词汇 | carte-blanche |
释义 | carte blanche noun[ S or U ] uk /ˌkɑːt ˈblɑ̃ːʃ/ us /ˌkɑːrt ˈblɑːnʃ/ complete freedom to do something: 全权;绝对的自主权 give someone carte blancheCongress has effectively given the president carte blanche. carte blanche toThe landlord has given her carte blanche to redecorate the living room.房东让她自主决定如何重新装修客厅。 have carte blancheThey seem to feel they have carte blanche to do whatever they like. The thing I love about this play is it offers carte blanche to its director. This law would give the police carte blanche to harass anyone they don't like the look of. We pretty much had carte blanche to make any art we wanted. A manager's job is to manage, but no manager can have carte blanche. Freedom to act (as) free as a birdidiom agency at willidiom autonomist autonomous free hand free pass free reinidiom free spirit free-spirited non-autonomous non-didactic non-directed non-restricted non-restrictive the world is someone's oysteridiom walk walk freeidiom wiggle room wriggle room Examples of carte blanchecarte blanche A law passed in 1991 gave the president carteblanche in the appointment of the commander-in-chief and the removal of top officers. Nevertheless, an institutional policy that simply gives a surrogate carteblanche to decline measures that are intended only to prevent patient suffering seems deeply flawed. Yet the prerogative to articulate individual goals of treatment does not give the patient carteblanche. The contributors, both established and emerging international scholars in the field, have been given carteblanche to choose which live performance they will analyse. They were not acting as if they had carteblanche for radical reform because capitalists had suffered a massive loss of power. If physicalism and this strong causal closure principle are accepted, then supernatural interventions are ruled out tout court, while rejecting physicalism gives miracles metaphysical carteblanche. We have to make it abundantly clear that we are not giving anybody carteblanche. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English We need to consider whether it is acceptable that the alcohol industry can advertise in such a carteblanche fashion. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English You have to understand that we can hardly give this committee of experts some kind of carteblanche. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English I do not see how that is going to be improved by giving carteblanche to the war agricultural committees to make orders. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This gives them practically carteblanche to decide which items they want priced. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It seems to me very important that we should consider the matter very carefully before we accept this idea carteblanche. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If they were all given carteblanche to go, it would have a massive effect of crowding out. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is it necessary that they should have carteblanche to borrow to any extent? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Of course, independent status will not give carteblanche to manage resources wastefully. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of carte blanche These 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. |
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