bill /bɪl/ star4 CET4 TEM4 (billing,billed,bills)

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  N-COUNT（可数名词） A bill is a written statement of money that you owe for goods or services. 账单

  例：

  They couldn't afford to pay the bills.

  他们付不起账。

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  V-T（及物动词） If you bill someone for goods or services you have provided them with, you give or send them a bill stating how much money they owe you for these goods or services. 给…开账单 [no cont]

  例：

  Are you going to bill me for this?

  你会为这开帐单给我吗？

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  N-COUNT（可数名词） A bill is a piece of paper money. 纸币 [美国英语]

  例：

  The case contained a large quantity of U.S. dollar bills.

  盒子里装有大量美钞。

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  N-COUNT（可数名词） In government, a bill is a formal statement of a proposed new law that is discussed and then voted on. 议案

  例：

  This is the toughest crime bill that Congress has passed in a decade.

  这是十年来国会通过的最强硬的有关犯罪的议案。

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  N-SING（单数型名词） The bill of a show or concert is a list of the entertainers who will take part in it. 演出人员名单

  例：

  Bob Dylan topped the bill.

  鲍勃·迪伦排在演员表的最前端。

• 6.  

  N-SING（单数型名词） The bill in a restaurant is a piece of paper on which the price of the meal you have just eaten is written and which you are given before you pay. (餐馆的) 账单 [英国英语]

  例：

  After coffee, Gastler asked for the bill.

  喝完咖啡，加斯特勒要了账单。

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  V-T（及物动词） If someone is billed to appear in a particular show, it has been advertised that they are going to be in it. 宣传 (某人出演某戏) [usu passive]

  例：

  She was billed to play the Wicked Queen in "Snow White."

  她已被宣布将出演《白雪公主》里狠毒的王后。

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  N-UNCOUNT（不可数名词） billing 演员表

  例：

  ...their quarrels over star billing.

  …他们就演员表排名顺序的争吵。

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  V-T（及物动词） If you bill a person or event as a particular thing, you advertise them in a way that makes people think they have particular qualities or abilities. 把…宣传为

  例：

  They bill it as California's most exciting museum.

  他们把这宣传为加利福尼亚最令人激动的博物馆。

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  N-COUNT（可数名词） A bird's bill is its beak. 喙
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  PHRASE（习语） If you say that someone or something fits the bill or fills the bill, you mean that they are suitable for a particular job or purpose. 符合要求

  例：

  If you fit the bill, send a CV to Rebecca Rees.

  如果你符合这些要求，送一份履历给丽贝卡·里斯。