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entailed

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

引起的,涉及到,需要,导致

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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

  • When one thinks of that, and the responsibility it entailed, it makes the hairs on the back of the neck move.

  • Twice in the past two weeks, this has entailed meeting a plane on the runway to retriever sick passengers who may be infected.

  • The duchess herself said her grandmother had been extremely discreet about what her job during the war entailed.

  • I guess they were rightly afraid of what they might have heard, of what the answering might have entailed for us all.

  • Enlightened liberalism, you see, entailed a certain courtesy, precision, evidence, reasoning.

  • The senior branch of the family being thus extinct the whole of the entailed estate had devolved on me.

  • In fact, description and dialogue has entailed upon the writer rather an effort of memory than any strain upon the imagination.

  • The navy in time of war was recruited by impressment, a system which, though recognised by common law, entailed much hardship.

  • You know the law about succeeding to peerages and entailed lands?

  • The sacrifice entailed by this departure was in proportion to these sentiments.