| 单词 | write |
| 释义 | write write // verb (wrote // written //)
1 [+ obj or no obj] to produce a document, an article or a piece of software: We wrote a business plan for the new company. He writes about/on business and social issues. She writes for the ‘Times'. to write code/applications/software/programmes applications written in Java
2 [+ obj or no obj] to put a request or some information in a letter or an email and send it to sb: I am writing to inform you that your application has been accepted. I have written a memo to senior management. She sent them a letter of complaint but they didn't write back.
3 [+ obj] write sth (out) (for sb) | write sb (out) sth to complete a cheque or other form with the necessary information: I wrote (out) a cheque for €100. He wrote me a receipt.
4 (IT ) [+ obj] write sth to sth to transfer or copy information from a computer's memory to sth that stores it in a more permanent form: to write data to a disk/file
WORTH adj.
PHRASAL VERBS
write sth back (Accounting ) (usually be written back) to include an item in a company's accounts that had deliberately not been included before, when calculating the company's profits: The customer made a definite promise to pay, so the debt could now be written back. WRITE-BACK
write sth down
1 to write sth on paper, especially in order to remember or record it: Write down all the specifications of your computer before phoning the help desk.
2 (Accounting ) to reduce the value of an asset in a company's accounts: The company will write down the value of its property assets by $414 million. The group was forced to write down securities holdings under new accounting laws. ⇨ WRITE-DOWN OPP WRITE STH UP
write sth off (often be written off)
1 (Accounting ) to reduce the value of an asset in a company's accounts over a period of time: Goodwill was written off over 5 years. The machinery was written off against profits (= the cost of the machinery was taken away from the profits, in order to pay less tax). SYN DEPRECIATE ⇨ AMORTIZE
2 (Accounting ) to remove a debt from a company's accounts because the money cannot be collected; to remove an asset that has no value: The bank expects to write off bad loans (= loans made by the bank that were not paid back) of $8 billion. They had to write off their original $1.56 million investment in the company.
3 (Insurance ) (BrE) to accept that sth is so badly damaged that it cannot be repaired: The car was written off. ⇨ WRITE-OFF, TOTAL verb
write sth up
1 to record sth in writing in a full and complete form, often using notes that you made earlier: to write up the minutes of a meeting We plan to write up the results of the research in the ‘American Journal of Physics'. ⇨ WRITE-UP
2 (Accounting ) (AmE) to increase the value of an asset in a company's accounts or give it a value that is too high ⇨ WRITE-UP OPP WRITE STH DOWN |
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