charge /tʃɑrdʒ/ ( charges, charging, charged ) CET4

• V-T/V-I If you charge someone an amount of money, you ask them to pay that amount for something that you have sold to them or done for them. 要价; 收费

  例: Even local nurseries charge $150 a week.

  即便当地的托儿所每周也要收$150的费用。

  例: Some banks charge if you access your account to determine your balance.

  如果你进入自己的账户查看余额，有些银行要收费。

  例: The architect charged us a fee of seven hundred and fifty dollars.

  建筑师向我们收取了750美元的费用。

• V-T To charge something to a person or organization means to tell the people providing it to send the bill to that person or organization. To charge something to someone's account means to add it to their account so they can pay for it later. 开帐单; 记在…的账上

  例: Go out and buy a pair of glasses, and charge it to us.

  出去买一副眼镜，记在我们的账上。

• V-T When the police charge someone, they formally accuse them of having done something illegal. 指控

  例: They have the evidence to charge him.

  他们有证据来指控他。

• V-I If you charge toward someone or something, you move quickly and aggressively toward them. 冲

  例: He charged through the door to my mother's office.

  他破门而入，进了我母亲的办公室。

  例: He ordered us to charge.

  他命令我们冲锋。

  N-COUNT Charge is also a noun. 冲

  例: ...a bayonet charge.

  …一次刺刀冲锋。

• V-T To charge a battery means to pass an electrical current through it in order to make it more powerful or to make it last longer. 给…充电

  例: Alex had forgotten to charge the battery.

  亚历克斯忘了给电池充电。

  PHRASAL VERB Charge up means the same as charge. 给…充电

  例: There was nothing in the brochure about having to drive it every day to charge up the battery.

  手册里没写它要每天开，给电池充电。

• N-COUNT A charge is an amount of money that you have to pay for a service. 费用

  例: We can arrange this for a small charge.

  我们收取少量的费用就可以安排这事

• →see also service charge

• N-COUNT A charge is a formal accusation that someone has committed a crime. 指控

  例: He may still face criminal charges.

  他也许仍旧要面对刑事指控。

• N-COUNT If you describe someone as your charge, they have been given to you to be taken care of and you are responsible for them. 受照料者

  例: The coach tried to get his charges motivated.

  该教练设法激励他的队员们。

• N-COUNT An electrical charge is an amount of electricity that is held in or carried by something. 负荷 [TECHNICAL]

• N-UNCOUNT If you take charge of someone or something, you make yourself responsible for them and take control over them. If someone or something is in your charge, you are responsible for them. 掌管; 负责

  例: A few years ago Bacryl took charge of the company.

  几年前巴克莱尔掌管这家公司。

  例: I have been given charge of this class.

  我受命负责这个班。

• PHRASE If you are in charge in a particular situation, you are the most senior person and have control over something or someone. 负责

  例: Who's in charge here?

  这里谁负责？

• PHRASE If something is free of charge, it does not cost anything. 免费

  例: The leaflet is available free of charge from post offices.

  小册子可免费向邮局索取。