way /weɪ/ CET4 TEM4

• 1. 

  N-COUNT If you refer to a way of doing something, you are referring to how you can do it, for example, the action you can take or the method you can use to achieve it. 方式; 方法

  例：

  Freezing isn't a bad way of preserving food.

  冷冻不失为保存食品的一种好方法。

  例：

  I worked myself into a frenzy plotting ways to make him jealous.

  我绞尽脑汁，处心积虑，就是为了让他嫉妒。

  例：

  There just might be a way.

  可能会有个办法的。

• 2. 

  N-COUNT If you talk about the way someone does something, you are talking about the qualities their action has. 态度; 样子

  例：

  She smiled in a friendly way.

  她友好地笑了笑。

  例：

  He had a strange way of talking.

  他说话的样子很奇怪。

• 3. 

  N-COUNT If a general statement or description is true in a particular way, this is the form of it that is true in a particular case. 形式; 方面

  例：

  Computerized reservation systems help airline profits in several ways.

  电子订票系统让航空公司在好几个方面获利。

  例：

  She was afraid in a way that was quite new to her.

  她感到害怕，而这种害怕是以前不曾有过的。

• 4. 

  N-COUNT You use way in expressions such as in some ways, in many ways, and in every way to indicate the degree or extent to which a statement is true. 某方面; 某点

  例：

  In some ways, the official opening is a formality.

  从某些方面来说，官方开幕仪式是个形式而已。

• 5. 

  N-PLURAL The ways of a particular person or group of people are their customs or their usual behaviour. 习俗; 习惯

  例：

  He denounces people who urge him to alter his ways.

  他指责那些敦促他改变习惯的人们。

  例：

  She began to study the ways of the Native Americans.

  她开始研究土著印第安人的习俗。

• 6. 

  N-SING If you refer to someone's way, you are referring to their usual or preferred type of behaviour. 习惯; 作风

  例：

  She is now divorced and, in her usual resourceful way, has started her own business.

  她现在离婚了，并以她一贯机敏能干的作风开始自己创业。

• 7. 

  N-COUNT You use way to refer to one particular opinion or interpretation of something, when others are possible. 看法

  例：

  I suppose that's one way of looking at it.

  我想那是其中的一种看法。

  例：

  With most of Dylan's lyrics, however, there are other ways of interpreting the words.

  然而，迪伦的大多数歌词都有其他的解读方法。

• 8. 

  N-COUNT You use way when mentioning one of a number of possible, alternative results or decisions. 结果; 决定

  例：

  There is no indication which way the vote could go.

  没有迹象表明投票的结果会怎么样。

• 9. 

  N-SING The way you feel about something is your attitude to it or your opinion about it. 态度; 观点

  例：

  I'm so sorry – I had no idea you felt that way.

  我很抱歉–我不知道你是那样想的。

• 10. 

  N-SING If you mention the way that something happens, you are mentioning the fact that it happens. 情形

  例：

  I hate the way he manipulates people.

  我讨厌他摆布人。

• 11. 

  N-SING You use way in expressions such as push your way, work your way, or eat your way, followed by a prepositional phrase or adverb, in order to indicate movement, progress, or force as well as the action described by the verb. 用于(push your way), (work your way)或者(eat your way)等词组中，表示运动、进程、力量以及所用动词所表示的动作

  例：

  She thrust her way into the crowd.

  她挤进了人群。

• 12. 

  N-COUNT The way somewhere consists of the different places that you go through or the route that you take in order to get there. 路径

  例：

  Does anybody know the way to the bathroom?

  有没有人知道到卫生间的路怎么走？

  例：

  I'm afraid I can't remember the way.

  恐怕我不记得路了。

• 13. 

  N-SING If you go or look a particular way, you go or look in that direction. 方向

  例：

  As he strode into the kitchen, he passed Pop coming the other way.

  他大步走进厨房，同迎面过来的爸爸擦肩而过。

  例：

  They paused at the top of the stairs, doubtful as to which way to go next.

  他们在楼梯的顶头停了下来，不知道下一步朝哪个方向走。

• 14. 

  N-SING You can refer to the direction you are travelling in as your way. 行进方向 [口语]

  例：

  She would say she was going my way and offer me a lift.

  她会说和我同路，可以载我一程。

• 15. 

  N-SING If you lose your way, you take a wrong or unfamiliar route, so that you do not know how to get to the place that you want to go to. If you find your way, you manage to get to the place that you want to go to. 路途

  例：

  The men lost their way in a sandstorm and crossed the border by mistake.

  这些男人在沙尘暴中迷了路，误越了边境。

• 16. 

  N-COUNT You talk about people going their different ways in order to say that their lives develop differently and they have less contact with each other. 生活道路

  例：

  It wasn't until we each went our separate ways that I began to learn how to do things for myself.

  直到我们各奔东西后，我才开始学会如何自己做事情。

• 17. 

  N-SING If something comes your way, you get it or receive it. 获得

  例：

  Take advantage of the opportunities coming your way in a couple of months.

  把握住这几个月之内你可能获得的机会。

• 18. 

  N-SING You use way in expressions such as the right way up and the other way around to refer to one of two or more possible positions or arrangements that something can have. 可能的位置

  例：

  Books have a right and a wrong way up.

  书可以正着放，也可以反着放。

• 19. 

  ADV You can use way to emphasize, for example, that something is a great distance away or is very much below or above a particular level or amount. 大大地; 远远地 [ADV adv/prep] [强调]

  例：

  Way down in the valley to the west is the town of Freiburg.

  远远的西边山谷中坐落着弗赖堡镇。

  例：

  You've waited way too long.

  你们已经等了太久了。

• 20. 

  N-PLURAL If you split something a number of ways, you divide it into a number of different parts or quantities, usually fairly equal in size. (分成的通常大小相同的) 部分

  例：

  The region was split three ways, between Greece, Serbia and Bulgaria.

  该地区被希腊、塞尔维亚和保加利亚一分为三。

• 21. 

  COMB in ADJ Way is also a combining form. 部分 (用于构成合成词) [ADJ n]

  例：

  ...a simple three-way division.

  …一种简单的3分法。

• 22. 

  N-SING Way is used in expressions such as a long way, a little way, and quite a way, to say how far away something is or how far you have traveled. 距离

  例：

  Some of them live in places quite a long way from here.

  他们当中一些人住在离这儿相当远的地方。

  例：

  A little way further down the lane we passed the driveway to a house.

  我们沿着小巷又走了一小段距离，穿过车道来到一幢房子前。

• 23. 

  N-SING Way is used in expressions such as a long way, a little way, and quite a way, to say how far away in time something is. (时间的) 距离

  例：

  Success is still a long way off.

  离成功还远着呢。

• 24. 

  N-SING You use way in expressions such as all the way, most of the way and half the way to refer to the extent to which an action has been completed. (行为完成的) 程度

  例：

  He had unscrewed the caps most of the way.

  他已经快要把瓶盖拧开了。