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licence

英 ['laɪsəns] 美['laɪsəns]
  • n. 许可证,执照;特许
  • vt. 特许,许可;发给执照

英英释意


1. excessive freedom; lack of due restraint;
"when liberty becomes license dictatorship is near"- Will Durant
"the intolerable license with which the newspapers break...the rules of decorum"- Edmund Burke
2. freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech)
3. a legal document giving official permission to do something