【allowed音标】 英[əˈlaʊd] 美[əˈlaʊd]
【单词释义】 allowed是什么意思：
v.允许；准许；给予(allow的过去分词和过去式)
[单词分级] 中考英语词汇
【单词例句】
◇ But the old lady knew nothing about their being red, else she would never have allowed Karen to have gone in red shoes to be confirmed. Yet such was the case.
不过老太太不知道那是红色的，因为她决不会让珈伦穿着一双红鞋去受坚信礼。但是珈伦却去了。
---- The Red Shoes
◇ NASA's Russian counterpart Roscosmos has already allowed a number of private citizens at the station.
此前，俄罗斯联邦航天局已经允许几位普通民众进入空间站。
---- NASA to open space station to private citizens
◇ Doctors often refer to this eye-watering condition as “crocodile tears,” and a 1920s Russian scientist once suggested that such weakened facial muscles allowed "older, possibly crocodilian neurological pathways to emerge" in humans.
医生们通常把这种流泪症状称为“鳄鱼的眼泪”。20世纪20年代的一位俄罗斯科学家曾指出，这种面部肌肉衰弱可能导致人体起用“更古老的或许是鳄鱼式的神经通路”。
（由此看来，鳄鱼流泪只是进食时身体产生的一种自然生理现象，和同情悔过毫无关系，难怪人们会将虚伪的哭泣比作鳄鱼的眼泪了。）