17 - Allocate

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A person might allocate a bedroom in the house as a home office. 一个人可能会把房子里的一间卧室分配给家庭办公室。 Busy parents try to allocate time to spend with their children. 忙碌的父母设法分配时间和孩子在一起。 Voters pass bond measures to allocate funds for education, parks, or libraries. 选民们通过债券措施为教育、公园或图书馆分配资金。 One measure of a successful company is how much money it allocates for product development. 衡量一家公司成功与否的一个标准是它为产品开发分配了多少资金。

ALLOCATE (AL-uh-kayt) 分配(AL-UH-KAYT)。 To assign, designate, earmark, set aside for a specific purpose. 为某一特定目的而分配、指定或拨出。 Allocate comes from a Latin verb meaning to locate, determine the place of. Allocation(分配)来自拉丁语动词，意思是定位、确定地点。 That which is allocated has been assigned a special place or purpose. 分配的东西已经被指定了一个特殊的地方或用途。