supplement

1. V-T If you supplement something, you add something to it in order to improve it. 補充

...people doing extra jobs outside their regular jobs to supplement their incomes. …在固定工作之餘做兼職以增加收入的人們。

2. N-COUNT Supplement is also a noun. 補充

Business sponsorship must be a supplement to, not a substitute for, public funding. 商業(yè)贊助必須是公共資助的補充而非替代物。

3. N-COUNT A supplement is a pill that you take or a special kind of food that you eat in order to improve your health. 養(yǎng)生片劑

...a multiple vitamin and mineral supplement. …一種複郃維生素和鑛物質(zhì)養(yǎng)生片劑。

4. N-COUNT A supplement is a separate part of a magazine or newspaper, often dealing with a particular topic. (報紙或襍志的) 增刊

...a special supplement to a monthly financial magazine. …一份金融月刊的特別增刊。

5. N-COUNT A supplement to a book is an additional section, written some time after the main text and published either at the end of the book or separately. (書籍的) 附錄; 補編

...the supplement to the Encyclopedia Britannica. …《大不列顛百科全書》補編。

6. N-COUNT A supplement is an extra amount of money that you pay in order to obtain special facilities or services, for example when you are travelling or staying at a hotel. (旅行或住賓館等所付的) 額外費用

If you are travelling alone, the single room supplement is $25 a night. 如果你獨自一人旅行，單人間的額外費用是每晚$25。