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  1. He let a week go by before answering the letter.
    他一周以后才回信。
  2. He is always prompt in answering letters.
    他总是迅速回复来信。
  3. She showed her cunning in the way she avoided answering the question.
    她对问题避而不答,显示出她很狡猾。


answering
[ adj ]
replying
<adj.all>
an answering glancean answering smile


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.

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.

She answers him as if she knew his mind. --Shak.

So spake the apostate angel, though in pain: . . .
And him thus answered soon his bold compeer.
--Milton.

3. To respond to satisfactorily; to meet successfully by way
of explanation, argument, or justification, and the like;
to refute.

No man was able to answer him a word. --Matt. xxii.
46.

These shifts refuted, answer thine appellant.
--Milton.

The reasoning was not and could not be answered.
--Macaulay.

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.

This proud king . . . studies day and night
To answer all the debts he owes unto you.
--Shak.
(b) To render account to or for.

I will . . . send him to answer thee. --Shak.
(c) To atone; to be punished for.

And grievously hath C[ae]zar answered it.
--Shak.
(d) To be opposite to; to face.

The windows answering each other, we could just
discern the glowing horizon them. --Gilpin.
(e) To be or act an equivalent to, or as adequate or
sufficient for; to serve for; to repay. [R.]

Money answereth all things. --Eccles. x.
19.
(f) To be or act in accommodation, conformity, relation,
or proportion to; to correspond to; to suit.

Weapons must needs be dangerous things, if they
answered the bulk of so prodigious a person.
--Swift.

  1. Being that aggressive would require answering too many questions.
  2. Because voice messaging can forward calls to be recorded if a subscriber's line is busy, company officials say they expect the new service will eliminate the need for answering machines, which do not have that capability.
  3. It meant that instead of answering questions about why Congress didn't prevent the savings and loan scandal, or why it can't balance the budget, lawmakers were in sudden demand as local experts on foreign policy.
  4. They're not answering calls.' 'Michael,' said the minister, 'in which part of London should we stage the Games?' I said: 'Forget Wembley stadium.
  5. I believe there will come a time when China will host this kind of competition." Contestants in the Beijing pageant were judged on their talent in singling, dancing, reading and answering questions revealing their knowledge and moral values.
  6. Later he crouched to talk with a group of children, answering questions about the new law.
  7. He said the Reagans spend a considerable amount of time answering mail and will continue to travel and speak.
  8. Diocese offices in Bridgeport were closed Monday and an answering service operator said Egan was not available for comment.
  9. He did it, but when he first got to America, he still shrank from answering the phone.
  10. We're discussing reciprocity." MICHAEL DUKAKIS, answering Jackson's contention that he is being treated unfairly: "This is a campaign for delegates as well as votes.
  11. One day a week, they become the "moms" of the city's Vietnam Veterans Outreach Center, answering telephones, making coffee and sitting in the lobby to talk to anyone who comes in while the counseling group is in session.
  12. Mr. Leong says basics such as upholding office decorum, keeping desks tidy and answering internal telephone calls are part of the program.
  13. Reger's attorney, John Barry, did not return a telephone message left on his answering machine Thursday afternoon.
  14. American Telephone & Telegraph Co. said it will spend $20 million to build a factory in Guadalajara, Mexico, to make telephone answering machines.
  15. He had difficulty answering questions about which railroad workers were required to undergo the tests.
  16. On the third day, when he clibed a tree and hollered "Hallooooo" for the hundredth time, an answering call came back.
  17. A State Department spokeswoman said U.S. consular officers are answering about 4,000 telephone calls a day from relatives of the Americans.
  18. "The phones are ringing pretty steadily," said Brenda Searcy, a nurse answering crisis line phones at Charter Hospital in Long Beach Friday night.
  19. "People aren't even thinking of going to work," said the resident, a man answering the telephone at the Sovietsky Karabakh newspaper Thursday.
  20. Shad was out of the office and unavailable for comment, a secretary answering his telephone said.
  21. Defense attorneys slipped out a back entrance of the courthouse without answering reporters' questions.
  22. But he also issued a warning: no more answering of shouted questions at photo-taking sessions once he takes office _ a tactic that had become a standard practice of reporters covering the Reagan White House.
  23. Under an earlier stay of the injunction, Toyota had been uncertain whether it could use the Lexus name in letterheads and when answering the phone, according to its lawyer, Arthur Gray.
  24. But at the time, Economics Ministry officials, answering parliamentary queries, denied the allegations. Government officials now explain that Delft wasn't required to inform it of shipments to Belgium, a NATO partner.
  25. Is it the United States, Chad, Japan, or Brazil? Percentage answering correctly _ 33.
  26. "As far as the IRS is concerned, whether we are answering 30 percent of the questions wrong or 40 percent of the questions wrong, either number is absolutely unacceptable," said Robert LeBaube, IRS director of taxpayer services.
  27. The group recently opened a youth drug abuse hotline, and although it hasn't been publicized, volunteer workers answering the telephones have been overwhelmed with calls, Brooks said.
  28. Upon answering the phone I was immediately asked: 'Are you the secretary?'
  29. "Now why isn't the federal government answering those questions?" she asked.
  30. Recently introduced by AT&T are the first answering machines that respond to rotary phones and voice responses.
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