run /rʌn/ CET4 TEM4 ( running, ran, runs )

• 1. 

  V-T/V-I When you run, you move more quickly than when you walk, for example because you are in a hurry to get somewhere, or for exercise. 跑

  例：

  I excused myself and ran back to the telephone.

  我道了歉，跑回去接电话。

  例：

  He ran the last block to the White House with two cases of gear.

  他带着两箱工具跑过最后一个街区到了白宫。

• 2. 

  V-T/V-I When someone runs in a race, they run in competition with other people. 参加…赛跑; 赛跑

  例：

  ...when I was running in the New York Marathon.

  …当我正参加纽约马拉松赛跑时。

  例：

  He ran a tremendous race.

  他参加了一场大规模赛跑。

• 3. 

  V-T/V-I When a horse runs in a race or when its owner runs it, it competes in a race. 使 (马) 参加比赛; (马) 参加比赛

  例：

  He was overruled by the owner, Peter Bolton, who insisted on Cool Ground running in the Gold Cup.

  他的意见被坚持让酷地参加金杯赛的主人彼得•博尔顿否决了。

• 4. 

  V-I If you say that something long, such as a road, runs in a particular direction, you are describing its course or position. You can also say that something runs the length or width of something else. (道路等) 延伸

  例：

  ...the sun-dappled trail which ran through the beech woods.

  …一条穿过山毛榉树林的阳光斑驳的小路。

• 5. 

  V-T If you run a wire or tube somewhere, you attach it or pull it from, to, or across a particular place. 铺设 (电线、管道等)

  例：

  Our host ran a long extension cord out from the house and set up a screen and a projector.

  我们的主人从那所房子里牵出了一条长的延长导线，安置了一块屏幕和一个投影仪。

• 6. 

  V-T If you run your hand or an object through something, you move your hand or the object through it. 移动

  例：

  He laughed and ran his fingers through his hair.

  他大笑了并用手指梳理他的头发。

• 7. 

  V-T If you run something through a machine, process, or series of tests, you make it go through the machine, process, or tests. 运行

  例：

  They have gathered the best statistics they can find and run them through their own computers.

  他们已经搜集了他们所能找到的最佳数据并将其在他们自己的电脑里运行。

• 8. 

  V-I If someone runs for office in an election, they take part as a candidate. 竞选

  例：

  It was only last February that he announced he would run for president.

  直到去年2月他才宣布自己将竞选总统。

  例：

  It is no easy job to run against John Glenn, Ohio's Democratic senator.

  与俄亥俄州民主党参议员约翰•格伦竞选绝非易事。

• 9. 

  V-T If you run something such as a business or an activity, you are in charge of it or you organize it. 经营; 管理

  例：

  His stepfather ran a prosperous paint business.

  他的继父曾经营一家生意兴旺的涂料公司。

  例：

  ...a well-run, profitable organization.

  …一家经营很好的赢利机构。

• 10. 

  V-I If you talk about how a system, an organization, or someone's life is running, you are saying how well it is operating or progressing. 运作; 运转 [usu cont]

  例：

  Officials in charge of the camps say the system is now running extremely smoothly.

  负责营房的官员说这一体制目前运作得相当顺利。

• 11. 

  V-T/V-I If you run an experiment, computer program, or other process, or start it running, you start it and let it continue. 进行; 运行

  例：

  He ran a lot of tests and it turned out I had an infection called mycoplasma.

  他进行了许多化验，结果证明我感染了支原体病毒。

• 12. 

  V-T/V-I When a machine is running or when you are running it, it is switched on and is working. 使 (机器) 运转; (机器) 运转 [usu cont]

  例：

  We told him to wait out front with the engine running.

  我们告诉他在入口外等候，不要熄火。

• 13. 

  V-I A machine or equipment that runs on or off a particular source of energy functions using that source of energy. 运转

  例：

  The buses run on diesel.

  这些公共汽车使用的是柴油。

• 14. 

  V-I When you say that vehicles such as trains and buses run from one place to another, you mean they regularly travel along that route. 行驶

  例：

  A shuttle bus runs frequently between the inn and the country club.

  一辆区间往返公共汽车频繁地往来于小客栈与乡村俱乐部之间。

• 15. 

  V-T If you run someone somewhere in a car, you drive them there. (开车) 送 [非正式]

  例：

  Could you run me up to Baltimore?

  你能开车送我去巴尔的摩吗？

• 16. 

  V-I If you run over or down to a place that is quite near, you drive there. 驾车去 [非正式]

  例：

  I'll run over to Short Mountain and check on Mrs. Adams.

  我将开车去肖特山看看亚当斯夫人。

• 17. 

  V-I If a liquid runs in a particular direction, it flows in that direction. (液体) 流

  例：

  Tears were running down her cheeks.

  泪水当时正沿着她的脸颊流下。

• 18. 

  V-T If you run water, or if you run a faucet or a bath, you cause water to flow from a faucet. 从水管放 (水)

  例：

  She went to the sink and ran water into her empty glass.

  她走到了洗涤槽边，往空玻璃杯里灌水。

• 19. 

  V-I If a faucet or a bath is running, water is coming out of a faucet. 流水 [only cont]

  例：

  The kitchen sink had been stopped up and the faucet left running, so water spilled over onto the floor.

  那厨房的洗涤槽堵塞了，而水龙头在那里流水，所以水溢满流到了地板上。

• 20. 

  V-I If your nose is running, liquid is flowing out of it, usually because you have a cold. 流鼻涕 [usu cont]

  例：

  Timothy was crying, mostly from exhaustion, and his nose was running.

  蒂莫西在哭，主要是因为太累了，而且在流鼻涕。

• 21. 

  V-I If a surface is running with a liquid, that liquid is flowing down it. 流下 [usu cont]

  例：

  After an hour he realized he was completely running with sweat.

  一个小时后，他发现自己已是大汗淋漓。

• 22. 

  V-T/V-I When you run a cassette or videotape or when it runs, it moves through the machine as the machine operates. 播放

  例：

  Leaphorn pushed the play button again, ran the tape, pushed stop, pushed rewind.

  利福恩又按下播放按钮，播放了磁带，接着按了停止键，然后又按下倒带键。

• 23. 

  V-I If the dye in some cloth or the ink on some paper runs, it comes off or spreads when the cloth or paper gets wet. 渗开

  例：

  The ink had run on the wet paper.

  墨迹在那张湿纸上渗开了。

• 24. 

  V-I If a feeling runs through your body or a thought runs through your mind, you experience it or think it quickly. (感觉) 传遍; (念头) 掠过

  例：

  She felt a surge of excitement run through her.

  她感到一阵激动传遍全身。

• 25. 

  V-I If a feeling or noise runs through a group of people, it spreads among them. (感受、噪音等) 传开

  例：

  A buzz of excitement ran through the crowd.

  一阵兴奋的嗡嗡声在人群中蔓延开来。

• 26. 

  V-I If a theme or feature runs through something such as someone's actions or writing, it is present in all of it. 贯穿

  例：

  Another thread running through this series is the role of doctors in the treatment of the mentally ill.

  贯穿这部连续剧的另一主线是医生们在心理疾病患者的治疗过程中的作用。

• 27. 

  V-T/V-I When newspapers or magazines run a particular item or story or if it runs, it is published or printed. 刊登; 发表

  例：

  The New Orleans Times-Picayune ran a series of four scathing editorials entitled "The Choice of Our Lives."

  《新奥尔良时代花絮报》连续刊登了题为“我们生活的选择”的4篇尖刻的社论。

• 28. 

  V-I If an amount is running at a particular level, it is at that level. 处于 (某一水平)

  例：

  Today's figures show inflation running at 10.9 percent.

  今天的数据显示通货膨胀率为10.9%。

• 29. 

  V-I If a play, event, or legal contract runs for a particular period of time, it lasts for that period of time. (戏剧、事件、法律合同等) 延续

  例：

  It pleased critics but ran for only three months on Broadway.

  它得到了评论家的好评，但在百老汇只上演了3个月。

  例：

  The contract was to run from 1992 to 2020.

  该合同从1992年至2020年有效。

• 30. 

  V-I If someone or something is running late, they have taken more time than had been planned. If they are running on time or ahead of time, they have taken the time planned or less than the time planned. 进展 [usu cont]

  例：

  Tell her I'll call her back later, I'm running late again.

  告诉她我待会儿再给她回电话，我又要晚了。

• 31. 

  V-T If you are running a temperature or a fever, you have a high temperature because you are ill. 患

  例：

  The little girl is running a fever and she needs help.

  这个小女孩正在发烧，她需要帮助。

• 32. 

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