英语词汇“capital”的意思、释义、用法解释及翻译-春雷网

capital¹

noun ˈkapɪt(ə)lˈkæpədl

1The city or town that functions as the seat of government and administrative centre of a country or region.
Warsaw is the capital of Poland
Example sentencesExamples
- Bridget saw the squalor and poverty of the Christians, who fled the south to live in shanty towns around the capital.
- It would be impossible for major countries of the world, like England, France, the United States, Japan and Germany, to relocate their capitals to other cities.
- Then the next day I went to Vitoria, administrative capital of the Basque region.
- Reports say that the Essonne region south of the capital and the south-western city of Toulouse are the latest to be affected.
- Also in high demand are the townhouses in the capital's New Town.
- The legislative capital will be Hopedale, while the administrative capital will be Nain.
- Tomorrow a new Picasso museum displaying more than 200 works donated by his family opens in his home town, the capital of Andalucia.
- On 1 February 1927 the town of Stuart was proclaimed the administrative capital of Central Australia.
- Though not a regular phenomenon as in the state capital, the city does get to experience its share of melodious rendering every now and then.
- The duo paid a six figure sum for the rights to open a store on Hanover Street in the capital's city centre, which opens next month.
- A structural urban development plan for the capital divides the city into five areas that will function as pillars for the development work.
- In fact, my home town was once the capital of an old territory called Mercia, and has a Norman castle that dates back over 1000 years.
- The centre of the capital is a sprawling marketplace which probably hasn't had concrete roads since the French packed up and left Mali four decades ago.
- It is one of the few European capitals whose city centre was left intact after the war and is today prospering.
- Some of the first postal connections, for instance, linked county seats to state capitals and ultimately to Washington, D.C.
- Aarhus is Denmark's second city and the capital of Jutland, famous notably for its Old Town.
- The city, which is the capital of the region, is a major industrial centre with a population of over 1 million.
- If they do so, it will spark scenes of rejoicing in Settle and prompt an exodus from the town to the capital on April 17.
- In Europe most urban growth was in the large cities and capitals, and smaller towns declined.
- Coaches have been booked to ferry demonstrators to the capital from towns and cities across the UK.
Synonyms
first city, most important city, seat of government, centre of administration
metropolis
1. 1.1with modifier A place associated more than any other with a specified activity or product.
  （某种活动或产品的）重要城市
  the fashion capital of the world
  米兰是世界时装之都。
  Example sentencesExamples
  It is a hive of creativity, recognized globally as a fashion capital.
  In one of the fashion capitals of the world, there is no end of stylish boutiques and stores to browse.
  The Gold Coast is undoubtedly the theme park capital of Queensland.
  He has been all over and is a regular in the world's fashion capital, Paris.
  Those chosen will be flown to Paris for training before they are launched in international fashion capitals.
  It is turning into the motor-car capital of the world.
  Coming back to you live from the in-game video production capital of the world, New York, New York!
  Harrogate is the fashion capital of North Yorkshire.
  The event will be the first held by a mass-market clothing chain in one of the world's fashion capitals.
  New York's reputation as fashion capital of the United States is long-standing.
  So its designers have been spending more time in fashion capitals like Paris and Milan, creating concept drawings of futuristic headsets to explore different designs.
  Lola has just moved from New York City, the cultural capital of the world, into the suburbs of New Jersey.
  They certainly won't cite the global production capitals of Hollywood and Bombay.
  It's official; feminine pretty prints are the overriding message from fashion capitals, colour is key and black is in the shade.
  We will never be at par with fashion capitals until more money is invested in our industry.
  The properties have been snapped up by people wanting to move into the area, which was a hub of activity when Bradford was the wool capital of the world in the 1800s.
  Late in 1917 Babe moved to Los Angeles which was rapidly replacing Florida and New York as the motion picture capital.
  Police said Enterprise, which they describe as the crime capital of Central, was being combed for the killers.
  Sri Lanka has acquired an infamous name - the suicide capital of the world - after reaching the highest rate of suicides in the last year.
  Bangalore is expected to take away a chunk of the traffic as more people from the software capital are emplaning towards the US every day.
2mass noun Wealth in the form of money or other assets owned by a person or organization or available for a purpose such as starting a company or investing.
资本，资金
rates of return on invested capital were high
投资资金回报率高。
Example sentencesExamples
- Such a fast return on capital invested made the management purchase of Parc look like a real bargain.
- In addition to a team, a space enterprise requires start-up capital.
- There's a growing group of wealthy people who want to invest some of their capital in something that has a social purpose.
- The obvious risks from exposure to the great unwashed are inevitably outweighed by the growth that access to all that fresh capital will produce.
- The company, which is developing a treatment for Alzheimer's disease, gained most of its development capital from overseas.
- The average return on capital invested in land was only about 5 per cent, or little more than half of the return available in commerce or in industry.
- The payback period is the number of years it takes before a project's discounted cash flows equal the initial capital invested.
- It's been a site for assembling capital to fertilize productive enterprises.
- If you want to increase the entire wealth of the country, you need to have people saving and investing because you need capital.
- Now the firm believes the injection of development capital will help propel a new range of its products on to the worldwide stage.
- The capitalist invests his or her capital to produce wealth, and only for that purpose.
- Alternatively, you may be able to make greater returns from investing your capital, but this is by no means certain.
- At the end of the day, private banks want to get their hands on customers' capital, which they invest with gusto in return for juicy fees.
- The international airline industry is exceptional in that over its 60-year life it has never yielded a positive return on capital invested.
- The capital is invested by the institution to a large degree in interest bearing investments like government stock, etc.
- We need some expansion capital, they don't particularly want to play.
- We look to business and the market to invest and develop financial capital, and the State has a role in regulating the economy.
- They all need capital to meet their needs for expansion and technical development.
- Eircom says it is entitled to a return on capital invested in the business and to recover its operating costs.
- They invested in more land, preferring to extend the scale of their operations rather than sink capital into improved productivity.
Synonyms
money, finance(s), funds, the wherewithal, the means, assets, wealth, resources, reserves, deep pockets, stock, principal
working capital, investment capital
informal dough, bread, loot, the ready, readies, shekels, moolah, the necessary, wad, boodle, dibs, gelt, ducats, rhino, gravy, scratch, stuff, oof
British informal dosh, brass, lolly, spondulicks, wonga, ackers
North American informal dinero, greenbacks, simoleons, bucks, jack, mazuma
Australian/New Zealand informal Oscar
informal, dated splosh, green, tin
British dated l.s.d.
North American informal, dated kale, rocks, shinplasters
archaic pelf
1. 2.1 The excess of a company's assets over its liabilities.
  公司资产净值
  Example sentencesExamples
  Current assets minus current liabilities equals the working capital available.
  Owner's equity is the net worth or capital of an individual or business.
2. 2.2 People who possess wealth and use it to control a society's economic activity, considered collectively.
  资本家，资方
  a conflict of interest between capital and labour
  劳资双方的利益冲突。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The tragedy is the orientation will be in the interests of capital rather than working people.
  The contest between capital and labour over the fruits of economically productive activity remains the front line struggle.
  If you say you are from the trade union movement they believe that you ought to be looking after conditions at the workplace and leave economic decisions to capital.
  Can this international division of labor and its control by capital be the basis for a consistent classification?
  As with labour, the role of capital in economic development can be understood in terms of both quantity and quality.
  The harmony George discerned between the interests of labor and capital applied only under free competition.
  It is striving for world hegemony, i.e., the political and economic reorganization of the world in the interests of American capital.
  The flip side is that some on the left have been disappointed by the lack of significant redistribution of wealth from capital to labour.
  In the final analysis, the source of all profit is the surplus value extracted from the employment of wage labour by capital.
3. 2.3with modifier A valuable resource of a particular kind.
  〈喻〉资本（有某种价值的资源）
  there is insufficient investment in human capital
  人力资本投资不够。
  Example sentencesExamples
  China's political capital is best invested in other areas of structural reform.
  Human capital is more important than physical capital.
  It made economic sense, and it made sense to invest social capital in youth, he said.
  One source said there was so much political capital invested in Atlantic Dawn that there was little left for the rest of the industry.
  Firms invest intellectual and financial capital into establishing each customer relationship.
  With justification, it wraps itself in the mantle of intellectual capital for the knowledge economy.
  Deputy Agricultural and Land Affairs Minister Dirk du Toit called on farmers to invest in what he described as human resource capital.
  So far, the president has earned little return on the political capital that he has invested so far in his second term.
  Consultancy fees can be regarded as investments in human capital and hence treated as capital expenditure, something the economists love.
  He cited an estimate stating that human capital in the United States was worth five times as much as physical capital.
  The dominant society uses cultural capital to lure nondominant groups into being like them.
  Both physical and human capital require social capital to generate changes in process and outcome and to offer value for money on the investment.
  On a more itemized basis, knowledge capital is intellectual and human capital, customer and supplier capital.
3A letter of the size and form used to begin sentences and names.
大写字母
he wrote the name in capitals
他用大写字母写名字。
Example sentencesExamples
- A short, bald and rather round gent in his late fifties waits in the arrival lounge carrying a placard that reads my name in bold capitals.
- The inscription was in pencil - big, bold capitals, lettered by a young child's hand: MOM and DAD.
- Nokia to Samsung, CDMA to GSM, they loved big names, capital letters, oh so cute combinations!
- Always distinguish the marks from surrounding printed text, for example, by putting the mark in all capital letters or using initial capitals and placing the mark within quotation marks.
- Right at the top, plastered across the faces of Deneuve, Buster Keaton, Cary Grant and Al Pacino, is Ebert's name in capital letters.
- I'll head each chapter with the kid's name all in capitals.
- Firstly, I'm not sure why we need to have his name in capital letters.
- The bold black capitals make those letters seem separate from the words of which they are otherwise part.
- From now, the organisation will be VisitScotland - two capital letters with the name joined together.
- He claimed the case was invalid because it spelled his name in all capital letters.
- The author of this new, third biography of the poet notes that Cummings signed his name in capitals in his personal correspondence, dealings with publishers and his diaries.
- Or did they miss the English lesson where the teacher tells you not to put capitals and small letters in the middle of the same word.
- They signed my dad's menu - perhaps he signed theirs - and underneath each name he printed in his own careful capitals the names of their respective clubs.
- There is also no differentiation as capital letters and small letters in Tamil.
- But it wasn't Mr. Aldrich's block lettering in all capitals.
- In tap, we have sentences and there is structure in the paragraph: All sentences begin with a capital letter; there are commas, exclamations.
- Creditors should sign both forms, date them, and write their name in capitals in the appropriate places on the bottom of the forms.
- I stare at the signpost, seeing my name as white capital letters on a strip of green metal.
- At the end of the game some fans standing in a row behind one of the goals held up the letters of Ronaldo's name in big white capitals, just like the Hollywood sign.
- The second rule: you should use a mix of at least three of these four things: small letters, capital letters, numbers, and symbols.
Synonyms
capital letter, upper-case letter, block capital
informal cap
technical uncial, uncial letter, majuscule letter

adjective ˈkapɪt(ə)lˈkæpədl

1attributive (of an offence or charge) liable to the death penalty.
（犯罪，控告）可判死刑的
murder is the only capital crime in the state
谋杀是这个国家惟一可判死刑的犯罪。
Example sentencesExamples
- Defined as the unlawful carnal knowledge of a woman by force and against her will, rape was a capital crime already in early Anglo-Saxon times.
- Witchcraft was a capital offence and so was being a Catholic.
- The police federation nationally has always been in favour of the death penalty for certain capital crimes.
- However I find this inconsistent with his claim to have feared being arrested for capital offences.
- He now faces capital charges of conspiring in the September 11 terrorist attacks.
- We have a statute in North Carolina that says once convicted of capital murder, that the full files can be disclosed.
- Whereas killing a man is a capital offence, murdering a woman is a lesser crime.
- Nor is it lawful to accuse anyone of a capital offence.
- If you can't put together the how or the why of the murder, you are going to get a jury to make a leap of faith with you and convict somebody of capital murder.
- They need at least one of them, in my opinion, to convict in a capital murder case.
- But most defendants in capital crimes do not get decent lawyers: they get the inexperienced, the hopeless or the simply corrupt.
- Does the US put a man's son to death because he has been convicted of a capital crime?
- But in this instance, the Houston case involved theft, not capital murder.
- The State of Texas has accordingly charged Yates with capital murder, a crime for which she may face the death penalty.
- Muhammad is being tried for a capital crime that carries the death penalty.
- The standard isn't any different for a petty theft arrest than it would for the arrest of a capital crime.
- Look at the case recently mentioned in the Gleaner where some men were convicted of capital murder for a murder committed in the process of robbing a bank.
- The same jury took less than four hours on Tuesday to convict her of capital murder, rejecting her insanity defence.
- Not realising that he was charged with a capital offence, the undefended Downey pleaded guilty.
- The local prosecutor in turn pushed for capital murder charges.
2attributive (of a letter of the alphabet) large in size and of the form used to begin sentences and names.
大写字母
Example sentencesExamples
- In relation to a capital T, if it is just a nice, straight vertical line with a cross across the top, it is a sans serif font - a square block.
- My loyalties, however, lie with one uncle only, and his name starts with a capital S.
- Assuming the piece is publishable, my name will be in there with a few names with a capital N.
Synonyms
upper-case, block
technical uncial, majuscule
3dated, informal Excellent.
〈非正式，旧〉极好的
he's a really capital fellow
他真是个大好人。
Example sentencesExamples
- He sounds like a capital bloke.
- The first mate is a Pole called Conrad and is a capital chap.
- Euan Semple, all-round capital fellow and big-time blogger at the BBC, got his gapingvoid t-shirt.

exclamationˈkapɪt(ə)lˈkæpədl

British dated, informal

Used to express approval, satisfaction, or delight.
〈英，非正式，旧〉太好了（用来表示同意、满意或高兴）
That's splendid! Capital!
太好了！太棒了！
Example sentencesExamples
- That's capital! How glad I am you've come!
- That's capital! I will certainly ride over to her.
- That's splendid! Capital!

Phrases

make capital out of

Use to one's own advantage.
利用
the opposition are seeking to make political capital out of the scandal
Example sentencesExamples
- The traditional community right over water is purposefully being eroded by those who would make capital out of this scarce natural resource.
- He's still trying to make capital out of that story, is he?
- They are making capital out of innocent people.
- Having decided that the national interest meant they should not make capital out of the war, they are now at liberty to behave like an opposition, and to start stirring the pot.
- Some people like to take advantage of my friends and make capital out of my personal influence to win over voters.
- More recently, Japanese politicians have been making capital out of blaming the nation's woes on outsiders, particularly those from other Asian countries.
- Unable to erase the bad patch of history, the city has embraced it and is really making capital out of it in a big way.
- I hope no politician would make capital out of people's misery.
- Religious and political groups are trying to make capital out of what is happening.
- Attempts by the right to make capital out of the tragedy have created a powderkeg.

with a capital —

Used to give emphasis to the word or concept in question.
真正地，名副其实地（用来强调问题中的某个词或概念）
he's trouble with a capital T
她真是名副其实地丑。
Example sentencesExamples
- Their music is in the realms of punk/emo/rock, and their songs are excellent with a capital E.
- I know a winner when I see one, and baby, you're a winner with a capital W.
- It was a debacle with a capital D writ large in ten foot illuminated letters.
- Yes that is Fog with a capital F. Really nice thick Fog that made everything look eerie and spooky.
- In the US, Ouija Board - owned by a Lord, trained by a toff and ridden by a champion - is popular with a capital P.
- Pet Shop Boys - Please: Classic with a capital C, debut album from my other all time favourite band.
- Guilty with a capital G. All involved on Alien Nation are sentenced to hard labor on Ceti Alpha 6.
- Progressive and vaguely left-of-centre, it was never political with a capital P.

Derivatives

capitally

adverb ˈkapɪt(ə)liˈkæpədli

1In a manner relating to or involving the death penalty.
even if the defendant is tried capitally, it is unlikely the jury will sentence him to death
Example sentencesExamples
- I think that's part of it, and I also think people shouldn't be punished, whether capitally or just with prison terms if they are innocent.
- You told us, I think you said, right, that you wouldn't have minded if they capitally punished her, right?
- In Hampshire, 101 prisoners were capitally convicted but only six were hanged; the others had their sentences commuted to transportation.
- utilities are generally capitally intensive businesses
- his home was capitally situated
2With regard to money or other assets intended for or used in financial investment.
3British dated, informal Excellently.
〈非正式，旧〉极好的

Origin

Middle English (as an adjective in the sense 'relating to the head or top', later 'standing at the head or beginning'): via Old French from Latin capitalis, from caput 'head'.

The first meaning of capital was ‘to do with the head or the top of something’. From this evolved such modern meanings as ‘the large form of a letter’ and ‘the chief city or town in a country’. The word goes back to Latin caput ‘head’. Capital in the financial sense was originally the capital stock of a company or trader, their main or original funds. The use as an adjective meaning ‘excellent’, now old-fashioned, dates from the mid 18th century. The capital of a column comes via French from Latin capitellum ‘a little head’. To capitulate (mid 16th century) is to admit that you are defeated and surrender. When it first entered the language it meant ‘to parley or draw up terms’, having come via French from medieval Latin capitulare ‘to draw up under headings’. Like capital, its ultimate root is Latin caput ‘head’, source also of cap, chapter, chief (Middle English), and captain (Late Middle English), both the ‘head’ of a group of people, and decapitate (early 17th century).

capital²

noun ˈkapɪt(ə)lˈkæpədl

Architecture

The distinct, typically broader section at the head of a pillar or column.
〔建筑〕柱头，柱顶
the pillars have moulded capitals
Example sentencesExamples
- Suspended from the architrave or from the capital of the column is a pinax with a picture of Herakles.
- On either side of the mahogany headboard and footboard are columns with brass capitals supporting pediments.
- The hall has highly polished, lathe-turned stone pillars, with capitals supporting brackets intricately carved with figures from Hindu mythology.
- The throne is seen from directly in front, but the entablature and column capitals are seen from the left.
- The capitals of the columns, entablature, cornice, and pediment are decorated with acanthus leaves and bouquets and geometrical mouldings in high Corinthian style.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French capitel, from late Latin capitellum 'little head', diminutive of Latin caput.

capital¹

nounˈkapədlˈkæpədl

1The most important city or town of a country or region, usually its seat of government and administrative center.
首都；首府
Example sentencesExamples
- Though not a regular phenomenon as in the state capital, the city does get to experience its share of melodious rendering every now and then.
- Bridget saw the squalor and poverty of the Christians, who fled the south to live in shanty towns around the capital.
- The centre of the capital is a sprawling marketplace which probably hasn't had concrete roads since the French packed up and left Mali four decades ago.
- A structural urban development plan for the capital divides the city into five areas that will function as pillars for the development work.
- It is one of the few European capitals whose city centre was left intact after the war and is today prospering.
- The legislative capital will be Hopedale, while the administrative capital will be Nain.
- It would be impossible for major countries of the world, like England, France, the United States, Japan and Germany, to relocate their capitals to other cities.
- The duo paid a six figure sum for the rights to open a store on Hanover Street in the capital's city centre, which opens next month.
- If they do so, it will spark scenes of rejoicing in Settle and prompt an exodus from the town to the capital on April 17.
- Some of the first postal connections, for instance, linked county seats to state capitals and ultimately to Washington, D.C.
- In fact, my home town was once the capital of an old territory called Mercia, and has a Norman castle that dates back over 1000 years.
- The city, which is the capital of the region, is a major industrial centre with a population of over 1 million.
- On 1 February 1927 the town of Stuart was proclaimed the administrative capital of Central Australia.
- Then the next day I went to Vitoria, administrative capital of the Basque region.
- In Europe most urban growth was in the large cities and capitals, and smaller towns declined.
- Aarhus is Denmark's second city and the capital of Jutland, famous notably for its Old Town.
- Coaches have been booked to ferry demonstrators to the capital from towns and cities across the UK.
- Reports say that the Essonne region south of the capital and the south-western city of Toulouse are the latest to be affected.
- Tomorrow a new Picasso museum displaying more than 200 works donated by his family opens in his home town, the capital of Andalucia.
- Also in high demand are the townhouses in the capital's New Town.
Synonyms
first city, most important city, seat of government, centre of administration
1. 1.1with modifier A place associated more than any other with a specified activity or product.
  （某种活动或产品的）重要城市
  Milan is the fashion capital of the world
  米兰是世界时装之都。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Late in 1917 Babe moved to Los Angeles which was rapidly replacing Florida and New York as the motion picture capital.
  In one of the fashion capitals of the world, there is no end of stylish boutiques and stores to browse.
  It is a hive of creativity, recognized globally as a fashion capital.
  We will never be at par with fashion capitals until more money is invested in our industry.
  Those chosen will be flown to Paris for training before they are launched in international fashion capitals.
  Sri Lanka has acquired an infamous name - the suicide capital of the world - after reaching the highest rate of suicides in the last year.
  It is turning into the motor-car capital of the world.
  Bangalore is expected to take away a chunk of the traffic as more people from the software capital are emplaning towards the US every day.
  The event will be the first held by a mass-market clothing chain in one of the world's fashion capitals.
  Police said Enterprise, which they describe as the crime capital of Central, was being combed for the killers.
  He has been all over and is a regular in the world's fashion capital, Paris.
  New York's reputation as fashion capital of the United States is long-standing.
  Lola has just moved from New York City, the cultural capital of the world, into the suburbs of New Jersey.
  Harrogate is the fashion capital of North Yorkshire.
  So its designers have been spending more time in fashion capitals like Paris and Milan, creating concept drawings of futuristic headsets to explore different designs.
  The properties have been snapped up by people wanting to move into the area, which was a hub of activity when Bradford was the wool capital of the world in the 1800s.
  It's official; feminine pretty prints are the overriding message from fashion capitals, colour is key and black is in the shade.
  Coming back to you live from the in-game video production capital of the world, New York, New York!
  The Gold Coast is undoubtedly the theme park capital of Queensland.
  They certainly won't cite the global production capitals of Hollywood and Bombay.
2Wealth in the form of money or other assets owned by a person or organization or available or contributed for a particular purpose such as starting a company or investing.
资本，资金
rates of return on invested capital were high
投资资金回报率高。
the senior partner would provide the initial capital
主要合伙人将提供创业资本。
Example sentencesExamples
- Such a fast return on capital invested made the management purchase of Parc look like a real bargain.
- They invested in more land, preferring to extend the scale of their operations rather than sink capital into improved productivity.
- There's a growing group of wealthy people who want to invest some of their capital in something that has a social purpose.
- The capitalist invests his or her capital to produce wealth, and only for that purpose.
- The company, which is developing a treatment for Alzheimer's disease, gained most of its development capital from overseas.
- They all need capital to meet their needs for expansion and technical development.
- Alternatively, you may be able to make greater returns from investing your capital, but this is by no means certain.
- The payback period is the number of years it takes before a project's discounted cash flows equal the initial capital invested.
- The obvious risks from exposure to the great unwashed are inevitably outweighed by the growth that access to all that fresh capital will produce.
- If you want to increase the entire wealth of the country, you need to have people saving and investing because you need capital.
- In addition to a team, a space enterprise requires start-up capital.
- The international airline industry is exceptional in that over its 60-year life it has never yielded a positive return on capital invested.
- At the end of the day, private banks want to get their hands on customers' capital, which they invest with gusto in return for juicy fees.
- The capital is invested by the institution to a large degree in interest bearing investments like government stock, etc.
- The average return on capital invested in land was only about 5 per cent, or little more than half of the return available in commerce or in industry.
- We need some expansion capital, they don't particularly want to play.
- We look to business and the market to invest and develop financial capital, and the State has a role in regulating the economy.
- Eircom says it is entitled to a return on capital invested in the business and to recover its operating costs.
- Now the firm believes the injection of development capital will help propel a new range of its products on to the worldwide stage.
- It's been a site for assembling capital to fertilize productive enterprises.
Synonyms
money, finance, finances, funds, the wherewithal, the means, assets, wealth, resources, reserves, deep pockets, stock, principal
1. 2.1 The excess of a company's assets over its liabilities.
  公司资产净值
  Example sentencesExamples
  Owner's equity is the net worth or capital of an individual or business.
  Current assets minus current liabilities equals the working capital available.
2. 2.2 People who possess wealth and use it to control a society's economic activity, considered collectively.
  资本家，资方
  a conflict of interest between capital and labor
  劳资双方的利益冲突。
  Example sentencesExamples
  If you say you are from the trade union movement they believe that you ought to be looking after conditions at the workplace and leave economic decisions to capital.
  It is striving for world hegemony, i.e., the political and economic reorganization of the world in the interests of American capital.
  The flip side is that some on the left have been disappointed by the lack of significant redistribution of wealth from capital to labour.
  The harmony George discerned between the interests of labor and capital applied only under free competition.
  As with labour, the role of capital in economic development can be understood in terms of both quantity and quality.
  The contest between capital and labour over the fruits of economically productive activity remains the front line struggle.
  In the final analysis, the source of all profit is the surplus value extracted from the employment of wage labour by capital.
  The tragedy is the orientation will be in the interests of capital rather than working people.
  Can this international division of labor and its control by capital be the basis for a consistent classification?
3. 2.3with modifier A valuable resource of a particular kind.
  〈喻〉资本（有某种价值的资源）
  there is insufficient investment in human capital
  人力资本投资不够。
  Example sentencesExamples
  So far, the president has earned little return on the political capital that he has invested so far in his second term.
  Deputy Agricultural and Land Affairs Minister Dirk du Toit called on farmers to invest in what he described as human resource capital.
  With justification, it wraps itself in the mantle of intellectual capital for the knowledge economy.
  China's political capital is best invested in other areas of structural reform.
  Consultancy fees can be regarded as investments in human capital and hence treated as capital expenditure, something the economists love.
  It made economic sense, and it made sense to invest social capital in youth, he said.
  He cited an estimate stating that human capital in the United States was worth five times as much as physical capital.
  On a more itemized basis, knowledge capital is intellectual and human capital, customer and supplier capital.
  Both physical and human capital require social capital to generate changes in process and outcome and to offer value for money on the investment.
  Firms invest intellectual and financial capital into establishing each customer relationship.
  One source said there was so much political capital invested in Atlantic Dawn that there was little left for the rest of the industry.
  The dominant society uses cultural capital to lure nondominant groups into being like them.
  Human capital is more important than physical capital.
3A letter of the size and form used to begin sentences and names.
大写字母
he wrote the name in capitals
他用大写字母写名字。
Example sentencesExamples
- In tap, we have sentences and there is structure in the paragraph: All sentences begin with a capital letter; there are commas, exclamations.
- From now, the organisation will be VisitScotland - two capital letters with the name joined together.
- Or did they miss the English lesson where the teacher tells you not to put capitals and small letters in the middle of the same word.
- I stare at the signpost, seeing my name as white capital letters on a strip of green metal.
- At the end of the game some fans standing in a row behind one of the goals held up the letters of Ronaldo's name in big white capitals, just like the Hollywood sign.
- The inscription was in pencil - big, bold capitals, lettered by a young child's hand: MOM and DAD.
- Nokia to Samsung, CDMA to GSM, they loved big names, capital letters, oh so cute combinations!
- The second rule: you should use a mix of at least three of these four things: small letters, capital letters, numbers, and symbols.
- But it wasn't Mr. Aldrich's block lettering in all capitals.
- Creditors should sign both forms, date them, and write their name in capitals in the appropriate places on the bottom of the forms.
- There is also no differentiation as capital letters and small letters in Tamil.
- The bold black capitals make those letters seem separate from the words of which they are otherwise part.
- Firstly, I'm not sure why we need to have his name in capital letters.
- Always distinguish the marks from surrounding printed text, for example, by putting the mark in all capital letters or using initial capitals and placing the mark within quotation marks.
- Right at the top, plastered across the faces of Deneuve, Buster Keaton, Cary Grant and Al Pacino, is Ebert's name in capital letters.
- A short, bald and rather round gent in his late fifties waits in the arrival lounge carrying a placard that reads my name in bold capitals.
- They signed my dad's menu - perhaps he signed theirs - and underneath each name he printed in his own careful capitals the names of their respective clubs.
- I'll head each chapter with the kid's name all in capitals.
- The author of this new, third biography of the poet notes that Cummings signed his name in capitals in his personal correspondence, dealings with publishers and his diaries.
- He claimed the case was invalid because it spelled his name in all capital letters.
Synonyms
capital letter, upper-case letter, block capital

adjectiveˈkapədlˈkæpədl

1attributive (of an offense or charge) liable to the death penalty.
（犯罪，控告）可判死刑的
murder was a capital crime
Example sentencesExamples
- But in this instance, the Houston case involved theft, not capital murder.
- They need at least one of them, in my opinion, to convict in a capital murder case.
- The same jury took less than four hours on Tuesday to convict her of capital murder, rejecting her insanity defence.
- Muhammad is being tried for a capital crime that carries the death penalty.
- Witchcraft was a capital offence and so was being a Catholic.
- Does the US put a man's son to death because he has been convicted of a capital crime?
- Nor is it lawful to accuse anyone of a capital offence.
- Not realising that he was charged with a capital offence, the undefended Downey pleaded guilty.
- The local prosecutor in turn pushed for capital murder charges.
- Defined as the unlawful carnal knowledge of a woman by force and against her will, rape was a capital crime already in early Anglo-Saxon times.
- However I find this inconsistent with his claim to have feared being arrested for capital offences.
- The State of Texas has accordingly charged Yates with capital murder, a crime for which she may face the death penalty.
- We have a statute in North Carolina that says once convicted of capital murder, that the full files can be disclosed.
- But most defendants in capital crimes do not get decent lawyers: they get the inexperienced, the hopeless or the simply corrupt.
- The standard isn't any different for a petty theft arrest than it would for the arrest of a capital crime.
- Whereas killing a man is a capital offence, murdering a woman is a lesser crime.
- He now faces capital charges of conspiring in the September 11 terrorist attacks.
- The police federation nationally has always been in favour of the death penalty for certain capital crimes.
- Look at the case recently mentioned in the Gleaner where some men were convicted of capital murder for a murder committed in the process of robbing a bank.
- If you can't put together the how or the why of the murder, you are going to get a jury to make a leap of faith with you and convict somebody of capital murder.
2attributive (of a letter of the alphabet) large in size and of the form used to begin sentences and names.
大写字母
Example sentencesExamples
- In relation to a capital T, if it is just a nice, straight vertical line with a cross across the top, it is a sans serif font - a square block.
- Assuming the piece is publishable, my name will be in there with a few names with a capital N.
- My loyalties, however, lie with one uncle only, and his name starts with a capital S.
Synonyms
upper-case, block
3dated, informal Excellent.
〈非正式，旧〉极好的
he's a really capital fellow
他真是个大好人。
Example sentencesExamples
- The first mate is a Pole called Conrad and is a capital chap.
- Euan Semple, all-round capital fellow and big-time blogger at the BBC, got his gapingvoid t-shirt.
- He sounds like a capital bloke.

exclamationˈkapədlˈkæpədl

British dated, informal

Used to express approval, satisfaction, or delight.
〈英，非正式，旧〉太好了（用来表示同意、满意或高兴）
That's splendid! Capital!
太好了！太棒了！
Example sentencesExamples
- That's capital! I will certainly ride over to her.
- That's splendid! Capital!
- That's capital! How glad I am you've come!

Phrases

make capital out of

Use to one's own advantage.
利用
trying to make political capital out of the weakness of his rival
设法利用他对手弱点以谋求政治利益。
Example sentencesExamples
- I hope no politician would make capital out of people's misery.
- More recently, Japanese politicians have been making capital out of blaming the nation's woes on outsiders, particularly those from other Asian countries.
- Religious and political groups are trying to make capital out of what is happening.
- Attempts by the right to make capital out of the tragedy have created a powderkeg.
- Having decided that the national interest meant they should not make capital out of the war, they are now at liberty to behave like an opposition, and to start stirring the pot.
- He's still trying to make capital out of that story, is he?
- The traditional community right over water is purposefully being eroded by those who would make capital out of this scarce natural resource.
- They are making capital out of innocent people.
- Some people like to take advantage of my friends and make capital out of my personal influence to win over voters.
- Unable to erase the bad patch of history, the city has embraced it and is really making capital out of it in a big way.

with a capital —

Used to give emphasis to the word or concept in question.
真正地，名副其实地（用来强调问题中的某个词或概念）
he's trouble with a capital T
她真是名副其实地丑。
Example sentencesExamples
- I know a winner when I see one, and baby, you're a winner with a capital W.
- Pet Shop Boys - Please: Classic with a capital C, debut album from my other all time favourite band.
- Yes that is Fog with a capital F. Really nice thick Fog that made everything look eerie and spooky.
- Progressive and vaguely left-of-centre, it was never political with a capital P.
- Their music is in the realms of punk/emo/rock, and their songs are excellent with a capital E.
- Guilty with a capital G. All involved on Alien Nation are sentenced to hard labor on Ceti Alpha 6.
- In the US, Ouija Board - owned by a Lord, trained by a toff and ridden by a champion - is popular with a capital P.
- It was a debacle with a capital D writ large in ten foot illuminated letters.

Origin

Middle English (as an adjective in the sense ‘relating to the head or top’, later ‘standing at the head or beginning’): via Old French from Latin capitalis, from caput ‘head’.

capital²

nounˈkapədlˈkæpədl

Architecture

The distinct, typically broader section at the head of a pillar or column.
〔建筑〕柱头，柱顶
the pillars have molded capitals
Example sentencesExamples
- The capitals of the columns, entablature, cornice, and pediment are decorated with acanthus leaves and bouquets and geometrical mouldings in high Corinthian style.
- On either side of the mahogany headboard and footboard are columns with brass capitals supporting pediments.
- The hall has highly polished, lathe-turned stone pillars, with capitals supporting brackets intricately carved with figures from Hindu mythology.
- Suspended from the architrave or from the capital of the column is a pinax with a picture of Herakles.
- The throne is seen from directly in front, but the entablature and column capitals are seen from the left.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French capitel, from late Latin capitellum ‘little head’, diminutive of Latin caput.

词汇	capital
释义	capital¹ noun ˈkapɪt(ə)lˈkæpədl 1The city or town that functions as the seat of government and administrative centre of a country or region. Warsaw is the capital of Poland Example sentencesExamples Bridget saw the squalor and poverty of the Christians, who fled the south to live in shanty towns around the capital. It would be impossible for major countries of the world, like England, France, the United States, Japan and Germany, to relocate their capitals to other cities. Then the next day I went to Vitoria, administrative capital of the Basque region. Reports say that the Essonne region south of the capital and the south-western city of Toulouse are the latest to be affected. Also in high demand are the townhouses in the capital's New Town. The legislative capital will be Hopedale, while the administrative capital will be Nain. Tomorrow a new Picasso museum displaying more than 200 works donated by his family opens in his home town, the capital of Andalucia. On 1 February 1927 the town of Stuart was proclaimed the administrative capital of Central Australia. Though not a regular phenomenon as in the state capital, the city does get to experience its share of melodious rendering every now and then. The duo paid a six figure sum for the rights to open a store on Hanover Street in the capital's city centre, which opens next month. A structural urban development plan for the capital divides the city into five areas that will function as pillars for the development work. In fact, my home town was once the capital of an old territory called Mercia, and has a Norman castle that dates back over 1000 years. The centre of the capital is a sprawling marketplace which probably hasn't had concrete roads since the French packed up and left Mali four decades ago. It is one of the few European capitals whose city centre was left intact after the war and is today prospering. Some of the first postal connections, for instance, linked county seats to state capitals and ultimately to Washington, D.C. Aarhus is Denmark's second city and the capital of Jutland, famous notably for its Old Town. The city, which is the capital of the region, is a major industrial centre with a population of over 1 million. If they do so, it will spark scenes of rejoicing in Settle and prompt an exodus from the town to the capital on April 17. In Europe most urban growth was in the large cities and capitals, and smaller towns declined. Coaches have been booked to ferry demonstrators to the capital from towns and cities across the UK. Synonyms first city, most important city, seat of government, centre of administration metropolis 1.1with modifier A place associated more than any other with a specified activity or product. （某种活动或产品的）重要城市 the fashion capital of the world 米兰是世界时装之都。 Example sentencesExamples It is a hive of creativity, recognized globally as a fashion capital. In one of the fashion capitals of the world, there is no end of stylish boutiques and stores to browse. The Gold Coast is undoubtedly the theme park capital of Queensland. He has been all over and is a regular in the world's fashion capital, Paris. Those chosen will be flown to Paris for training before they are launched in international fashion capitals. It is turning into the motor-car capital of the world. Coming back to you live from the in-game video production capital of the world, New York, New York! Harrogate is the fashion capital of North Yorkshire. The event will be the first held by a mass-market clothing chain in one of the world's fashion capitals. New York's reputation as fashion capital of the United States is long-standing. So its designers have been spending more time in fashion capitals like Paris and Milan, creating concept drawings of futuristic headsets to explore different designs. Lola has just moved from New York City, the cultural capital of the world, into the suburbs of New Jersey. They certainly won't cite the global production capitals of Hollywood and Bombay. It's official; feminine pretty prints are the overriding message from fashion capitals, colour is key and black is in the shade. We will never be at par with fashion capitals until more money is invested in our industry. The properties have been snapped up by people wanting to move into the area, which was a hub of activity when Bradford was the wool capital of the world in the 1800s. Late in 1917 Babe moved to Los Angeles which was rapidly replacing Florida and New York as the motion picture capital. Police said Enterprise, which they describe as the crime capital of Central, was being combed for the killers. Sri Lanka has acquired an infamous name - the suicide capital of the world - after reaching the highest rate of suicides in the last year. Bangalore is expected to take away a chunk of the traffic as more people from the software capital are emplaning towards the US every day. 2mass noun Wealth in the form of money or other assets owned by a person or organization or available for a purpose such as starting a company or investing. 资本，资金 rates of return on invested capital were high 投资资金回报率高。 Example sentencesExamples Such a fast return on capital invested made the management purchase of Parc look like a real bargain. In addition to a team, a space enterprise requires start-up capital. There's a growing group of wealthy people who want to invest some of their capital in something that has a social purpose. The obvious risks from exposure to the great unwashed are inevitably outweighed by the growth that access to all that fresh capital will produce. The company, which is developing a treatment for Alzheimer's disease, gained most of its development capital from overseas. The average return on capital invested in land was only about 5 per cent, or little more than half of the return available in commerce or in industry. The payback period is the number of years it takes before a project's discounted cash flows equal the initial capital invested. It's been a site for assembling capital to fertilize productive enterprises. If you want to increase the entire wealth of the country, you need to have people saving and investing because you need capital. Now the firm believes the injection of development capital will help propel a new range of its products on to the worldwide stage. The capitalist invests his or her capital to produce wealth, and only for that purpose. Alternatively, you may be able to make greater returns from investing your capital, but this is by no means certain. At the end of the day, private banks want to get their hands on customers' capital, which they invest with gusto in return for juicy fees. The international airline industry is exceptional in that over its 60-year life it has never yielded a positive return on capital invested. The capital is invested by the institution to a large degree in interest bearing investments like government stock, etc. We need some expansion capital, they don't particularly want to play. We look to business and the market to invest and develop financial capital, and the State has a role in regulating the economy. They all need capital to meet their needs for expansion and technical development. Eircom says it is entitled to a return on capital invested in the business and to recover its operating costs. They invested in more land, preferring to extend the scale of their operations rather than sink capital into improved productivity. Synonyms money, finance(s), funds, the wherewithal, the means, assets, wealth, resources, reserves, deep pockets, stock, principal working capital, investment capital informal dough, bread, loot, the ready, readies, shekels, moolah, the necessary, wad, boodle, dibs, gelt, ducats, rhino, gravy, scratch, stuff, oof British informal dosh, brass, lolly, spondulicks, wonga, ackers North American informal dinero, greenbacks, simoleons, bucks, jack, mazuma Australian/New Zealand informal Oscar informal, dated splosh, green, tin British dated l.s.d. North American informal, dated kale, rocks, shinplasters archaic pelf 2.1 The excess of a company's assets over its liabilities. 公司资产净值 Example sentencesExamples Current assets minus current liabilities equals the working capital available. Owner's equity is the net worth or capital of an individual or business. 2.2 People who possess wealth and use it to control a society's economic activity, considered collectively. 资本家，资方 a conflict of interest between capital and labour 劳资双方的利益冲突。 Example sentencesExamples The tragedy is the orientation will be in the interests of capital rather than working people. The contest between capital and labour over the fruits of economically productive activity remains the front line struggle. If you say you are from the trade union movement they believe that you ought to be looking after conditions at the workplace and leave economic decisions to capital. Can this international division of labor and its control by capital be the basis for a consistent classification? As with labour, the role of capital in economic development can be understood in terms of both quantity and quality. The harmony George discerned between the interests of labor and capital applied only under free competition. It is striving for world hegemony, i.e., the political and economic reorganization of the world in the interests of American capital. The flip side is that some on the left have been disappointed by the lack of significant redistribution of wealth from capital to labour. In the final analysis, the source of all profit is the surplus value extracted from the employment of wage labour by capital. 2.3with modifier A valuable resource of a particular kind. 〈喻〉资本（有某种价值的资源） there is insufficient investment in human capital 人力资本投资不够。 Example sentencesExamples China's political capital is best invested in other areas of structural reform. Human capital is more important than physical capital. It made economic sense, and it made sense to invest social capital in youth, he said. One source said there was so much political capital invested in Atlantic Dawn that there was little left for the rest of the industry. Firms invest intellectual and financial capital into establishing each customer relationship. With justification, it wraps itself in the mantle of intellectual capital for the knowledge economy. Deputy Agricultural and Land Affairs Minister Dirk du Toit called on farmers to invest in what he described as human resource capital. So far, the president has earned little return on the political capital that he has invested so far in his second term. Consultancy fees can be regarded as investments in human capital and hence treated as capital expenditure, something the economists love. He cited an estimate stating that human capital in the United States was worth five times as much as physical capital. The dominant society uses cultural capital to lure nondominant groups into being like them. Both physical and human capital require social capital to generate changes in process and outcome and to offer value for money on the investment. On a more itemized basis, knowledge capital is intellectual and human capital, customer and supplier capital. 3A letter of the size and form used to begin sentences and names. 大写字母 he wrote the name in capitals 他用大写字母写名字。 Example sentencesExamples A short, bald and rather round gent in his late fifties waits in the arrival lounge carrying a placard that reads my name in bold capitals. The inscription was in pencil - big, bold capitals, lettered by a young child's hand: MOM and DAD. Nokia to Samsung, CDMA to GSM, they loved big names, capital letters, oh so cute combinations! Always distinguish the marks from surrounding printed text, for example, by putting the mark in all capital letters or using initial capitals and placing the mark within quotation marks. Right at the top, plastered across the faces of Deneuve, Buster Keaton, Cary Grant and Al Pacino, is Ebert's name in capital letters. I'll head each chapter with the kid's name all in capitals. Firstly, I'm not sure why we need to have his name in capital letters. The bold black capitals make those letters seem separate from the words of which they are otherwise part. From now, the organisation will be VisitScotland - two capital letters with the name joined together. He claimed the case was invalid because it spelled his name in all capital letters. The author of this new, third biography of the poet notes that Cummings signed his name in capitals in his personal correspondence, dealings with publishers and his diaries. Or did they miss the English lesson where the teacher tells you not to put capitals and small letters in the middle of the same word. They signed my dad's menu - perhaps he signed theirs - and underneath each name he printed in his own careful capitals the names of their respective clubs. There is also no differentiation as capital letters and small letters in Tamil. But it wasn't Mr. Aldrich's block lettering in all capitals. In tap, we have sentences and there is structure in the paragraph: All sentences begin with a capital letter; there are commas, exclamations. Creditors should sign both forms, date them, and write their name in capitals in the appropriate places on the bottom of the forms. I stare at the signpost, seeing my name as white capital letters on a strip of green metal. At the end of the game some fans standing in a row behind one of the goals held up the letters of Ronaldo's name in big white capitals, just like the Hollywood sign. The second rule: you should use a mix of at least three of these four things: small letters, capital letters, numbers, and symbols. Synonyms capital letter, upper-case letter, block capital informal cap technical uncial, uncial letter, majuscule letter adjective ˈkapɪt(ə)lˈkæpədl 1attributive (of an offence or charge) liable to the death penalty. （犯罪，控告）可判死刑的 murder is the only capital crime in the state 谋杀是这个国家惟一可判死刑的犯罪。 Example sentencesExamples Defined as the unlawful carnal knowledge of a woman by force and against her will, rape was a capital crime already in early Anglo-Saxon times. Witchcraft was a capital offence and so was being a Catholic. The police federation nationally has always been in favour of the death penalty for certain capital crimes. However I find this inconsistent with his claim to have feared being arrested for capital offences. He now faces capital charges of conspiring in the September 11 terrorist attacks. We have a statute in North Carolina that says once convicted of capital murder, that the full files can be disclosed. Whereas killing a man is a capital offence, murdering a woman is a lesser crime. Nor is it lawful to accuse anyone of a capital offence. If you can't put together the how or the why of the murder, you are going to get a jury to make a leap of faith with you and convict somebody of capital murder. They need at least one of them, in my opinion, to convict in a capital murder case. But most defendants in capital crimes do not get decent lawyers: they get the inexperienced, the hopeless or the simply corrupt. Does the US put a man's son to death because he has been convicted of a capital crime? But in this instance, the Houston case involved theft, not capital murder. The State of Texas has accordingly charged Yates with capital murder, a crime for which she may face the death penalty. Muhammad is being tried for a capital crime that carries the death penalty. The standard isn't any different for a petty theft arrest than it would for the arrest of a capital crime. Look at the case recently mentioned in the Gleaner where some men were convicted of capital murder for a murder committed in the process of robbing a bank. The same jury took less than four hours on Tuesday to convict her of capital murder, rejecting her insanity defence. Not realising that he was charged with a capital offence, the undefended Downey pleaded guilty. The local prosecutor in turn pushed for capital murder charges. 2attributive (of a letter of the alphabet) large in size and of the form used to begin sentences and names. 大写字母 Example sentencesExamples In relation to a capital T, if it is just a nice, straight vertical line with a cross across the top, it is a sans serif font - a square block. My loyalties, however, lie with one uncle only, and his name starts with a capital S. Assuming the piece is publishable, my name will be in there with a few names with a capital N. Synonyms upper-case, block technical uncial, majuscule 3dated, informal Excellent. 〈非正式，旧〉极好的 he's a really capital fellow 他真是个大好人。 Example sentencesExamples He sounds like a capital bloke. The first mate is a Pole called Conrad and is a capital chap. Euan Semple, all-round capital fellow and big-time blogger at the BBC, got his gapingvoid t-shirt. exclamationˈkapɪt(ə)lˈkæpədl British dated, informal Used to express approval, satisfaction, or delight. 〈英，非正式，旧〉太好了（用来表示同意、满意或高兴） That's splendid! Capital! 太好了！太棒了！ Example sentencesExamples That's capital! How glad I am you've come! That's capital! I will certainly ride over to her. That's splendid! Capital! Phrases make capital out of Use to one's own advantage. 利用 the opposition are seeking to make political capital out of the scandal Example sentencesExamples The traditional community right over water is purposefully being eroded by those who would make capital out of this scarce natural resource. He's still trying to make capital out of that story, is he? They are making capital out of innocent people. Having decided that the national interest meant they should not make capital out of the war, they are now at liberty to behave like an opposition, and to start stirring the pot. Some people like to take advantage of my friends and make capital out of my personal influence to win over voters. More recently, Japanese politicians have been making capital out of blaming the nation's woes on outsiders, particularly those from other Asian countries. Unable to erase the bad patch of history, the city has embraced it and is really making capital out of it in a big way. I hope no politician would make capital out of people's misery. Religious and political groups are trying to make capital out of what is happening. Attempts by the right to make capital out of the tragedy have created a powderkeg. with a capital — Used to give emphasis to the word or concept in question. 真正地，名副其实地（用来强调问题中的某个词或概念） he's trouble with a capital T 她真是名副其实地丑。 Example sentencesExamples Their music is in the realms of punk/emo/rock, and their songs are excellent with a capital E. I know a winner when I see one, and baby, you're a winner with a capital W. It was a debacle with a capital D writ large in ten foot illuminated letters. Yes that is Fog with a capital F. Really nice thick Fog that made everything look eerie and spooky. In the US, Ouija Board - owned by a Lord, trained by a toff and ridden by a champion - is popular with a capital P. Pet Shop Boys - Please: Classic with a capital C, debut album from my other all time favourite band. Guilty with a capital G. All involved on Alien Nation are sentenced to hard labor on Ceti Alpha 6. Progressive and vaguely left-of-centre, it was never political with a capital P. Derivatives capitally adverb ˈkapɪt(ə)liˈkæpədli 1In a manner relating to or involving the death penalty. even if the defendant is tried capitally, it is unlikely the jury will sentence him to death Example sentencesExamples I think that's part of it, and I also think people shouldn't be punished, whether capitally or just with prison terms if they are innocent. You told us, I think you said, right, that you wouldn't have minded if they capitally punished her, right? In Hampshire, 101 prisoners were capitally convicted but only six were hanged; the others had their sentences commuted to transportation. utilities are generally capitally intensive businesses his home was capitally situated 2With regard to money or other assets intended for or used in financial investment. 3British dated, informal Excellently. 〈非正式，旧〉极好的 Origin Middle English (as an adjective in the sense 'relating to the head or top', later 'standing at the head or beginning'): via Old French from Latin capitalis, from caput 'head'. The first meaning of capital was ‘to do with the head or the top of something’. From this evolved such modern meanings as ‘the large form of a letter’ and ‘the chief city or town in a country’. The word goes back to Latin caput ‘head’. Capital in the financial sense was originally the capital stock of a company or trader, their main or original funds. The use as an adjective meaning ‘excellent’, now old-fashioned, dates from the mid 18th century. The capital of a column comes via French from Latin capitellum ‘a little head’. To capitulate (mid 16th century) is to admit that you are defeated and surrender. When it first entered the language it meant ‘to parley or draw up terms’, having come via French from medieval Latin capitulare ‘to draw up under headings’. Like capital, its ultimate root is Latin caput ‘head’, source also of cap, chapter, chief (Middle English), and captain (Late Middle English), both the ‘head’ of a group of people, and decapitate (early 17th century). capital² noun ˈkapɪt(ə)lˈkæpədl Architecture The distinct, typically broader section at the head of a pillar or column. 〔建筑〕柱头，柱顶 the pillars have moulded capitals Example sentencesExamples Suspended from the architrave or from the capital of the column is a pinax with a picture of Herakles. On either side of the mahogany headboard and footboard are columns with brass capitals supporting pediments. The hall has highly polished, lathe-turned stone pillars, with capitals supporting brackets intricately carved with figures from Hindu mythology. The throne is seen from directly in front, but the entablature and column capitals are seen from the left. The capitals of the columns, entablature, cornice, and pediment are decorated with acanthus leaves and bouquets and geometrical mouldings in high Corinthian style. Origin Middle English: from Old French capitel, from late Latin capitellum 'little head', diminutive of Latin caput. noun.1 phr. noun.2 capital¹ nounˈkapədlˈkæpədl 1The most important city or town of a country or region, usually its seat of government and administrative center. 首都；首府 Example sentencesExamples Though not a regular phenomenon as in the state capital, the city does get to experience its share of melodious rendering every now and then. Bridget saw the squalor and poverty of the Christians, who fled the south to live in shanty towns around the capital. The centre of the capital is a sprawling marketplace which probably hasn't had concrete roads since the French packed up and left Mali four decades ago. A structural urban development plan for the capital divides the city into five areas that will function as pillars for the development work. It is one of the few European capitals whose city centre was left intact after the war and is today prospering. The legislative capital will be Hopedale, while the administrative capital will be Nain. It would be impossible for major countries of the world, like England, France, the United States, Japan and Germany, to relocate their capitals to other cities. The duo paid a six figure sum for the rights to open a store on Hanover Street in the capital's city centre, which opens next month. If they do so, it will spark scenes of rejoicing in Settle and prompt an exodus from the town to the capital on April 17. Some of the first postal connections, for instance, linked county seats to state capitals and ultimately to Washington, D.C. In fact, my home town was once the capital of an old territory called Mercia, and has a Norman castle that dates back over 1000 years. The city, which is the capital of the region, is a major industrial centre with a population of over 1 million. On 1 February 1927 the town of Stuart was proclaimed the administrative capital of Central Australia. Then the next day I went to Vitoria, administrative capital of the Basque region. In Europe most urban growth was in the large cities and capitals, and smaller towns declined. Aarhus is Denmark's second city and the capital of Jutland, famous notably for its Old Town. Coaches have been booked to ferry demonstrators to the capital from towns and cities across the UK. Reports say that the Essonne region south of the capital and the south-western city of Toulouse are the latest to be affected. Tomorrow a new Picasso museum displaying more than 200 works donated by his family opens in his home town, the capital of Andalucia. Also in high demand are the townhouses in the capital's New Town. Synonyms first city, most important city, seat of government, centre of administration 1.1with modifier A place associated more than any other with a specified activity or product. （某种活动或产品的）重要城市 Milan is the fashion capital of the world 米兰是世界时装之都。 Example sentencesExamples Late in 1917 Babe moved to Los Angeles which was rapidly replacing Florida and New York as the motion picture capital. In one of the fashion capitals of the world, there is no end of stylish boutiques and stores to browse. It is a hive of creativity, recognized globally as a fashion capital. We will never be at par with fashion capitals until more money is invested in our industry. Those chosen will be flown to Paris for training before they are launched in international fashion capitals. Sri Lanka has acquired an infamous name - the suicide capital of the world - after reaching the highest rate of suicides in the last year. It is turning into the motor-car capital of the world. Bangalore is expected to take away a chunk of the traffic as more people from the software capital are emplaning towards the US every day. The event will be the first held by a mass-market clothing chain in one of the world's fashion capitals. Police said Enterprise, which they describe as the crime capital of Central, was being combed for the killers. He has been all over and is a regular in the world's fashion capital, Paris. New York's reputation as fashion capital of the United States is long-standing. Lola has just moved from New York City, the cultural capital of the world, into the suburbs of New Jersey. Harrogate is the fashion capital of North Yorkshire. So its designers have been spending more time in fashion capitals like Paris and Milan, creating concept drawings of futuristic headsets to explore different designs. The properties have been snapped up by people wanting to move into the area, which was a hub of activity when Bradford was the wool capital of the world in the 1800s. It's official; feminine pretty prints are the overriding message from fashion capitals, colour is key and black is in the shade. Coming back to you live from the in-game video production capital of the world, New York, New York! The Gold Coast is undoubtedly the theme park capital of Queensland. They certainly won't cite the global production capitals of Hollywood and Bombay. 2Wealth in the form of money or other assets owned by a person or organization or available or contributed for a particular purpose such as starting a company or investing. 资本，资金 rates of return on invested capital were high 投资资金回报率高。 the senior partner would provide the initial capital 主要合伙人将提供创业资本。 Example sentencesExamples Such a fast return on capital invested made the management purchase of Parc look like a real bargain. They invested in more land, preferring to extend the scale of their operations rather than sink capital into improved productivity. There's a growing group of wealthy people who want to invest some of their capital in something that has a social purpose. The capitalist invests his or her capital to produce wealth, and only for that purpose. The company, which is developing a treatment for Alzheimer's disease, gained most of its development capital from overseas. They all need capital to meet their needs for expansion and technical development. Alternatively, you may be able to make greater returns from investing your capital, but this is by no means certain. The payback period is the number of years it takes before a project's discounted cash flows equal the initial capital invested. The obvious risks from exposure to the great unwashed are inevitably outweighed by the growth that access to all that fresh capital will produce. If you want to increase the entire wealth of the country, you need to have people saving and investing because you need capital. In addition to a team, a space enterprise requires start-up capital. The international airline industry is exceptional in that over its 60-year life it has never yielded a positive return on capital invested. At the end of the day, private banks want to get their hands on customers' capital, which they invest with gusto in return for juicy fees. The capital is invested by the institution to a large degree in interest bearing investments like government stock, etc. The average return on capital invested in land was only about 5 per cent, or little more than half of the return available in commerce or in industry. We need some expansion capital, they don't particularly want to play. We look to business and the market to invest and develop financial capital, and the State has a role in regulating the economy. Eircom says it is entitled to a return on capital invested in the business and to recover its operating costs. Now the firm believes the injection of development capital will help propel a new range of its products on to the worldwide stage. It's been a site for assembling capital to fertilize productive enterprises. Synonyms money, finance, finances, funds, the wherewithal, the means, assets, wealth, resources, reserves, deep pockets, stock, principal 2.1 The excess of a company's assets over its liabilities. 公司资产净值 Example sentencesExamples Owner's equity is the net worth or capital of an individual or business. Current assets minus current liabilities equals the working capital available. 2.2 People who possess wealth and use it to control a society's economic activity, considered collectively. 资本家，资方 a conflict of interest between capital and labor 劳资双方的利益冲突。 Example sentencesExamples If you say you are from the trade union movement they believe that you ought to be looking after conditions at the workplace and leave economic decisions to capital. It is striving for world hegemony, i.e., the political and economic reorganization of the world in the interests of American capital. The flip side is that some on the left have been disappointed by the lack of significant redistribution of wealth from capital to labour. The harmony George discerned between the interests of labor and capital applied only under free competition. As with labour, the role of capital in economic development can be understood in terms of both quantity and quality. The contest between capital and labour over the fruits of economically productive activity remains the front line struggle. In the final analysis, the source of all profit is the surplus value extracted from the employment of wage labour by capital. The tragedy is the orientation will be in the interests of capital rather than working people. Can this international division of labor and its control by capital be the basis for a consistent classification? 2.3with modifier A valuable resource of a particular kind. 〈喻〉资本（有某种价值的资源） there is insufficient investment in human capital 人力资本投资不够。 Example sentencesExamples So far, the president has earned little return on the political capital that he has invested so far in his second term. Deputy Agricultural and Land Affairs Minister Dirk du Toit called on farmers to invest in what he described as human resource capital. With justification, it wraps itself in the mantle of intellectual capital for the knowledge economy. China's political capital is best invested in other areas of structural reform. Consultancy fees can be regarded as investments in human capital and hence treated as capital expenditure, something the economists love. It made economic sense, and it made sense to invest social capital in youth, he said. He cited an estimate stating that human capital in the United States was worth five times as much as physical capital. On a more itemized basis, knowledge capital is intellectual and human capital, customer and supplier capital. Both physical and human capital require social capital to generate changes in process and outcome and to offer value for money on the investment. Firms invest intellectual and financial capital into establishing each customer relationship. One source said there was so much political capital invested in Atlantic Dawn that there was little left for the rest of the industry. The dominant society uses cultural capital to lure nondominant groups into being like them. Human capital is more important than physical capital. 3A letter of the size and form used to begin sentences and names. 大写字母 he wrote the name in capitals 他用大写字母写名字。 Example sentencesExamples In tap, we have sentences and there is structure in the paragraph: All sentences begin with a capital letter; there are commas, exclamations. From now, the organisation will be VisitScotland - two capital letters with the name joined together. Or did they miss the English lesson where the teacher tells you not to put capitals and small letters in the middle of the same word. I stare at the signpost, seeing my name as white capital letters on a strip of green metal. At the end of the game some fans standing in a row behind one of the goals held up the letters of Ronaldo's name in big white capitals, just like the Hollywood sign. The inscription was in pencil - big, bold capitals, lettered by a young child's hand: MOM and DAD. Nokia to Samsung, CDMA to GSM, they loved big names, capital letters, oh so cute combinations! The second rule: you should use a mix of at least three of these four things: small letters, capital letters, numbers, and symbols. But it wasn't Mr. Aldrich's block lettering in all capitals. Creditors should sign both forms, date them, and write their name in capitals in the appropriate places on the bottom of the forms. There is also no differentiation as capital letters and small letters in Tamil. The bold black capitals make those letters seem separate from the words of which they are otherwise part. Firstly, I'm not sure why we need to have his name in capital letters. Always distinguish the marks from surrounding printed text, for example, by putting the mark in all capital letters or using initial capitals and placing the mark within quotation marks. Right at the top, plastered across the faces of Deneuve, Buster Keaton, Cary Grant and Al Pacino, is Ebert's name in capital letters. A short, bald and rather round gent in his late fifties waits in the arrival lounge carrying a placard that reads my name in bold capitals. They signed my dad's menu - perhaps he signed theirs - and underneath each name he printed in his own careful capitals the names of their respective clubs. I'll head each chapter with the kid's name all in capitals. The author of this new, third biography of the poet notes that Cummings signed his name in capitals in his personal correspondence, dealings with publishers and his diaries. He claimed the case was invalid because it spelled his name in all capital letters. Synonyms capital letter, upper-case letter, block capital adjectiveˈkapədlˈkæpədl 1attributive (of an offense or charge) liable to the death penalty. （犯罪，控告）可判死刑的 murder was a capital crime Example sentencesExamples But in this instance, the Houston case involved theft, not capital murder. They need at least one of them, in my opinion, to convict in a capital murder case. The same jury took less than four hours on Tuesday to convict her of capital murder, rejecting her insanity defence. Muhammad is being tried for a capital crime that carries the death penalty. Witchcraft was a capital offence and so was being a Catholic. Does the US put a man's son to death because he has been convicted of a capital crime? Nor is it lawful to accuse anyone of a capital offence. Not realising that he was charged with a capital offence, the undefended Downey pleaded guilty. The local prosecutor in turn pushed for capital murder charges. Defined as the unlawful carnal knowledge of a woman by force and against her will, rape was a capital crime already in early Anglo-Saxon times. However I find this inconsistent with his claim to have feared being arrested for capital offences. The State of Texas has accordingly charged Yates with capital murder, a crime for which she may face the death penalty. We have a statute in North Carolina that says once convicted of capital murder, that the full files can be disclosed. But most defendants in capital crimes do not get decent lawyers: they get the inexperienced, the hopeless or the simply corrupt. The standard isn't any different for a petty theft arrest than it would for the arrest of a capital crime. Whereas killing a man is a capital offence, murdering a woman is a lesser crime. He now faces capital charges of conspiring in the September 11 terrorist attacks. The police federation nationally has always been in favour of the death penalty for certain capital crimes. Look at the case recently mentioned in the Gleaner where some men were convicted of capital murder for a murder committed in the process of robbing a bank. If you can't put together the how or the why of the murder, you are going to get a jury to make a leap of faith with you and convict somebody of capital murder. 2attributive (of a letter of the alphabet) large in size and of the form used to begin sentences and names. 大写字母 Example sentencesExamples In relation to a capital T, if it is just a nice, straight vertical line with a cross across the top, it is a sans serif font - a square block. Assuming the piece is publishable, my name will be in there with a few names with a capital N. My loyalties, however, lie with one uncle only, and his name starts with a capital S. Synonyms upper-case, block 3dated, informal Excellent. 〈非正式，旧〉极好的 he's a really capital fellow 他真是个大好人。 Example sentencesExamples The first mate is a Pole called Conrad and is a capital chap. Euan Semple, all-round capital fellow and big-time blogger at the BBC, got his gapingvoid t-shirt. He sounds like a capital bloke. exclamationˈkapədlˈkæpədl British dated, informal Used to express approval, satisfaction, or delight. 〈英，非正式，旧〉太好了（用来表示同意、满意或高兴） That's splendid! Capital! 太好了！太棒了！ Example sentencesExamples That's capital! I will certainly ride over to her. That's splendid! Capital! That's capital! How glad I am you've come! Phrases make capital out of Use to one's own advantage. 利用 trying to make political capital out of the weakness of his rival 设法利用他对手弱点以谋求政治利益。 Example sentencesExamples I hope no politician would make capital out of people's misery. More recently, Japanese politicians have been making capital out of blaming the nation's woes on outsiders, particularly those from other Asian countries. Religious and political groups are trying to make capital out of what is happening. Attempts by the right to make capital out of the tragedy have created a powderkeg. Having decided that the national interest meant they should not make capital out of the war, they are now at liberty to behave like an opposition, and to start stirring the pot. He's still trying to make capital out of that story, is he? The traditional community right over water is purposefully being eroded by those who would make capital out of this scarce natural resource. They are making capital out of innocent people. Some people like to take advantage of my friends and make capital out of my personal influence to win over voters. Unable to erase the bad patch of history, the city has embraced it and is really making capital out of it in a big way. with a capital — Used to give emphasis to the word or concept in question. 真正地，名副其实地（用来强调问题中的某个词或概念） he's trouble with a capital T 她真是名副其实地丑。 Example sentencesExamples I know a winner when I see one, and baby, you're a winner with a capital W. Pet Shop Boys - Please: Classic with a capital C, debut album from my other all time favourite band. Yes that is Fog with a capital F. Really nice thick Fog that made everything look eerie and spooky. Progressive and vaguely left-of-centre, it was never political with a capital P. Their music is in the realms of punk/emo/rock, and their songs are excellent with a capital E. Guilty with a capital G. All involved on Alien Nation are sentenced to hard labor on Ceti Alpha 6. In the US, Ouija Board - owned by a Lord, trained by a toff and ridden by a champion - is popular with a capital P. It was a debacle with a capital D writ large in ten foot illuminated letters. Origin Middle English (as an adjective in the sense ‘relating to the head or top’, later ‘standing at the head or beginning’): via Old French from Latin capitalis, from caput ‘head’. capital² nounˈkapədlˈkæpədl Architecture The distinct, typically broader section at the head of a pillar or column. 〔建筑〕柱头，柱顶 the pillars have molded capitals Example sentencesExamples The capitals of the columns, entablature, cornice, and pediment are decorated with acanthus leaves and bouquets and geometrical mouldings in high Corinthian style. On either side of the mahogany headboard and footboard are columns with brass capitals supporting pediments. The hall has highly polished, lathe-turned stone pillars, with capitals supporting brackets intricately carved with figures from Hindu mythology. Suspended from the architrave or from the capital of the column is a pinax with a picture of Herakles. The throne is seen from directly in front, but the entablature and column capitals are seen from the left. Origin Middle English: from Old French capitel, from late Latin capitellum ‘little head’, diminutive of Latin caput. noun.1 phr. noun.2
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