Discount a bill
[经] 贴现(扣减)期票
🧩 词语组成解析
discount
[dɪs'kaʊnt]
vt. 打折扣，减价出售;减息贷款;削价出售，打折;减价，减量;
vi. 折扣;贴现率;贴现;
n. 贴现;数目;（任何面值上的）扣除额;（考虑到故事、报告、报道等的夸张或偏见等）不全信;
dis 取消+ count数量 → 取消一些金钱的花费\r\n → (价格、债款等)折扣
bill
[bil]
n. 帐单, 清单, 钞票, 鸟嘴, 广告, 法案, 票据\\nvt. 开帐单, (用招贴)宣布
🗣️ 情景例句
What made you pick this job?
你为什么选择这个工作？
Heaven's vengeance is slow but sure.
天网恢恢，疏而不漏。
This shows how long it was before we deemed it necessary to make sure that all our children could share in the knowledge accumulated by the'happy few' during the past centuries.
这说明，经过了多么漫长的时间之后，我们才认识到，有必要确保我们的孩子享有多少个世纪以来由‘少数幸运者’所积累起来的知识。