一、详细释义:


v.

【正式】(使)结束,(使)终止 [I,T]


例句:

The meeting terminate at 10 o'clock.

会议在十点钟结束。


例句:

The refund will terminate after the year 2000.

退税将在2000年终止。


二、词义辨析:


complete,finish,end,close,conclude,terminate,accomplish

这些动词均含“结束,完成”之意。 complete侧重指完成预定的任务或使某事完善,补足缺少的部分等。 finish与complete基本同义,着重圆满地结束或完成已着手的事。 end最普通用词,着重事情的完成。也指某种活动因达到目的而自然结束或由于某种原因而突然中止。 close普通用词,着重行为的终止或结束,不强调其目的。 conclude正式用词,多指以某事或活动达到预期目的而告终。 terminate强调有一个空间和时间的限度,届时必须终止。书面语用词。 accomplish正式用词,强调一个过程的完成;也可指依靠努力达到一定目的,或取得一定的结果。


三、参考例句:


May it soon terminate happily!

但愿你早日化险为夷。


The meeting terminate at 10 o'clock.

会议在十点钟结束。


The employer requires to terminate the contract.

老板要求终止合同。


They want to terminate the contract.

他们想要终止这份合同。


You have no right to terminate the contract.

你无权终止合同。


The refund will terminate after the year 2000.

退税将在2000年终止。


He had never seen the instrument that was to terminate his life.

他不曾看见过将要了结他的生命的那种机械。


The trust shall terminate if all of the beneficiaries waivers their beneficial rights of the trust.

全体受益人放弃信托受益权的,信托终止。


Betraying a trust is a very quick and painful way to terminate a friendship.

背信弃义会迅速而痛苦地结束友谊。


Children's duty to maintain their parents shall not terminate with the change in their parents‘ matrimonial relationship.

子女对父母的赡养义务,不因父母的婚姻关系变化而终止。