Assign

(verb.) select something or someone for a specific purpose; 'The teacher assigned him to lead his classmates in the exercise'.

(verb.) decide as to where something belongs in a scheme; 'The biologist assigned the mushroom to the proper class'.

(verb.) transfer one's right to.

(verb.) give out; 'We were assigned new uniforms'.

杰米整理

• It is still difficult to assign the honour of priority in the use of the simple expedient of printing for multiplying books. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Not in one case out of a hundred can we pretend to assign any reason why this or that part has varied. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Mr. Rochester, I no more assign this fate to you than I grasp at it for myself. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Can you assign any cause for the nervous suffering, and your want of sleep? 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• I say, why do you assign Adele to me for a companion? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• In spite of this he asked the War Department to assign Granger to the command of a corps. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Yes, Socrates, said Glaucon, and the whole of life is the only limit which wise men assign to the hearing of such discourses. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Sheridan was telegraphed for that day, and on his arrival was assigned to the command of the cavalry corps with the Army of the Potomac. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• The education which was assigned to the men was music and gymnastic. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• I have observed in books written by men, that period assigned as the farthest to which a husband's ardour extends. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• You may give up your purpose; but mine is assigned to me by heaven, and I dare not. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• He was assigned to duty, however, by the President, with the rank which his brevet gave him. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Fourdrinier to engage with them in bringing the machinery to perfection, and patents obtained in this country by Mr. Gamble were assigned to them in 1804. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• The position assigned to it was within about one degree of its actual place. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Yes, but I can't dismiss him in an instant without assigning reasons, my dear Chettam. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• They admit variation as a vera causa in one case, they arbitrarily reject it in another, without assigning any distinction in the two cases. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• He issued an order relieving Warren and assigning Griffin to the command of the 5th corps. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• He then infers certain prospective movements, thus assigning meaning to the bare facts of the given situation. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The giving of problems, the putting of questions, the assigning of tasks, the magnifying of difficulties, is a large part of school work. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• And thus the whole State will grow up in a noble order, and the several classes will receive the proportion of happiness which nature assigns to them. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Lyell asks, and assigns certain reasons in answer, why have not seals and bats given birth on such islands to forms fitted to live on the land? 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• What joy they take in the toils she assigns! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• One accepts, for the most part, the studies of the existing course and then assigns values to them as a sufficient reason for their being taught. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.

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