permit
verb (formal)- [transitive, often passive]
to allow somebody to do something or to allow something to happen 允許；準許 - be permitted
Mobile phones are not permitted in the examination room. 考場不允許使用手機。 - be permitted something
We were not permitted any contact with each other. 我們被禁止跟對方有任何接觸。 - be permitted to do something
Visitors are not permitted to take photographs. 參觀者請勿拍照。 - permit something
The owners have been unwilling to permit the use of their land. 所有者一直不願意允許使用他們的土地。 There are fines for exceeding permitted levels of noise pollution. 噪音超標會處以罰款。 - permit somebody/yourself something
Jim permitted himself a wry smile. 吉姆勉強苦笑了一下。 - permit somebody/yourself to do something
The bill was designed to permit new fathers to take time off work. 該議案旨在允許初爲人父者休假。 She would not permit herself to look at them. 她避免看他們。 - (formal)
Permit me to offer you some advice. 請允許我向你提些建議。
Express Yourself Forbidding somebody to do somethingForbidding somebody to do something 禁止某人做某事 When speaking to somebody, we usually use indirect language to ask them not to do something: 要求某人不要做某事通常使用間接的表達方式： I'm sorry, smoking isn't allowed./You're not allowed to smoke here. 對不起，不準吸煙。／這裏不準吸煙。
Would you mind not talking during the music? 演奏音樂時請不要說話好嗎？
Could I ask you not to use your phone here, please? 請不要在這裏使用手機好嗎？
I'm afraid I have to ask you not to take pictures here. 對不起，請你不要在這裏拍照。
Extra ExamplesTopics Permission and obligationb2Development is not normally permitted in conservation areas. 保護區通常是不允許進行開發的。 A new constitution permitted the formation of political parties. 新憲法允許組建政黨。 People are breathing in more than five times the permitted level of pollutants. 人們吸入的污染物超過允許水平的五倍。 Permit me to make a suggestion. 容我提個建議吧。 The banks were not permitted to invest overseas. 這些銀行不許投資海外。 The rules of the club do not permit it. 俱樂部規定不可以這樣做。 They were permitted to stay in the country on humanitarian grounds. 出於人道主義考慮，他們被允許留在該國。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- legally
- generally
- normally
- …
- refuse to
- be designed to
- be permitted
- [intransitive, transitive]
to make something possible 允許；使有可能 We hope to visit the cathedral, if time permits. 如果時間允許，我們希望能參觀一下主教座堂。 I'll come tomorrow, weather permitting (= if the weather is fine). 天氣許可的話，我明天過來。 - permit something
The password permits access to all files on the hard disk. 這個密碼可調出硬盤上的所有文檔。 The length of the report does not permit a detailed discussion of the problems. 報告的篇幅不允許對這些問題進行詳細的討論。 - permit somebody/something to do something
Cash machines permit you to withdraw money at any time. 取款機可讓你随時取款。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- legally
- generally
- normally
- …
- refuse to
- be designed to
Word Originlate Middle English (originally in the sense ‘commit, hand over’): from Latin permittere, from per- ‘through’ + mittere ‘send, let go’.