charge school or entry fees

      Some camps waive tuition fees for families who need help.

    • agree to waive something

      同意免除／放棄某事

      say yes to not enforcing a fee, rule, or right

      Both teams agreed to waive the rematch rule this season.

    • fees may be waived

      費用可能被免除

      it is possible that fees will not be charged

      Application fees may be waived in special cases.

    意思相近

    forgorelinquishgive upset asidedispense with

    意思相反

    enforceinsist onclaimimposeuphold

core核心畫面

Picture someone who has every right to hold you to something — a fee, a rule, a deadline, a claim — and who deliberately puts that hold down. Nothing is cancelled or erased; the fee is still on the price list, the rule is still in the book. They simply state, officially, that this time it will not be pressed. Waive can be thought of as an open hand letting go of something it was fully to keep .

可以想成有一方本來完全有資格「抓著」某樣東西不放——一筆費用、一條規定、一個期限、一項權利——而他決定把手鬆開。東西並沒有被取消或刪掉：費用還在價目表上，規定還寫在條文裡，只是這一次，他正式宣告不追究、不主張。waive 就像是一隻本來抓得很緊、也抓得很有道理的手，自己張開放掉。

同家族的字

過去式 waived過去分詞 waived-ing waiving三單 waives

意思相近

forgorelinquishgive upset asidedispense with

意思相反

enforceinsist onclaimimposeuphold

原始詞典資料10 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。

waiveverb詞源 1/weɪv/

  • 1

    lawTo relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forgo.

    • If you waive the right to be silent, anything you say can be used against you in a court of law.
    • Exhibiting what the dramatic critics call a "fine restraint," he waives his timely opportunity for discourse upon the celebrated gyascutus, which, as any Northwestern tourist will tell you, haunts the slopes of the most precipitous mountains—always evading capture because its legs, shorter on the one side of the body than on the other, are peculiarly adapted to scooting up an inclined plane.
  • 2

    lawTo relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forgo.

  • 3

    hobbieslawlifestyleTo relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forgo.

    • Nearly 1,200 players will be cut, waived, or sent packing, and the scramble to land on a practice squad or catch on elsewhere will move fast.
    • Jaden Ivey has played his last game in Chicago, with the Bulls waiving Ivey following his controversial comments on social media about the LGBTQ community.
  • 4

    archaicTo put aside, avoid.

    • […] seeing in many such occasions of common life we advisedly do renounce or waive our own opinions, absolutely yielding to the direction of others
  • 5

    obsoleteTo outlaw (someone).

  • 6

    obsoleteTo abandon, give up (someone or something).

    • but she might be waived, and held as abandoned.

waiveverb詞源 2/weɪv/

  • 1

    obsoleteTo move from side to side; to sway.

  • 2

    obsoleteTo stray, wander.

waivenoun詞源 3/weɪv/

  • 1

    obsoletelawA woman put out of the protection of the law; an outlawed woman.

  • 2

    obsoleteA waif; a castaway.

    • But vvhat a vvretched, and diſconſolate Hermitage is that Houſe, vvhich is not viſited by thee [God], and vvhat a VVayue, and Stray is that Man, that hath not thy Markes vpon him?

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