mete out

英 [miːt aʊt]

美 [miːt aʊt]

（以某种方式）给予，祭出（惩罚）

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 以…方式给予惩罚
  Tomete outa punishment means to order that someone should be punished in a certain way.
  1. His father meted out punishment with a slipper.
     他父亲用一只拖鞋进行惩罚。
  2. ...the two year sentence meted out to a convicted child molester.
     对猥亵儿童犯处以两年的刑罚

英英释义

verb

• administer or bestow, as in small portions
  1. administer critical remarks to everyone present
  2. dole out some money
  3. shell out pocket money for the children
  4. deal a blow to someone
  5. the machine dispenses soft drinks
  Synonym:distributeadministerdealparcel outlotdispenseshell outdeal outdish outallotdole out

双语例句

• Now, Beijing is drafting legislation that could mete out the ultimate punishment for drug companies or others whose products harm or kill large numbers of people& the death penalty.
  现在，北京正在立法试图能够对于那些造成大量人员死亡的药品生产商和其他个人或集体给予最高的处罚&死刑。
• It was just the latest example of a growing phenomenon the Chinese call Internet hunting, in which morality lessons are administered by online throngs and where anonymous web users come together to investigate others and mete out punishment for offenses real and imagined.
  这是中国一种正在增长的一种被称作“网络搜捕”现象的最新案例：网络群氓执行一种道德教育，匿名的网络用户调查他人，给予他们真实或虚拟的惩罚。
• Governments have been reluctant to criticise each other in public, let alone to mete out fines.
  各国政府连公开地互相批评都不愿意，更别说交罚款了。
• Once this united front is formed, those reactionary capitalists guilty of the worst crimes will be isolated, and the state will be in a strong position to mete out due punishment, such as fines, confiscation, arrest, imprisonment or execution, without much opposition.
  只要形成了这个统一战线，那些罪大恶极的反动资本家就会陷于孤立，国家就能很有理由地和顺利地给他们以各种必要的惩处，例如逮捕、徒刑、枪决、没收、罚款等等。
• He often mete out generous treatment to those he defeated.
  对手下败将他通常很宽宏大量。
• Measurement inspectors are responsible for circuit checking in the prescribed areas and places and may, within their stipulated authority, deal, on the spot, with violations of measurement laws and regulations and mete out administrative sanctions on the merit of each case.
  计量监督员负责在规定的区域、场所巡回检查，并可根据不同情况在规定的权限内对违反计量法律、法规的行为，进行现场处理，执行行政处罚。
• Duly mete out rewards and punishments.
  有赏有罚。
• His father meted out punishment with a slipper.
  他父亲用一只拖鞋进行惩罚。
• It may make it more difficult for defendants and their boards to mete out punishments.
  对被告银行及其的董事的量刑将更加困难。
• God mete out justice in his own good time. Owing to the belated arrival of your offer, we have already placed our order elsewhere.
  羞恶自有报，只争迟与早。由于贵方报价迟迟到达，我方已从他处订货。