It includes four steps: seeing a word, getting back its meaning from your memory, connecting it to other words in the same sentence, and then moving on to the next word. This process uses many parts of the brain at one time.
它包括四个步骤:看到一个单词,回忆这个词的意思,将它与句子中其他单词联系起来,再看下一个单词。这个过程同时调动了大脑的很多部分进行工作。
When choosing the name for this program, I specifically chose the word practice for the title because of its broad meaning.
当我选择这个班的名字时,我特意选择了“实践”这个词是因为它有着广泛的含义。
The word "value" is often times misused or misunderstood. The reason for this is because when a word is used too much, the meaning of it becomes inflated.
“价值”这个词往往被误用或误解,这个原因是因为当一个词用得太多,它的意义就会变多,比如像“最好”,“顶级”和“最”这些词。
In the online social networking context, its meaning is understood, so its adoption as a modern verb form makes this an interesting choice for Word of the Year.
在网络社交环境中,这个词的意思很容易理解,所以将其定义为现代动词形式,也是今年年度词汇评选中一个很有意思的选择。
Remember we encountered this word in a previous lecture which just means something having to do with the end, eschaton in Greek meaning the end.
我们在之前的课上讲过这个词,指关于末世的东西,这个词在希腊语中的意思就是“末世
In the online social networking context, its meaning is understood, so its adoption as a modern verb form makes this an interesting choice for Word of the Year.
在网络社交中,它的意思是明确的,它被用作现代动词形式,这就使得它的入选非常有意思。
Poles call this idea the Uklad, an all-but-untranslatable word meaning “deal”, “arrangement” or “system”.
波兰人把这种想法叫做“布局”,这个词几乎没法翻译,意为“交易”、“安排”或“体系”。
Standardizing the definition and usage of a word is important and we see this need even in our daily lives, as everyday words may take on different meaning in different professions.
标准化定义和词汇的用法是非常重要的,而且我们可以看到,即使是在日常生活中这也是有必要的,因为在不同的专业中,我们日常所用的词汇可能具有不同的意义。
THE CHINESE word for crisis, weiji, includes elements of both danger and opportunity. This symbolic meaning has taken on especially great significance in recent years.
中文中的“危机”一词,由“危”和“机”两字构成,其中的象征意义在最近几年尤为突出。
The process goes like this: We see a group of letters, convert those letters into a word, and then directly grasp the word's semantic meaning.
当我们看到一组字母时,会将这些字母转换成单词,然后直接领悟到词面意思。
This is when self-replicating atomic machines born from nanotechnology don’t know the meaning of the word “stop”.
来自纳米技术,具有自我复制能力的原子机器无法识别单词“停下”时,灰雾
However, there is a second meaning for this word that is associated with intertask communication.
然而,第二个意思与任务间通讯相关联。
All derivations of this word connect the bo ending of the word with the bow meaning “to bend.”
所有这个单词的衍生词,其结尾bo都与bow意思“弯曲”有关。
This may have shown up later in an Ancient Greek word nemein with a similar meaning of “deal out” or “distribute.”
该词根或许也包含在之后的古希腊语单词nemein中,它的意思同样是分配,分发。
The American Heritage Dictionary however expands on this saying it is probably of Mozarabic origin; akin to the Spanish word caspicias meaning “remainders” or “worthless things.
不过,《美国传统词典》对此有更为详细的说明,认为这个词可能出自莫札拉布语,是西班牙语中caspicias的近亲,意思是残余物或者无用之物。
Sleep apnoea owes its meaning to the Greek word apnea, meaning 'want of breath' and this condition affects the sleep of around 180, 000 people in the UK.
这个词起源于希腊语apnea,意思是“渴望呼吸”。这个病症影响着英国大约18万人。
Luckily, last month, my friend Wilson came back from Australia and had a meal with me. All of a sudden, he talked about this word and not until then did I know its meaning.
直到上个月在澳大利亚留学回来的Wilson来找我吃饭时,他谈到这个词,我回去一查,才恍然大悟!
Of course both the new and the older uses of hurricane in this way are pulled from the “blowout” meaning associated with the main meaning of the word.
当然不论是新的意思还是旧的解释 ”hurricane”的主要意思都与”撕裂 爆裂”有关.
Too often this gives you an excuse making it okay (or at least forgivable) if you fail meaning the word "goal" by popular definition actually conditions you for failure.
这往往给了你一个好的借口(至少可以原谅),如果你失败了,那么只是在“目标”这个词的通常意义下,你失败了。
There is written on the turrets of the city of Lucca in great characters, meaning great letters, that this day the word libertas, libertas is written on the walls of the turrets of the city of Lucca.
卢卡市的塔楼上刻有霍布斯那句话,而且用的是很大很显眼的字,也就是很大的字母,古罗马语中的自由二字,也被刻在了这座塔上
You seem to give some extra, deeper meaning to this word, and yet it seems to me that we are aware of what's going on all the time.
你似乎赋予了这个词某种特别深刻的含义,而对我来说,我们似乎一直都能觉察到发生着什么事情。
So when you come across this word again, the pronunciation will remind you of the association and therefore the meaning of the word.
所以当你再一次遇到这个单词的时候,发音就会帮助你回忆起我们所创建的那个联系,那样整个单词的意思就蹦出来了。
Thee dictionary gives us several definitions, which makes me more confused about the meaning of this word.
辞典给了我们好几个释义,这使我对该词的意思更加困惑。
There is an air of heaven about the word. This makes some sense in the context that the Latin root is often given as meaning "uplifted."
这个词带着天堂的气息。从拉丁文的词根来看,这个情况下给人造成一种“上升”的感觉。
When someone is knitting a scarf or a sweater the phrase knit one purl two mightfit the context, but in this case the purl is a different word spelled P U R Land comes from a source meaning “twist.”
而当某位女士针织围巾或是毛衣的时候,她所用的口诀“正一针,倒两针(knit one,purl two)”也许挺符合本文的语境。不过,这个例子里的单词purl拼写却完全不同——PU R L ——它的来源有着“旋转(twist)”的意思。
Wisdom in the language of the kingdom for no "lying" and "deceit" this word, people dont understand the meaning of it more.
在慧因国的语言中没有“撒谎”和“欺骗”这样的字眼,人们更不理解它的含义。
The name stems from the Swiss-German word heurig, meaning “this year,” and indeed, the establishments serve only the season's new wines.
酒馆“heurige”这个名字来源于瑞士德语“heurig”意思是“今年”。 事实上这里出售的就是新酿制的葡萄酒。
When English adopted the word class from French around 400 years ago Greek and Roman were seen as "the original" languages and so were tagged with this "first" meaning.
400多年前,英语从法语中吸收了class这个单词,那个时候,希腊和罗马语被看成是“原初的语言”(theoriginal),所以也带上了“第一”的含义。
When English adopted the word class from French around 400 years ago Greek and Roman were seen as "the original" languages and so were tagged with this "first" meaning.
400多年前,英语从法语中吸收了class这个单词,那个时候,希腊和罗马语被看成是“原初的语言”(theoriginal),所以也带上了“第一”的含义。
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