喜樂美語
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    To dispense something means to give it out, hand it out, or provide it — like a pharmacy dispensing medicine, or a machine dispensing snacks or drinks. A person can also 'dispense advice' or 'dispense justice', meaning they give it out to the people who need it. There's also a common phrase, 'dispense with', which means to stop using something or decide you no longer need it — for example, 'let's dispense with the formalities.'

    分發、發放（藥品、物品等）；「dispense with」＝不再需要、省去

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組成From dis- (out, apart) + a Latin root about weighing or paying out — the old idea of carefully weighing portions to give to people.

同家族的字

  • dispensera machine or person that dispenses something, like a soap dispenser
  • dispensarya place, like a small pharmacy, where medicine is dispensed

原始詞典資料7 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

dispenseverb/dɪˈspɛns/

  • 1

    To issue, distribute, or give out.

    • He is delighted to dispense a share of it to all the company.
    • The smoky spray seemed to trap whatever light there was and to dispense it subtly.
  • 2

    To apply, as laws to particular cases; to administer; to execute; to manage; to direct.

    • to dispense justice
    • While you dispense the laws, and guide the state.
  • 3

    To supply or make up a medicine or prescription.

    • The pharmacist dispensed my tablets.
    • An optician can dispense spectacles.
  • 4

    To give a dispensation to (someone); to excuse.

    • After his victories, he often gave them the reines to all licenciousnesse, for a while dispencing them from all rules of military discipline[…].
    • Of evils the first and greatest is, that hereby a most absurd and rash imputation is fixt upon God and his holy Laws, of conniving and dispensing with open and common adultery among his chosen people; a thing which the rankest politician would think it shame and disworship, that his Laws should countenance; how and in what manner this comes to passe, I shall reserve, till the course of method brings on the unfolding of many Scriptures.
  • 5

    obsoleteTo compensate; to make up; to make amends.

    • One loving howre / For many yeares of sorrow can dispence
    • His synne was dispensed with golde, wherof it was compensed

dispensenoun/dɪˈspɛns/

  • 1

    obsoleteCost, expenditure.

  • 2

    obsoleteThe act of dispensing, dispensation.

    • […] what euer in this worldly state / Is sweet, and pleasing vnto liuing sense, / Or that may dayntiest fantasie aggrate, / Was poured forth with plentifull dispence […]

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。