consignment

英 [kən'saɪnm(ə)nt]美 [kən'saɪnmənt]
  • n. 委托；运送；托付物
TEM8 低频词 扩展词汇

助记提示

1、con- "with" + sign- + -ment.
2、字面含义为：sealing with a sign, mark with a sign.

中文词源

consignment 装运货物，运送物

来自consign, 交付，交寄。

英文词源

consignment (n.)
1560s, "sealing with a sign," from consign + -ment. Meaning "delivering over" is from 1660s; especially of goods, for the sake of sale or auction, from c. 1700. Meaning "quantity of goods so assigned" is recorded from 1720s.

双语例句

1. The first consignment of food has already left Bologna.
运送的第一批食品已经离开了博洛尼亚。
来自柯林斯例句
2. a consignment of medicines
运送的一批药物
来自《权威词典》
3. This last consignment of hosiery is quite up to standard.
这批新到的针织品完全符合规格.
来自《简明英汉词典》
4. The salesman sorted his new consignment of stockings.
推销员把新到的一批长袜清理分类.
来自《简明英汉词典》
5. We have to ask you to dispatch the consignment immediately.
我们得要求你立即发送该批货物。
来自辞典例句