名词信心; 信任; 秘密
形容词骗得信任的; 欺诈的
1. 信任;信赖
If you have confidence in someone, you feel that you can trust them.
e.g. I have every confidence in you...
我完全相信你。
e.g. This has contributed to the lack of confidence in the police...
这导致了大家对警方缺乏信任。
2. 自信;信心
If you have confidence, you feel sure about your abilities, qualities, or ideas.
e.g. The band is on excellent form and brimming with confidence...
这支乐队状态极佳,自信满满。
e.g. I always thought the worst of myself and had no confidence whatsoever.
我老是妄自菲薄,没有一点儿信心。
3. 肯定;把握
If you can say something with confidence, you feel certain it is correct.
e.g. I can say with confidence that such rumors were totally groundless.
我可以肯定地说这样的谣言完全没有根据。
4. 私下;秘密
If you tell someone something in confidence, you tell them a secret.
e.g. We told you all these things in confidence...
我们告诉你的这些事都需要保密。
e.g. Even telling Lois seemed a betrayal of confidence.
即使是告诉洛伊丝都好像是在泄密。
5. 秘密;知心话
A confidence is a secret that you tell someone.
e.g. Gregory shared confidences with Carmen.
格雷戈里和卡门说了知心话。
6. see also: vote of no confidence
及物动词加固; 强化; 增援
不及物动词求援; 得到增援; 给予更多的支持
名词加强; 加固物; 加固材料
1. 加强;增强
If something reinforces a feeling, situation, or process, it makes it stronger or more intense.
e.g. A stronger European Parliament would, they fear, only reinforce the power of the larger countries...
他们担心一个更加强大的欧洲议会只会增强大国的力量。
e.g. This sense of privilege tends to be reinforced by the outside world.
这种优越感往往会被外部世界强化。
2. 给予…更多支持;为…提供更多证据
If something reinforces an idea or point of view, it provides more evidence or support for it.
e.g. ...films that reinforce the idea that we live in a threatening and risky world.
让我们更加意识到自己生活的世界充满威胁和危险的电影
3. 加固;增强
To reinforce an object means to make it stronger or harder.
e.g. Eventually, they had to reinforce the walls with exterior beams.
最终,他们不得不通过增加外梁来对墙体进行加固。
名词基础; 地基; 粉底; 基金(会)
1. 基础;根基
The foundation of something such as a belief or way of life is the things on which it is based.
e.g. Best friends are the foundation of my life...
好朋友是我生命的支柱。
e.g. The issue strikes at the very foundation of our community...
这个问题严重影响了我们社会的基本根基。
2. 地基;房基
The foundations of a building or other structure are the layer of bricks or concrete below the ground that it is built on.
3. 基金会
A foundation is an organization which provides money for a special purpose such as research or charity.
e.g. ...the National Foundation for Educational Research.
全国教育研究基金会
4. 依据;根据
If a story, idea, or argument has no foundation, there are no facts to prove that it is true.
e.g. The allegations were without foundation...
这些指控没有根据。
e.g. Each complaint is analysed very closely, and if it has no foundation it is rejected.
每个投诉都经过仔细分析,如果发现没有依据就会予以驳回。
5. 粉底霜
Foundation is a skin-coloured cream that you put on your face before putting on the rest of your make-up.
名词倡议; 主动性; 主动权; 主动精神
形容词自发的; 创始的; 初步的
1. 积极的行动;倡议
An initiative is an important act or statement that is intended to solve a problem.
e.g. Government initiatives to help young people have been inadequate...
政府在积极帮助年轻人方面做得还不够。
e.g. There's talk of a new peace initiative.
传闻有可能提出新的和平倡议。
2. 主动权
In a fight or contest, if you have the initiative, you are in a better position than your opponents to decide what to do next.
e.g. We have the initiative; we intend to keep it...
我们拥有主动权;我们不打算放弃它。
e.g. He paused enough to consider the options but never so long as to lose the initiative.
他停顿了一会儿权衡自己有哪些选项,但并没有久到丧失主动权。
3. 主动性;积极性;进取心
If you have initiative, you have the ability to decide what to do next and to do it, without needing other people to tell you what to do.
e.g. She was disappointed by his lack of initiative.
她对他缺少进取心感到失望。
e.g. ...workers who are able to sort out problems on their own initiative.
能主动解决问题的工人
4. 采取主动;首先采取行动
If you take the initiative in a situation, you are the first person to act, and are therefore able to control the situation.
e.g. We must take the initiative in the struggle to end the war...
为尽早结束战争,我们必须抢先行动。
e.g. She knew she had to take the initiative and maintain an aggressive game throughout.
她知道自己必须采取主动,并且始终保持咄咄逼人的态势。
名词忍耐; 耐心,耐性; 单人纸牌游戏
1. 容忍;耐心;忍耐力
If you have patience, you are able to stay calm and not get annoyed, for example when something takes a long time, or when someone is not doing what you want them to do.
e.g. He doesn't have the patience to wait...
他没有耐心等待。
e.g. It was exacting work and required all his patience.
工作很艰巨,需要他有极大的耐心。
2. 单人纸牌游戏
Patience is a card game for only one player.
e.g. He would often sit and play patience.
他常常坐着玩单人纸牌游戏。
形容词进步的; 不断前进的; 进行的
名词改革论者; 进步分子
1. 进步的;先进的;革新的
Someone who is progressive or has progressive ideas has modern ideas about how things should be done, rather than traditional ones.
e.g. ...a progressive businessman who had voted for Roosevelt in 1932 and 1936...
在1932年和1936年投票支持罗斯福的开明商人
e.g. Willan was able to point to the progressive changes he had already introduced...
维兰能够找出他已经采用的一些革新。
2. (变化等)逐渐的,逐步发生的,逐步发展的
A progressive change happens gradually over a period of time.
e.g. One prominent symptom of the disease is progressive loss of memory.
这种疾病的一个显著症状就是记忆逐渐丧失。
e.g. ...the progressive development of a common foreign and security policy.
共同外交与安全政策的逐步发展
名词报酬; 报答; 赏金; 酬金
及物动词酬谢,奖赏; 报答,惩罚
1. 奖励;奖赏
A reward is something that you are given, for example because you have behaved well, worked hard, or provided a service to the community.
e.g. A bonus of up to 5 per cent can be added to a pupil's final exam marks as a reward for good spelling, punctuation and grammar...
小学生期末考试的分数最多可以加5分,作为对其拼写、标点和语法正确的奖励。
e.g. He was given the job as a reward for running a successful leadership bid.
因为成功组织了领导职位竞选活动,他得到了这份工作。
2. 赏金;赏格
A reward is a sum of money offered to anyone who can give information about lost or stolen property or about someone who is wanted by the police.
e.g. The firm last night offered a £10,000 reward for information leading to the conviction of the killer.
昨晚这家公司悬赏 1万英镑,寻找能将凶手定罪的证据。
3. 奖赏;奖励;酬谢
If you do something and are rewarded with a particular benefit, you receive that benefit as a result of doing that thing.
e.g. Make the extra effort to impress the buyer and you will be rewarded with a quicker sale.
多用心去打动顾客,货物就会更快售出。
4. 报答;回报;酬谢
The rewards of something are the benefits that you receive as a result of doing or having that thing.
e.g. The company is only just starting to reap the rewards of long-term investments...
这家公司才刚刚开始收获长期投资的回报。
e.g. Potentially high financial rewards are attached to senior hospital posts.
当上医院的高级职员就有可能享受丰厚的经济报酬。
5. 值得(付出时间或精力)
If you say that something rewards your attention or effort, you mean that it is worth spending time or effort on it.
e.g. The compression and density make this a difficult book to read, but it richly rewards the effort.
这本书内容丰富,思想深刻,很难读懂,但是非常值得一读。
形容词有系统的,有规则的; 有条不紊的; 有步骤的; 一贯的,惯常的
1. 成体系的;系统的;有条理的;按既定计划的
Something that is done in a systematic way is done according to a fixed plan, in a thorough and efficient way.
e.g. They went about their business in a systematic way...
他们按部就班地做生意。
e.g. They had not found any evidence of a systematic attempt to rig the ballot.
他们没有发现任何证据证明有人企图全面操纵投票。
名词变化; […]lt;核[…]gt;转换; […]lt;语[…]gt;转换; […]lt;电[…]gt;变换
尴尬的;为难的;窘迫的;局促不安的;窘迫,局促不安( embarrass的过去式和过去分词);
希望( expectation的名词复数 );预料;预期;期望的事情;
精通,掌握(master的过去分词);精通的;
形容词反复的,再三的,重复的; 累; 频仍
1. 重复的;反复发生的
Repeated actions or events are ones which happen many times.
e.g. Mr Lawssi apparently did not return the money, despite repeated reminders...
尽管被提醒了很多次,劳西先生显然没有把钱退回来。
e.g. During that time there have been repeated attempts to reintroduce capital punishment.
在那段时期不断有人试图恢复死刑。
使简单[简明],简化( simplify的过去式和过去分词 );