Allowance

(noun.) the act of allowing; 'He objected to the allowance of smoking in the dining room'.

(noun.) a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits.

(noun.) an amount added or deducted on the basis of qualifying circumstances; 'an allowance for profit'.

(noun.) an amount allowed or granted (as during a given period); 'travel allowance'; 'my weekly allowance of two eggs'; 'a child's allowance should not be too generous'.

(noun.) a sum granted as reimbursement for expenses.

(verb.) put on a fixed allowance, as of food.

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• Here is a weekly allowance, with a certain weight of coals, drops from the clouds upon me. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• And is no allowance to be made for inadvertence, or for spirits depressed by recent disappointment? 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• When he foresees that provisions are likely to run short, he puts them upon short allowance. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• I make no allowance for innumerable feelings and circumstances that may have all tended to good. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Every allowance will be made for you. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• He would make Mrs. George Osborne an allowance, such as to assure her a decent competency. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• It's not yet brought to an exact allowance? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• In exchanging, indeed, the different productions of different sorts of labour for one another, some allowance is commonly made for both. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• He had a weekly allowance, from the society, of a vessel filled with human ordure, about the bigness of a Bristol barrel. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• I will make no allowance. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• The term pin-money dates from that time and originally came from the allowance a husband gave his wife to purchase pins. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• You do not make allowance enough for difference of situation and temper. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• You give me a larger allowance of sympathy than I have a just claim to. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• The queen, giving great allowance for my defectiveness in speaking, was, however, surprised at so much wit and good sense in so diminutive an animal. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• He was a year younger than I, and young-looking even when that allowance was made. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Wines, currants, and wrought silks, were the only goods which did not fall within this rule, having other and more advantageous allowances. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• You are readier to make allowances for her than you were yesterday. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• I am aware of several causes of error, but I hope that I have made due allowances for them. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• I come to beg you will make allowances for my anxiety about Marian, and let me follow her at once by the afternoon train. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Sir, he said gravely, there are great allowances to be made for a man who has not read ROBINSON CRUSOE since he was a child. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• She has been with us a long time: we don't forget her claims upon us, and I hope we know how to make allowances. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• I am, by nature, one of the most easy-tempered creatures that ever lived--I make allowances for everybody, and I take offence at nothing. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Mrs. Churchill, after being disliked at least twenty-five years, was now spoken of with compassionate allowances. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• Be so kind, Percival, as to make allowances for my foreign habit of going out with the ladies, as well as coming in with them. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• They are sometimes a little liable to it,' observed the patient cherub; 'but I hope you made allowances, Bella, my dear? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Lily understood the situation and could make allowances for it. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.

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