Import

(noun.) commodities (goods or services) bought from a foreign country.

(noun.) an imported person brought from a foreign country; 'the lead role was played by an import from Sweden'; 'they are descendants of indentured importees'.

(verb.) transfer (electronic data) into a database or document.

(verb.) bring in from abroad.

录入:史黛西

• I read these words over and over again: I felt that an explanation belonged to them, and was unable fully to penetrate their import. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• They import their own toboggans. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• He was conscious of the practical, as well as the theoretical, import of his investigation. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• I thought, my dear, that perhaps your face might--' 'My face might be a martyrdom, but what would that import, or who should know it, if I smiled? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• And yet there were indications there, had they not been overlaid by other details which concealed their true import. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• Some idea of the immensity of this industry may be obtained from the import statistics. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• So if it were not for adult language, we should not be able to see the import of the babbling impulses of infancy. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The poor side of a debtor's prison is, as its name imports, that in which the most miserable and abject class of debtors are confined. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• He did try to prevent the English from exchanging exports for European gold, while permitting imports in the hope of depleting England of gold. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• The other exports the accommodation and subsistence of a great number, and imports that of a very few only. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The imports for the year 1899 were 3,980,250,569 pounds, and the per capita consumption in 1898 was 61. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The word imports what the Latins call _nanunculus_, the Italians _homunceletino_, and the English _mannikin_. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• His plan was to levy a direct tax upon the separate states, and collect, at the ports left open to trade, a duty on all imports. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Yet first, let me say, said De Bracy, what it imports thee to know. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Imported horses were introduced at Buenos Ayres in 1537, and so flourished in the wild state that in 1580 they were found as far south as the Strai t of Magellan. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• This would be the case, even upon the supposition that the whole French goods imported were to be consumed in Great Britain. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Some part even of the French wine drank in Great Britain, is clandestinely imported from Holland and Zealand. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The wood was imported in bolts or pieces three feet long. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• This was imported from England, and arrived in New York in May, 1829, and was tried in that year on a section of the Delaware & Hudson Canal Company’s railroad. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The account of what was imported under register, he assures us, is exact. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Success in this line led him to experiment in the manufacture of billiard tables, practically all of which were then imported. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• There is also every reason to believe that the French colonists in Maryland and Canada let no great time elapse before importing tables and equipment into those colonies. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• They abound, therefore, in the rude produce of land; and instead of importing it from other countries, they have generally a large surplus to export. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The United States alone was in 1875 importing 134,000 watches annually from that country. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Pleasant with a grave look shook her head; importing that she understood the process, but decidedly disapproved. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Not even known to be gone until receipt of message, importing that her return was not to be expected for the present. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• Unless you object, Mr. Jennings, to my importing THAT amount of common sense into the proceedings? 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• At the time the war broke out, in August, 1914, Germany was importing nearly one million tons of nitrate of soda per annum from Chile, South America. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.

校对:惠特尼