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entail

/verb en-teyl; noun en-teyl, en-teyl/US // verb ɛnˈteɪl; noun ɛnˈteɪl, ˈɛn teɪl //UK // (ɪnˈteɪl) //

牵涉到,导致的,导致,使得

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to cause or involve by necessity or as a consequence: a loss entailing no regret.
    • : to impose as a burden: Success entails hard work.
    • : Law. to limit the passage of to a specified line of heirs, so that it cannot be alienated, devised, or bequeathed.
    • : Law. to cause to descend to a fixed series of possessors.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act of entailing.
    • : Law. the state of being entailed.
    • : any predetermined order of succession, as to an office.
    • : Law. something that is entailed, as an estate.
    • : Law. the rule of descent settled for an estate.

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Examples

  • With this news, what buckling down entails has changed for you, awfully — but the underlying task of doing what is necessary and available to you has not changed.

  • Does political and social equality really have to entail a leveling of sexual difference?

  • Some parents have transportation problems that entail further costs.

  • Foley was a risk taker who reported from the front lines, fully aware of the dangers that might entail.

  • He or she can work with you to map out an individualized plan, which may entail taking the hormone melatonin.

  • Exactly what his appointments entail, and how much he can charge clients, often depends on the city.

  • Personal and Social Covenanting both entail obligation on the Covenanting parties.

  • But men also humiliate us, degrade us, jeer at, ridicule the miseries that they and their society entail upon us.

  • The mention by Hogarth of Ridley and Latimer they considered irrelevant; their fathers' heroic mood was a detail: not an entail.

  • He hadn't been specific about what the "or else" would entail.

  • It cannot, Sir Wycherly; nor with a will, so long as an heir of entail can be found.