credit /ˈkrɛdɪt/ CET4 TEM4 ( crediting, credited, credits )

• 1. 

  N-UNCOUNT If you are given credit, you are allowed to pay for goods or services several weeks or months after you have received them. 赊购

  例：

  The group can't get credit to buy farming machinery.

  该集团无法以赊购方式购买农业机械。

• 2. 

  N-UNCOUNT If you get the credit for something good, people praise you because you are responsible for it, or are thought to be responsible for it. 赞扬

  例：

  We don't mind who gets the credit so long as we don't get the blame.

  只要我们不挨批评，谁受到表扬我们都不在乎。

  例：

  It would be wrong for us to take all the credit.

  我们把所有的功劳都揽到自己身上就不对了。

• 3. 

  V-T When a sum of money is credited to an account, the bank adds that sum of money to the total in the account. 存入

  例：

  She noticed that only $80,000 had been credited to her account.

  她注意到只有$80000存入了她的账户。

  例：

  Midland decided to change the way it credited payments to accounts.

  米德兰公司决定改变将所付款项存入账户的方式。

• 4. 

  V-T If people credit someone with an achievement or if it is credited to them, people say or believe that they were responsible for it. 归功于

  例：

  The staff are crediting him with having saved Hythe's life.

  海斯能得救全体人员都归功于他。

  例：

  The 74-year-old mayor is credited with helping make Los Angeles the financial capital of the West Coast.

  74岁的市长被归功为帮助洛杉矶成为西海岸金融中心的人。

• 5. 

  N-COUNT A credit is a sum of money which is added to an account. 贷方款额

  例：

  The statement of total debits and credits is known as a balance.

  总的借贷报表称作借贷平衡表。

• 6. 

  N-COUNT A credit is an amount of money that is given to someone. 补助

  例：

  Senator Bill Bradley outlined his own tax cut, giving families $350 in tax credits per child.

  参议员比尔·布拉德利简述了自己的减税计划，给家庭中每一个孩子$350税款补助。

• 7. 

  N-PLURAL The list of people who helped to make a film, a CD, or a television programme is called the credits. 摄制人员名单

  例：

  It was fantastic seeing my name in the credits.

  在摄制人员名单中看到我的名字真是太好了。

• 8. 

  N-COUNT A credit is a successfully completed part of a higher education course, representing about one hour of instruction a week. At universities and colleges you need a certain number of credits to be awarded a degree. 学分

  例：

  Through the AP programme students can earn college credits in high school.

  通过大学预修课程计划，学生在中学就可以拿到大学的学分。

• 9. 

  N-SING If you say that someone is a credit to someone or something, you mean that their qualities or achievements will make people have a good opinion of the person or thing mentioned. 为…增光的人

  例：

  He is one of the greatest players of recent times and is a credit to his profession.

  他是近年来最棒的选手之一，是为他的职业增光的人。

• 10. 

  PHRASE To give someone credit for a good quality means to believe that they have it. 相信某人有

  例：

  Bratbakk had more ability than the media gave him credit for.

  布拉特巴克有比媒体所宣传的还要强的能力。

• 11. 

  PHRASE If something is to someone's credit, they deserve praise for it. 值得赞扬

  例：

  She had managed to pull herself together and, to her credit, continued to look upon life as a positive experience.

  她努力使自己振作起来，并且值得称赞的是，她一如既往地积极面对人生。