say

[seɪ] [seɪ]
  • 第三人称单数:says;
  • 过去式:said;
  • 过去分词:said;
  • 现在分词:saying;
  • 同义词
    同义词解析
    • 以下这些动词均有"说,讲" 的意思
      say最普通常用词,指用语言表达思想,着重所说的内容。
      speak侧重于说话动作的本身,着重说话的能力而不在内容,可以是长篇大论的演讲,也可以是三言两语的交谈,甚至指简单的开口发声说话。
      state较正式用词,通常指用明确的语言或文字着重地叙述事实,既强调内容又注重语气。
      talk普通用词,侧重指与人交谈时的连续说话,可指单方面较长谈话,和speak一样,着重说活动作而不侧重内容。
      tell普通用词,指把某事告诉或讲述给某人听,口语或书面语均可用。
      utter着重说话的行为,常指声音的使用,突出用噪子发声。
    词组
    • French
      be obvious 显然,不用说
    • have something to say for oneself
      contribute a specified amount to a conversation or discussion 参与对话;参与讨论
    • how say you?
      (Law)how do you find? (addressed to the jury when requesting its verdict) (律)法官询问陪审团裁决时问]诸位有何高见
    • I (或 he, she 等) cannot (或 could not) say
      I (or he, she, etc.) do not know 我(他、她等)说不上
    • I'll say
      (informal)used to express emphatic agreement (非正式)[用以强调同意]当然
    • I must (或 have to) say
      I cannot refrain from saying (used to emphasize an opinion) 我得说(用以强调看法)
    • I say!
      (Brit. dated)used to express surprise or to draw attention to a remark (英,旧)[用于表示吃惊或吸引注意力]我说,听着
    • I wouldn't say no
      (informal)used to indicate that one would like something (非正式)[表示同意]好的
    • not to say
      used to introduce a stronger alternative or addition to something already said 即使不 说…也得说…
    • say no more
      (informal)used to indicate that one understands what someone is trying to imply (非正式)不用说了;我懂了
    • says I (或 he, she 等)
      (informal, chiefly Brit.)used after direct speech in reporting someone's part in a conversation (非正式,主英)[用于直接引语后]我(他、她等)说
    • says you!
      (informal)used in spoken English to express disagreement or disbelief (非正式)我不信你的话;看你胡扯
    • say when
      (informal)said when helping someone to food or drink to instruct them to indicate when they have enough (非正式)[用于劝人饮食时]够了就说
    • say the word
      give permission or instructions to do something 表示许可;吩咐一下
    英语四级真题
    • a worldwide leader in electronics products, says that we compete against market transitions ( ' , 过渡), not competitors.
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    • Where do the seeds of change come from? The Native American Indians have a saying: Pay attention to the whispers so you won't have to hear the screams.
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    • They think, ‘Well, if I gradually reduce, it's like practice,' says Lindson-Hawley.
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    • There's something about their delicate nature that appeals to me, says New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast.
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    • There's an ancient legend that as long as these eggs are made, evil will not prevail in the world, says Joan Brander, a Canadian egg-painter who has been painting eggs for over 60 years, having learned the art from her Ukrainian relatives.
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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 absorption helps them to establish strong foundations for recollection, says Patihis, and the fantasy proneness means that they revisit those memories again and again in the coming weeks and months.
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    • She recalls:One day a man I worked with, Ryan, who had his office next to mine, said, Leah, let's go look at this space on Queen Anne .
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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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    • Overall, almost three in five people say they try to limit their usage of paper – including facial tissue and kitchen roll – to save money.
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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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    • Nor are they necessarily better at remembering a round of drinks, say.
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    • Needless to say, people like Veiseh are of great interest to neuroscientists ( ' , 神经科学专家) hoping to understand the way the brain records our lives.
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    • Maybe some experience in their childhood meant that they became obsessed ( ' , 着迷) with calendars and what happened to them, says Patihis.
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    • Leah reflects on one incident that triggered her fears, when her investors threatened to shut her down: I was probably up against the most fear I've ever had, she says.
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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 gives them the encouragement, I think, to really go for it, Ferreira says.
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    • It can be very hard to forget embarrassing moments, says Donohue.
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    • In a challenge for manufacturers, 81% of paper product users said they would consider buying recycled toilet tissue if it were comparable in quality to standard paper.
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    • Imagine being able to remember every painting, on every wall, in every gallery space, between nearly 40 countries, he says.
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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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    • I did what everybody else thought looked successful, she says.
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    • I could imagine what the teacher was saying or what it looked like in the book.
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    • But at least, she says, they can maximize the odds of success.
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    • And the quit rates were particularly convincing given that before the study started, most of the people had said they'd rather cut down gradually before quitting.
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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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    • Almost half of those surveyed said their companies were either in the middle of restructuring or about to embark on ( ' , 开始) it; and for the most part, restructuring meant putting more emphasis on teams.
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    • Veiseh agrees: It is like having these open wounds – they are just a part of you, he says.
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    • The 13 dead were all Costa Rican, the foreign ministry said.
      出自-2017年6月听力原文
    • Some passengers remain missing, the Costa Rican foreign ministry said, but did not specify how many.
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    • Reporter Zachariah Hughes says that neither King nor Zircle was injured.
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    • John Nielsen, AAA’s managing director of automotive engineering and repair, said tests suggest drivers may be overestimating their own abilities.
      出自-2017年6月听力原文
    • His teacher said if he went on like that, his face would get stuck when the winds changed.
      出自-2017年6月听力原文
    • But those surveyed by AAA say they trust their own driving skills.
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    • But 75% of drivers say they wouldn’t feel safe in such a vehicle.
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    • Blandon, the boat’s owner, has been arrested by Nicaraguan authorities, the state-run news agency said.
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    • Alaska State Troopers released a statement saying they’ve arrested Arnold Demoski, 26.
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    • A tour boat turned o v e r o f f t h e c o a s t o f Nicaragua, killing at least 13 people and leaving more passengers missing, official said.
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    • A local radio said an unspecified number of people were rescued, including the tour boat’s owner Hilario Blandon.
      出自-2017年6月听力原文
    • You would want that robot preloaded with a good set of values, said Russell.
      出自-2016年6月阅读原文
    • You can't just say, ‘Let's put this person in a residential care home instead of a nursing home—she will be much better off, Dr.Robison said.
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    • What does the author say about pre-kindergarten education?It should cater to the needs of individual children.
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    • We thought we would see differences based on the housing types, said the lead author of the study, Julie Robison, an associate professor of medicine at the university.
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    • This was the highest and most desirable form of pleasure and happiness for the ancient Epicureans, Soupios says.
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    • This is Hesiod, of course, a younger contemporary poet, we believe, with Homer, Soupios says.
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    • This is Aesop, the fabulist ( ' , 寓言家 ), the man of these charming little tales, often told in terms of animals and animal relationships, He says.
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    • These patterns suggest that some types of mental flexibility decrease relatively early in adulthood, but that the amount of knowledge one has, and the effectiveness of integrating it with one's abilities, may increase throughout all of adulthood if there are no diseases, Salthouse said in a news release.
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    • There is no expiration ( ' , 失效 ) date on wisdom, he says.
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    • The wisdom of the ancient Greek philosophers is timeless, says Soupios.
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    • The philosophy professor says it is as relevant today as when it was first written many centuries ago.
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    • The evening meal carries the full burden that used to be spread over two meals, says Counihan.
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    • The Greeks are always concerned about boxing themselves in, in terms of convictions ( ' , 信念 ), he says.
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    • Stop worrying about what you can not controlAs we begin to examine our life, Soupios says, we come to Rule No.
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    • Soupios says that it is based on Plato's observation that the unexamined life is not worth living.
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    • Soupios say following the 10 Golden Rules based on ancient wisdom can guide us to the path of the good life where we stop living as onlookers and become engaged and happier human beings.
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    • Some critics say it is a luxury and shouldn't be free to families able to pay.
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    • So what Epictetus would say is sitting at home worrying about that would be wrong and wasteful and irrational.
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    • More people who lived in cities and suburbs said they wanted to try driverless cars than those who lived in rural areasWhile there's reason to believe that interest in self-driving cars is going up across the board, a person's age will have little to do with how self-driving cars can become mainstream.
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    • Meals are the foundation of the family, says Carole Counihan, a professor at Millersville University in Pennsylvania, so there was a very important interconnection between eating together and strengthening family ties.
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    • Just because I have a business relationship with an individual and I can profit from that relationship, it does not necessarily mean that this person is my friend, Soupios says.
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    • Italians, says Counihan, traditionally began the day with a small meal.
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    • Instead, Soupios says, ancient wisdom urges us to do good.
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    • In our pursuit of the good life, he says, it is important to seek out true pleasures—advice which was originally offered by Epicurus.
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    • In agrarian ( ' , 农业的 ), pre-industrial Europe, you'd want to wake up early, start working with the sunrise, have a break to have the largest meal, and then you'd go back to work, says Ken Albala, a professor of history at the University of the Pacific.
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    • In a study last year, of all people surveyed, 48 percent said they wanted to ride in one, while 50 percent did notThe fact that attitudes toward self-driving cars appear to be so steady across generations suggests how transformative the shift to driverless cars could be.
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    • I can not control whether or not I wind up getting the disease swine flu, for example, he says.
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    • His name is Epictetus,he says.
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    • Families can look a bit more for where the residents are going to be happy, Dr.Sloane said.
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    • College graduates, for example, are particularly interested in driverless cars compared with those who have less education: 59 percent of college graduates said they would like to use a driverless car compared with 38 percent of those with a high-school diploma or lessWhere a person lives matters, toIt will not necessarily reduce road accidents.
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    • By following individuals over time, Salthouse said, we gain insight in cognition changes, and may possibly discover ways to slow the rate of decline.
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    • And what the Stoics say in general is simply this: There is a larger plan in life.
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    • The International Labour Organization says the number of people without jobs is increasing.
      出自-2016年6月听力原文
    • Mr.Somavia says the International Labour Organization is proposing a global jobs agreement to deal with unemployment.
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    • It just does, said Mr.Azar who learned the trick from another clerk.
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    • It just does, said Mr.
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    • In post-war Japan, the economy wasn’t doing so great, so you couldn’t get everyday-use items like household cleaners, says Lisa Katayama, author of Urawaza, a book named after the Japanese term for clever lifestyle tips and tricks, So people looked for ways to do with what they had.
      出自-2016年6月听力原文
    • In its latest update on global employment trends, the agency says projections of the number of unemployed people this year range from 210 million to nearly 240 million people.
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    • What makes a game game-like is that the player -108- actually cares about the outcome, Werbach says.
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    • We are at a point where in much of the developed world the vast majority of young people grew up playing video games, and an increasingly high percentage of adults play these video games too, Werbach says.
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    • Waiters, keen observers of humanity that they are, are catching on to this; in one poll, a full 30% said they didn't believe the job they did had any impact on the tips they received.
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    • They can have some say in how much their servers earn.
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    • The fact that participants were willing to substitute part of a food item for the mere prospect of a relatively small monetary award is interesting, says Reimann.
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    • The concept of gamification is not entirely new, Werbach says.
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    • That's especially worrying, she says, given that anorexia ( ' , 厌食症) results in more deaths than does any other mental illness, according to the National Institute of Mental Health.
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    • Still, gamification only stands to become more popular, he says, as more and more people come into the workforce who are familiar with the structures and expressions of digital games.
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    • Some people, Werbach says, are motivated by competition.
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    • Some people do not take naturally to gamified work environments, Cornetti says.
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    • Rewards do not have to be stuff, Cornetti says.
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    • Regulating the fashion industry in the United States won't be easy, Record says.
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    • One explanation for this finding is that possible awards may be more emotionally provoking than certainty awards, says Reimann.
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    • It actually had a very negative effect on morale and performance, Werbach says.
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    • If we are designing for engineers, I'm not talking about a ‘game' at all, Cornetti says.
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    • For comparison, let's say you wanted to jam a conversation between two people—all you'd need to do is yell in the listener's ear.
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    • Excessively skinny models have been a point of controversy for decades, and two researchers say a model's body mass should be a workplace health and safety issue.
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    • Especially girls and teens, says Record.
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    • Does that mean the link between lower oil prices and growth has weakened?Some experts say there are still good reasons to believe cheap oil should heat up the world economy.
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    • Cracker Jacks has been gamifying its snack food by putting a small prize inside for more than 100 years, he adds, and the turn-ofthe- century steel magnate ( ' , 巨头) Charles Schwab is said to have often come into his factory and written the number of tons of steel produced on the past shift on the factory floor, thus motivating the next shift of workers to beat the previous one.
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    • Confronted by a setback such as a disappointing test grade, students with a growth mind-set said they would study harder or try a different strategy.
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    • But the word gamification and the widespread, conscious application of the concept only began in earnest about five years ago, Werbach says.
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    • But doesn't the extra money in the pockets of those countries' consumers mean an equal loss in oil-producing countries, cancelling out the gains? Not necessarily, says economic researcher Sara Johnson.
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    英语六级真题
    • Workers' advocates have criticized Haslam's plan, saying it would mean some campus workers would lose their jobs or benefits.
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    • We want to reach parents who are not plugged into the system, said Zaharopol.
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    • They provide a useful service, said Flack.
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    • They are more likely to grow up in neighborhoods that their parents say aren't great for raising children, and their parents worry about them getting shot, beaten up or in trouble with the law.
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    • These math circles cost nothing, or they're very cheap for students to get involved in, but you have to know about them, said Rusczyk.
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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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    • There are huge clusters of organic waste they can feed on, said Flack.
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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 retail giant said the poor financial performance this year has pushed it to begin implementing $400 million in cost-cutting measures.
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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 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 birds can easily eat pieces of plastic or rubber hands and they can die, said Flack.
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    • Tennessee's technical and community colleges will not outsource ( ' , 外包) management of their facilities to a private company, a decision one leader said was bolstered by an analysis of spending at each campus.
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    • Some communities have agreed to share online—geneticists, for example, post DNA sequences at the GenBank repository ( ' , 库), and astronomers are accustomed to accessing images of galaxies and stars from, say, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, a telescope that has observed some 500 million objects—but these remain the exception, not the rule.
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    • Social scientists say the differences arise in part because low-income parents have less money to spend on music class or preschool, and less flexible schedules to take children to museums or attend school events.
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    • 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.
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    • Parents who are white, wealthy or college-educated say too much involvement can be bad.
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    • Parents of advanced-math students and MathCounts coaches say the children are on the website constantly.
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    • Of families earning more than $75,000 a year, 84% say their children have participated in organized sports over the past year, 64% have done volunteer work and 62% have taken lessons in music, dance or art.
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    • Nonetheless, 20% of well-off parents say their children's schedules are too hectic, compared with 8% of poorer parents.
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    • Most American parents say they are not concerned about their children's grades as long as they work hard.
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    • Morgan said those findings—which included data from the system's 13 community colleges, 27 technical colleges and six universities—were part of the decision not to move forward with Governor Bill Haslam's proposal to privatize management of state buildings in an effort to save money.
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    • Morgan said last week that he would retire at the end of January because of the governor's proposal to split off six universities of the Board of Regents system and create separate governing boards for each of them.
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    • Middle-class and higher-income parents see their children as projects in need of careful cultivation, says Annette Lareau, whose groundbreaking research on the topic was published in her book Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race and Family Life.
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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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    • Martin said officials were still working to analyze the data from the Board of Regents.
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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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    • Lareau said.
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    • In an email sent Monday to college presidents in the Tennessee Board of Regents system, outgoing Chancellor John Morgan said an internal analysis showed that each campus' spending on facilities management fell well below the industry standards identified by the state.
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    • If you look at a lot of low-income communities in the United States, there are programs that are serving them, but they're primarily centered around ‘Let's get these kids' grades up,' and not around ‘Let's get these kids access to the same kinds of opportunities as more-affluent kids,' said Daniel Zaharopol, the founder and executive director of the program.
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    • I'd much prefer to have my data used by the maximum number of people to ask their own questions, she says.
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    • High-earning parents are much more likely to say they live in a good neighborhood for raising children.
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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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    • Flack said it was too early to know whether the benefits of plentiful food outweighed the risks of feeding on landfills.
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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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    • Do all parents want the most success for their children? Absolutely, she said.
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    • Discipline techniques vary by education level: 8% of those with a postgraduate degree say they often beat their children, compared with 22% of those with a high school degree or less.
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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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    • 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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    • 71% of parents with a college degree say they do it every day, compared with 33% of those with a high school diploma or less.
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    • Research now says adding fiber to the teen diet may help lower the risk of breast cancer.
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    • With the launch of interactive advertising, many of the dollars that went to the Internet will come back to the TV, says David Kline of Cablevision.
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    • We are very proud of our accomplishments under the Greenlist system and we believe that we will prevail in these cases, Christopher Beard, director of public affairs for SC Johnson, said, while acknowledging that this has been an area that is difficult to navigate.
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    • Those dangers can be addressed with farmer and consumer education, he said, while the free water and nutrients from human waste can help urban farmers in developing countries to escape poverty.
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    • This is really about trying to cut through the confusion that consumers have when they are buying a product and that businesses have when they are selling a product, said Jon Leibowitz, chairman of the commission.
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    • There is a large potential for wastewater agriculture to both help and hurt great numbers of urban consumers, said Liqa Raschid-Sally, who led the study.
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    • The lawsuits said that the label was misleading because it gave the impression that the products had been certified by a third party when the certification was the company's own.
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    • So it is saying that economic development should make for a cleaner world? Not necessarily; In the industrialised countries, environmental problems are generally related to industrialisation and technological development, it continues.
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    • Saying that there're no easy answers sounds wise, but it's actually foolish: our unemployment crisis could be cured very quickly if we had the intellectual clarity and political will to act.
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    • Overly strict standards often fail, James Bartram, a WHO water-health expert, said.
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    • One boy said, I'd rather be concentrating on artistic efforts than saving the world or something.
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    • Mr.Wilhelm said the excess of labels made it difficult for businesses and consumers to know which labels they should pay attention to.
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    • Most teens say they enjoy the company of both parents and friends.
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    • It's been the year of interactive television advertising for the last ten or twelve years, says Colin Dixon of a digital-media consultancy.
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    • In the developing countries, it says, most of the environmental problems are caused by underdevelopment.
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    • I've been looking at what self-proclaimed experts were saying about unemployment during the Great Depression; it was almost identical to what Very Serious People are saying now.
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    • For example, only one boy said he would like to be president when he grows up.
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    • David Mallen, associate director of the Council of Better Business Bureau, said in the last two years the organization had seen an increase in the number of claims companies were bringing against each other for false or misleading environmental product claims.
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    • Critics say Congress will give in to lobbyists and let inefficient providers off the hook ( ' , 放过).
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    • BrightLine iTV, which designs and sells interactive ads, says interest has surged: it expects its revenues almost to triple this year.
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    • As I said, structural unemployment isn't a real problem, it's an excuse—a reason not to act on America's problems at a time when action is desperately needed.
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    • Another, discussing national politics, said, I feel like one person can't do that much, and I get the impression most people don't think a group of people can do that much.
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    • About once a week, I have a client that will bring up a new certification I've never even heard of and I'm in this industry, said Kevin Wilhelm, chief executive officer of Sustainable Business Consulting.
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    • A surprising thing for the man who runs one of the world's most powerful economies to say? Perhaps; though in the run-up to the five-year review of the Millennium ( ' , 千年的) Goals, he is far from alone.
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    • We need more funding and more effort to return these languages to everyday use, says Fred Nowuski of the National Museum of the American Indian, We are making progress but money needs to be spent on revitalising languages, not just documenting them.
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    • U.N. weather expert Geoffrey Love says that is the bad news.
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    • The way I see it, our banks now have a greater obligation to the goal of a wider recovery, he said.
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    • Patrick Belser, an International Labour Organization specialist says declining wage rates are linked to the levels of unemployment.
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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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    • It was in a free fall, and it was a veryscary period, economist Martin Neil Baily said.
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    • Although he says the worst is over, Baily says the banking crisis is not.
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    • You can see that we're here to stay, said Vladimir Cheberdak, 57, chief of the Bellingshausen Station, as he sipped tea under a portrait of Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, a high-ranking officer in the Imperial Russian Navy who explored the Antarctic coast in 1820.
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    • Working parents say they feel stressed, tired, rushed and short on quality time with their children, friends and partners.
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    • While we argue phasing out racial terminology ( ' , 术语 ) in the biological sciences, we also acknowledge that using race as a political or social category to study racism, although filled with lots of challenges, remains necessary given our need to understand how structural inequities and discrimination produce health disparities ( ' , 差异 ) between groups, Yudell said.
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    • We were very surprised, he says.
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    • We now feel equipped to grow, he said.
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    • They didn't work anywhere and all the time – they were better able to manage their work, Moen said.
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    • There's rising work demand coupled with the insecurity of mergers, takeovers, downsizing and other factors, Moen said.
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    • There is not any one-hit wonder, and there will not be one for years to come, said Gary Shapiro, president and chief executive of the Consumer Technology Association ( ' , CTA).
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    • There is an incompatibility in the rate at which these are advancing relative to the way we're digesting it, he said.
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    • The practice of clocking in for an eight-hour workday is a leftover from the days of the Industrial Revolution, as reflected in the then-popular saying, Eight hours labor, eight hours recreation, eight hours rest.
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    • The old days of the Antarctic being dominated by the interests and wishes of white men from European, Australasian and North American states are over, said Klaus Dodds, a politics scholar at the University of London who specialises in Antarctica.
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    • The dialogue is changing from what is technologically possible to what is technologically meaningful, said economist Shawn Du Bravac.
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    • The 83% of American employees who are stressed about their jobs – up from 73% just a year before – say that poor compensation and an unreasonable workload are their number-one sources of stress.
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    • So what other variables could be used if the racial concept is thrown out? Yudell said scientists need to get more specific with their language, perhaps using terms like ancestry or population that might more precisely reflect the relationship between humans and their genes, on both the individual and population level.
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    • Seven in 10 workers say they struggle to maintain work-life balance.
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    • Only 13 percent of respondents said that they were interested in buying a smartwatch in 2016, for example – an increase of just one percent from the previous year despite a year of high-profile launches.
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    • Ning Xu, 53, the chief of the Chinese base, said over tea during a fierce blizzard ( ' , 暴风雪) in late November.
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    • Michael Yudell, a professor of public health at Drexel University in Philadelphia, said that modern genetics research is operating in a paradox: on the one hand, race is understood to be a useful tool to illuminate human genetic diversity, but on the other hand, race is also understood to be a poorly defined marker of that diversity.
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    • Many industries are going out of infancy and becoming adolescents, Shapiro said.
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    • It is hard to say whether it is good or bad.
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    • It is about the flashiness and the gadgets, said John Curran, managing director of research at Accenture.
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    • In some ways they're at greater risk of falling through the cracks, says researcher Vladimir Carli.
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    • In an article published in the journal Science, four scholars say racial categories need to be phased out.
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    • In November 2013, after an unnecessary round of additional consultation, health minister Jane Ellison said the government was minded to proceed after all.
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    • In addition to many senior officials from the Federal Trade and Federal Communications commissions, this year's list of policy makers also includes appearances from Transportation Curran, the Accenture analyst, said that increased government interest in the show makes sense as technology becomes a larger part of our lives.
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    • For example, when asked whether they would buy a new smartphone this year, only 48 percent said yes – a six-point drop from 2015.
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    • Even among people who have bought connected devices of some kind, 37 percent said that they are going to be more cautious about using these devices and services in the future.
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    • Essentially, I could not agree more with the authors, said Svante Pääbo, a biologist and director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany.
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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
    • Noun
      1. the chance to speak;
      "let him have his say"
    • Verb
      1. express in words;
      "He said that he wanted to marry her""tell me what is bothering you""state your opinion""state your name"
      2. report or maintain;
      "He alleged that he was the victim of a crime""He said it was too late to intervene in the war""The registrar says that I owe the school money"
      3. express a supposition;
      "Let us say that he did not tell the truth""Let's say you had a lot of money--what would you do?"
      4. have or contain a certain wording or form;
      "The passage reads as follows""What does the law say?"
      5. state as one's opinion or judgement; declare;
      "I say let's forget this whole business"
      6. utter aloud;
      "She said `Hello' to everyone in the office"
      7. give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority;
      "I said to him to go home""She ordered him to do the shopping""The mother told the child to get dressed"
      8. speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way;
      "She pronounces French words in a funny way""I cannot say `zip wire'""Can the child sound out this complicated word?"
      9. recite or repeat a fixed text;
      "Say grace""She said her `Hail Mary'"
      10. communicate or express nonverbally;
      "What does this painting say?""Did his face say anything about how he felt?"
      11. indicate;
      "The clock says noon"