mete
mete — 動詞
- metepresent simple I / you / we / they
- metes3rd person singular
- meting-ing form
- metedpast simple
1. to give out or distribute something in measured or calculated amounts — for exam
分配；分發
按量分配物品、金錢等
to give out or distribute something in measured or calculated amounts — for example, portions of food, money, supplies, or resources.
Tendai meted out small portions of rice to each child at the dinner table.
Tendai 在晚餐時把少量的米飯分配給每個孩子。
mete out + [quantity] + [thing] + to + [recipient]
The foundation metes out grants to artists who need financial support for their projects.
該基金會為需要資金支持的藝術家提供補助金。
Selim carefully meted the flour into the mixing bowl for the bread dough.
Selim 小心地將麵粉分入攪拌盆裡製作麵糰。
Food supplies were meted out to the refugee families every two weeks by the relief agency.
救援機構每兩週向難民家庭發放食物補給。
The council meted building permits to each neighbourhood in proportion to its population.
市議會依照各社區的人口比例核發建築許可。
- distribute
the most common general alternative; neutral register
- allocate
suggests a planned or official division of resources
- dispense
more formal; often used for medicine or justice
- dole out
informal; suggests small, often reluctant portions
- withhold
to refuse to give something that could be given
文法句型
mete + [something]
mete out + [something] + to + [someone]
用法筆記
In modern English this sense almost always appears with the particle 'out' (mete out). Using 'mete' alone without 'out' sounds very formal or literary. For the specific meaning of giving a punishment, see the phrasal verb 'mete out' below.
常見錯誤
mete — 名詞
1. a line or limit that marks the edge of an area, territory, or piece of land.
邊界；界線
標示區域範圍的界線
a line or limit that marks the edge of an area, territory, or piece of land.
The old stone wall marked the mete between the two farms in the valley.
那堵老石牆標示著山谷中兩座農場之間的界線。
archaic; appears in historical land records
Historians still debate the exact mete of the ancient Roman province in Britain.
歷史學家對於古羅馬行省在不列顛地區的確切邊界仍有爭議。
A charter from 1272 described the river as the mete of the bishop's estate.
一份 1272 年的特許狀將該河流記載為主教的莊園邊界。
Beyond the southern mete of the kingdom lay vast, unmapped forests.
在王國的南方疆界之外，是一望無際的未知森林。
用法筆記
This noun sense is archaic and almost never used in modern English, except in historical texts, land deeds, or deliberately literary writing. The modern equivalent is 'boundary' or 'limit'.