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英语四级真题
  • But as the nursing shortage worsens, a growing number of schools and hospitals are establishing "fast-track programs" that enable college graduates with no nursing experience to become registered nurses with only a year or so of specialized training.
    出自-2013年12月阅读原文
  • In recent years, a growing body of research has shown that our appetite and food intake are influenced by a large number of factors besides our biological need for energy, including our eating environment and our perception of the food in front of us
    出自-2013年12月阅读原文
  • High school degrees offer far less in the way of preparation for work than they might, or than many other nations currently offer, creating a growing skills gap in our economy.
    出自-2013年12月阅读原文
  • But despite this, our children are growing up nature-deprived (丧失).
    出自-2010年12月阅读原文
  • The increasing emphasis for the growing population of old people is in quality rather than quantity of years
    出自-2010年12月阅读原文
  • The project is a growing one and is spread from the park to the school and the shopping center.
    出自-2013年6月听力原文
  • A growing number of Americans are seeing the accumulation and distribution of computerized date as a frightening invasion of their privacy.
    出自-2013年6月听力原文
  • Surveys show that the number of worried Americans has been steadily growing over the years as the computer becomes increasingly efficient, easier to operate, and less costly to purchase and maintain.
    出自-2013年6月听力原文
  • There are now growing numbers of people who live alone, single parents and children, and double-income families
    出自-2012年12月听力原文
  • But taking a cue from health experts, a group of 19 restaurant companies are pledging to offer more-healthful menu options for children at a time when concern is growing over the role of fast food in childhood obesity(肥胖症)
    出自-2012年12月听力原文
  • As I was growing up, I remember being carefully taught that independence not interdependence was everything.
    出自-2011年12月听力原文
  • Growing up in San Francisco, he learnt Spanish from his immigrant parents.
    出自-2010年12月听力原文
  • Despite the growing importance of computers, however, there will always be a place and need for the personal letter
    出自-2010年12月听力原文
  • Although Leslie perhaps paints a bit broadly in contending that most of us are unaware of how much we don't know, he's surely right to point out that the problem is growing: Google can give us the powerful illusion that all questions have definite answers
    2017年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • As artificial intelligence A becomes increasingly sophisticated, there are growing concerns that robots could become a threat.
    2016年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
  • As demand for food rises faster than supplies are growing, the resulting food-price inflation puts severe stress on the governments of many countries.
    2016年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • Generally, young women have had growing success in the paid labor market since 1960 and hence might increasingly be expected to be able to afford to live independently of their parents.
    2019年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • He has been growing tea in the Kerugoya area for 40 years.
    2016年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • In addition, a growing share of young adults may be avoiding marriage altogether.
    2019年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • In addition, trends in both employment status and wages have likely contributed to the growing share of young adults who are living in the home of their parents, and this is especially true of young men.
    2019年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • Larry Cahill, an American neuroscientist, said the study is an important addition to a growing body of research questioning traditional beliefs about gender and brain function.
    2016年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section A
  • Leslie presents considerable evidence for the proposition that the society as a whole is growing less curious.
    2017年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • On the demand side, those trends include the ongoing addition of more than 70 million people a year, a growing number of people wanting to move up the food chain to consume highly grain-intensive meat products, and the massive diversion of U.S. grain to t
    2016年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • Over the centuries, Etna's lower slopes have been shaped by human hands to take advantage of rich soils for growing grapes, apples and nuts.
    2019年6月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • Physical activity does the body good, and there's growing evidence that it helps the brain too.
    2016年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section A
  • Storms and floods in its main potato growing region last year caused the worst harvest in more than 3 decades.
    2018年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section A
  • The problem is growing as the population of the state continues to expand.
    2018年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
  • What's indisputable is that it's growing very quickly.
    2017年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
  • While there are numerous factors behind these shifts, one factor is surely a growing realization for the young that they are going to live longer.
    2019年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
英语六级真题
  • This case gives the court an opportunity to rein in the growing use of patents to protect genetically engineered crops and other life forms―but the court may well use it to give this trend a powerful new endorsement.
    出自-2013年12月阅读原文
  • In processing foods after the agricultural stage, there are large additional uses of water that need to be tackled in a world of growing demand
    出自-2013年12月阅读原文
  • Elimination of waste alone can potentially provide over sixty percent more food for the growing world population.
    出自-2013年12月阅读原文
  • But rarely, if ever, do they publicly take the argument a step further, asserting that a growing manufacturing sector encourages craftsmanship and that craftsmanship is, if not a birthright, then a vital ingredient of the American self-image as a can-do, inventive, we-can-make-anything people.
    出自-2013年6月阅读原文
  • Compressing everything into three years also leaves less time for growing up, engaging in extracurricular activities, and studying abroad.
    出自-2012年6月阅读原文
  • The rising numbers signify growing vitality in foreign markets – when we import more stuff, it puts more cash in the hands of people around the world, and U.S. exports are rising because more foreigners have the ability to buy the things we produce and market.
    出自-2011年12月阅读原文
  • based businesses, large and small, figure out how to get a piece of growing global demand
    出自-2011年12月阅读原文
  • It is the result of America's growing focus on domestic market.
    出自-2011年12月阅读原文
  • The growing conflicts among ethnic groups.
    出自-2011年6月阅读原文
  • Its schools will be overwhelmed by the growing number of illegal immigrants
    出自-2011年6月阅读原文
  • Because America's population will still be growing when that of most other developed countries is shrinking, America will be the only developed country that still matters geopolitically (地缘政治上).
    出自-2010年12月阅读原文
  • Wheatley may have been the first, but she was not the only slave to write books during the growing days of the Republic.
    出自-2013年12月听力原文
  • It's a product he believes could help solve future global food crises resulting from shrinking amounts of land available for growing meat the old-fashioned way.
    出自-2012年6月听力原文
  • As I was growing up, I remember being carefully taught that independence not interdependence was everything.
    出自-2011年12月听力原文
  • The WCRF has estimated that 19,000 cancers a year in Britain could be prevented if people lost their excess weight with growing evidence that excess body fat increases the risk of various cancers.
    出自-2010年12月听力原文
  • And when it comes to the hyper-connected super-smart world that technology firms are painting for us, it seems that consumers are growing more uneasy about handing over the massive amounts of consumer data needed to provide the personalized, customized so
    2016年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • 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
    2017年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • But once these plants use up their stored reserve or tap out the underground supply, they cease growing and start to die.
    2018年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • But there are also many examples of growing wealth by trashing the environment, in rich and poor parts of the world alike, whether through unregulated mineral extraction, drastic water use for agriculture, slash-and-burn farming, or fossil-fuel-guzzling t
    2016年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • China has arguably the fastest growing operations in Antarctica.
    2016年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • From the lack of secure, affordable housing to growing job insecurity and rising personal debt, the individual is trapped.
    2019年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • Growing up in New Zealand, everything was always calm and slow.
    2018年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section B
  • When a tree first starts growing in a certain area, it's likely that the 27 climatic envelope—the temperature, humidity, rainfall patterns and so on—suits it.
    2016年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section A
  • Her family received international aid during the war when she was growing up.
    2019年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section A
  • It is about devising retail models that work for people who are making increasing use of a growing array of internet-connected tools to change how they search, shop, and buy.
    2019年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • Meanwhile, growing income inequality has coincided with the increasing importance of a college degree for earning a middle-class wage.
    2017年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • Men aspired to be able to show off their 6 packs or their V-shaped backs and there's a growing market of slimming pills aimed at men, too.
    2019年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • Nijay represents a large and growing group of Americans: first-generation college students who enter school unprepared or behind.
    2015年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • Participation grows through friends and networks and if "you realize that's how they're growing, you can start to take action" and bring in other students, he said.
    2017年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • Still, it is true that American families are growing closer at dawn of this new millennium(千年).
    2016年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • The big benefit will not only be in the housing of this enormous and rapidly growing amount of data, but will also be in the ability to run real time data analytics to extract actionable and ongoing knowledge.
    2017年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • The class differences in child rearing are growing—a symptom of widening inequality with far-reaching consequences.
    2017年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • The findings come amid growing concern over the future of the Antarctic.
    2019年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
  • The report, published on Tuesday, comes amid growing concern about the impact of fishing and climate change on the Antarctic.
    2019年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • There is also a growing body of evidence that diet-induced cognitive impairments can emerge rapidly — within weeks or even days.
    2019年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section A
  • They should also be sceptical of the growing tendency to try to reduce all human traits and actions to the level of brain activity.
    2018年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • To match the growing demand, services are springing up to make it easier to publish research products online and enable other researchers to discover and cite them.
    2017年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
  • Two or more satellites slamming into each other could create many more out-of-control bits that would pose even more hazards to the growing collection of satellites in space.
    2019年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • While Maple Hill's conversion program is unusually hands on and comprehensive, it's just one of a growing number of businesses committed to slowly changing the way America farms.
    2019年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • Yet once they start growing, such plants seem not to retain the ability to hit the pause button on metabolism in their stems or leaves.
    2018年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
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
  • Noun
    1. (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level;
    "he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children"
    2. (electronics) the production of (semiconductor) crystals by slow crystallization from the molten state
  • Adjective
    1. increasing in size or degree or amount;
    "her growing popularity""growing evidence of a world depression""a growing city""growing businesses"
    2. having or showing vigorous vegetal or animal life;
    "flourishing crops""flourishing chicks""a growing boy""fast-growing weeds""a thriving deer population"
    3. relating to or suitable for growth;
    "the growing season for corn""good growing weather"