proprietary
adj[usu attrib 通常作定语]
1
(a) (of goods) manufactured and sold by a particular firm, usu under patent (指货物)独家制造和销售的, (通常指)专利的
proprietary medicines 专卖药品
proprietary brands 专利商标.
(b) (in this dictionary abbreviated as propr) (of a brand name) owned and used exclusively by a particular firm (本词典略作propr专利名)(指商标名称)专利的
a proprietary name, eg Kodak for cameras and films 专利名称(如照相机及胶片所用的柯达牌商标)
`Xerox' is a proprietary name and may not be used by other makers of photocopiers. `施乐'为专利名称, 制造复印机的其他厂家不得采用.
2 of or relating to an owner or ownership 所有的; 所有权的
proprietary rights 所有权.
It would be a waste of money to buy the IBM PC586.
买IBM586就浪费钱了。
I really enjoy it, but I'm tired of so much reading.
我可喜欢学啦!但要读的东西太多,我很烦。
On our way home that night I looked down and saw that the necklace was not around my neck any more. I told Pierre. We rushed back to the palace and looked for it.We asked everyone there if they had found a necklace, but without luck. We couldn't find it;