appropriate词典解释

1. 适当的，合适的，恰当的，相称的
2. 特定的，专属的
3. 融洽的
4. 恰如其分的
5. 对应的
6. 有关的

1. 占用，占有，吞并，侵吞
2. 拨出，拨作...费用，认可（某项）经费
3. 擅用，盗取（少量公物），挪用，盗用
4. 盗取（少量公物）
5. 充用，充当
6. 剽窃
7. 把…据为已有，专用，独用

1. 适当的,恰当的 correct or suitable for a particular situation or occasion

1. vt. 挪用; 占用; 盗用 take for oneself or for one's own use, especially without permission
2. vt. 拨出(款项) set aside for a particular purpose

1.适当的;合适的;恰当的
Something that isappropriate is suitable or acceptable for a particular situation.

e.g. It isappropriate that Irish names dominate the list...
名单上大部分是爱尔兰名字，这没什么不合适的。
e.g. Dress neatly and attractively in an outfitappropriate to the job...
着装要整洁美观，适合于这份工作。

2.私占；侵吞；盗用；挪用
If someoneappropriates something which does not belong to them, they take it, usually without the right to do so.

e.g. Several other newspapers have appropriated the idea...
另外有几家报社已盗用了这个创意。
e.g. The land was simply appropriated by the rulers.
土地完全被统治者霸占。

3.拨出（专款）
If a government or organizationappropriates an amount of money for a particular purpose, it reserves it for that purpose.

e.g. Senator Lugar is skeptical that Congress willappropriate more funding for this purpose.
参议员卢格怀疑国会是否会拨出更多资金用于此目的。

appropriate for( v.+prep. )

为…腾出或拨出(房舍或款项) take or save (sth) officially for (a special purpose)
appropriate sth for sb/sth/v-ing

He appropriated the trust funds for himself.

他把信托基金挪作己用。

He has appropriated the company's money for his own use.

他挪用公司的钱作为己用。

You can't appropriate the van of the firm for your own use.

你不能擅自动用公司的运货车。

The government was forced to appropriate extra funds for the new airport.

被迫拨出额外的款项来建造新的机场。

The committee appropriated money for the memorial.

委员会拨款建造纪念碑。

The legislature appropriated funds for technology in the schools.

立法机关为学校添置技术设备拨出专款。

The state appropriates a large amount of money for the development of science and technology each year.

国家每年拨出巨款来发展科学技术。

There has been a lot of opposition to the government's plans to appropriate millions of pounds for a new submarine.

为建造一艘新的潜艇而计划拨款数百万英镑，这招致了一片反对声。

Congress has appropriated money for building the highway.

国会已拨下专款建那条公路。

The government has appropriated a large sum of money for building hospitals.

为建造医院拨出一大笔款项。

1,000,000 yuan has been appropriated for the new school buildings.

为了建新校舍，已拨了100万元。

Five million dollars has been appropriated for research into the disease.

已拨款500万美元用于这种疾病的研究。

This place is appropriated for a sports ground.

这个地方已拨来作运动场。

appropriate to( v.+prep. )

将(某物)分配给… take (sth) by or as if by right for (oneself or one's own use)
appropriate sth to sb/sth

No one is allowed to appropriate state property to himself.

谁也不许侵占国家财富。

Congress appropriated the funds to the states.

国会给各州拨款。

I see that the director has appropriated the best office to his own use.

我知道主任自己已占用了最好的办公室。

It is against the law to appropriate public money to private purpose.

挪用是违法的。

The room is appropriated to your friend.

这房间给你的朋友住。

This hall is appropriated to silent reading.

这个大厅专供阅览之用。

• To charm away..Ennui, is the chief and appropriate business of the poet.

  出自：Coleridge

• Some peoples think of women as too weak to work out of doors, others regard women as the appropriate bearers of heavy burdens.

  出自：M. Mead

• They must behave in a manner appropriate to the myth in which they were participating.

  出自：J. Bowen

• Actually, he looks lots better when he isn't dressed as he thinks appropriate for dinner at Illyria.

  出自：A. Lurie

• At an appropriate moment I shall strike the gong.

  出自：B. England

• He makes a wordless noise appropriate to male approval of female pulchritude.

  出自：T. Stoppard

• He was dressed in a tweed suit appropriate either to countryman or academic.

  出自：D. Jacobson

• The music on the radio was turned off; somehow a bit of quiet seemed more appropriate.

  出自：G. Boycott

• Appropriating the whole ships provisions to themselves.

  出自：G. Anson

• The name 'priesthood'..was never appropriated by apostles to themselves.

  出自：E. Mellor

• ☆ 1520年左右进入英语，直接源自后期拉丁语的adpropriare：ad (去） + propriare (成为自有），意为将财产等占为己有。