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right-to-know

/rahyt-tuh-noh/US // ˈraɪt təˈnoʊ //

知情权,了解权,知识权

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of or relating to laws or policies that make certain government or company data and records available to any individual who has a right or need to know their contents.

Examples

  • I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

  • Everywhere I go, ‘Hey Cartman, you must like Family Guy, right?’

  • Charlie ridiculed my faith and culture and I died defending his right to do so.

  • Gay marriage was the hot-button fight on the left and right.

  • It is grandstanding for a right rarely protected unless under immediate attack.

  • What need to look to right or left when you are swallowing up free mile after mile of dizzying road?

  • Mrs. Wurzel was quite right; they had been supplied, regardless of cost, from Messrs. Rochet and Stole's well-known establishment.

  • Each day she resolved, "To-morrow I will tell Felipe;" and when to-morrow came, she put it off again.

  • She is quite true, but not wise, and your left hand must not know what your right hand is doing.

  • He came to the top of the stairs with a lamp in his hand, and wanted to know what the rumpus was about.