quota
noun /ˈkwəʊtə/
/ˈkwəʊtə/
定额;限额;配额 - to introduce a strict import quota on grain
严格限制谷物进口量
- Many countries are still exceeding their quotas.
许多国家仍在超限。 - national quotas on imports of cars
国家对进口汽车的配额 - quotas for oil production
石油生产限额 - the introduction of EU milk quotas
欧盟对牛奶配额制度的采用
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- full
- strict
- annual
- …
- allocate
- establish
- impose
- …
- system
- quota for
- quota on
- to introduce a strict import quota on grain
- [countable] an amount of something that somebody expects or needs to have or achieve
定量;定额;指标 - I'm going home now—I've done my quota of work for the day.
我现在要回家了。我已完成了今天的工作量。 - to get your full quota of sleep
为了获得充足的睡眠
- Members of the military forces must fulfil a daily quota of work in the fields.
军队成员必须完成每天的田间劳动定额。 - The show is good fun and yields its full quota of laughs.
表演很有趣,博得预期中的阵阵笑声。 - He never takes his full quota of holidays.
他从来没有休足假期。 - We had to increase our output to fill the quota by the end of the year.
我们必须增加产量,才能在年底完成定额。
- I'm going home now—I've done my quota of work for the day.
- [singular] (politics
) (in a system of proportional representation) a fixed number of votes that a candidate needs in order to be elected政治 (候选人当选所需的)规定票数,最低票数 - He was 76 votes short of the quota.
他比规定当选票数少了 76 票。
- He was 76 votes short of the quota.
词源early 17th cent.: from medieval Latin quota (pars) ‘how great (a part)’, feminine of quotus, from quot ‘how many’.