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entrust

/en-truhst/US // ɛnˈtrʌst //UK // (ɪnˈtrʌst) //

托付,委托,寄托,委托书

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to charge or invest with a trust or responsibility; charge with a specified office or duty involving trust: We entrusted him with our lives.
    • : to commit in trust to; confide, as for care, use, or performance: to entrust a secret, money, powers, or work to another.

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Examples

  • At a dire moment for the humanities, when a STEM major looks to many students like the only viable path to repaying their college loans, her colleagues have entrusted her to revitalize the increasingly underfunded, under-enrolled department.

  • “Today we come to you, Lord, to entrust the soul of Haiti to your hands,” Jean-Mary said.

  • Weed shoppers use THC percentages like nutritional labels, purchasing products based on their THC content, yet the lab system entrusted with measuring the compound is vulnerable to corruption.

  • The bills entrust the FTC to help define rules for how they would be put into practice.

  • As the years passed and dozens more were entrusted to her care, Owens said she felt that it was what she was meant to do.

  • “People entrust firearms with their lives,” Kloepfer told me while explaining his biometric gun.

  • John will not be around much longer and so he must entrust the child to their safe-keeping.

  • The IOC members must possess tremendous faith to entrust the Games to Sochi in the face of such obstacles!

  • So, no, I would not entrust my money to them, because it is clear that they do not feel any fiduciary responsibility to me.

  • Yet whenever a new threat arose, those questions would be set aside, and Congress would entrust the bureau with new powers.

  • Still, he said, if France desired to entrust her independence and glory to one man she could choose none better than Bonaparte.

  • I have not been able to read these pages, and have been compelled to entrust their revision to other eyes and other hands.

  • If you are obliged to entrust it to a strange nurse, you shall make her a reasonable allowance.

  • It was to their credit that they sought out godly men, to whom they might entrust the cure of souls.

  • He found there would be little difficulty in prevailing on Major Bridgenorth to entrust him with the guardianship of his daughter.