capitals

英 [ˈkæpɪtlz]

美 [ˈkæpɪtlz]

n.  首都; 国都; 资本; 资金; 启动资金; 财富; 财产
capital的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 资本;资金
  Capitalis a large sum of money which you use to start a business, or which you invest in order to make more money.
  1. Companies are having difficulty in raising capital...
     各公司融资困难。
  2. A large amount of capital is invested in all these branches.
     一大笔资金投入了各分公司。
• N-UNCOUNT (厂房、机器等)固定资产,资本资产
  You can usecapitalto refer to buildings or machinery which are necessary to produce goods or to make companies more efficient, but which do not make money directly.
  1. ...capital equipment that could have served to increase production.
     本可以用来增加产出的资产设备
  2. ...capital investment.
     资本投资
• N-UNCOUNT (借款或投资的)本金,本钱
  Capitalis the part of an amount of money borrowed or invested which does not include interest.
  1. With a conventional repayment mortgage, the repayments consist of both capital and interest.
     常规的按揭还款额既包含本金也包括利息。
• N-COUNT 首都;首府
  Thecapitalof a country is the city or town where its government or parliament meets.
  1. ...Katmandu, the capital of Nepal.
     尼泊尔首都加德满都
• N-COUNT (工商业活动的)中心
  If a place isthe capital ofa particular industry or activity, it is the place that is most famous for it, because it happens in that place more than anywhere else.
  1. Colmar has long been considered the capital of the wine trade.
     科尔马长期以来一直被视为葡萄酒贸易中心。
  2. ...New York, the fashion capital of the world.
     纽约,世界时尚之都
• N-COUNT 大写字母
  Capitalsorcapital lettersare written or printed letters in the form which is used at the beginning of sentences or names. 'T', 'B', and 'F' are capitals.
  1. The name and address are written in capitals.
     姓名和地址是大写的。
• ADJ (犯罪)情节严重的,可判处死刑的
  Acapitaloffence is one that is so serious that the person who commits it can be punished by death.
  1. Espionage is a capital offence in this country.
     在这个国家,从事间谍活动是死罪。
  2. ...Americans wrongly convicted of capital crimes.
     被误判死罪的美国人
• 柱头;柱顶
  Acapitalis the top part of a stone column, which is sometimes decorated with stone leaves or other patterns.
• See also:working capital

Note that you must always use acapitalletter with days of the week, months of the year, and festivals....on Monday the 13th of January. ...at Christmas.Names of seasons, however, usually begin with a small letter....in spring.Capitalsmust also be used with the names of countries and other places, as well with the adjectives and nouns derived from them, such as those which refer to their inhabitants or languages....in Portugal. ...the Swiss police. ...thousands of Germans... He spoke fluent Arabic.
注意, 表示星期几、月份和节假日的词首字母必须大写: on Monday the 13th of January (1月13日, 星期一)，at Christmas (圣诞节期间)。不过, 表示季节的名词首字母通常小写: in spring (在春季)。国名、地名及其派生出来的表示其居民或语言等的形容词、名词首字母必须大写: in Portugal (在葡萄牙)，the Swiss police (瑞士警方)，thousands of Germans (成千上万的德国人)，He spoke fluent Arabic (他讲一口流利的阿拉伯语)。

• PHRASE 从…中捞取好处;从…中渔利
  If you say that someoneis making capital out ofa situation, you disapprove of the way they are gaining an advantage for themselves through other people's efforts or bad luck.
  1. He rebuked the President for trying to make political capital out of the hostage situation.
     他谴责总统试图利用人质事件捞取政治利益。
• PHRASE (用于强调某一字眼具有特殊意义)地道的，彻头彻尾的
  You can use phrases such as 'Lifewith a capitalL', to emphasize that a word has a particular significance in the situation you are talking about.
  1. She's not feminist with a capital F but she's fairly controversial.
     她不是个真正意义上的女权主义者,但却是个颇具争议的人物。

双语例句

• Bertie Ahern will host a working dinner for Tony Blair tonight as he jets into Dublin on a whistle-stop tour of EU capitals.
  正在对欧盟各成员国首都作短暂访问的托尼·布莱尔今晚将飞抵都柏林，届时伯蒂·埃亨将设工作晚宴予以款待。
• In his celebration speech, he issued a stark warning to Washington and other Western capitals.
  在他的庆祝演说中，他向华盛顿和其他西方国家提出了严正警告。
• Today, New York is often regarded as one of the financial and cultural capitals of the Western World.
  现在纽约常常被看作是西方经济和文化大都会之一。
• He and colleagues have shuttled back and forth between the three capitals
  他和同事们在这3个首都之间往来穿梭。
• I compiled weights and measures, streets, countries and their capitals.
  我的类别有度量衡、街道、国家及其首都。
• We did the logo in lower-case letters instead of capitals.
  我们的徽标用了小写字母，没用大写。
• Use all capitals, and slightly enlarge the first letter.
  使用所有的首都，并略有放大的第一个字母。
• Contemporary enterprise capitals cover the equity capital and the debt capital.
  现代企业的资本来源有权益资本和债务资本。
• London was different from most European capitals
  伦敦同大多数欧洲国家的首都都有所不同。
• Banks and several capitals are warming to such solutions.
  银行和一些资方对此类解决方案表现出热心的态度。