He directed the dispensation of food to the refugees. 他指挥分发食物给难民。
She can only marry her cousin with a special dispensation. 她需要得到特准才能嫁给她的表亲。
Subject to dispensation, as a vow or church law. 可赦免的可宽恕的,如宣誓或教堂法律
dispensation
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an exemption from some rule or obligation
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a share that has been dispensed or distributed
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the act of dispensing (giving out in portions)
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Dispensation \Dis`pen*sa"tion\, n. [F. dispensation, L. dispensatio.] 1. The act of dispensing or dealing out; distribution; often used of the distribution of good and evil by God to man, or more generically, of the acts and modes of his administration.
To respect the dispensations of Providence. --Burke.
2. That which is dispensed, dealt out, or appointed; that which is enjoined or bestowed; especially (Theol.), A system of principles, promises, and rules ordained and administered; scheme; economy; as, the Patriarchal, Mosaic, and Christian dispensations.
Neither are God's methods or intentions different in his dispensations to each private man. --Rogers.
3. The relaxation of a law in a particular case; permission to do something forbidden, or to omit doing something enjoined; specifically, in the Roman Catholic Church, exemption from some ecclesiastical law or obligation to God which a man has incurred of his own free will (oaths, vows, etc.).
A dispensation was obtained to enable Dr. Barrow to marry. --Ward.
Call it a positive result of open government. It is not possible to be so kind about the government's strategies for the control of crime, the dispensation of punishment, and the administration of justice.
Deliberations are to be kept secret, members cannot speak at full council sessions for more than 10 minutes without special dispensation, and no documents can be removed from the council building.
The figure simply emerged from the mists." "The Richmond ordinance reflects the most casual deployment of race in the dispensation of public benefits.
British ballet owes a great deal to South African dancers in such crucial figures as Nadia Nerina, Maryon Lane, John Cranko, David Poole, and it is pleasing that the Cape Ballet should make its first overseas tour under the new dispensation to London.
I can live with that, though why the artsy-fartsies should receive any dispensation is a puzzle. First, I tackled Major.
"There can no longer be any doubt about the government's sincerity in seeking to create a just dispensation based on negotiations," de Klerk said.
But they also cautioned that in three days, they won't bring down the pillars of apartheid, or racial segregation, nor come up with a new dispensation of black-white power sharing.
These modern religious giants all are dead, and, as the century draws to a close, it's almost as though some special dispensation has ended.
He also testified that he did not know that Trans World Airlines had applied for a dispensation from the hand search regulation in October 1988 and had been refused.
Still, having read about a similar real-life case, I was looking forward to watching what seemed to me a satisfying dispensation of justice.
With a dispensation from war or the immediate threat of war, people were free to bend their energies to producing the main product of the modern age, which is progress.
It is a dispensation allowed him in the grim American media because he presents himself as a moralist, and that he is but in strictly contemporary terms.
Help us build a broad consensus about the fundamentals of a new, realistic and democratic dispensation.
De Klerk, who says he wants a "new dispensation" that will give South African blacks a role in the country's affairs, still rejects any suggestion of majority rule.
Smith said Bettiker and Carney were so far the only two former cadets to receive such a dispensation.