license
英 ['la?sns]
美['la?sns]
- n. 執(zhí)照，許可證；特許
- vt. 許可；特許；發(fā)許可證給
英英釋意
- 1. a legal document giving official permission to do something
- 2. freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech)
- 3. excessive freedom; lack of due restraint;
- "when liberty becomes license dictatorship is near"- Will Durant
- "the intolerable license with which the newspapers break...the rules of decorum"- Edmund Burke
- 4. the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization
