fork n. 1.餐叉;肉叉;叉子;耙。 2.树叉,木叉;分岔;分歧点,岔路;支流。 3.【音乐】调音叉。 4.叉状闪电。 5.(象棋中)同时可攻两个棋子的棋着。 6.二者之间的选择。 a knife and fork 一副刀叉。 play (a good) knife and fork (因胃口好而)饱餐一顿。 vi. 分歧,分叉。 vt. 1.用叉叉起,用叉抛举(干草等);用耙耙。 2.使成叉形。 3.(象棋中)同时进攻(两个棋子)。 4.〔口语〕交付,支付,放弃。 fork out [over, up] 〔俚语〕交出,支付。
People in the rich world are used to forking out for those of their fellow citizens who have incurable conditions 发达国家的纳税人过去一直为那些身患绝症的人支付医疗费用。
Buyers of big cars will fork out ( 支付 ) more tax while those who opt to buy smaller models will pay less from april 1 从4月1号开始,买大排气量轿车的人将多赋税,而选择买小排气量的人将少赋税。
While his successor steve mcclaren is being paid a reported ? 3m a year , the fa are also still having to fork out for the former boss 当他的继任者麦克拉伦被报道年薪为300万英镑时,足总还必须支付前任主教练工资。
People who fork out for the gym fortnightly rather than annually will turn up for workouts more often , according to new australian research 澳大利亚一项最新研究表明,与一次性付清年费的健身者相比,每两周预付一次健身费的人更经常去健身房锻炼。
Weddings are so important in china that couples are willing to fork out about 20 times their monthly income on getting hitched and everything that comes with it 结婚在中国是件大事,因此,中国的新人们不惜花费约相当于月收入20倍的“重金”来置办婚礼。
By one estimate , the average american taxpayer forks out $ 2 , 000 a year to subsidize farming , driving , mining and other activities with a heavy environmental footprint 据估计,美国纳税人平均一年要支付2000美元,来补偿开垦、钻井、挖矿和其他重度影响环境的活动所造成的破坏。
Only 60 percent of the newly betrothed forked out for diamond engagement rings last year , compared with 85 percent the year before last , according to a private research institute jewelry data bank ( jdb ) 根据一份私人研究机构珠宝资料协会的报告,去年只有60 %的新订婚夫妇购买了订婚钻戒,而前年是85 % 。
It has been estimated by analysts that to campaign at all key places in the country , a presidential hopeful has to fork out at least hundreds of millions of pesos tens of millions of singapore dollar 据观察家估计,如果想在全国各地进行竞选活动,总统候选人起码要花数亿比索约数千万新元,而参议员候选人则需数千万比索约数百万新元。
To cap it all , warren buffett , not normally one to follow the crowd , says he would spend as much as $ 60 billion on the right deal ? far more than the investor has ever forked out on a single acquisition 最能说明问题的是,连一向不会随大流的华伦?巴菲特也表示,他会为合适的交易开出高达600亿美圆的价格?这要比他平常给单项收购开出的价格远高出许多。
to surrender someone or something to another; "the guard delivered the criminal to the police"; "render up the prisoners"; "render the town to the enemy"; "fork over the money" 同义词:hand over, fork over, fork up, turn in, deliver, render,