词汇 | share |
释义 | SHARE carry one's (own) weight and pull one's (own) weight to do one's share; to earn one's keep.Tom, you must be more helpful around the house. We all have to carry our own weight.Bill, I'm afraid that you can't work here anymore. You just haven't been carrying your weight.If you would just pull your weight, we would finish this by noon. cut someone in to give someone a share of something. (Informal or slang.)Shall we cut Bill in on this deal?I don't think we should cut anybody in.Pretty soon we'll have to cut in the whole town. divide something fifty-fifty and split something fifty-fifty to divide something into two equal parts. (Informal. The fifty means "50 percent.")Tommy and Billy divided the candy fifty-fifty.The robbers split the money fifty-fifty. do one's part and do one's bit to do one's share of the work; to do whatever one can do to help.All people everywhere must do their part to help get things under control.I always try to do my bit. How can I help this time? double up (with someone) to share something with someone.We don't have enough books. Tom, will you double up with Jane?When we get more books, we won't have to double up anymore.We'll share hotel rooms to save money. Tom and Bill will double up in room twenty. Dutch treat a social occasion where one pays for oneself."It's nice of you to ask me out to dinner," she said, "but could we make it a Dutch treat?"The office outing is always a Dutch treat. go Dutch to share the cost of a meal or some other event.JANE: Let’s go out and eat. MARY: Okay, but let's go Dutch.It's getting expensive to have Sally for a friend. She never wants to go Dutch. go fifty-fifty (on something) to divide the cost of something in half with someone.Todd and Jean decided to go fifty-fifty on dinner.The two brothers went fifty-fifty on a replacement for the broken lamp. piece of the action a share in a scheme or project; a degree of involvement. (Slang.)If you guys are going to bet on the football game, I want a piece of the action, too.My brother wants in on it. Give him a piece of the action. share out share out sth • share sth out BrE to divide something into smaller amounts, and then give an amount to each person in a group: Take these cookies and share them out.+ between We've got three pizzas to share out between five people.+among/amongst The business is obviously very profitable, but the profits are not fairly shared out among those who are helping to generate them.■ SIMILAR TO: divide up, divvy up informalshare-out n C when something is shared out between people: the unequal share-out of education cash in South Africa under apartheid
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