| 词汇 | dun |
| 释义 | dun adjective uk /dʌn/ us /dʌn/ of a greyish-brown colour灰棕色的 Less common colours apple green argent ashy avocado baby blue carmine cerise emerald indigo peacock blue puce racing green ruddily rust salmon pink sanguine sapphire shocking pink sky blue verdure dun verb[ T ] old-fashioneduk /dʌn/ us /dʌn/-nn- to demand money from someone: 要钱;讨债，催债 He claimed he would rather go to prison than continue being dunned by the taxman.他声称宁可坐牢也不愿意再被税务局催款。 dun someone for somethingOne of his jobs was dunning customers for money they owed.他的工作之一是催促顾客偿还欠款。 Giving orders & commands all-points bulletin boss someone around bossily bossiness bossyboots commanding decree demand dictate expect harry instruct push someone around put something on self-ordained shove shove someone around stick summons task dun | Business Englishdun verb[ T ] USuk /dʌn/us-nn- to demand money from someone: He claimed he would rather go to prison than continue being dunned by the taxman. dun sb for sthOne of his jobs was dunning customers for bills. Examples of dundun This text thus may interpret a dream about a rather ordinary, inexpensive horse - either dun or grey - as indicating good luck. Yet, as the impost debates demonstrated, transparent taxes created problems long before they dunned any taxpayers. This proves that n dun 2r. Any payment above that figure is the result of the local authorities dunning their own citizens. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I asked a simple question—one specific example of a widow who had been dunned. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The first husband was dunned a second time. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The man or woman employed by the company unfortunately is the one who will be dunned for it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Dunning letters are sent to somebody who has paid his bills, the computer having said that he has not done so. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not necessarily consider that dunning our constituent taxpayers for tens of millions of pounds should always be regarded as an opportunity. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The taxpayers are not being dunned. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That is the charitable purpose for which people go out in the streets and collect money, although many of them are dunned, by a quite different description, into contributing. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They admit, naturally that they make mistakes; send books to the wrong people, fail to take notice of a cancellation and dun people for payments which are not due. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It would do less than justice to those tenants who were being dunned by landlords for additional rent when in fact the landlords did not qualify for it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Gone, for that matter, was the worry of the doctors in dunning their patients to try to squeeze out the money which the patients could not really afford. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Historical sites on the island include an old burial ground, the remains of two duns and old settlements. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. See all examples of dun 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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