Grant

(noun.) the act of providing a subsidy.

(noun.) a right or privilege that has been granted.

(noun.) 18th President of the United States; commander of the Union armies in the American Civil War (1822-1885).

(noun.) United States actor (born in England) who was the elegant leading man in many films (1904-1986).

(noun.) Scottish painter; cousin of Lytton Strachey and member of the Bloomsbury Group (1885-1978).

(noun.) (law) a transfer of property by deed of conveyance.

(noun.) any monetary aid.

(verb.) transfer by deed; 'grant land'.

(verb.) bestow, especially officially; 'grant a degree'; 'give a divorce'; 'This bill grants us new rights'.

整理:罗德尼

• I come from Dr. Grant's, said Edmund presently. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• Lieutenant Grant offered his services, which were accepted. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• The Lord grant he be along soon! 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• It was not Mr. Rushworth, however, but Edmund, who then appeared walking towards them with Mrs. Grant. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• I cannot imagine why Mrs. Grant should think of asking her? 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• GENERAL GRANT, City Point, Va. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• GRANT, Commander-in-Chief. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• His first United States patent, No. 174,465, was granted March 7, 1876, and his second January 30, 1877, No. 186,787. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• There have been about 1,000 patents granted for bridges, about 2,500 for excavating apparatus, and about 1,500 for hydraulic engineering. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Brummell often dined with him, and therefore I take it for granted that Tom Raikes lent Brummell money. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• From that time until 1865 many patents were granted, none of which may be considered successful. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Nearly 5,000 United States patents have been granted in the class of weaving. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• He asked to be relieved from further duty in the capacity in which he was engaged and his request was granted. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• A monopoly granted either to an individual or to a trading company, has the same effect as a secret in trade or manufactures. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The entrance of the Grants and Crawfords was a favourable epoch. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• It now demanded grants in aid from the State--in order to build at a profit. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The Grants showing a disposition to be friendly and sociable, gave great satisfaction in the main among their new acquaintance. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• It affords no rent to the landlord, who generally grants the use of it to whoever takes the trouble of asking it. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• It is quite settled that the Grants go to Bath; they leave Mansfield on Monday. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• The princes who lived upon the worst terms with their barons, seem accordingly to have been the most liberal in grants of this kind to their burghs. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• If one grants all this there is still the fact that it was the _Clermont’s_ success that opened the watercourses of the world to steam. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• This bank was more liberal than any other had ever been, both in granting cash-accounts, and in discounting bills of exchange. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The possession of a grey garment was a third point which, granting the son's statement to be correct, was a certainty. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• Granting that to be the right reading of the riddle, it accounted, perhaps, for her flighty, self-conceited manner when she passed me in the hall. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• To the astonishment of my clerk, I at once decided on granting an interview to the gentleman below. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• I was not granting time for composure to her only, I was gaining time also for myself. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• But this increase of rent could be got only by granting leases to their tenants, who thereby became, in a great measure, independent of them. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Even granting that it was as you have had in your thoughts, what the two had done together would come familiar to the mind of one. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.

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