dismiss

单词辨析:

dismiss axe fire lay off remove sack 【导航词义:解雇】
dismiss v. 开除,解雇
〔辨析〕

指正式解除某人的职务,常可与 fire,sack 换用。

〔例证〕

That teacher was dismissed/fired/sacked secretly.

那名教师被秘密开除了。

Employees can be dismissed/fired/sacked for playing computer games at work.

员工上班时间玩电脑游戏会遭到解雇。

axe (美亦作ax) v. 突然解雇
〔辨析〕

指突然解除某人的职务。

〔例证〕

The company announced Thursday their plan to axe 180 employees.

该公司周四宣布计划裁员180人。

Vera has been axed from the team.

薇拉已被开除出队。

fire v. [口]解雇,开除
〔辨析〕

指强行解除某人的职务,常可与 sack 换用。

〔例证〕

He has just been fired/sacked for being late.

他刚刚因为迟到被解雇。

The company fired/sacked him and he didn't know what to do.

公司把他开除了,他不知该怎么办。

lay off phr. v. 解雇
〔辨析〕

指因为没有工作可做而解雇员工。

〔例证〕

The chain store laid off 500 workers in October.

这家连锁店10月份裁员500人。

Millions of workers were laid off during the economic crisis.

经济危机期间,数百万工人被解雇。

remove v. 开除,罢免
〔辨析〕

指免除某人的职务,尤指罢免身居要职者。

〔例证〕

The committee removed the corrupt official.

委员会罢免了那名腐败的官员。

Congress has the right to remove the President from office.

国会有权罢黜总统。

sack v. [英,非正式]开除,解雇
〔辨析〕

解除某人的职务。

〔例证〕

He was sacked from the job, although he did nothing wrong.

他没做错事却被解雇了。

Dad was sacked for being drunk.

爸爸因为喝醉酒而遭到解雇。

相关例句:

Most orthodox doctors however dismiss this as complete nonsense.

但大多数传统的医生认为此说法完全是胡说八道。

It is easy to dismiss this as political opportunism.

这作为一个政治机会主义是很容易驳回的。

Dismiss from one's mind all unkind feelings and the desire to blame and punish sb.

不要怨恨那些伤害过你的人,你应该不念旧恶。

My employer countered my request for more money by threatening to dismiss me.

老板威胁要解雇我,回绝了我加薪的请求。

Two more witnesses were called, heard and dismissed

又有两个目击者被传唤,提供证言后获准退席。

If you violate the rules here, we shall have to dismiss you from the post.

如果你违反了这里的规定,我们将不得不开除你。