VERB 向…收费;索要(钱);要价 If you charge someone an amount of money, you ask them to pay that amount for something that you have sold to them or done for them.
Even local nurseries charge £100 a week... 连本地托儿所每星期都要收费100英镑。
The majority of stalls charged a fair price... 多数货摊要价比较公道。
The hospitals charge the patients for every aspirin... 医院每一片阿司匹林都要病人掏钱。
Some banks charge if you access your account to determine your balance. 有些银行对查询账户余额要收费。
...the architect who charged us a fee of seven hundred and fifty pounds. 那个向我们要了750英镑服务费的建筑师
VERB 将…的账单寄给…;把…记在…的账上 To charge something to a person or organization means to tell the people providing it to send the bill to that person or organization. To charge something to someone's account means to add it to their account so they can pay for it later.
Go out and buy a pair of glasses, and charge it to us... 去买副眼镜,账记在我们头上。
All transactions have been charged to your account. 所有交易都记在你的账户上了。
N-COUNT (提供服务的)要价,收费 A charge is an amount of money that you have to pay for a service.
We can arrange this for a small charge... 我们可以将此安排好,只收取很少的费用。
Customers who arrange overdrafts will face a monthly charge of £5. 透支的客户每月要缴纳5英镑的费用。
N-COUNT 指控;控告 A charge is a formal accusation that someone has committed a crime.
He may still face criminal charges... 他可能仍然要面临刑事指控。
They appeared at court yesterday to deny charges of murder. 他们昨天出庭,否认谋杀的指控。
VERB (警方)指控,起诉 When the police charge someone, they formally accuse them of having done something illegal.
They have the evidence to charge him... 他们握有控告他的证据。
Police have charged Mr Bell with murder. 警方已经起诉贝尔先生犯有谋杀罪。
VERB (公开)指责,谴责 If you charge someone with doing something wrong or unpleasant, you publicly say that they have done it.
He charged the minister with lying about the economy. 他指责部长在经济问题上撒谎。
N-UNCOUNT 负责;管理 If you take charge of someone or something, you make yourself responsible for them and take control over them. If someone or something is in your charge, you are responsible for them.
A few years ago Bacryl took charge of the company... 几年前,巴克里尔接管了该公司。
I have been given charge of this class... 我被分配负责这个班。
They would never forget their time in his charge. 他们永远忘不掉在他手下的日子。
PHRASE 主管;全面负责;统领 If you are in charge in a particular situation, you are the most senior person and have control over something or someone.
Who's in charge here? 这儿谁管事啊?
...the Swiss governess in charge of the smaller children. 负责照管小一些的孩子的瑞士女家庭教师
N-COUNT 被照管的人;所负责的人 If you describe someone as your charge, they have been given to you to be looked after and you are responsible for them.
The coach tried to get his charges motivated. 教练试图激发队员的积极性。
VERB 猛冲;猛攻 If you charge towards someone or something, you move quickly and aggressively towards them.
He charged through the door to my mother's office... 他冲出门,往我母亲的办公室跑去。
He ordered us to charge. 他命令我们冲锋。
...a charging bull. 猛冲过来的公牛
Charge is also a noun.
...a bayonet charge. 拼刺刀
VERB 给(电池)充电 To charge a battery means to pass an electrical current through it in order to make it more powerful or to make it last longer.
Alex had forgotten to charge the battery. 亚力克斯忘了给电池充电。
Charge up means the same as charge . charge up 同 charge
There was nothing in the brochure about having to drive the car every day to charge up the battery. 手册里只字没提这车要天天开,以给电池充电。
(带电物质的)电荷,充电量 An electrical charge is an amount of electricity that is held in or carried by something.
(子弹、炮弹所装填的)火药,炸药;子弹;炮弹 The charge in a cartridge or shell is the explosive inside it. You can also refer to the cartridge or shell itself as a charge .