及物/不及物动词相遇; 相识; 开会; 接触（某物）

及物动词满足; 迎接; 支付; 经历（常指不愉快的事）

名词运动会，体育比赛; 猎狐运动（尤其英式英语）

形容词适当的; 合适的; 恰当的

1. 碰到;遇见
If you meet someone, you happen to be in the same place as them and start talking to them. You may know the other person, but be surprised to see them, or you may not know them at all.

e.g. I have just met the man I want to spend the rest of my life with...
我刚刚遇到了我想与之共度余生的男人。
e.g. He's the kindest and sincerest person I've ever met...
他是我所见过的最友善、最真诚的人。

2. (约定在某处)相会，碰头
If two or more people meet, they go to the same place, which they have earlier arranged to do, so that they can talk or do something together.

e.g. We could meet for a drink after work...
下班后我们可以见面喝上一杯。
e.g. Meet me down at the beach tomorrow, at 6am sharp.
明天早上6点整在海滩上跟我见面。

3. 被引见给;认识;结识
If you meet someone, you are introduced to them and begin talking to them and getting to know them.

e.g. Hey, Terry, come and meet my Dad.
嗨，特里，过来认识一下我爸爸。

4. （初次）见面;认识;结识
You use meet in expressions such as 'Pleased to meet you' and 'Nice to have met you' when you want to politely say hello or goodbye to someone you have just met for the first time.

e.g. 'Jennifer,' Miss Mallory said, 'this is Leigh Van-Voreen.' — 'Pleased to meet you,' Jennifer said...
“珍妮弗，”马洛里小姐说，“这位是利·范沃林。”——“见到您很高兴，”珍妮弗说。
e.g. I have to leave. Nice to have met you.
我得走了。认识您很高兴。

5. (到火车站、飞机场或公共汽车站)迎接
If you meet someone off their train, plane, or bus, you go to the station, airport, or bus stop in order to be there when they arrive.

e.g. Mama met me at the station...
妈妈在车站接我。
e.g. Lili and my father met me off the boat...
莉莉和我父亲在码头迎接我。

6. 会晤;开会
When a group of people such as a committee meet, they gather together for a particular purpose.

e.g. Officials from the two countries will meet again soon to resume negotiations...
两国官员不久将再度会晤以重启谈判。
e.g. The commission met 14 times between 1988 and 1991.
1988至1991年间，该委员会举行了14次会议。

7. (与…)会晤
If you meet with someone, you have a meeting with them.

e.g. Most of the lawmakers who met with the president yesterday said they backed the mission.
大多数昨天与总统会晤的立法者说他们支持这个行动。

8. 遭到;遇到;获得
If something such as a suggestion, proposal, or new book meets with or is met with a particular reaction, it gets that reaction from people.

e.g. The idea met with a cool response from various quarters...
这个想法遭到了各方人士的冷遇。
e.g. We hope today's offer will meet with your approval too...
我们希望今天的提议也能够得到您的首肯。

9. 满足;达到
If something meets a need, requirement, or condition, it is good enough to do what is required.

e.g. The current arrangements for the care of severely mentally ill people are inadequate to meet their needs...
目前对严重精神病患者的护理安排不足以满足他们的需要。
e.g. Out of the original 23,000 applications, 16,000 candidates meet the entry requirements.
最初的2.3万份申请中有1.6万份满足入选的要求。

10. 对付;应对;克服
If you meet something such as a problem or challenge, you deal with it satisfactorily or do what is required.

e.g. British manufacturing failed to meet the crisis of the 1970s...
英国制造业未能经受住20世纪70年代危机的考验。
e.g. It is an enormous challenge but we hope to meet it within a year or 18 months...
这是一个巨大的挑战，但是我们希望在1年或18个月之内能够战胜它。

11. 偿付;支付
If you meet the cost of something, you provide the money that is needed for it.

e.g. The government said it will help meet some of the cost of the damage...
政府说将帮助支付损害造成的部分费用。
e.g. As your income increases you will find less difficulty in finding the money to meet your monthly repayments.
随着收入的增加，你会发现筹钱支付每月的还款没那么难了。

12. 碰上，遇到，遭遇(情况、态度、问题等)
If you meet a situation, attitude, or problem, you experience it or become aware of it.

e.g. I honestly don't know how I will react the next time I meet a potentially dangerous situation...
我真不知道下次再碰上有潜在危险的情况时会作何反应。
e.g. Never had she met such spite and pettiness.
她从未遭遇过如此恶毒和狭隘的事情。

13. 获得(成功);遭到(失败)
You can say that someone meets with success or failure when they are successful or unsuccessful.

e.g. Attempts to find civilian volunteers have met with embarrassing failure...
寻找平民志愿者的种种尝试都遭遇了令人难堪的失败。
e.g. Efforts to commercialise the Russian space programme have met with little success.
为使俄罗斯太空项目走向商业化而作出的种种努力几乎没有取得什么成功。

14. 和…接触;与…相碰
When a moving object meets another object, it hits or touches it.

e.g. You sense the stresses in the hull each time the keel meets the ground...
每次龙骨触地的时候你都能感受到船体所受的压力。
e.g. Nick's head bent slowly over hers until their mouths met.
尼克慢慢向她低下头去，直到他们的嘴唇碰在了一起。

15. (目光)接触,相遇
If your eyes meet someone else's, you both look at each other at the same time.

e.g. Nina's eyes met her sisters' across the table...
尼娜与桌子对面的姐妹们目光相遇。
e.g. I found myself smiling back instinctively when our eyes met.
我发现当我们的目光相遇时，我本能地还以微笑。

16. (两片区域,尤指两片陆地或海洋)相接，汇合,相邻
If two areas meet, especially two areas of land or sea, they are next to one another.

e.g. It is one of the rare places in the world where the desert meets the sea.
世界上沙漠与大海相接的地方非常少见，这里就是一处。
e.g. ...the southernmost point of South America where the Pacific and Atlantic oceans meet.
南美洲最南端、太平洋与大西洋的汇合处

17. (两条线)相交，交叉
The place where two lines meet is the place where they join together.

e.g. Parallel lines will never meet no matter how far extended...
无论延伸多长，平行线永不相交。
e.g. The track widened as it met the road.
小路在和公路相交的地方变宽了。

18. (两个运动员、球队或军队)比赛,较量,交锋
If two sportsmen, teams, or armies meet, they compete or fight against one another.

e.g. The two women will meet tomorrow in the final...
这两位女选手将在明天的决赛里决一胜负。
e.g. The unevenly matched armies met at Guilford on 15 March 1781...
1781年3月15日，力量悬殊的两支队伍在吉尔福德狭路相逢。

19. 运动会
A meet is an event in which athletes come to a particular place in order to take part in a race or races.

e.g. John Pennel became the first person to pole-vault 17 ft., at a meet in Miami, Florida.
约翰·佩内尔在佛罗里达迈阿密的一次运动会上成为撑竿越过17英尺的第一人。

20. (猎狐前猎人和猎犬的)集合
A meet is when riders and dogs gather somewhere before they set off on a fox hunt.

21. 迎着(或直视)(某人的)目光
If you do not meet someone's eyes or meet someone's gaze, you do not look at them although they are looking at you, for example because you are ashamed.

e.g. He hesitated, then shook his head, refusing to meet her eyes.
他犹豫起来，然后摇摇头，避开了她的目光。

22. （尤指因暴力或蹊跷）死去
If someone meets their death or meets their end, they die, especially in a violent or suspicious way.

e.g. Jacob Sinclair met his death at the hands of a soldier...
雅各布·辛克莱在一名士兵的手里送了命。
e.g. No one knows exactly how or where he met his end.
没有人知道他究竟是如何或在何处丢掉性命的。

23. to make ends meet - see end
there's more to this than meets the eye - see eye
to meet someone's eyes - see eye
to meet someone halfway - see halfway
to meet your match - see match

相关词组：meet up

名词洗衣店，洗衣房; 洗好的衣服; 待洗的衣服; 洗熨

1. 将要（或正在）洗的衣物；刚洗好的衣物
Laundry is used to refer to clothes, sheets, and towels that are about to be washed, are being washed, or have just been washed.

e.g. I'll do your laundry...
我来帮你洗衣服。
e.g. ...the room where I hang the laundry...
我晾挂衣服的房间

2. 洗衣公司；洗衣店
A laundry is a firm that washes and irons clothes, sheets, and towels for people.

e.g. We had to have the washing done at the laundry.
我们得把衣服拿到洗衣店去洗。

3. 洗衣间；洗衣房
A laundry or a laundry room is a room in a house, hotel, or institution where clothes, sheets, and towels are washed.

e.g. He worked in the laundry at Oxford prison.
他在牛津监狱的洗衣房工作。

4. to wash your dirty laundry in public - see dirty

名词报告; 成绩报告单; 传闻; 流言蜚语

及物/不及物动词报道; 公布; 宣告

及物动词告发，举报; 使报到

1. 报告;汇报;告发
If you report something that has happened, you tell people about it.

e.g. They had been called in to clear drains after local people reported a foul smell...
当地居民举报闻到恶臭气味后，他们被叫来清理排水沟。
e.g. I reported the theft to the police...
我向警方报告了这起盗窃案。

2. (就某个事件或主题)报告情况，报道
If you report on an event or subject, you tell people about it, because it is your job or duty to do so.

e.g. Many journalists enter the country to report on political affairs...
许多记者进入该国对政治事件进行报道。
e.g. I'll now call at the vicarage and report to you in due course.
我现在要去教区牧师家拜访，然后适时向你汇报情况。

3. (报纸或广播的)报道
A report is a news article or broadcast which gives information about something that has just happened.

e.g. ...a report in London's Independent newspaper...
伦敦《独立报》的报道
e.g. With a report on these developments, here's Jim Fish in Belgrade...
这里是吉姆·菲什在贝尔格莱德发来的关于事件进展的报道。

4. (调查)报告;情况汇报
A report is an official document which a group of people issue after investigating a situation or event.

e.g. After an inspection, the inspectors must publish a report.
在视察之后，视察者必须发表一份报告。
e.g. A report by the Association of University Teachers finds that only 22 per cent of lecturers in our universities are women.
大学教师联合会发表的报告发现只有22%的大学讲师为女性。

5. (向某人作出的)报告，汇报
If you give someone a report on something, you tell them what has been happening.

e.g. She came back to give us a progress report on how the project is going...
她回来给我们作了关于项目进程的报告。
e.g. It seemed obvious from his report of that meeting that you were trying to focus suspicion on Mr Hirsch.
从他对那次会面的报告中可以明显看出你正把怀疑的焦点转向赫希先生。

6. (未经证实的)报道
If you say that there are reports that something has happened, you mean that some people say it has happened but you have no direct evidence of it.

e.g. There are unconfirmed reports that two people have been shot in the neighbouring town of Lalitpur...
据报道有两人在勒利德布尔城附近被枪杀，但尚未得到证实。
e.g. There were no reports of casualties.
没有人员死伤的报道。

7. 控告;告发
If someone reports you to a person in authority, they tell that person about something wrong that you have done.

e.g. His ex-wife reported him to police a few days later...
他的前妻几天后向警方告发了他。
e.g. The Princess was reported for speeding twice on the same road within a week.
这位公主一周之内在同一路段上两次因超速行驶被告发。

8. 报到
If you report to a person or place, you go to that person or place and say that you are ready to start work or say that you are present.

e.g. According to protocol, he first reported to the Director of the hospital...
根据礼节，他先向医院院长报到。
e.g. Mr Ashwell has to surrender his passport and report to the police every five days...
阿什维尔先生不得不交出他的护照，并且每隔5天到警察局报到一次。

9. 向…报告；对…负责;隶属
If you say that one employee reports to another, you mean that the first employee is told what to do by the second one and is responsible to them.

e.g. He reported to a section chief, who reported to a division chief, and so on up the line.
他由组长领导，组长由部门主管领导，如此逐级向上。

10. 学年（或学期）成绩单
A school report is an official written account of how well or how badly a pupil has done during the term or year that has just finished.

e.g. And now she was getting bad school reports.
现在她的学习成绩越来越差。

名词海滨; 海边

形容词海边的; 海滨的

1. (尤指作为度假地的)海边，海滨
You can refer to an area that is close to the sea, especially one where people go for their holidays, as the seaside .

e.g. I went to spend a few days at the seaside...
我去海滨玩了几天。
e.g. The town was Redcar, a seaside resort on the Cleveland coast.
那个城镇叫雷德卡，是克利夫兰海岸上的一个海滨胜地。

及物/不及物动词等待; 等候; （尤指长期地）希望; 盼望

不及物动词准备妥; 在手边; 可得到; 可使用

及物动词推迟，搁置，延缓

1. 等待;等候
When you wait for something or someone, you spend some time doing very little, because you cannot act until that thing happens or that person arrives.

e.g. I walk to a street corner and wait for the school bus...
我走到街角等校车。
e.g. Stop waiting for things to happen. Make them happen...
不要坐等事情发生。要创造条件让它们发生。

形容词感兴趣的; 拥有权益的; 有成见的

动词使…感兴趣(interest的过去分词)

1. 感兴趣的;有兴趣的;关心的
If you are interested in something, you think it is important and want to learn more about it or spend time doing it.

e.g. I thought she might be interested in Paula's proposal...
我觉得她对葆拉的提议可能会感兴趣。
e.g. I think the young man is getting interested in gardening...
我认为这个年轻人开始对园艺产生兴趣了。

2. 有利害关系的;利益相关的;当事的
An interested party or group of people is affected by or involved in a particular event or situation.

e.g. All the interested parties eventually agreed to the idea.
所有利益相关方最终都同意了这一想法。

3. see also: self-interested

名词徒步旅行

动词徒步旅行( hike的现在分词 ); 口提高（价格等）