同义词
同义词解析
  • 以下这些动词都有"存在" 的意思
    exist通常指可观察到的或众所周知的存在现象。
    be指某时某地确存在的事物或现象,多与there连用。
    live多指有生命的东西的存在。指无生命事物时,强调可联想起生命的那些特点。
词组
  • as/that was
    as someone or something was previously called 如过去所称
  • the be-all and end-all
    (informal)a feature of an activity or a way of life that is of greater importance than any other (非正式)(活动或生活方式的)根本特点;要旨
  • be oneself
    act naturally, according to one's character and instincts 表现得自然
  • been (或 been and gone) and——
    (informal)used to express surprise or annoyance at someone's actions (非正式)[表惊讶或恼火]竟然
  • been there, done that
  • be that as it may
  • be there for someone
    be available to support or comfort (someone) while they are experiencing difficulties or adversities 支持;安慰(困难或不幸中的)某人
  • not be oneself
    not feel in one's usual physical or mental state 失常;感到不舒服
  • -to-be
    [incombination]of the future 未来的
  • be about
    见 about (介词义项1)
  • be at
    be doing or trying to do 正在做;打算做
  • be away
    leave or set out at once 离开;出发
  • be off
    [often inimperative]go away; leave 滚开;离去
英语四级真题
  • to relaxto matureto harvestto reflectIt is more meaningful than other stages of life.
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  • is something few can accomplishneeds some practice firstrequires a lot of patienceis a challenge at the beginningThey find it even more difficult.
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  • Your identity has been formed; you've built up your resources; and now you have the chance to take the big risks precisely because your foundation is already secure.
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  • You feel the same emotions – it is just as raw, just as fresh… You can't turn off that stream of memories, no matter how hard you try.
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  • Yoga is waking me up.
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  • What could have been considered the beginning of a descent is now a potential turning point—the turning point you are most equipped to take full advantage of.
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  • What Barth wrote decades ago is even truer today.
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  • Urbanization – migration away from the suburbs and to the city center – will be the biggest real estate trend in 2015, according to a new report.
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  • Top of Britons' toilet paper wish list is softness ( ' , 57%) followed by strength ( ' , 45%) and thickness ( ' , 36%).
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  • To ensure employees' commitment, it is advisable to give them more flexibility as to where and how they work.
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  • This type of memory ( ' , where you are trying to remember new, but similar information) is particularly vulnerable to interference.
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  • This is hard to achieve when, as is now the case in many big firms, a large proportion of staff are temporary contractors.
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  • They need to keep teams small and focused: giving in to pressure to be more inclusive is a guarantee of dysfunction.
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  • They need to immunise teams against group-think: Hackman argued that the best ones contain deviants ( ' , 离经叛道者) who are willing to do something that may be upsetting to others.
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  • They break routines, because autopilot is death.
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  • The run has been taken; now is the time to leap.
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  • The report says America's urbanization will continue to be the most significant issue affecting the industry, as cities across the country imitate the walkability and transit-oriented development making cities like New York and San Francisco so successful.
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  • The question is, how?Lawrence Patihis at the University of Southern Mississippi recently studied around 20 people with HSAM and found that they scored particularly highly on two measures: fantasy proneness ( ' , 倾向) and absorption.
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  • The people with HSAM I've interviewed would certainly agree that it can be a mixed blessing.
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  • The middle-aged person, Barth continued, can see death in the distance, but moves with a measured haste to get big new things done while there is still time.
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  • The least that can be concluded from this research is that companies need to think harder about managing teams.
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  • The fashion for teams is driven by a sense that the old way of organising people is too rigid for both the modern marketplace and the expectations of employees.
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  • The fashion for teams is also spreading from the usual corporate suspects ( ' , such as GE and IBM) to some more unusual ones.
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  • The bulk of the research shows that there may be a pause, or a shifting of gears in the 40s or 50s, but this shift can be exciting, rather than terrifying.
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  • The brain is a seemingly endless library, whose shelves house our most precious memories as well as our lifetime's knowledge.
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  • Teamwork is most effective when team members share the same culture.
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  • Such drastic change is not easy.
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  • Some scholars think teamwork may not always be reliable, despite its potential to work wonders.
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  • She never knows if the egg will break before the design is completed.
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  • She is never sure what the final design will look like until the end.
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  • Regardless of your stated preference, if you're ready to quit, quitting abruptly is more effective, says Dr.
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  • Preparation has been made; now is the time for the venture of the work itself.
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  • One of the reasons I find this topic very interesting is because my mom was a smoker when I was younger, says Lindson-Hawley, who studies tobacco and health at the University of Oxford.
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  • One in 10 buyers rank toilet rolls made from recycled paper among their top considerations, highlighting how overall the environment is much less of a consideration for shoppers than product quality.
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  • Normal forgetting may even be a safety mechanism to ensure our brain doesn't become too full.
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  • My memory is like a library of video tapes, walk-throughs of every day of my life from waking to sleeping, he explains.
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  • Life Reimagined paints a picture of middle age that is far from gloomy.
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  • Jeff Bezos, Amazon's boss, says that If I see more than two pizzas for lunch, the team is too big.
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  • It may be the beginning of a crisis.
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  • It is widely acknowledged.
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  • It is unexpected.
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  • It is their major source of protein in winter.
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  • It is the most time-honored form of fancy art.
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  • It is no longer fashionable.
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  • It is more important to those with a longer lifespan.
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  • It is misleading.
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  • It is likely to change the narrative of one's life.
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  • It is likely to be a critical turning point in one's life.
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  • It is idealized.
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  • It is especially favored as a church decoration.
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  • It is encouraging.
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  • It is a welcome sign of the coming of spring.
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  • It is a way of organising our memories.
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  • It can easily be made into a work of art.
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  • It can be very hard to forget embarrassing moments, says Donohue.
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  • It can be terrifying for the unprepared.
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  • It can be quite rosy.
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  • It can be burdensome.
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  • It can be a new phase of one's life.
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  • Interestingly, their memories are highly self-centred: although they can remember autobiographical life events in extraordinary detail, they seem to be no better than average at recalling impersonal information, such as random ( ' , 任意选取的) lists of words.
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  • Instead of just crowding in, old information is sometimes pushed out of the brain for new memories to form.
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  • Instead of giving people practice, the gradual reduction likely gave them cravings ( ' , 瘾) and withdrawal symptoms before they even reached quit day, which could be why fewer people in that group actually made it to that point.
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  • In some ways, you probably go through that process after a big event like your wedding day – but the difference is that thanks to their other psychological tendencies, the HSAM subjects are doing it day in, day out, for the whole of their lives.
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  • In many companies, the conventional form of organisation is giving way to a network of teams.
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  • In fact, there is almost no hard evidence for midlife crisis other than a few small pilot studies conducted decades ago, Barbara Hagerty writes in her new book, Life Reimagined.
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  • In a sense, forgetting is our brain's way of sorting memories, so the most relevant memories are ready for retrieval.
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  • If you're training for a marathon, you wouldn't expect to turn up and just be able to run it.
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  • If it is hard enough to define a team's membership, agreeing on its purpose is harder still.
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  • I remember sitting on a bench with my aunt at a yoga studio, she said, and having a moment of clarity right then and there: Yoga is saving my life.
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  • However, organisations need to learn something bigger than how to manage teams better: they need to be in the habit of asking themselves whether teams are the best tools for the job.
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  • High-flyers ( ' , 能干的人) who are forced to work in teams may be undervalued and free-riders empowered.
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  • He knew my love for yoga and had seen a space close to where he lived that he thought might be good to serve as a yoga studio.
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  • HSAM can be both a curse and a blessing.
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  • Group-think may be unavoidable.
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  • For most of us, memory is a mess of blurred and faded pictures of our lives.
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  • Fantasy proneness could be considered a tendency to imagine and daydream, whereas absorption is the tendency to allow your mind to become absorbed in an activity – to pay complete attention to the sensations ( ' , 感受) and the experiences.
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  • Even in the age of open-plan offices and social networks some work is best left to the individual.
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  • Even if your personal reinvention is less drastic, we think there are lessons from her experience that apply.
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  • Environmental protection is not much of a concern when Britons buy toilet paper.
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  • Each time this initial memory trace is replayed, it becomes even stronger.
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  • Deloitte argues that a new organisational form is on the rise: a network of teams is replacing the conventional hierarchy ( ' , 等级体制).
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  • Decentralisation of authority was also found to be more effective in military operations.
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  • Creating the future you want is a lot easier if you are ready to exploit the opportunities that come your way.
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  • Contemporary artists have followed this tradition to create eggs that speak to the anxieties of our age: Life is precious, and delicate.
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  • Clearly, there is no such thing as a perfect memory – their extraordinary minds are still using the same flawed tools that the rest of us rely on.
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  • But is there a point where it reaches capacity?The answer is no, because brains are more sophisticated than that.
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  • But current studies are beginning to place greater emphasis on the conditions under which we forget, as its importance begins to be more appreciated.
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  • At middle age, he wrote, the sowing is behind; now is the time to reap.
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  • As smaller cities copy the model of these 24-hour cities, more affordable versions of these places will be created.
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  • As much as we would like to cling on to our past, even the saddest moments can be washed away with time.
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  • Another trend that looks significant in 2015 is that America's largest population group, Millennials ( ' , 千禧 一代), will continue to put off buying a house.
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  • Another issue affecting real estate in the coming year will be America's failing infrastructure.
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  • And when we retrieve ( ' , 检索) information, both the desired and associated but irrelevant information is recalled.
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  • And I knew it was a negotiation scheme, so I was able to say to myself, ‘This is not real.
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  • Although these numbers appear low, it is much higher than if people try without support.
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  • According to a report by Deloitte, teamwork is becoming increasingly popular among companies.
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  • A new study of 12,000 workers in 17 countries by Steelcase, a furniture-maker which also does consulting, finds that the best way to ensure employees are engaged is to give them more control over where and how they do their work—which may mean liberating them from having to do everything in collaboration with others.
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  • A longer lifespan is changing the narrative structure of life itself.
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  • A good rule of thumb is that as soon as generals and hospital administrators jump on a management bandwagon ( ' , 追随一种管理潮流), it is time to ask questions.
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  • A decorated egg with a bird on it, given to a young married couple, is a wish for children.
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英语六级真题
  • is becoming increasingly popularbenefits sharers and users alikemakes researchers successfulsaves both money and laborMacy's reported its sales plunged 5.
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  • deprive colleges of the right to manage their facilitiesmake workers less motivated in performing dutiesrender a number of campus workers joblesslead to the privatization of campus facilitiesThe outsourcing plan is not yet finalized.
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  • Yet there are recent signs that the gap could be starting to shrink.
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  • Working-class parents teach their children to be obedient and show respect to adults.
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  • Will parents be damaging children if they have one fewer organized activity? No, I really doubt it.
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  • While these numbers are still being validated by the state, we feel any adjustments they might suggest will be immaterial, Morgan wrote to the presidents.
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  • While bullying is parents' greatest concern over all, nearly half of low-income parents worry their child will get shot, compared with one-fifth of high-income parents.
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  • What the designers of American sportswear proved was that fashion is a genuine design art, answering to the demanding needs of service.
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  • Unless renewables become cheap enough that substantial carbon deposits are left underground for a very long time, if not forever, the planet will likely be exposed to potentially catastrophic climate risks.
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  • To be more competitive in sales of beauty products.
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  • They cannot be attributed to weather only.
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  • They can be solved with better management.
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  • They are taught to be compliant and respectful to adults.
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  • They are more likely to be at risk of dying.
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  • There is strong evidence that both innovation and adoption of cleaner technology are strongly encouraged by higher fossil fuel prices.
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  • There is no best parenting style or philosophy, researchers say, and across income groups, 92% of parents say they are doing a good job at raising their children.
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  • The state's facilities management project team is still in the process of developing its business justification and expects to have that completed and available to the public at the end of February, Martin said.
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  • The same is true for new technologies for alleviating fossil fuel emissions.
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  • The result would be higher emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.
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  • The recent discovery of the giant Zohr gas field off the Egyptian coast will eventually have impact on pricing in the Mediterranean region and Europe, and there is significant development potential in many other places, notably Argentina.
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  • The reasoning behind this saying is that low oil prices discourage investment in new production capacity, eventually shifting the oil supply curve backward and bringing prices back up as existing oil fields—which can be tapped at relatively low marginal cost—are depleted.
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  • The reason is that when carbon is priced, those emissions reductions that are least costly to implement will happen first.
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  • The outsourcing plan will be implemented.
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  • The hope is that the success of COP 21 opens the door to future international agreement on carbon prices.
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  • The dynamic adjustment to low oil prices may, however, be different this time around.
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  • The consumer was ultimately to be mentioned as well, especially by the likes of Dorothy Shaver, who could point to the sales figures at Lord & Taylor.
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  • The company pledged to cut 600 back-office positions, though some 150 workers in those roles would be reassigned to other jobs.
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  • The company had previously announced the planned closures, but had not said which locations would be affected.
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  • The challenge is if certain types of people are doing something, it's difficult for other people to break into it, said Po-Shen Loh, the head coach of last year's winning U.S.Math Olympiad team.
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  • The belief that research data is private intellectual propertyThe concern that certain agencies may make a profit out of it.
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  • The achievement gap between children from high- and lowincome families is 30-40% larger among children born in 2001 than those born 25 years earlier, according to Mr.
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  • The Math Video Challenge is a competition, but a collaborative one.
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  • The Math Olympiad Summer Training Program is a three-week math camp held by the Mathematical Association of America that leads straight to the international championship and is free for those who make it.
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  • The British traveler Charles Thompson spoke for many Grand Tourists when in 1744 he described himself as being impatiently desirous of viewing a country so famous in history, a country which once gave laws to the world, and which is at present the greatest school of music and painting, contains the noblest productions of sculpture and architecture, and is filled with cabinets of rarities, and collections of all kinds of historical relics.
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  • That relative strength would be consistent with what was seen in the wider retail industry during the early part of the holiday season.
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  • Some climate impacts may already be discernible.
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  • Renewables account for only a small share of global primary energy consumption, which is still dominated by fossil fuels—30% each for coal and oil, 25% for natural gas.
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  • Publishing data and code allows your science to be reproducible.
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  • Progress in the development of renewables could be fragile, however, if fossil fuel prices remain low for long.
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  • Physical punishment is used much less by well-educated parents.
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  • Part of it is communication; part of it is transportation.
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  • Parents who are white, wealthy or college-educated say too much involvement can be bad.
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  • Open data sharing is most important to medical science.
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  • Open data sharing is conducive to scientific advancement.
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  • None of the chain's stores in the Washington metropolitan area are to be closed.
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  • Natural gas and coal—also fossil fuels—have similarly seen price declines that look to be long-lived.
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  • Much of the waste is discarded rotten meat, mixed in with other human debris such as plastic bags and old toys.
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  • Middle school is an important age because students have enough math capability to solve advanced problems, but they haven't really decided what they want to do with their lives, said Loh.
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  • Middle school is a crucial period when students may become keenly interested in advanced mathematics.
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  • Less-educated parents, and poorer and black and Latino parents are more likely to believe that there is no such thing as too much involvement in a child's education.
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  • Last year, the Royal Society in London said in its report that scientists need to shift away from a research culture where data is viewed as a private preserve.
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  • It's no secret in the advanced-math community that diversity is a problem.
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  • It is urgent for governments to increase the cost of using fossil fuels to an appropriate level to lessen the catastrophic effects of climate change.
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  • It is imperative to protect scientists' patents.
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  • It is estimated that extreme weather conditions have endangered the lives of millions of African children.
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  • It is backed by a campus spending analysis.
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  • It is attributable to the rising value of the U.S. dollar.
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  • It is a direct result of the global economic recession.
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  • Interest in elite high school math competitions has grown in recent years, and in light of last summer's U.S. win at the International Math Olympiad ( ' , IMO)—the first for an American team in more than two decades— the trend is likely to continue.
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  • In an email statement from the state's Office of Customer Focused Government, which is examining the possibility of outsourcing, spokeswoman Michelle R.
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  • Historically, scientists have objected to sharing for many reasons: it is a lot of work; until recently, good databases did not exist; grant funders were not pushing for sharing; it has been difficult to agree on standards for formatting data; and there is no agreed way to assign credit for data.
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  • Higher fossil fuel prices prove to be conducive to innovation and application of cleaner technologyIf fossil fuel prices remain low for a long time, it may lead to higher emissions of greenhouse gases.
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  • Haslam has said colleges would be free to opt in or out of the outsourcing plan, which has not been finalized.
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  • Funding agencies note that data paid for with public money should be public information, and the scientific community is recognizing that data can now be shared digitally in ways that were not possible before.
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  • For example, one of the most popular data sets on multidisciplinary repository Dryad is about wood density around the world; it has been downloaded 5,700 times.
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  • Facilities management by colleges is more cost-effective.
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  • Economic reasoning shows that the least expensive way for each country is to put a price on carbon emissions.
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  • Early childhood experiences can be very consequential for children's long-term social, emotional and cognitive development, said Sean Reardon, professor of poverty and inequality in education at Stanford University.
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  • Different upbringings set children on different paths and can deepen socioeconomic divisions, especially because education is strongly linked to earnings.
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  • Designer sportswear would have to be verified by a standard other than that of pure beauty; the emulation of a designer's life in designer sportswear was a crude version of this relationship.
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  • Designer sportswear was not modeled on that of Europe, as modern art would later be; it was genuinely invented and developed in America.
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  • Data on management expenses at the college system and in other state departments will be part of a business justification the state will use as officials deliberate the specifics of an outsourcing plan.
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  • Could utility alone justify the new ideas of the American designers? Fashion is often regarded as a pursuit of beauty, and some cherished fashion's trivial relationship to the fine arts.
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  • Coal and natural gas are mainly used for electricity generation, whereas oil is used mostly to power transportation, yet the prices of all these energy sources are linked.
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  • Co-author Amy Zanne thinks that users probably range from climate-change researchers wanting to estimate how much carbon is stored in biomass, to foresters looking for information on different grades of timber.
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  • But 50% of poor parents say it is extremely important to them that their children earn a college degree, compared with 39% of wealthier parents.
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  • At this time there is nothing to take action on since the analysis has yet to be completed.
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  • Another influential feeder for advanced-math students is an online school called Art of Problem Solving, which began about 13 years ago and now has 15,000 users.
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  • Another example is reading aloud, which studies have shown gives children bigger vocabularies and better reading comprehension in school.
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  • American parents want similar things for their children, the Pew report and past research have found: for them to be healthy and happy, honest and ethical, caring and compassionate.
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  • Although calls to share data often concentrate on the moral advantages of sharing, the practice is not purely altruistic ( ' , 利他的).
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  • Agreement on an international carbon-price floor would be a good starting point in that process.
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  • Action to restore appropriate price incentives, notably through corrective carbon pricing, is urgently needed to lower the risk of irreversible and potentially devastating effects of climate change.
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  • About 80% of our company's year-over-year declines in comparable sales can be attributed to shortfalls ( ' , 短缺) in cold-weather goods, said chief executive Terry Lundgren in a press release.
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  • A tax on upstream carbon sources is one easy way to put a price on carbon emissions, although some countries may wish to use other methods, such as emissions trading schemes.
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  • A commonly held view in the oil industry is that the best cure for low oil prices is low oil prices.
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  • You are here to be educated.
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  • With us to talk about the findings in this study is Washington Post columnist Kevin Blackistone.
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  • Why should you consider taking a course in demography in college? You’ll be growing up in a generation where the baby boomers are going into retirement and dying.
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  • Well, my current research is really about consumer behaviour.
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  • This is the reason you are here in a university.
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  • The don’ts can be self-fulfilling because your mind response to pictures.
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  • One useful way is to distinguish between three degrees of poverty—extreme poverty,moderate poverty, and relative poverty.
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  • It is the busiest shopping day of the year.
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  • If you think this does not apply to you, then here is a simple test to show you are wrong.
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  • I don’t want them to suspect this is my first trial.
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  • However, today is a new era in which taking antibiotics can cause some very dangerous and potentially life threatening situations.
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  • And the reality is that antibiotics have been responsible for saving millions of lives since penicillin, one of the earliest antibiotics, was first used on a clinical basis 70 years ago.
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  • Young people should have lofty ideals in life and strive to be leaders.
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  • With fertilizer prices jumping nearly 50% per metric ton over the last year in some places, human waste is an attractive, and often necessary, alternative.
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柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义
英汉词典释义
英英词典释义
  • Verb
    1. have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun);
    "John is rich""This is not a good answer"
    2. be identical to; be someone or something;
    "The president of the company is John Smith""This is my house"
    3. occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere;
    "Where is my umbrella?" "The toolshed is in the back""What is behind this behavior?"
    4. have an existence, be extant;
    "Is there a God?"
    5. happen, occur, take place;
    "I lost my wallet; this was during the visit to my parents' house""There were two hundred people at his funeral""There was a lot of noise in the kitchen"
    6. be identical or equivalent to;
    "One dollar equals 1,000 rubles these days!"
    7. form or compose;
    "This money is my only income""The stone wall was the backdrop for the performance""These constitute my entire belonging""The children made up the chorus""This sum represents my entire income for a year""These few men comprise his entire army"
    8. work in a specific place, with a specific subject, or in a specific function;
    "He is a herpetologist""She is our resident philosopher"
    9. represent, as of a character on stage;
    "Derek Jacobi was Hamlet"
    10. spend or use time;
    "I may be an hour"
    11. have life, be alive;
    "Our great leader is no more""My grandfather lived until the end of war"
    12. to remain unmolested, undisturbed, or uninterrupted -- used only in infinitive form;
    "let her be"
    13. be priced at;
    "These shoes cost $100"