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Recruitment advertisements routinely call for team players.
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Calling out our fears explicitly, as Leah did, can help us act decisively.
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Whenever she called her parents or other relatives, she always had to think about the time difference so that she wouldn’t wake someone up or call when she knew they were at church.
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I think that things have become very gloomy these days, lots of misunderstanding, misleading cues, a lot of what the ancients would have called sophistry ( ' , 诡 辩 ).
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I call this a fixed mind-set ( ' , 思维模式).
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After such an experience an animal often remains passive even when it can effect change—a state they called learned helplessness.
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Why do so many Americans eat tons of processed food, the stuff that is correctly called junk ( ' , 垃圾 ) and should really carry warning labels? It's not because fresh ingredients are hard to come by.
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To call people's attention to prisoners' conditions in America.
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His face went down lower and lower, and then, with complete joy he called out, Dad.
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Many of its 800 stores are likely to close following the company’s decision to call in administrators after an attempt to sell the business for a token £1 failed.
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Also, mothers may call on their children more often than fathers, given traditional gender norms.
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And now I've got what you'd call a good old-fashioned pub.
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As I sat blocked and clueless for two solid days, I momentarily wondered if I couldn't just call an expert on the subject matter which I was tackling, or someone who took the class previously, to get me going.
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But I get off the phone pretty quickly when I call.
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Director of Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation Chris Murray described it as an "urgent call to action".
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I can call to add two more to the table,if you would like.
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I prefer to make a call if I'm in a hurry.
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I will give you a call that morning no matter what.
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If I call them, I'll have to have a long conversation.
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It would seem silly to call such a thing a "disease".
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Many of its 800 stores are likely to close following the company's decision to call in administrators after an attempt to sell the business for a token £1 failed.
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Other choices, in descending order of personalization, are: a real-time phone call, a voice-mail message, a handwritten note, a typewritten letter and the most unfriendly is email.
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Recruitment advertisements routinely call for "team players".
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Some colleges have what they call an "honor code", though if you are smart enough to get into these schools, you are either smart enough to get around any codes or hopefully, too ethical to consider doing so.
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That's what we call it in the workplace, " says a woman in her 20s.
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Their invention is a small biological circuit they call E-Kaia.
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We're not trying to assign blame or criticize anyone or call anyone consciously sexist.
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Whenever she called her parents or other relatives, she always had to think about the time difference so that she wouldn't wake someone up or call when she knew they were at church.
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They call for increased investments.
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One of the largest feeders for high school math competitions—including those that eventually lead to the IMO—is a middle school program called MathCounts.
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In his resignation letter, Morgan called the reorganization unworkable.
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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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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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A New York City-based nonprofit called Bridge to Enter Mathematics runs a residential summer program aimed at getting underserved students, mostly black and Hispanic, working toward math and science careers.
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The idea is that we are taking more out of what you might call the planet's environmental bank balance than it can sustain; we are living beyond our ecological means.
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One recent study attempted to calculate the extent of this ecological overshoot of the human economy, and found that we are using 1.2 Earth's-worth of environmental goods and services—the implication being that at some point the debt will be called in, and all those services—the things which the planet does for us for free—will grind to a halt.
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Now Fred, you went to university in Canada?( ' , 9 ) A recent International Labour Organization report says the deterioration of real wages around the world calls into question the true extent of an economic recovery, especially if government rescue packages are phased out too early.
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To call stress an epidemic isn't exaggeration.
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Perlow calls this vicious cycle the cycle of responsiveness: Once bosses and colleagues experience an employee's increased responsiveness, they increase their demands on the employee's time.
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Meanwhile, emerging technologies – the drones, 3D printers and smart-home devices of the world – now seem a bit too old to be called the next big thing.
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Calling on all the nations concerned to make joint efforts.
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The third element of love in Sternberg’s theory is what he calls decision commitment, the decision that one is in a love relationship, the willingness to label it as such and the commitment to maintain that relationship at least for some period of time.
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Sternberg would argue it’s not love if you don’t call it love and if you don’t have some desire to maintain the relationship.
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Some 10,000 pairs of the birds, called fulmars, a kind of Arctic seabird, make their nests on Devon Island, north at the Arctic circle.
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And he has a theory of love that argues that it’s made up of three components: intimacy,passion and commitment, or what is sometimes called decision commitment.
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So what factors, at the community level, do predict if poor children will move up the economic ladder as adults? What explains, for instance, why the Salt Lake City metro area is one of the 100 largest metropolitan areas most likely to lift the fortunes of the poor and the Atlanta metro area is one of the least likely?Harvard economist Raj Chetty has pointed to economic and racial segregation, community density, the size of a community's middle class, the quality of schools, community religiosity, and family structure, which he calls the single strongest correlate of upward mobility.
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She is expecting up to 20 people at the first meeting she has called, at her local pub in the Cornish village of Polperro.
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More than a decade ago, cognitive scientists John Bransford and Daniel Schwartz, both then at Vanderbilt University, found that what distinguished young adults from children was not the ability to retain facts or apply prior knowledge to a new situation but a quality they called preparation for future learning.
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In Paying for the Party, Hamilton describes what she calls the party pathway, which eases many students through college, helped along by various clubs that send students into the party scene and a host of easier majors.
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Team management calls for new skills if personnel potential is tobe fully realized.
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As more journals and funders adopt data-sharing requirements, and as a growing number of enthusiasts call for more openness, junior researchers must find their place between adopters and those who continue to hold out, even as they strive to launch their
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I guess you could call it a liquid salad.
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It is a movement building steady momentua call to make research data, software code and experimental methods publicly available and transparent.
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Penguins, like other seabirds and marine mammals, occupy higher levels in the food chain and they are what we call bio-indicators of their ecosystems.
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Psychologists call them "masters of deception", those rare individuals with a natural ability to tell, with complete confidence, when someone is telling a lie.
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Some passengers enjoy the animals so much that they call the airport to schedule flights around their visits.
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Sternberg would argue it's not love if you don't call it love and if you don't have some desire to maintain the relationship.
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That's when they call Maple hill.
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These include the centuries-old custom of "bul", where leaders would call a temporary stop to fishing for key species in order to give fish stocks an opportunity to replenish.
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They may be able to handle a drought of some length, and many people use the term "drought tolerant" to describe such plants, but they never actually stop needing to consume water, so Farrant prefers to call them drought resistant.
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To begin to figure out how computers are struggling, researchers at the University of Washington created a massive database of faces—they call it MegaFace—and tested a variety of facial-recognition algorithms as they scaled up in complexity.
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To call stress an epidemic isn't exaggeration.
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We call these labels learning styles.
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We race to get all our ground work done: packing, going through security, doing a last-minute work call, calling each other, then boarding the plane.
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VERB
叫;称呼;将…命名;给…起名字
If you call someone or something by a particular name or title, you give them that name or title.
例句
I always wanted to call the dog Mufty for some reason...
不知怎么的,我老想把这条狗唤作穆夫提。
'Doctor...' — 'Will you please call me Sarah?'...
“大夫…”——“就叫我萨拉好了。”
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VERB
把…说成;认为…是;将…称为
If you call someone or something a particular thing, you suggest they are that thing or describe them as that thing.
例句
The speech was interrupted by members of the Conservative Party, who called him a traitor...
演说被保守党人士打断,他们称他是叛徒。
I wouldn't call it a burden; I call it a responsibility...
我不觉得这是负担;我觉得它是一种责任。
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VERB
喊;叫;大声说出
If you call something, you say it in a loud voice, because you are trying to attract someone's attention.
例句
He could hear the others downstairs in different parts of the house calling his name...
他听到其他人从楼下不同地方喊他的名字。
'Boys!' she called again.
“小子们!”她又叫道。
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VERB
打电话给…;给…打电话
If you call someone, you telephone them.
例句
Would you call me as soon as you find out?...
你一弄清楚了就给我打电话好吗?
A friend of mine gave me this number to call...
一个朋友要我打这个号码。
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(通常指打电话)呼叫,叫,召唤
If you call someone such as a doctor or the police, you ask them to come to you, usually by telephoning them.
例句
He screamed for his wife to call an ambulance...
他尖叫着让他老婆打电话叫救护车。
One night he was called to see a woman with tuberculosis.
一天夜里,有人打来电话,请他去给一位患肺结核的妇女看病。
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VERB
喊;呼唤
If you call someone, you ask them to come to you by shouting to them.
例句
She called her young son: 'Here, Stephen, come and look at this!'...
她喊她的小儿子:“喂,斯蒂芬,过来看看这个!”
He called me over the Tannoy.
他用天朗扩音器喊我。
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打电话
When you make a telephone call, you telephone someone.
例句
I made a phone call to the United States to talk to a friend...
我打电话给美国的一个朋友。
I've had hundreds of calls from other victims...
我已经接到了其他受害人打来的上百个电话。
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召集(会议、排练等);宣布举行(选举等)
If someone in authority calls something such as a meeting, rehearsal, or election, they arrange for it to take place at a particular time.
例句
The Committee decided to call a meeting of the All India Congress...
委员会决定召开国大党会议。
The RSC was calling a press conference to announce the theatre's closure...
皇家莎士比亚剧团要召开新闻发布会,宣布剧院关闭。
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传唤(某人出庭等)
If someone is called before a court or committee, they are ordered to appear there, usually to give evidence.
例句
The child waited two hours before she was called to give evidence...
小女孩等了两个小时才被传唤进去作证。
I was called as an expert witness.
我作为专家证人被传唤出庭。
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短暂停留;访问;拜访
If you call somewhere, you make a short visit there.
例句
A market researcher called at the house where he was living...
一位市场调查人员造访了他的住处。
Andrew now came almost weekly to call.
现在安德鲁几乎每星期都来。
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(火车、公共汽车、船舶)停靠,停留
When a train, bus, or ship calls somewhere, it stops there for a short time to allow people to get on or off.
例句
The steamer calls at several ports along the way.
一路上,汽船在好几个港口停靠。
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取消(比赛等)
To call a game or sporting event means to cancel it, for example because of rain or bad light.
例句
The second game of the series had ended in a 3-3 tie after ten innings when the game was called on account of darkness...
系列赛第二场在十局过后,双方战成3比3平,此时由于天黑,比赛取消。
We called the next game.
我们取消了下一场比赛。
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号召;呼吁;号令
If there is a call for something, someone demands that it should happen.
例句
There have been calls for a new kind of security arrangement...
不少人呼吁出台新的安全措施。
Almost all workers heeded a call by the trade unions to stay at home for the duration of the strike.
工会号召工人在罢工期间呆在家里,几乎所有工人都响应了这一号召。
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需要;需求
If there is little or no call for something, very few people want it to be done or provided.
例句
'Have you got just plain chocolate?' — 'No, I'm afraid there's not much call for that.'
“你们有纯巧克力吗?”——“没有,恐怕那东西没几个人要。”
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N-SING
吸引力;魅力
The call of something such as a place is the way it attracts or interests you strongly.
例句
You must be feeling exhilarated by the call of the new.
新鲜事物的魅力一定让你兴奋不已。
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(鸟、兽的)叫声
The call of a particular bird or animal is the characteristic sound that it makes.
例句
...the plaintive call of a whale.
鲸的哀鸣
...a wide range of animal noises and bird calls.
各种各样的鸟兽叫声
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优先购买(或使用)权
If you have first call on something, you will be asked before anyone else whether you want to buy or use it.
例句
Why should they get first call on the best property?
凭什么最好的房产尽着他们先挑?
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没必要;不该
If you say that there is no call for someone to behave in a particular way, you are criticizing their behaviour, usually because you think it is rude.
例句
There was no call for him to single you out from all the others.
这么多人中,他不该专挑你。
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PHRASE
随时待命的;随叫随到的
If someone is on call, they are ready to go to work at any time if they are needed, especially if there is an emergency.
例句
In theory I'm on call day and night.
从理论上说,我现在昼夜待命。
...a doctor on call.
随叫随到的医生
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打电话请病假
If you call in sick, you telephone the place where you work to tell them you will not be coming to work because you are ill.
例句
'Shouldn't you be at work today?' — 'I called in sick.'
“你今天不是应该上班的吗?”“我打电话请过病假了。”
Noun
1. a telephone connection;
"she reported several anonymous calls""he placed a phone call to London""he heard the phone ringing but didn't want to take the call"2. a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition;
"the speaker was interrupted by loud cries from the rear of the audience"3. a demand especially in the phrase "the call of duty"
4. the characteristic sound produced by a bird;
"a bird will not learn its song unless it hears it at an early age"5. a brief social visit;
"senior professors' wives no longer make afternoon calls on newcomers"6. a demand by a broker that a customer deposit enough to bring his margin up to the minimum requirement
7. a demand for a show of hands in a card game;
"after two raises there was a call"8. a request;
"many calls for Christmas stories""not many calls for buggywhips"9. an instruction that interrupts the program being executed;
"Pascal performs calls by simply giving the name of the routine to be executed"10. brief visit in an official or professional capacity;
"the pastor's visits to his parishioners""a visit to a dentist""the salesman's call on a customer"11. (sports) the decision made by an umpire or referee;
"he was ejected for protesting the call"12. the option to buy a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date
Verb
1. assign a specified, proper name to;
"They named their son David""The new school was named after the famous Civil Rights leader"2. get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone;
"I tried to call you all night""Take two aspirin and call me in the morning"3. ascribe a quality to or give a name of a common noun that reflects a quality;
"He called me a bastard""She called her children lazy and ungrateful"4. order, request, or command to come;
"She was called into the director's office""Call the police!"5. utter a sudden loud cry;
"she cried with pain when the doctor inserted the needle""I yelled to her from the window but she couldn't hear me"6. pay a brief visit;
"The mayor likes to call on some of the prominent citizens"7. call a meeting; invite or command to meet;
"The Wannsee Conference was called to discuss the `Final Solution'""The new dean calls meetings every week"8. order or request or give a command for;
"The unions called a general strike for Sunday"9. order, summon, or request for a specific duty or activity, work, role;
"He was already called 4 times for jury duty""They called him to active military duty"10. indicate a decision in regard to;
"call balls and strikes behind the plate"11. stop or postpone because of adverse conditions, such as bad weather;
"call a football game"12. read aloud to check for omissions or absentees;
"Call roll"13. send a message or attempt to reach someone by radio, phone, etc.; make a signal to in order to transmit a message;
"Hawaii is calling!""A transmitter in Samoa was heard calling"14. declare in the capacity of an umpire or referee;
"call a runner out"15. utter a characteristic note or cry;
"bluejays called to one another"16. utter in a loud voice or announce;
"He called my name""The auctioneer called the bids"17. make a prediction about; tell in advance;
"Call the outcome of an election"18. challenge (somebody) to make good on a statement; charge with or censure for an offense;
"He deserves to be called on that"19. consider or regard as being;
"I would not call her beautiful"20. demand payment of (a loan);
"Call a loan"21. give the calls (to the dancers) for a square dance
22. greet, as with a prescribed form, title, or name;
"He always addresses me with `Sir'""Call me Mister""She calls him by first name"23. make a stop in a harbour;
"The ship will call in Honolulu tomorrow"24. make a demand, as for a card or a suit or a show of hands;
"He called his trump"25. require the presentation of for redemption before maturation;
"Call a bond"26. lure by imitating the characteristic call of an animal;
"Call ducks"27. challenge the sincerity or truthfulness of;
"call the speaker on a question of fact"28. rouse somebody from sleep with a call;
"I was called at 5 A.M. this morning"