discharge是什么意思

详细释义

• 0 to allow someone officially to leave somewhere, especially a hospital or a law court -- 允許…離開；（尤指）允許…出院；（根據法庭決議）釋放

  • Patients were discharged from the hospital because the beds were needed by other people. 由於其他人需要床位，患者們便被允許出院了。

  • More than half of all prisoners discharged are reconvicted within two years. 在獲釋的犯人中有一半多在兩年內又被再次判刑。

  • UK A peace protester was conditionally discharged for twelve months (= allowed to go free only if they do not commit a crime again for this period of time). 一個和平抗議者被有條件假釋12個月。

• 1 to send out a substance, especially waste liquid or gas -- 排放，排出（尤指廢液或廢氣）

  • Large amounts of dangerous waste are discharged daily by the factory. 這個工廠每天排放大量���險的廢物。

  • The oil that discharged into the sea seriously harmed a lot of birds and animals. 排放到海裡的油對許多鳥和動物產生了嚴重的危害。

• 2 to perform a task, especially an official one -- 履行（職責、義務）

  • The city must discharge its legal duty to house the homeless. 城市當局必須依法履行其收容無家可歸者的職責。

• 3 to fire a gun, or to fire a shot from a gun -- 開（槍），射出（子彈）

  • The police stated that some 50 rounds had been discharged. 警方稱大約射出了50發子彈。

• 4 official permission to leave the armed forces, a prison, or a hospital -- 獲官方允許離開（軍隊、監獄或醫院）

  • The soldier received a dishonourable discharge for a disciplinary offence. 那位士兵因違反紀律而被開除了。

  • UK The judge gave him a one-year conditional discharge. 法官判他有條件假釋一年。

• 5 the act of sending out waste liquid or gas -- （尤指廢液或廢氣的）排放

  • Thousands of fish were killed as a result of a discharge of poisonous chemicals from a nearby factory. 成千上萬條魚被附近工廠排出的有毒化學物質毒死。

  • a vaginal discharge 陰道分泌物

• 6 the performance of duties or payment of money that is owed -- 履行（責任）；清償（債務）

  • the discharge of his duties 履行他的職責

• 7 the action of firing a gun -- 開槍，開火