To license a person or activity means to give official permission for the person to do something or for the activity to take place. 准许
noun [抽象名词] 执照，许可证；特许（同 licence）
Your license is no longer valid. 你的执照失效了。
verb [vt. 及物动词] 许可；特许；发许可证给
a proposal that would require the state to license guns the way it does cars. … 提案要求政府像发驾驶证一样发放枪支许可证。
