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    In British English, 'the dole' is informal for money the government pays to people who don't have a job - 'he's on the dole.' As a verb, 'to dole something out' means to give it out to people in small amounts, one share at a time.

    (英式口語)失業救濟金；(dole out)一份份分發

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組成From Old English dal, meaning 'a share' or 'a portion.'

同家族的字

  • dealcomes from the same Old English root meaning 'to divide into shares,' as in dealing out cards

原始詞典資料16 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。

Dolename[doʊ̯ɫ]

  • 1

    A surname.

  • 2

    Dole Constituency, a parliamentary constituency in Zanzibar.

  • 3

    A commune in Jura department, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France.

  • 4

    A hamlet in Tirymynach community, Ceredigion, Wales (OS grid ref SN6386).

dolenoun詞源 1/dəʊl/

  • 1

    Distribution; dealing; apportionment.

    • c. 1650s, John Cleveland, Upon Phillis Walking in a Morning before Sun-rising At her general dole, / Each receives his ancient soul.
  • 2

    Distribution; dealing; apportionment.

    • Go not away, thou weary soul: / Heaven has in store a precious dole / Even on Bethsaida's cold and darksome height, [...]
  • 3

    Money or other goods given as charity.

    • So sure the dole, so ready at their call, / They stood prepar'd to see the manna fall.
    • Devereux […] was beholden, not only for his fun, but occasionally for his daily bread and even his liberty, to those benovolent^([sic]) doles.
  • 4

    informalPayment by the state to the unemployed; unemployment benefits.

    • I get my dole paid twice a week.
    • I've been on the dole for two years now.
  • 5

    A boundary; a landmark.

    • Curſed be he which tranſlateth the bounds and dolles of his Neighbor.
  • 6

    dialectalA void space left in tillage.

doleverb詞源 1/dəʊl/

  • 1

    To distribute alms, etc., in small amounts; to share out small portions of a meager resource.

  • 2

    To distribute (as, alms) in small amounts; to share out (small portions of a meager resource).

dolenoun詞源 2/dəʊl/

  • 1

    archaicA sorrow or grief; dolour.

    • Syr said sir gyngalyn I wote not what knyȝt he was / but wel I wote that he sygheth and maketh grete dole. "Sir, said Sir Gingalin, I wot not what knight he was, but well I wot that he sigheth, and maketh great dole."
    • But ten slow mornings past, and on the eleventh / Her father laid the letter in her hand, / And closed the hand upon it, and she died. / So that day there was dole in Astolat.
  • 2

    lawDolus.

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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。