| 词汇 | example_english_gift |
| 释义 | Examples of giftThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. In the economic world this novel constructs, money and commodities are not intrinsically bad, just as altruism and gifts are not intrinsically good. The friars sent back covered baskets which concealed reciprocal gifts. In this example, it cannot be said if the gifts were compulsory, recommended, or completely voluntary. The ideal process contains only one limitation: are we gifted or not? Under this proposal, farmers and pastoralists may enjoy rights of transfer through subleases, loaning, inheritance or gifts. In proportion, as she becomes niggardly in her gifts, she exacts a greater price for her work. In contrast, one-off financial gifts to grandchildren were common and by far the most frequent type of private financial transfer. Such gifts have the potential to cross the border into vote buying. Paying a dowry for marriage does not lead to a complete commodification of women, but it differs significantly from giving mere ritual gifts. What has, however, seen drastic changes are the brides and the marriage gifts. The article demonstrates how the giving of money has influenced other categories of gifts, while the market logic has drawn from cultural considerations. We swap small gifts, we go out together. Thus gifts of maps in 1908, like gifts of photographs in 1930, were used to make absence appear with a determined legal sense in 1962. Both are peerless beauties and possess considerable musical gifts. Favors such as gifts, meals, and invitations obligate us to a future repayment of some kind. Needless to say, the schools may find proscription of gifts and meals difficult to justify if their faculty are heavily involved with industry themselves. We distinguish between two types of transmissions : gifts and sales, the dividing line being whether the transaction included a price or not. Although there is no question that these children were gifted, there is some debate about how happy their childhoods were. What payment reforms, changes in healthcare access, restrictions on gifts to doctors by drug companies are needed to provide some insulation? The recent prohibition on all gifts from drug companies to doctors by several major medical schools illustrates this safe course. Most of his titles were copied or received as gifts or exchanges with other officials. Other important sources in the first year were gifts and purchase from the market. Practical affairs are often mentioned, including loans and their repayment, marriage, burial rights, alien priories, transfers from one religious house to another, buildings and gifts. Eyewitnesses testified that he received gifts from residents who did not want their names to be reported as violators of sanitary laws. There may be a short engagement period and gifts may be exchanged. The agents frequently distributed gifts of venison, cider, and even puppies and plants to local landowners, stewards and other influential people. If you have the right friends plus you have certain gifts and talents, then you can make it. He appears to have been gifted and witty, self-absorbed and impossible in equal measure. As inlaws deflate their demands for cash gifts, collective labour parties become more and more common. The 1999 cash-allowance item excludes holiday and birthday gifts, and the 1995 item has no exclusions. As these practices necessarily entail the distribution of monetary gifts, they constitute more costly forms of political campaigning than mass meetings. By using "these powerladen exotics" as gifts, core elites could create patron- client chains similar to the compadre networks referred to earlier. Evidence of this can be found in countless patron-client letters written about gifts. People's livelihoods are divine gifts that require effort, not idle submission to nature. In a society gifted at generalisation, endowed with powerful ^ centralizing strategies, the historian moves in the direction of the frontiers of great regions already exploited. Apparently, infants are equipped with two gifts, neither of which is the product of learning. They heaped upon each other testimonies of their favor and extraordinary gifts. He believed that only very few men are gifted with intellectual faculties that can rise above mere passions. In addition to postcards, manufacturers distributed small gifts to customers. Charitable gifts should bridge the gap between what statutory housing subsidies could provide and the specialised housing management that homeless families might require. 331 elites may have received foreign vessels as gifts (or as containers for gifts) from visiting dignitaries. The adoption of cooking vessels made of new materials has changed the meaning of the brass items given as gifts at weddings. Women could generally only gain access to cash indirectly, through gifts from men or the sale of cattle through their sons or husbands. The share given to the landlord was also nominal in the form of gifts and so on. The supernatural was also used to explain or rationalize the extremely gifted. Human beings by instinct show their concern and love by giving gifts. We also thank all hospitals and health centers laboratories for their gifts of salmonella isolates. When the sailor is rescued, the serpent presents him with many gifts to take back with him. Gifts of land from parent to child were typically considerably more valuable than were gifts of cash. A recent news story tells that people are giving gifts of cosmetic surgery to their friends and family. Participants did not receive any payment, only small gifts for their participation. Together they provide a wonderful insight into one of humanity's greatest gifts. Nearly one-quarter made large gifts to their grandchildren - one-fifth did the same for their children. The initial descriptive research questions concerned the direction of financial gifts between generations. Well-bred, 'improved' horses are precisely the kinds of gifts given by and to kings. Existing mature planting, and plants that were gifts would be retained in position or relocated within the garden. Interchangeable vehicles of gifts and sacred forces varied from charms, witch-substance, relics and shrines, or the body of the ritual specialist him/herself. At first, dowry demands (dabi and bor pon) complemented and accompanied freely given gifts (dan). Small gifts of crop produce are made, for example, amongst work parties harvesting each other's fields. Furthermore, some people, by controlling the nature and destination of their gifts, show an unprecedented capacity for self-determination in the fulfilment of their social responsibilities. The importance of metacognition in the literacy development of young gifted and talented children. In all cases of the miraculous, it may be that those who did not receive the miracle received other gifts just as great. The symbolic value of personal gifts and possessions as a symbol of the deceased is addressed in a particularly insightful chapter. Over a third did give some sort of in-kind thanks: flowers, chocolates or gifts. Ironically the earlier case law holds that gifts were enforceable at law. They were specifically asked to include expenditure on engagement, house construction, furniture purchase, betrothal gifts, dowry and wedding costs. Another is the rights of all women to control their own reproductive gifts and not to be used as objects. Moreover, some believe the patient in this case has contributed to the current problem by inadequate care of the gifts she has been given. In particular, inter-generational gifts are normally linked, or indirect, reciprocities rather than exchanges. With a marriage, there would normally be an exchange of betrothal gifts and an official gobetween chosen before the marriage was completed and registered. Cattle were individually owned, and a chief acquired them as gifts, inheritance, and loot in battle. No toys ... books or magazines ; no allowances for writing materials, stamps, gifts or the cinema. We are also able to visit our relatives because we can send them garden products as gifts, which make them assist us in the future. Sutermeister was one of the most versatile composers of his day, turning his gifts just as easily to choral and absolute music. Financially, these institutions were self-supporting through management of the properties they acquired from legacies and gifts. Automatic writing was one of the most widespread mediumistic gifts, as it required nothing more strenuous that the ability to enter a trance. My analysis focuses on the interplay of gifts and interests that constitutes an important feature of this narrative of economic success. Still, the necessary payment of bride-price and gifts to the bride and her family proved formidable for most men. There are other writers in whom one prizes the gifts of a lover, gifts of temperament rather than of moral goodness. As their father, he made his many gifts generously available to them. They obtained gifts and nazars, food and clothes from their students and families. On the whole, though, land gifts in dowry are rare and tend to be confined to the southern states. Their teacher described them as gifted and possessing a high level of technical skill. In the case of parish bequests, the stipulated uses may have changed, but the gifts kept coming. He may make reasonable gifts, but not unreasonable. Low wages were supplemented by gifts of clothing, gratuities or" vails" from guests, and surreptitious payments from tradesmen. He knew that his gifts were those of a scholar rather than an administrator. I did not without reason regard the grave gifts of men as products of exchange contacts and those of women as gifts from menfolk. The implication of the next part of this sentence is that gifts (explicitly mentioned) are transactions of the long term. Highly gifted by nature, he nevertheless considered himself to have been moulded by his environment during his youth. Conversely, a disproportionately small percentage of students from these groups achieve sufficiently high test performances to become placed in classes for talented and gifted students. He was as gifted in telling people what they wanted to hear as most hard-up humanists of his day. As an academic - through a combination of his intellectual gifts, hard work, and personal charm - he managed to achieve enormous success. At the climactic moment in the story, they reveal their gifts and simultaneously discover what each has given up to buy them. Both land lending and gifts are usually intra-family, given by parents to their newly married children or other family members. Advertisements showed how the ideal gifts for women were washing machines and refrigerators. The majority of transactions were still between relatives, but the form of transmission tended to change from gifts to sales. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. 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