spoken for

音標發(fā)音

By 2017, there will be no room for manoeuvre at all – the whole of the carbon budget will be spoken for, according to the IEA's calculations.
到2017年，我們將無計可施——所有的碳預算都會被花掉。
One man had suffered a stoke and had not spoken for a long time.
曾經(jīng)，有一個人中風癱瘓又失語了相當長一段時間。
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It is a fact that the tone or tune is as important to us as the spoken word for the expression of anger, sorrow, joy and wonder.
事實上，語音和語調(diào)對于我們，就像憤怒、憂傷、快樂和驚嘆這些口語中的表情一樣地重要。

Barack Obama has spoken repeatedly of Lincoln's influence in making it possible for the country to have its first African-American president.
It allows for this map between a symbol, say a spoken word, and any sort of thought we want to use.
語言允許在符號,比如說出的一個詞,與我們想要使用的任何想法之間,存在著這種映射關系
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He makes clothes for Adam and Eve. He's spoken of in much more anthropomorphic terms then the God that we encounter in Genesis 1.
他給亞當夏娃做衣服,比起《創(chuàng)世紀》1中的上帝，這個上帝說話具有人類的特點。
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Not all are worth having, and some of the best ones are already spoken for.
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If something is spoken for, it is not available because someone has already bought or asked for it.