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資本;資金
Capital is a large sum of money which you use to start a business, or which you invest in order to make more money.
例句
Companies are having difficulty in raising capital...
各公司融資困難。
A large amount of capital is invested in all these branches.
一大筆資金投入了各分公司。
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(廠房、機器等)固定資產,資本資產
You can use capital to refer to buildings or machinery which are necessary to produce goods or to make companies more efficient, but which do not make money directly.
例句
...capital equipment that could have served to increase production.
本可以用來增加產出的資產設備
...capital investment.
資本投資
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(借款或投資的)本金,本錢
Capital is the part of an amount of money borrowed or invested which does not include interest.
例句
With a conventional repayment mortgage, the repayments consist of both capital and interest.
常規的按揭還款額既包含本金也包括利息。
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首都;首府
The capital of a country is the city or town where its government or parliament meets.
例句
...Katmandu, the capital of Nepal.
尼泊爾首都加德滿都
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(工商業活動的)中心
If a place is the capital of a particular industry or activity, it is the place that is most famous for it, because it happens in that place more than anywhere else.
例句
Colmar has long been considered the capital of the wine trade.
科爾馬長期以來一直被視為葡萄酒貿易中心。
...New York, the fashion capital of the world.
紐約,世界時尚之都
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大寫字母
Capitals or capital letters are written or printed letters in the form which is used at the beginning of sentences or names. 'T', 'B', and 'F' are capitals.
例句
The name and address are written in capitals.
姓名和地址是大寫的。
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ADJ
(犯罪)情節嚴重的,可判處死刑的
A capital offence is one that is so serious that the person who commits it can be punished by death.
例句
Espionage is a capital offence in this country.
在這個國家,從事間諜活動是死罪。
...Americans wrongly convicted of capital crimes.
被誤判死罪的美國人
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柱頭;柱頂
A capital is the top part of a stone column, which is sometimes decorated with stone leaves or other patterns.
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PHRASE
從…中撈取好處;從…中漁利
If you say that someone is making capital out of a situation, you disapprove of the way they are gaining an advantage for themselves through other people's efforts or bad luck.
例句
He rebuked the President for trying to make political capital out of the hostage situation.
他譴責總統試圖利用人質事件撈取政治利益。
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(用于強調某一字眼具有特殊意義)地道的，徹頭徹尾的
You can use phrases such as 'Life with a capital L', to emphasize that a word has a particular significance in the situation you are talking about.
例句
She's not feminist with a capital F but she's fairly controversial.
她不是個真正意義上的女權主義者,但卻是個頗具爭議的人物。