quotas

英 [ˈkwəʊtəz]

美 [ˈkwoʊtəz]

n.  定额; 限额; 配额; 定量; 指标; (候选人当选所需的)规定票数，最低票数
quota的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 定量;定额;配额
  Aquotais the limited number or quantity of something which is officially allowed.
  1. The quota of four tickets per person had been reduced to two.
     每人可购买的票的限额已经由四张降至两张。
• N-COUNT (给予某团体的)限额，配额
  Aquotais a fixed maximum or minimum proportion of people from a particular group who are allowed to do something, such as come and live in a country or work for the government.
  1. The bill would force employers to adopt a quota system when recruiting workers.
     该法案将迫使雇主在招聘工人时采取限额制度。
• N-COUNT 配额;份额;指标
  Someone'squota ofsomething is their expected or deserved share of it.
  1. They have the usual quota of human weaknesses, no doubt.
     毫无疑问，他们身上也有人所共有的弱点。

双语例句

• Racial quotas and protectionism are scaring away some foreign investors.
  种族配额和保护主义吓跑了一些外国投资者。
• Yet the arguments marshalled in support of the quotas are all too familiar.
  然而，在调动的论据支持的配额，都太熟悉了。
• As a business person, I was hoping to make my sales quotas.
  作为一个企业的人，我希望把我的销售配额。
• Allocate special quotas to certain industrial and geographical sectors, which are in line with China's macro-economic requirements.
  根据中国宏观经济要求对特定的工业和地域性行业进行具体的限额分配。
• Tension between business and government over skilled immigrant quotas is nothing new.
  企业和政府间在技术移民配额方面的紧张关系并不新鲜。
• They sometimes lobby to increase tariffs and to set quotas on imports of foreign-made substitutes.
  它们有时游说国会提高关税和对外国制造的同种产品设置进口限额。
• Several countries across the EU, including Italy, France and the Netherlands, have already adopted national quotas.
  包括意大利、法国和荷兰在内的数个欧盟国家，已通过了本国的女性董事配额制度。
• Usually quotas are compulsory, with specific legal penalties for any trade beyond the quotas.
  配额通常是强制性的，对任何超过限额的交易有具体的法律处罚措施。
• They resorted to tariffs and import quotas.
  它们诉诸于关税和进口配额。
• Import quotas are sometimes dressed up as voluntary export restraint agreements between exporting and importing countries.
  进口配额有时被装扮成出口国和进口国达成的自愿出口限制协议。