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VERB
允許；準許
If someone permits something, they allow it to happen. If they permit you to do something, they allow you to do it.
例句
He can let the court's decision stand and permit the execution...
他有權維持法庭判決，批準死刑生效。
The guards permitted me to bring my camera and tape recorder...
衛兵準許我帶相機和錄音機。
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N-COUNT
許可證；特許證
A permit is an official document which says that you may do something. For example you usually need a permit to work in a foreign country.
例句
The majority of foreign nationals working here have work permits...
大多數在這里工作的外國人都有工作許可證。
He has to apply for a permit, and we have to find him a job.
他必須要申請工作許可證，我們得給他找份工作。
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VERB
允許；使有可能
If a situation permits something, it makes it possible for that thing to exist, happen, or be done or it provides the opportunity for it.
例句
He sets about creating an environment that just doesn't permit experiment, it encourages it...
他著手營造一種不僅可以進行試驗而且鼓勵進行試驗的環境。
Try to go out for a walk at lunchtime, if the weather permits...
只要天氣不太差，中午盡量出去散散步。
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VERB
破例做；放縱
If you permit yourself something, you allow yourself to do something that you do not normally do or that you think you probably should not do.
例句
Captain Bowen permitted himself one cigar a day...
鮑恩上尉破例允許自己每天抽一支雪茄。
Only once in his life had Douglas permitted himself to lose control of his emotions.
道格拉斯一生中只有一次情緒失控。
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PHRASE
（用于提出建議）請允許我
You can use permit me when you are about to say something or to make a suggestion.
例句
Permit me to give you some advice...
請允許我給你提點建議。
Permit me to offer you my sincere congratulations.
謹致衷心祝賀。