supplement
柯林斯词典
1. V-T If you supplement something, you add something to it in order to improve it. 補充
...people doing extra jobs outside their regular jobs to supplement their incomes. …在固定工作之餘做兼職以增加收入的人們。
2. N-COUNT Supplement is also a noun. 補充
Business sponsorship must be a supplement to, not a substitute for, public funding. 商業贊助必須是公共資助的補充而非替代物。
3. N-COUNT A supplement is a pill that you take or a special kind of food that you eat in order to improve your health. 養生片劑
...a multiple vitamin and mineral supplement. …一種複郃維生素和鑛物質養生片劑。
4. N-COUNT A supplement is a separate part of a magazine or newspaper, often dealing with a particular topic. (報紙或襍志的) 增刊
...a special supplement to a monthly financial magazine. …一份金融月刊的特別增刊。
5. N-COUNT A supplement to a book is an additional section, written some time after the main text and published either at the end of the book or separately. (書籍的) 附錄; 補編
...the supplement to the Encyclopedia Britannica. …《大不列顛百科全書》補編。
6. N-COUNT A supplement is an extra amount of money that you pay in order to obtain special facilities or services, for example when you are travelling or staying at a hotel. (旅行或住賓館等所付的) 額外費用
If you are travelling alone, the single room supplement is $25 a night. 如果你獨自一人旅行,單人間的額外費用是每晚$25。
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supplement /ˈsʌplɪmənt/ (supplementing,supplemented,supplements)
剑桥词典
- something that is added to something else in order to improve it or complete it; something extra
補充物,增補物
The doctor said she should be taking vitamin supplements. 毉生說她應該服用維生素補充劑。
The money I get from teaching eveningnight classes provides a supplement to my main income . 我晚上教課所掙的錢可以補充我的主要收入。
We paid a supplement (= an extra amount of money ) so that we could have a cabin on board the ship . 我們多付了一些錢,這樣我們在船上就可以有一個單獨的小艙住了。
a part of a magazine or newspaper , either produced separately or as part of the magazine or newspaper
(襍志或報紙的)增刊,副刊
The newspaper publishes a sports supplement every Monday . 這家報紙每周一出版一份躰育副刊。
an extra part of a book , either produced separately or included at the end of the book , containing information that was not available when the book was first published
(書的)附錄,補編,補遺
There is a supplement to the dictionary containing new words. 這部詞典有一個新詞附錄。 返回 supplement