单词详解 | disposal

disposal
音标
英音/ dɪˈspəʊz(ə)l / 美音/ dɪˈspoʊz(ə)l /

听听基本释意:

外刊例句
“At a minimum, we should immediately freeze the $6 billion in Iranian assets and explore other financial tools we have at our disposal.”
“至少,我们应该立即冻结 60 亿美元的伊朗资产,并探索我们可以使用的其他金融工具。”
Washington Times

Using the most severe tools at lawmakers’ disposal, the House is set to consider a trio of disciplinary measures that have divided members, mostly along partisan lines.
众议院将使用立法者可以使用的最严厉的工具,考虑采取三项纪律措施,这些措施导致议员们产生分歧,主要是出于党派分歧。
New York Times

“We are utilizing every resource at our disposal to complete this rulemaking process as soon as is practicable,” said the statement.
声明称:“我们正在利用一切可用资源,在可行的情况下尽快完成这一规则制定过程。”
Washington Times

基本释意
noun
the act or means of getting rid of something
处理,清除;(土地、财产等的)变卖,转让;<文>安排,安置;<美>污物碾碎器

同义词
disposition,electric pig,garbage disposal,administration

短释义
You can use a garbage disposal, a grinder in your sink drain that allows you to wash down certain waste items without causing clogs, for the disposal of vegetable scraps. In addition to meaning “getting rid of something,” disposal can also mean “the power or means to accomplish something.” If you have a fleet of limousines at your disposal, it’s easy to get a large number of guests to a wedding.
处置意味着摆脱某物或扔掉它。当你去野餐时,一定要带一个袋子来处理你的垃圾,否则你将成为一个可怕的垃圾虫。

长释义
You can use a garbage disposal, a grinder in your sink drain that allows you to wash down certain waste items without causing clogs, for the disposal of vegetable scraps. In addition to meaning “getting rid of something,” disposal can also mean “the power or means to accomplish something.” If you have a fleet of limousines at your disposal, it’s easy to get a large number of guests to a wedding.
您可以使用垃圾处理器,即水槽排水管中的研磨机,可让您冲洗某些废物而不会造成堵塞,以处理蔬菜残渣。除了表示“摆脱某物”之外,处置还可以表示“完成某事的权力或手段”。如果您拥有一支可供使用的豪华轿车车队,那么很容易邀请大量宾客参加婚礼。

文学例句
Some streams were for freshwater, some for waste disposal.
有些溪流用于淡水,有些用于废物处理。
Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor

But Lillian always remarked that the doctors had taken a badly burned, homely man, and with all the advances of modern medicine at their disposal, turned him into a grotesquerie.
但莉莲总是说,医生们拿了一个严重烧伤的相貌平平的男人,并利用现代医学的所有进步,把他变成了一个怪诞的人。
The Great Santini by Pat Conroy

If I weren’t so tired, I’d shove trust and issue down the garbage disposal and let it run all day.
如果我不那么累的话,我会把信任和问题推到垃圾处理器上,让它运行一整天。
Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson

词源
disposal (n.)1620s, “power to make use of, right to dispose of or control;” see dispose + -al (2). Meaning “a disposing” (of a daughter by marriage, of money by a will, of an estate by sale, etc.) is from 1650s; of waste material, from c. 1960, originally in medical use.Related entries & more

下面是词源的翻译(机器翻译比较难翻,参考着看)
处置(n.)1620s,“使用权、处置权或控制权;”请参阅 dispose + -al (2)。 “处置”(通过结婚获得女儿、通过遗嘱处置金钱、通过出售财产等)的含义源自 1650 年代;的废料,来自c。 1960 年,最初用于医疗用途。相关条目及更多


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