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entitled

/en-tahyt-ld/US // ɛnˈtaɪt ld //

有权利,有权利的,有资格的,有资格的人

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : called by the title indicated:In my paper so entitled, I explore the idea that "Robust Democracy Is National Security."
    • : having a right or legitimate claim to something:The inheritance passes to the legally entitled heir.
    • : assuming or acting as though one has an innate right or claim to wealth, success, recognition, etc.:I was so entitled and self-centered that I never noticed the injustices around me.

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Examples

  • While Blair’s attorneys denied these allegations, a judge ruled Snyder was entitled to the records he sought.

  • Your decisions can be good or bad, but you are entitled as an adult to make decisions about your finances and your property and your medical care.

  • Still, his parents kept a Government Printing Office pamphlet from 1950 entitled “Survival Under Atomic Attack.”

  • Uber fought to treat its app workers as contractors, not full-time employees entitled to benefits—a battle it just won after the election day approval of ballot measure Proposition 22 in California.

  • The agency thinks that millions more aren’t entitled to its help.

  • Everyone is entitled to be treated with basic decency and respect.

  • Chris Hughes and Sean Eldridge have always been entitled brats.

  • To celebrate a retrospective box set, entitled Nothing Has Changed, Bowie has released a video for one of two new songs included.

  • Park gave the First Lady a book entitled “The Very Best of Korean Cooking.”

  • And if anyone's entitled to such sweet dreams, it's Annie Lennox.

  • Neither privately owned nor government stock is entitled to voting power.

  • A full General landing to inspect overseas is entitled to a salute of 17 guns—well, I got my dues.

  • In 1639 Venner published a volume entitled "A Treatise" concerning the taking of the fume of tobacco.

  • One of the first tracts wholly devoted to tobacco is entitled Nash's "Lenten Stuffe."

  • Doing so, I received a different sort of salute from that to which a Commander-in-Chief landing on duty is entitled by regulation.