claim

claim的音标和读音：
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claim的词性：
v.tr.（及物动词）

1. To demand or ask for as one's own or one's due; assert one's right to:
主张，要求：要求或寻求…归为己有；维护自己对…的权利：

claim a reward.
索求回报

2. To take in a violent manner as if by right:
索取，夺走：采用一种貌似合理的暴力手段取走：

a hurricane that claimed two lives.
飓风夺走了两个生命

3. To state to be true, especially when open to question; assert or maintain:
断言，宣称：声称正确，尤指面对质疑时；极力主张或坚持：

claimed he had won the race; a candidate claiming many supporters.
断言他赢得了比赛；宣称有许多支持者的候选人

4. To deserve or call for; require:
应该得到或要求；需要：

problems that claim her attention.
应该得到她注意的问题

claim的词性：
n.（名词）

5. A demand for something as rightful or due.
要求：凭权利或预约要求得到某事物

6. A basis for demanding something; a title or right.
要求权：要求某事物的基础；凭证或权利

7. Something claimed in a formal or legal manner, especially a tract of public land staked out by a miner or homesteader.
申请产权：以正常或合法的方式提出的对某事物的要求，尤指矿工或定居移民用桩围起的一块公共土地

8. A demand for payment in accordance with an insurance policy or other formal arrangement.
索赔：遵照保险单或其它正规约定的赔偿要求

9. The sum of money demanded.
赔款：要求得到的金额

10. A statement of something as a fact; an assertion of truth:
主张：声明某事为事实；断言真实：

makes no claim to be a cure.
不能断言为有效对策

11. To assert one's right to or ownership of.
坚持对…的权利或对…的所有权

claim的词源：

12. Middle English claimen
中古英语 claimen

13. from Old French clamer claim-
源自 古法语 clamer claim-

14. from Latin clmre [to call] * see kel- ²
源自 拉丁语 clmre [叫喊] *参见 kel- ²

claim的词性：
adj.（形容词）

claim的词性：
n.（名词）

claim， pretense， pretension， title

15. The central meaning shared by these nouns is “a legitimate or asserted right to demand something as one's rightful due”:
这些名词共有的中心意思是“要求把某种事物归为个人有权拥有的一种合法或声明的权利”：

had a strong legal claim to the property;
对财产强烈的合法要求；

makes no pretense to scholarliness;
不以学问精深而自居；

pretensions to the chairmanship unjustified in every particular;
在每一方面都未被证明配得上做主席；

has no title to our thanks. See also Synonyms at demand
无资格得到我们的感谢 参见同义词 demand