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dole out sth / dole sth out
动词短语，表示‘发放、分配’，宾语可放在out前后。
The charity doled out food to the homeless.
慈善机构向无家可归者发放食物。
救济品；失业救济金
先理解核心含义，再看它在真实句子里的用法。
救济品；失业救济金
money or goods given as charity, especially unemployment benefit
The charity doled out food to the homeless.
慈善机构向无家可归者发放食物。
分配；分发
Distribution; dealing; apportionment.
作为慈善施舍的钱财或其他物品。
Money or other goods given as charity.
边界；界标
A boundary; a landmark.
After losing his job, he had to rely on the dole to pay his bills.
失业后，他不得不依靠失业救济金来支付账单。
The charity handed out a dole of food and clothes to the homeless.
慈善机构向无家可归者发放了一份食物和衣服的救济品。
Many families depend on the dole during the economic crisis.
经济危机期间，许多家庭依靠失业救济金生活。
动词短语，表示‘发放、分配’，宾语可放在out前后。
The charity doled out food to the homeless.
慈善机构向无家可归者发放食物。
名词用法，指‘失业救济金’，常与be连用。
He has been on the dole for six months.
他已领取失业救济金六个月了。
表示‘一份救济品’，常用于少量施舍。
Each family received a dole of rice.
每个家庭得到了一份额外的大米。
Not this
He doled the supplies to the refugees.
Use this
He doled out the supplies to the refugees.
动词'dole'通常需要与副词'out'连用，表示分发。不加'out'是不符合英语习惯的。
Not this
He has been receiving a dole since he lost his job.
Use this
He has been receiving the dole since he lost his job.
当'dole'表示失业救济金时，是不可数名词，通常与定冠词'the'连用。不能说'a dole'。
Focus on the distinctions below. Other candidates are kept compact until a reliable usage note is available.
靠失业救济金生活
He has been on the dole for six months since losing his job.
他失业六个月以来一直靠救济金生活。
发放（食物、钱等）
The charity doled out hot meals to the homeless every evening.
该慈善机构每晚向无家可归者发放热食。
领取救济金的队伍
Long dole queues are a sign of a struggling economy.
长长的救济队伍是经济 struggling 的标志。
失业救济金
She relies on dole money to pay her rent.
她靠失业救济金付房租。
登记领取失业救济
After graduating, he had to sign on the dole because he couldn't find a job.
毕业后他找不到工作，只好登记领取失业救济。
分发食物
Volunteers doled out food and blankets to the earthquake victims.
志愿者向地震灾民分发了食物和毯子。
靠失业救济金生活
After losing his job, he was on the dole for six months.
失业后，他靠救济金生活了六个月。
领失业救济金的人群；失业队伍
More graduates are joining the dole queue every year.
每年都有更多毕业生加入失业队伍。
少量发放；施舍
The government doled out food to the refugees.
政府向难民发放了食物。
我领失业救济金。
From the song 'Common People' by Pulp, about a working-class man and a wealthy girl.
来自Pulp乐队的歌曲《Common People》，讲述一个工薪阶层男子和一个富裕女孩的故事。
我正领失业金，不是吗？
From the 1997 film 'The Full Monty', about unemployed steelworkers in Sheffield.
来自1997年电影《光猪六壮士》，讲述谢菲尔德失业钢铁工人的故事。
Use dole naturally, then get feedback on meaning, tone, grammar, and phrasing.
Revisit a common error or keep this word in your review list.
音似“兜”，想象一个兜里装着救济品或救济金，发放给需要的人。
语域：informal 常见场景：unemployment benefits、everyday speech、government welfare ‘dole’作‘失业救济金’解时，通常为口语化表达，多见于日常对话或新闻，正式文件多用‘unemployment benefit’。
名词常与the连用，指失业救济金；动词常与out连用，表示发放。
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