fee

英 [fiː] 美[fi]

英英释义考试真题实用场景例句

近义词charge fare toll dues

n. 费用；酬金；小费
vt. 付费给……
n. (Fee)人名；(英、柬)菲

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中文词源

fee 费用

来自PIE*peku, 牛，词源同pecuniary.引申词义财富，金钱等。该词由于复杂的历史原因词义固定为费用。比较chattel, capital, 词源同cattle.

词态变化

复数: fees;

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1. 记忆：谐音：费。

英文词源

fee: fee: [14] Fee is a word bequeathed to modern English by the feudal system (and indeed it is closely related etymologically to feudal). It came via Anglo-Norman fee from medieval Latin feodum or feudum (source also of feudal [17]). This denoted ‘land or other property whose use was granted as a reward for service’, a meaning which persists in its essentials in modern English ‘payment for work done’.

The secondary signification of fee, ‘feudal estate’, is no longer a live sense, but it is represented in the related fief [17], a descendant of feodum, which English acquired through French rather than Anglo-Norman. The ultimate derivation of the medieval Latin term itself is not altogether clear, although it is usually assigned to an unrecorded Frankish *fehuōd, literally ‘cattle-property’ (*fehu has related forms in Old English féoh ‘cattle, property’ and Old Norse fé ‘cattle, money’ – joint sources of the first syllable of English fellow – and in modern German viehe ‘cattle’; they all go back ultimately to Indo- European *peku-, ancestor of a wide range of words meaning ‘cattle’ which, since in former times cattle were symbolic of wealth, in many cases came to signify ‘property’ too).
=> fellow, feudal, fief
fee (n.): Middle English, representing the merger or mutual influence of two words, one from Old English, one from an Old French form of the same Germanic word, and both ultimately from a PIE root meaning "cattle."

The Old English word is feoh "livestock, cattle; movable property; possessions in livestock, goods, or money; riches, treasure, wealth; money as a medium of exchange or payment," from Proto-Germanic *fehu- (cognates: Old Saxon fehu, Old High German fihu, German Vieh "cattle," Gothic faihu "money, fortune"). This is from PIE *peku- "cattle" (cognates: Sanskrit pasu, Lithuanian pekus "cattle;" Latin pecu "cattle," pecunia "money, property").

The other word is Anglo-French fee, from Old French fieu, a variant of fief "possession, holding, domain; feudal duties, payment" (see fief), which apparently is a Germanic compound in which the first element is cognate with Old English feoh.

Via Anglo-French come the legal senses "estate in land or tenements held on condition of feudal homage; land, property, possession" (c. 1300). Hence fee-simple (late 14c.) "absolute ownership," as opposed to fee-tail (early 15c.) "entailed ownership," inheritance limited to some particular class of heirs (second element from Old French taillir "to cut, to limit").

The feudal sense was extended from landholdings to inheritable offices of service to a feudal lord (late 14c.; in Anglo-French late 13c.), for example forester of fe "a forester by heritable right." As these often were offices of profit, the word came to be used for "remuneration for service in office" (late 14c.), hence, "payment for (any kind of) work or services" (late 14c.). From late 14c. as "a sum paid for a privilege" (originally admission to a guild); early 15c. as "money payment or charge exacted for a license, etc."

双语例句

1. He finally corrected his misstatement and offered to reduce the fee.: 他终于纠正了自己的错误说法，提出要减少费用。

2. He responded positively and accepted the fee of £1,000 I had offered.: 他作出了肯定的答复，并接受了我给的1，000英镑的费用。

3. Sometimes there's a flat fee for carrying out a particular task.: 有时执行某项特定的任务有固定的价码。

4. A higher fee does not necessarily mean a better course.: 收费更高并不意味着课程就一定更好。

5. He threatens to dock her fee.: 他威胁要扣掉她的服务费。

英英释意

1. a fixed charge for a privilege or for professional services

2. an interest in land capable of being inherited

考试真题

That study looked at nearly 28,000 Norwegian mothers and found that those moms who were more anxious, depressed and angry were more likely to feed their kids unhealthy diets.

When Jonathan Swift proposed, in 1729, that the people of Ireland eat their children, he insisted it would solve three problems at once: feed the hungry masses, reduce the population during a severe depression, and stimulate the restaurant business.

My mission is to encourage green hands and those lacking time or money to feed themselves.

What's mine is yours, for a fee

They don't just feed the home they serve.

The residents are billed by "net metering": they pay for the amount of power they tap off the grid, less the kilowatts (千瓦) they feed into it

The man is already fed up with playing the piano.

Then you must complete this form and pay a fee.

He had to pay a fee of 40 dollars to get his car back

search of food, they make the waste sites their winter feeding grounds.

White storks feed on locusts ( ' , 蝗虫) and other insects that can become pests if their numbers get out of hand.

While many birds travelled along well-known routes to warmer climates, others stopped short and spent the winter on landfills, feeding on food waste, and the multitudes of insects that thrive on the dumps.

They may evolve new feeding habits.

There are huge clusters of organic waste they can feed on, said Flack.

The most recent one took place last week in Washington, D.C.Students join a team through their schools, which provide a volunteer coach and pay a nominal fee to send students to regional and state competitions.

Instead of flying thousands of miles in search of food, they make the waste sites their winter feeding grounds.

Flack said it was too early to know whether the benefits of plentiful food outweighed the risks of feeding on landfills.

Virtually all experts agree that the fee-for-service system—doctors are rewarded for the quantity of care rather than its quality of effectiveness—is a primary reason that the cost of care is so high.

If going to university doesn't work out, students pay very little--if any--of their tuition fees back: you only start repaying when you are earning ￡21,000 a year.

Annual fees have risen from ￡1,000 to ￡9,000 in the last decade, but contact time at university has barely risen at all.

The space dreamers end up benefiting all of us—not just because of the way they expand human knowledge, or because of the spin-off technologies they produce, but because the two types of dreams feed off each other.

He planted soybeans (大豆）sold as cattle feed

He used genetically modified seeds to feed his cattle.

This means that there could be an extra three billion mouths to feed by the end of the century, a period in which substantial changes are anticipated in the wealth, calorie intake and dietary preferences of people in developing countries across the world

Each group over the coming decades will need to address different issues surrounding food production, storage and transportation, as well as consumer expectations, if we are to continue to feed all our people.

Private markets for goods, services, labor, and securities do mostly self-correct, but panic feeds on itself and disarms these stabilizing tendencies.

The Three-Year Solution Hartwick College, a small liberal-arts school in upstate New York, makes New York, makes this offer to well prepared students: earn your undergraduate degree in three years instead of four, and save about 543,000—the amount of one year's tuition and fees

Cut the fee by half for this year.

since the launch of its program, Best Buy changed its policy to add a $25 fee for recycling old televisions in order to keep the program going.

Students join a team through their schools, which provide a volunteer coach and pay a nominal fee to send students to regional and state competitions.

The company also offers a repair program for their customers for a modest fee.

The fee is $25 to change a room combination.

The price is with a registration fee of just $50 per child?

Worse, the crucial income to feed yourself and your family and pay the bills has disappeared.

This keeps fees high and innovation slow.

Another factor may be that more people are trying to overpack their carry-on bags to avoid checked-baggage fees, though the airlines strongly dispute this.

实用场景例句

legal fees: 律师费

Does the bank charge a fee for setting up the account?: 在这家银行开立账户要收费吗？

fee-paying schools (= that you have to pay to go to): 收费学校

membership fees: 会费

There is no entrance fee to the gallery.: 这个美术陈列馆不收门票。

He hadn't paid his television licence fee.: 他尚未缴纳电视机使用许可费。

Find out how much your surveyor's and solicitor's fees will be.: 弄清你要向鉴定员和律师支付多少费用。

It comes to 750 yuan including the service fee.: 包括手续费在内总共是750元.

The fee his lawyer charged for drawing up the deed was enough in all conscience.: 他的律师为起草契约所收的费用确实足够了.

Is this money enough for the tuition fee?: 这些钱交学费够吗 ?

The boss of the ballroom excused them the fee.: 舞厅老板给他们免费.

Their furniture will stay in the warehouse until they have paid the storage fee.: 他们要等交了保管费之后才能把家具搬出货栈.

There are times when we would willingly give everything we possess to save our lives, yet we might grudge paying a surgeon a high fee for offering us precisely this service.: 有时候我们心甘情愿地付出自己的一切财物以保全自己的生命, 但是外科医生正是为我们提供这种服务,我们却不肯多给他些医疗费.

An initial fee is payable to the franchiser.: 应该付给经销商一笔先期费用.

Three considerations argue against increasing fee.: 三种理由反对增加费用.

The full fee is payable on enrollment.: 所有费用在注冊时缴付.

The lawyer undertook the case without a fee.: 这律师免费承办那个案件.

The doctor's fee is ＄ 25 a visit.: 这位医生一次出诊费是25英镑.

a capitation fee for each pupil: 摊派到每个小学生头上的收费

Does the bank charge a fee for setting up the account?: 在这家银行开立账户要收费吗？

He charged a relatively modest fee.: 他收取的费用不算高。

Customers who overdraw their accounts will be charged a fee.: 透支的存户须付手续费。

He finally corrected his misstatement and offered to reduce the fee.: 他终于纠正了自己的错误说法，提出要减少费用。

The woman at the ticket window told me that the admission fee was $17.50.: 售票窗口那个女的告诉我入场费是17.50美元。

In many cases, the fee structure alone will exceed the tax benefits accrued.: 很多情况下，单是费用结构一项就会超过累积的税惠。

He threatens to dock her fee.: 他威胁要扣掉她的服务费。

You can expect to pay the bank a fee of around 1% to 2% every time you change money.: 每次到银行换币都会要求付1%到2%的手续费。

He responded positively and accepted the fee of £1,000 I had offered.: 他作出了肯定的答复，并接受了我给的1，000英镑的费用。

Sellers pay a fixed commission fee.: 卖方支付固定的服务费。

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