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1. swear off phrase
原句: Consumers who have sworn off credit cards are misguided.
意思: to promise that you will not do or use sth again
例句: I decided to swear off burgers forever.
2. fraudulent adjective
原句: If fraudulent charges show up on a credit card bill, the cardholder can simply refuse to pay them.
意思: intended to cheat sb, usually in order to make money illegally
字源: late Middle English: from Old French, or from Latin fraudulentus, from fraus, fraud- ‘deceit, injury’.
例句: Steps are being taken to crack down on fraudulent advertising.
3. federal adjective
原句: Federal law limits credit card holders' liability to $50 of fraudulent charges.
意思: (within a federal system , for example the US and Canada) connected with national government rather than the local government of an individual state
字源: mid 17th cent.: from Latin foedus, foeder- ‘league, covenant’ + -al.
例句: We will continue federal funding for the arts.
4. reimburse verb
原句: Which means the consumer must fight to get the funds reimbursed.
意思: to pay back money to sb which they have spent or lost
字源: early 17th cent.: from re- ‘back, again’ + obsolete imburse ‘put in a purse’, from medieval Latin imbursare, from in- ‘into’ + late Latin bursa ‘purse’.
例句: Any costs that you incur will be reimbursed in full.
5. refund noun
原句: Debit cardholders have to battle for a refund.
意思: a sum of money that is paid back to you, especially because you paid too much or because you returned goods to a shop/store
字源: late Middle English (in the senses ‘pour back’ and ‘restore’): from Old French refonder or Latin refundere, from re- ‘back’ + fundere ‘pour’, later associated with the verb fund. The noun dates from the mid 19th cent.
例句: She received a refund on the unused tickets.