apply

英 [ə'plaɪ] 美[ə'plaɪ]
  • vt. 申请;涂,敷;应用
  • vi. 申请;涂,敷;适用;请求

CET4TEM4IELTS考研TOEFLCET6中高频词基本词汇

词态变化


第三人称单数: applies;过去式: applied;过去分词: applied;现在分词: applying;

中文词源


apply 应用,申请

前缀ap-同ad-. 词根ply, 卷入,卷进,见imply.

英英释意


1. put into service; make work or employ (something) for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose;
"use your head!"
"we only use Spanish at home"
"I can't make use of this tool"
"Apply a magnetic field here"
"This thinking was applied to many projects"
"How do you utilize this tool?"
"I apply this rule to get good results"
"use the plastic bags to store the food"
"He doesn't know how to use a computer"
2. be pertinent or relevant or applicable;
"The same laws apply to you!"
"This theory holds for all irrational numbers"
"The same rules go for everyone"
3. ask (for something);
"He applied for a leave of absence"
"She applied for college"
"apply for a job"
4. apply to a surface;
"She applied paint to the back of the house"
"Put on make-up!"
5. be applicable to; as to an analysis;
"This theory lends itself well to our new data"
6. give or convey physically;
"She gave him First Aid"
"I gave him a punch in the nose"
7. avail oneself to;
"apply a principle"
"practice a religion"
"use care when going down the stairs"
"use your common sense"
"practice non-violent resistance"
8. ensure observance of laws and rules;
"Apply the rules to everyone";
9. refer (a word or name) to a person or thing;
"He applied this racial slur to me!"
10. apply oneself to;
"Please apply yourself to your homework"

英文词源


apply
apply: see ply
apply (v.)
late 14c., "to put (one's faculties, etc.) to some task or career," late 14c., from Old French aploiier "apply, use, attach" (12c., Modern French appliquer), from Latin applicare "attach to, join, connect;" figuratively, "devote (oneself) to, give attention," from ad- "to" (see ad-) + plicare "fold" (see ply (v.1)). The etymological sense is "bring things in contact with one another." Of lotions, from early 15c. Meaning "seek a job by submitting an application for one" is from 1851. A by-form applicate is recorded from 1530s. Related: Applied; applying.

同义词辨析


use, apply, employ, utilize, avail, exploit

这些动词均含"使用,应用"之意。

use: 普通用词,着重为达到某一目的而利用某人或某物。

apply: 指将一事物运用于另一事物之上以发挥其有效作用。

employ: 指使用处于消极状态或未被用过的人或物,可以与use换用,但强调进行选择、充分利用。

utilize: 侧重有利可图或能达到某一实际目的。书面用词。

avail: 通常指使用手边或就近的人或物以有利于自己。

exploit: 强调充分利用。

考试真题


Even if your personal reinvention is less drastic, we think there are lessons from her experience that apply.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

[The most recent of these studies, published in The Journal of Applied Gerontology, surveyed 150 Connecticut residents of assisted living, nursing homes and smaller residential care homes ( ' , known in some states as board and care homes or adult care homes).

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

Parents and teachers will tell you not to worry when applying for a place at a university.

出自-2016年6月听力原文

Gamification is about understanding what it is that makes games engaging and what game designers do to create a great experience in games, and taking those learnings and applying them to other contexts such as the workplace and education, explains Kevin Werbach, a gamification expert who teaches at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania in the United States.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

Forty-eight of the students received instruction in study skills only, whereas the others attended a combination of study skills sessions and classes in which they learned about the growth mind-set and how to apply it to schoolwork.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

So here's a suggestion offered by two researchers at the Rand Corporation: Why not take a lesson from alcohol control policies and apply them to where food is sold and how it's displayed?

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

In contrast," the researchers continue, "many regulations that don't assume people make rational choices have been successfully applied to control alcohol, a substance — like food — of which immoderate consumption leads to serious health problems.

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

The research references studies of people's behavior with food and alcohol and results of alcohol restrictions, and then lists five regulations that the researchers think might be promising if applied to junk foods

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

It doesn't apply to women over 74.

出自-2012年12月阅读原文

And it's true that there are currently more people applying for each available job opening, regardless of whether it's a new one or not.

出自-2012年12月阅读原文

At Penn, students are not asked to indicate race when applying for housing.

出自-2011年6月阅读原文

What do I have to do to apply for a passport?

出自-2012年6月听力原文

It enables him to apply theory to practice.

出自-2010年6月听力原文

In addition, it is necessary to apply for graduation when you're near the time that you will be completing your graduation requirements.

2016年6月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C

Only apply for positions you're qualified for, and make each application count, personalizing each cover letter and updating and editing your resume.

2018年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

The tax will apply to regulaR&Diet sodas, as well as other drinks with added sugar, such as Gatorade and iced teas.

2019年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C

Students apply to the program directly through their schools.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

In England, where architecture was increasingly seen as an aristocratic pursuit, noblemen often applied what they learned from the villas of Palladio in the Veneto and the evocative ( ' , 唤起回忆的) ruins of Rome to their own country houses and gardens.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

If you think this does not apply to you, then here is a simple test to show you are wrong.

出自-2017年6月听力原文

She borrowed the principle of efficiency on the factory floor and applied it to domestic tasks on the kitchen floor.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

A place where high technology could be applied.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

Students are not able to apply prior knowledge to new problems.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

More than a decade ago, cognitive scientists John Bransford and Daniel Schwartz, both then at Vanderbilt University, found that what distinguished young adults from children was not the ability to retain facts or apply prior knowledge to a new situation but a quality they called preparation for future learning.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

If you want to change his course, you have only a few choices: you can stop him, transferring ( ' , possibly painfully) some of his kinetic energy ( ' , 动能 ) to your own body, or you can approach alongside and slowly apply pressure to gradually alter his course.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

If we can help to direct students to more of these types of campuses and help students to understand them to be realistic and accessible places, have them apply to these schools at greater frequency and ultimately get in and enroll, we are going to raise the success rate, Rubinoff said, citing a variety of colleges ranging from large state institutions to smaller private schools.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

By the 1950s, most schools required a brief personal statement of why the student had chosen to apply to one school over another.

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

Precisely because they were working with old-fashioned machines, George Martin and his team of engineers were forced to apply every ounce of their creativity to solve the problems posed to them by Lennon and McCartney

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

Call it the "learning paradox", the more you struggle and even fail while you're trying to learn new information, the better you're likely to recall and apply that information later.

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

Developing students' ability to apply what they learn

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

In a paper published recently, Kapur applied the principle of productive failure to mathematical problem solving in three schools.

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

The deadline for applying to his favorite college was Nov.

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

Back in the good old days—say, two years ago, when the last of my children suffered the ordeal (折磨)—a high-school student applying to college could procrastinate all the way to New Year's Day of their senior year, assuming they could withstand the parental pestering (烦扰)

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

What applies to poets and musicians also applies to our daily lives.

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

Whether patent for living things applies to their later generations.

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

It will be applied in any field imaginable.

出自-2012年12月阅读原文

There aren't many jobs in science for them, so they go to Wall Street and Silicon Valley to apply their analytical skills to more practical—and rewarding—efforts.

出自-2010年12月阅读原文

These findings do not only apply to Obama, or even just to race.

出自-2010年6月阅读原文

Later working together in London, they laid the foundations of modern physics by showing that normal laws of cause and effect do not apply at the level of subatomic particles.

出自-2013年12月听力原文

The technology has been successfully applied overseas, but the only other public robotic garage in the United States has been troublesome, dropping vehicles and trapping cars because of technical problems.

出自-2013年6月听力原文

Three letters of recommendation are required to apply to graduate schools.

出自-2012年12月听力原文

Apply to three graduate schools

出自-2012年12月听力原文

"If we can help to direct students to more of these types of campuses and help students to understand them to be realistic and accessible places, have them apply to these schools at greater frequency and ultimately get in and enroll, we are going to raise

2015年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

But this does not apply to everyone, so it is essential to establish your own rhythm.

2017年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

If we can help to direct students to more of these types of campuses and help students to understand them to be realistic and accessible places, have them apply to these schools at greater frequency and ultimately get in and enroll, we are going to raise

2015年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

If you want to change his course, you have only a few choices: you can stop him, transferring possibly painfullysome of his kinetic energy to your own body, or toucan approach alongside and slowly apply pressure to gradually alter his course.

2015年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

In his latest experiment, published online in August, Steinberg and his colleagues used a computerized version of a card game called the Iowa Gambling Task to investigate how the presence of peers affects the way young people gather and apply information.

2018年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

More than a decade ago, cognitive scientists John Bransford and Daniel Schwartz, both then at Vanderbilt University, found that what distinguished young adults from children was not the ability to retain facts or apply prior knowledge to a new situation b

2015年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

Applying my own rule, I determined to write them in alphabetical, never letting myself leave out a tough idea.

2016年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

During my first quarter at university of California, riverside ucr, I thought that I wanted to study political science with its focus on international affairs, so that's what I applied for.

2016年高考英语浙江卷(6月) 阅读理解 七选五 原文

However, there is a very important difference between wanting to do something and applying for something.

2016年高考英语浙江卷(6月) 阅读理解 七选五 原文

Illustrate where science can be applied.

2015年高考英语湖北卷 阅读理解 阅读E 选项

In order to pass the class, among other criteria, we had to write a paper on how we plan to apply what we would learn in class to our future professions and eventually to our lives.

2018年高考英语全国卷I 完形填空 原文

Now researchers are applying scientific methods to the study of the universality of art.

2015年高考英语重庆卷 阅读理解 阅读E 原文

So I applied successfully for the training program at the school of toronto dance theatre, and moved to Toronto to attend the program.

2018年高考英语全国卷2 听力 原文

Taylor will apply to college soon.

2017年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

The deadlines and what you need to apply depend on the program.

2019年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

The man can apply for the job again.

2016年高考英语上海卷 听力 选项

The solution is obvious though perhaps not easy to apply: always handle the most difficult job first.

2016年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

This smart keyboard precisely measures the cadence with which one types and the pressure fingers apply to each key.

2019年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

To confirm that the worms' chewing alone was not responsible for the polyethylene breakdown, the researchers made some worms into paste and applied it to plastic films.

2018年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

When the time came to make the final decision for a course, I decided to apply for the one that reflected my interest.

2016年高考英语浙江卷(6月) 单项选择 原文

You could apply to be a stewardship youth ranger and work on local natural resource management projects for eight weeks this summer.

2019年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

“So few authors have brains enough or literary gift enough to keep their own end up in journalism,” Newman wrote,“that I am tempted to define‘journalism’ as‘a term of contempt applied by writers who are not read to writers who are'.

出自-2010年考研阅读原文

All in all, this clearly seems to be a market in which big retailers could profitably apply their gigantic scale, existing infrastructure, and proven skills in the management of product ranges, logistics, and marketing intelligence.

出自-2010年考研阅读原文

The subtle and intelligent little book The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Resistance in the American University should be read by every student thinking of applying to take a doctoral degree.

出自-2011年考研阅读原文

Members of social networks, for instance, are learning that they can hijack media to apply pressure on the businesses that originally created them.

出自-2011年考研阅读原文

Rosenberg argues convincingly that public-health advocates ought to take a page from advertisers, so skilled at applying peer pressure.

出自-2012年考研阅读原文

Pledging to run Pilgrim safely, the company has applied for federal permission to keep it open for another 20 years.

出自-2012年考研阅读原文

Orin Kerr, a law professor, compares the explosion and accessibility of digital information in the 21st century with the establishment of automobile use as a virtual necessity of life in the 20th: The justices had to specify novel rules for the new personal domain of the passenger car then; they must sort out how the Fourth Amendment applies to digital information now.

出自-2015年考研阅读原文

The potential of this work applied to healthcare is very great, but it could also lead to further concentration of power in the tech giants.

出自-2018年考研阅读原文

A large part of evaluation is calling out bad arguments, but we also need to admit good arguments by opponents and to apply the same critical standards to ourselves.

2020年考研真题(英语一)翻译 Section Ⅲ

But the skills they learn - how to think logically through a problem and organize the results - apply to any coding language, said Deborah Seehorn, an education consultant for the state of North Carolina.

2016年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Many French politicians and media outlets have referred to this as a "GAFA tax," meaning that it is designed to apply primarily to companies such as Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon—in other words, multinational tech companies based in the United States

2020年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Members of social networks, for instance, are learning that they can hijack media to apply pressure on the businesses that originally created them.  

2011年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Some might see the proposal as a boo by prize for the fact that Britain is no longer be able to apply for the much more prestigious title of European capital of culture, a sough-after award bagged by Glasgow in 1990 and liverpool in 2008.

2020年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

We become defensive when criticized, and apply negative stereotypes to others to boost our own esteem.

2014年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

实用场景例句


What I am saying applies only to some of you.
我所说的只涉及你们中的一些人。

牛津词典

The word ‘unexciting ’ could never be applied to her novels.
“乏味”这个词绝对和她的小说沾不上边儿。

牛津词典

You would pass your exams if you applied yourself.
努力学习就会通过考试。

牛津词典

We applied our minds to finding a solution to our problem.
我们绞尽脑汁寻求解决问题的办法。

牛津词典

to apply the brakes (of a vehicle)
刹车

牛津词典

Pressure applied to the wound will stop the bleeding.
压住伤口可以止血。

牛津词典

to apply for a job/passport/grant
申请工作 / 护照 / 拨款

牛津词典

to apply to a company/university
向公司 / 大学申请

牛津词典

You should apply in person/by letter .
你应该当面 / 写信申请。

牛津词典

He has applied to join the army.
他已报名参军。

牛津词典

to apply economic sanctions/political pressure
采用经济制裁;施加政治压力

牛津词典

The new technology was applied to farming.
这项新技术已应用于农业。

牛津词典

Apply the cream sparingly to your face and neck.
把乳霜薄薄地抹在脸和脖子上。

牛津词典

Special conditions apply if you are under 18.
18岁以下者按特殊情况处理。

牛津词典

The right thing would be to apply direct pressure to the wound...
正确的做法是直接按住伤口。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Applying the dye can be messy, particularly on long hair.
涂抹染发剂可能会搞得一团糟,特别是长发。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

They forgot to apply the handbrake and the car rolled 60ft into the river.
他们忘了拉手刹,汽车翻滚了60英尺,掉进了河里。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

The convention does not apply to us...
这条惯例对我们不适用。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

The rule applies where a person owns stock in a corporation.
该规定适用于持有公司股票的人。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

The Government appears to be applying the same principle...
政府似乎是在运用相同的原则。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

His project is concerned with applying the technology to practical business problems.
他的项目是将这项技术应用于实际的商务问题。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Connell said a new medical term should be applied to Berg's actions. He calls it 'medicide'.
康奈尔说应该用一个新的医学名词描述伯格的行为。他称之为“医生协助自杀”。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

In spare moments he applied his mind to how rockets could be used to make money.
在业余时间他潜心研究如何能用火箭来赚钱。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

They may apply to join the organization.
他们可以申请加入该组织。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Faulks has applied himself to this task with considerable energy...
福克斯为这项任务倾注了大量精力。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

I am continuing to apply for jobs...
我正在继续找工作。

柯林斯高阶英语词典