settlement
英['set(ə)lm(ə)nt]
美['sɛtlmənt]
- n. 解决，处理；[会计] 结算；沉降；殖民
词态变化
复数: settlements;
中文词源
settlement 安排，解决，处理
settle,安排，解决，处理，-ment,名词后缀。
英文词源
- settlement (n.)
- 1620s, "act of fixing or steadying;" from settle (v.) + -ment. Meaning "a colony," especially a new one, "tract of country newly developed" is attested from 1690s; that of "small village on the frontier" is from 1827, American English. Sense of "payment of an account" is from 1729; legal sense "a settling of arrangements" (of divorce, property transfer, etc.) is from 1670s.
双语例句
- 1. The village is a settlement of just fifty houses.
- 这个村子里只住了50户人。
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- 2. There are much brighter prospects for a comprehensive settlement than before.
- 综合性的社区具有比以前更加光明的前景。
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- 3. Officials have now been delegated to start work on a draft settlement.
- 现在已经委派官员着手起草解决方案。
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- 4. In court filings, they argued that the settlement was inadequate.
- 在法庭讼案中，他们提出和解费数额太少。
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- 5. Without their assent a political settlement cannot be reached.
- 没有他们的同意，不可能达成政治上的和解。
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