consignment
英 [kənˈsaɪn.mənt]
美 [kənˈsaɪn.mənt]
1、con- "with" + sign- + -ment.
2、字面含义为:sealing with a sign, mark with a sign.
consignment 装运货物,运送物来自consign, 交付,交寄。
- consignment (n.)
- 1560s, "sealing with a sign," from consign + -ment. Meaning "delivering over" is from 1660s; especially of goods, for the sake of sale or auction, from c. 1700. Meaning "quantity of goods so assigned" is recorded from 1720s.
- 1. The first consignment of food has already left Bologna.
- 运送的第一批食品已经离开了博洛尼亚。
- 2. a consignment of medicines
- 运送的一批药物
- 3. This last consignment of hosiery is quite up to standard.
- 这批新到的针织品完全符合规格.
- 4. The salesman sorted his new consignment of stockings.
- 推销员把新到的一批长袜清理分类.
- 5. We have to ask you to dispatch the consignment immediately.
- 我们得要求你立即发送该批货物。