capital
- IPA[ˈkapɪtl]
英式
- the city or town that functions as the seat of government and administrative centre of a country or region；a place associated more than any other with a specified activity or product
- (of an offence or charge) liable to the death penalty；(of a letter of the alphabet) large in size and of the form used to begin sentences and names.
- used to express approval, satisfaction, or delight
noun: capital, plural noun: capitals
- 釋義
- 片語
名詞
- 1. the city or town that functions as the seat of government and administrative centre of a country or region Warsaw is the capital of Poland 同義詞
- ▪ a place associated more than any other with a specified activity or product the fashion capital of the world
- 2. wealth in the form of money or other assets owned by a person or organization or available for a purpose such as starting a company or investing rates of return on invested capital were high 同義詞
- ▪ the excess of a company's assets over its liabilities.
- ▪ people who possess wealth and use it to control a society's economic activity, considered collectively a conflict of interest between capital and labour
- ▪ a valuable resource of a particular kind there is insufficient investment in human capital
- 3. a letter of the size and form used to begin sentences and names he wrote the name in capitals 同義詞
形容詞
- 1. (of an offence or charge) liable to the death penalty murder is the only capital crime in the state
- 2. (of a letter of the alphabet) large in size and of the form used to begin sentences and names.
- 3. informal, dated excellent he's a really capital fellow
excl
- 1. British informal, dated used to express approval, satisfaction, or delight That's splendid! Capital!
