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发音：[dɪsˈmɪs]
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例句：
- If someone is dismissed from his job, it means he has been fired— to dismiss means “to remove from position or service.”
- At the end of a lesson, your teacher says, “class dismissed.” In this example, the word dismiss refers to ” to permit or cause somebody to leave.”
- He also dismissed the efforts of commercial space companies like SpaceX to build comparable technology. As we can see, the word dismiss in this sentence expresses the meaning—”to reject serious considerations of something.”
- Several employees were recently dismissed because of their bad performance.
- Many astronomers dismiss the idea of the object being technological, saying there are far simpler and far more likely natural explanations.
- Under Hong Kong law, an employer who does dismiss an employee for reasons of ill health faces a HK$100,000 fine — about $13,000 USD.
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解释：
- Dismiss这个单词为动词，其表示“to remove from position or service/to permit or cause somebody to leave/to reject serious considerations of something.”等这些含义，即“解雇/开除/驳回/解散/否定”，与“discharge/ignore/remove/terminate/drop”等单词构成近义词，其核心含义表示“let go.”
- 具体使用场景如下：
- If you are dismissed from your job, it means you are fired.（如果你被解雇，这意味着你被开除了。）
—News - If the judge dismisses a case, then it has no merit.（如果法官驳回案件，那么它就没有法律依据。）
—Laws - If you ignore the warning that the great depression is imminent, then you are dismissing the concerns.（如果你忽视大萧条即将来临的警告，那么你就是在忽视这些担忧。）
—News - Jack was dismissed after he failed to finish the report. （杰克在未能完成报告后被解雇。）
—News - Mr. Trump’s accounting firm has dismissed accusations that he inflated his wealth and Mr. Trump has denied any wrongdoing.（特朗普的会计师事务所驳斥了有关他夸大财富的指控，特朗普否认有任何不当行为。）
—Politics
