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answering 音标拼音: ['ænsɚɪŋ] 应答 应答 answering应答设备
answering回应 answering应答 answering adj 1: replying; " an answering glance"; " an answering smile" [ synonym: { answering}, { respondent}] Answer \ An" swer\ ([ a^] n" s[~ e] r), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Answered} ([ a^] n" s[~ e] rd); p. pr. & vb. n. { Answering}.] [ OE. andswerien, AS. andswerian, andswarian, to answer, fr. andswaru, n., answer. See { Answer}, n.] 1. To speak in defense against; to reply to in defense; as, to answer a charge; to answer an accusation. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To speak or write in return to, as in return to a call or question, or to a speech, declaration, argument, or the like; to reply to ( a question, remark, etc.); to respond to. [ 1913 Webster] She answers him as if she knew his mind. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] So spake the apostate angel, though in pain: . . . And him thus answered soon his bold compeer. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To respond to satisfactorily; to meet successfully by way of explanation, argument, or justification, and the like; to refute. [ 1913 Webster] No man was able to answer him a word. -- Matt. xxii. 46. [ 1913 Webster] These shifts refuted, answer thine appellant. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] The reasoning was not and could not be answered. -- Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster] 4. To be or act in return or response to. Hence: ( a) To be or act in compliance with, in fulfillment or satisfaction of, as an order, obligation, demand; as, he answered my claim upon him; the servant answered the bell. [ 1913 Webster] This proud king . . . studies day and night To answer all the debts he owes unto you. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] ( b) To render account to or for. [ 1913 Webster] I will . . . send him to answer thee. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] ( c) To atone; to be punished for. [ 1913 Webster] And grievously hath C[ ae] zar answered it. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] ( d) To be opposite to; to face. [ 1913 Webster] The windows answering each other, we could just discern the glowing horizon them. -- Gilpin. [ 1913 Webster] ( e) To be or act an equivalent to, or as adequate or sufficient for; to serve for; to repay. [ R.] [ 1913 Webster] Money answereth all things. -- Eccles. x. 19. [ 1913 Webster] ( f) To be or act in accommodation, conformity, relation, or proportion to; to correspond to; to suit. [ 1913 Webster] Weapons must needs be dangerous things, if they answered the bulk of so prodigious a person. -- Swift. [ 1913 Webster]
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