- 1代替(幾乎只出現在 in lieu of。公司說的 time off in lieu,台灣常叫「補休」。)
Lieu means “place,” but English almost never uses it by itself. You will meet it in the phrase in lieu of, which means “instead of.” A shop might give you a voucher in lieu of cash; a school might give extra time in lieu of a missed class; a British office might give you a day off in lieu of extra pay (time off in lieu). It is rather formal, a little old-fashioned — the English of notices and contracts. Though actually the tidy gloss “instead of” is right, people do not say “I chose tea lieu coffee.” They say in lieu of, or, in ordinary talk, they just say instead of. The word came into English already sitting inside that phrase.
From the word’s history
Borrowed from Middle French lieu, from Old French leu, from Latin locus 'place'.
借自中古法文 lieu「地方」,源於拉丁文 locus。
組成Borrowed from Middle French lieu, from Old French leu, from Latin locum, the object form of locus, “place.” Doublet of locus: two English words that arrived by different roads from the same Latin word. Attested earlier, and in Middle English, only as part of in lieu of.
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,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。
Lieuname
- 1
A surname.
lieunoun/ljuː/
- 1
A place or stead.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary,已精簡格式;依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用,改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。