名词合同; 契约; 协议

动词签合同; 缩小; 感染

及物动词交付; 发表; 递送; 使分娩

不及物动词传送; 投递

1. 递送;投递;运送
If you deliver something somewhere, you take it there.

e.g. The Canadians plan to deliver more food to southern Somalia...
加拿大计划向索马里南部地区运送更多的食品。
e.g. The spy returned to deliver a second batch of classified documents...
那名间谍返回来递送第二批机密文件。

2. 履行;兑现;实现
If you deliver something that you have promised to do, make, or produce, you do, make, or produce it.

e.g. They have yet to show that they can really deliver working technologies...
他们尚未证明自己真的能够开发出实用技术。
e.g. ... proving they could deliver the vote in their areas...
证明他们能够得到自己选区的选票

3. 托付;交托
If you deliver a person or thing into someone's care, you give them responsibility for that person or thing.

e.g. Mrs Montgomery was delivered into Mr Hinchcliffe's care...
蒙哥马利夫人托给了欣奇利夫先生照顾。
e.g. David delivered Holly gratefully into the woman's outstretched arms...
戴维非常感激地把霍利送进那个女人张开的双臂中。

4. 作(讲座);发表(讲话)
If you deliver a lecture or speech, you give it in public.

e.g. The president will deliver a speech about schools...
总统将就学校问题发表讲话。
e.g. It is shocking that only one woman has delivered the lecture in 44 years.
在 44 年间仅有一名女性作过讲座，这真令人震惊。

5. 接生(婴儿)
When someone delivers a baby, they help the woman who is giving birth to the baby.

e.g. Her husband had to deliver the baby himself.
她丈夫不得不自己接生孩子。

6. 给予(打击)
If someone delivers a blow to someone else, they hit them.

e.g. Those blows to the head could have been delivered by a woman.
头部所受的那些重击有可能出自一个女人之手。

7. 解救;拯救;使解脱
If someone delivers you from something, they rescue or save you from it.

e.g. I have given thanks to God for delivering me from that pain.
我感谢上帝把我从那种痛苦中拯救出来。

8. to deliver the goods - see goods

及物动词叙述; 描写，形容; 描绘，作图; （行星等）周转

1. 描述;描写;形容;叙述
If you describe a person, object, event, or situation, you say what they are like or what happened.

e.g. We asked her to describe what kind of things she did in her spare time...
我们请她描述一下她业余时间都在做什么。
e.g. She broke down describing how she was arrested for refusing a breath test...
她在叙述自己如何因为拒绝接受呼吸测试而被捕时再也控制不住情绪。

2. 把…说成;把…称为;认为
If a person describes someone or something as a particular thing, he or she believes that they are that thing and says so.

e.g. He described it as an extraordinarily tangled and complicated tale...
他说那是一个非常曲折复杂的故事。
e.g. Eriksson described him as 'the best player on the pitch'...
埃里克森称他是“场上最好的球员”。

3. 描画，画出(图形);形成…的形状
If something describes a particular shape, it forms that shape or makes a movement that follows the line of that shape.

e.g. His pass described a perfect arc through the leaden sky.
他的传球在阴沉的天空中划出了一道完美的弧线。