as

英 [æz; əz] 美[æz,əz]

conj. 因为；随着；虽然；依照；当…时
prep. 如同；当作；以…的身份
adv. 同样地；和…一样的

CET4IELTS考研CET6高频词基本词汇

助记提示

1. 也就是说它前后呈现出一种一致的比较、对照关系。
2. 即这种对照结果是：相应的，一致的，符合的，同时的，顺着的，顺应的，匹配的上的对照或比较。
3. if / though (即使、纵然) => as if / as though. => 也就是说好像跟即使、纵然这种假设的情况一致、一样似的。

中文词源

as 如同

由古英语alswa 分化出来的两个单词as 和 also, 后在词义和语法上逐渐产生了变化。

英英释意

1. to the same degree (often followed by `as');: "they were equally beautiful"; "birds were singing and the child sang as sweetly"; "sang as sweetly as a nightingale"; "he is every bit as mean as she is"

英文词源

as: as: [12] Ultimately, as is the same word as also. Old English alswā ‘in just this way’ was used in some contexts in which modern English would use as, and as it was weakly stressed in such contexts it gradually dwindled to als or ase and finally to as.
=> also
as (adv.): c. 1200, worn-down form of Old English alswa "quite so" (see also), fully established by c. 1400. Equivalent to so; any distinction in use is purely idiomatic. Related to German als "as, than," from Middle High German also. Phrase as well "just as much" is recorded from late 15c.; the phrase also can imply "as well as not," "as well as anything else." Interjection of incredulity as if! (i.e. "as if that really could happen") is attested from 1995, an exact duplication of Latin quasi.

同义词辨析

as, because, for, since

这些连词均含有"因为"之意。

as：从属连词，语意较because, since弱，着重在主句，所表示的原因或理由是"附带的"。

because：从属连词，语意强，着重直接的原因或理由，所引出的从句是全句的重心，用以回答why提出的问题。

for：并列连词，语气较弱，所引出的句子一般放在后面，表示附带说明的理由或推断理由。

since：语意比because弱，但比as强，一般用于表示"由于大家已知的事实"。

as, like

这两个词均有"像"之意。

as：从属连词，引出方式从句。

like：是前置词，后面跟的是宾语。

though, although, as

这些连词均可表示"虽然，尽管"之意。

though和although在意义上几乎毫无区别，但文体上后者是较正式用词，语气比though强。此外，在习惯用法上这两个词仍有以下一些差异：1.though可引出倒装语序的让步状语从句，although 则不能。2.though可与even连用，although则不能；在as though结构中，只用though，不能用although。3.though可以置于从句末，而although则不能。4.引出省略句时，通常用though。

as：引出让步状语从句只用于倒装语序结构中，语气强于上述两个连词。

when, while, as

这些连词均可表示"当……时"引出时间从句。

when：所引导的从句，其谓语动词既可是持续动词，也可是短暂动词；谓语动词动作发生的时间可以与主句谓语动词的动作是同时，或之前、之后。

while：句中的谓语动词应为持续动词，不用短暂动词，谓语动作发生的时间通常与主句谓语动词动作发生时间是同时。

as：侧重指从句与主句的动作同时进行，谓语动词可以是持续性的，可以是短暂性动词。

考试真题

You feel the same emotions – it is just as raw, just as fresh… You can't turn off that stream of memories, no matter how hard you try.

To ensure employees' commitment, it is advisable to give them more flexibility as to where and how they work.

This is hard to achieve when, as is now the case in many big firms, a large proportion of staff are temporary contractors.

They give priority to relationships, as careers often recede ( ' , 逐渐淡化).

They are favored as a form of art.

There's an ancient legend that as long as these eggs are made, evil will not prevail in the world, says Joan Brander, a Canadian egg-painter who has been painting eggs for over 60 years, having learned the art from her Ukrainian relatives.

The report says America's urbanization will continue to be the most significant issue affecting the industry, as cities across the country imitate the walkability and transit-oriented development making cities like New York and San Francisco so successful.

The report refers to this as the coming of the 18-hour city, and uses the term to refer to cities like Houston, Austin, Charlotte, and Nashville, which are positioning themselves as highly competitive, in terms of livability, employment offerings, and recreational and cultural facilities.

The fashion for teams is also spreading from the usual corporate suspects ( ' , such as GE and IBM) to some more unusual ones.

The brain is a seemingly endless library, whose shelves house our most precious memories as well as our lifetime's knowledge.

Teams are as old as civilisation, of course: even Jesus had 12 co-workers.

Strength, softness and thickness remain the leading indicators of toilet paper quality, with just a small proportion of consumers preferring more luxurious alternatives, such as those with flower patterns or perfume,said Mintel analyst Jack Duckett.

Some people regard professional change as an unpleasant experience that disturbs their stable careers.

People with HSAM have the same memory as ordinary people when it comes to impersonal information.

Penny-pinching UK consumers choose cheaper products from discounters such as Aldi and Lidl rather than luxury alternatives.

It will recover as population grows.

It is especially favored as a church decoration.

Interestingly, their memories are highly self-centred: although they can remember autobiographical life events in extraordinary detail, they seem to be no better than average at recalling impersonal information, such as random ( ' , 任意选取的) lists of words.

I was making as much money as I was as an accountant.

However, as Amy Edmondson of Harvard points out, organisations increasingly use team as a verb rather than a noun: they form teams for specific purposes and then quickly disband them.

He knew my love for yoga and had seen a space close to where he lived that he thought might be good to serve as a yoga studio.

Eggs serve as an enduring symbol of new life.

Clearly, there is no such thing as a perfect memory – their extraordinary minds are still using the same flawed tools that the rest of us rely on.

Chast's designs, such as a worried man alone in a tiny rowboat, reflect that delicateness.

Calling out our fears explicitly, as Leah did, can help us act decisively.

But current studies are beginning to place greater emphasis on the conditions under which we forget, as its importance begins to be more appreciated.

Bill, for instance, often gets painful flashbacks, in which unwanted memories intrude into his consciousness, but overall he has chosen to see it as the best way of avoiding repeating the same mistakes.

As soon as I saw the location, I knew this was it.

As smaller cities copy the model of these 24-hour cities, more affordable versions of these places will be created.

As she explored new interests and developed new potentials, Leah felt powerful internally.

As much as we would like to cling on to our past, even the saddest moments can be washed away with time.

And I think people see that for smoking as well.

A good rule of thumb is that as soon as generals and hospital administrators jump on a management bandwagon ( ' , 追随一种管理潮流), it is time to ask questions.

When Katherine joined Facebook, some of her classmates at high school started to add her as a friend.

This behaviour may have evolved as dogs gradually learned they could benefit from avoiding conflicts with humans.

They suggest this indicates that dogs aren’t sensing emotions from a single feature, but piecing together information from all facial features just as humans do.

The researchers also note that dogs scan faces as a whole to sense how people are feeling, instead of focusing on a given feature.

Still, 60% of drivers would like to get some kind of self-driving feature, such as automatic braking or self-parking the next time they buy a new car.

One of the creatures made a dramatic appearance by moving on to the head of the team leader as he slept.

In the 1600s, people in China used carrots as medicine, but they also ate carrots boiled in soup.

He also believes they will be more likely to trust selfdriving cars as they become more familiar with features such as automatic braking or parking.

Doctors used carrot seeds and roots as medicine, on the theory that foods that taste bad must be good for you.

[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).

Whether you can successfully change your personality as an adult is the subject of a longstanding psychological debate.

This is, in any case, the right conversation to be having now as Mayor Megan Barry takes office.

The trend began in 2007, when leading wheat-exporting countries such as Russia and Argentina limited or banned their exports, in hopes of increasing local food supplies and thereby bringing down domestic food prices.

The study, which followed more than 2,000 healthy adults between the ages of 18 and 60, found that certain mental functions—including measures of abstract reasoning, mental speed and puzzle-solving—started to dull as early as age 27.

The philosophy professor says it is as relevant today as when it was first written many centuries ago.

The nice thing about ancient philosophy as offered by the Greeks is that they tended to see life clear and whole, in a way that we tend not to see life today.

Such personality characteristics as self-discipline have no effect on longevity.

States fail when national governments can no longer provide personal security, food security and basic social services such as education and health care.

Soupios say following the 10 Golden Rules based on ancient wisdom can guide us to the path of the good life where we stop living as onlookers and become engaged and happier human beings.

Russell argues that as robots take on more complicated tasks, it's necessary to translate our morals into AI language.

Researchers from the University of Connecticut Health Center asked the residents a large number of questions about their quality of life, emotional well-being and social interaction, as well as about the quality of the facilities.

Parents regard it as the first phase of children's development.

Others saw them as politically correct and morally appropriate.

Its production depends too much on technologyThey enjoyed cooking as well as eating.

It will be possible to create more sophisticated moral machines, if only we can find a way to set out human values as clear rules.

It has become an inevitable peril as technology gets more sophisticated.

It contributes greatly to the advance of society as a whole.

I do not think that we spend nearly enough time trying to concentrate on achieving a sort of calmness, a sort of contentment in a mental and spiritual way, which was identified by these people as the highest form of happiness and pleasure.

For many in the development community, the four objectives were seen as positive, promoting development as long as they did not cost too much.

Does assisted living really mark a great improvement over a nursing home, or has the industry simply hired better interior designers? Are nursing homes as bad as people fear, or is that an out-moded stereotype ( ' , 固定看法 )? Can doing one's homework really steer families to the best places? It is genuinely hard to know.

Declining mental function is often seen as a problem of old age, but certain aspects of brain function actually begin their decline in young adulthood, a new study suggests.

But unlike the modern definition of Epicureanism as a life of indulgence ( ' , 放纵 ) and luxury, for the ancient Greeks, it meant finding a state of calm, peace and mental ease.

But the new paper suggests that if you want long life, you should strive to be as outgoing as possible.

But according to Aristotle—a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great—most relationships don't qualify as true friendships.

Based on what is emerging from some of this research, that might have been as rational a way as any to reach a decision.

As water tables have fallen and irrigation wells have gone dry, China's wheat crop, the world's largest, has declined by 8% since it peaked at 123 million tons in 1997.

As the world's food security falls to pieces, individual countries acting in their own self-interest are actually worsening the troubles of many.

As incomes rise among low-income consumers, the potential for further grain consumption is huge.

As demand for food rises faster than supplies are growing, the resulting food-price inflation puts severe stress on the governments of many countries.

As artificial intelligence ( ' , AI) becomes increasingly sophisticated, there are growing concerns that robots could become a threat.

As a result, wheat prices elsewhere more than doubled, pulling rice and corn prices up with them.

As a matter of fact, consumers expressed higher satisfaction with the one-star facilities, the lowest rated, than with the five-star ones.

As I was considering all this, a press release from a respected research firm crossed my desk, announcing that the five-star rating system that Medicare developed in 2008 to help families compare nursing home quality also has little relationship to how satisfied its residents or their family members are.

An elderly person who describes herself as in poor health, therefore, might be no less depressed in assisted -86 living ( ' , even if her children preferred it) than in a nursing home.

A person who had input into where he would move and has had time to adapt to it might do as well in a nursing home as in a small residential care home, other factors being equal.

Today, Americans are finding their own tips and tricks for fixing malfunctioning devices with supplies as simple as paper and glue.

Soon, members of the Royal family and other wealthy people took up motoring as a sport.

Some, like Mr.Azar’s plastic bag, are open to argument as to how they work, or whether they really work at all.

Long queues, delayed flights and over - crowding at airports have become almost as much a topic for conversation in Britain as the traditional complaining about the weather.

In some departments, either the chairman or the director of graduate studies serves for at least the first semester as a new student adviser.

As customers began to queue, Mr.

With surging obesity levels putting increasing strain on public health systems, governments around the world have begun to toy with the idea of taxing sugar as well.

Wireless devices will transmit signals so as to activate the alarm once something wrong is detected.

The implication is a sharp decline in global trade, which has plunged partly because oilproducing nations can't afford to import as much as they used to.

Still, gamification only stands to become more popular, he says, as more and more people come into the workforce who are familiar with the structures and expressions of digital games.

One of the prizes used was a lottery ticket ( ' , 彩票), with a $10, $50 or $100 payout, and this was as effective as a tangible gift in persuading people to eat less.

Nonetheless, the renewed focus on waistlines means that industry groups are under pressure to demonstrate their products are healthy as well as tasty.

No matter how the math works out, you persistently view restaurants with voluntary tipping systems as being a better value, which makes it extremely difficult for restaurants and bars to do away with the tipping system.

It is difficult to crack SimpliSafe as its system keeps changing.

It did not work out as well as was expected.

Informing students about the brain as a learning machine is a good strategy to enhance their motivation for learning.

Increasingly, companies are tapping into these desires directly through what has come to be known as gamification: essentially, turning work into a game.

In the past, falling oil prices have given a boost to the world economy, but recent forecasts for global growth have been toned down, even as oil prices sink lower and lower.

In addition, parents and teachers can help children by providing explicit instruction regarding the mind as a learning machine.

In a Los Angeles Times article, one employee referred to the board as a digital whip.

I hate it because it's an obligation disguised as an option.

He'll need to be jamming you at this point, as a broken window or opened door would normally release the alarm.

White parents are more likely than others to read to their children daily, as are married parents.

They are not as serious in its online stores.

The reasoning behind this saying is that low oil prices discourage investment in new production capacity, eventually shifting the oil supply curve backward and bringing prices back up as existing oil fields—which can be tapped at relatively low marginal cost—are depleted.

The prices of coal are low as a result of over-supply and decreasing demand.

The consumer was ultimately to be mentioned as well, especially by the likes of Dorothy Shaver, who could point to the sales figures at Lord & Taylor.

The Russian, Greek and Polish storks flew as far as South Africa, while those from Spain, Tunisia and Germany flew only as far as the Sahel.

The Grand Tourist was typically a young man with a thorough grounding in Greek and Latin literature as well as some leisure time, some means, and some interest in art.

The British traveler Charles Thompson spoke for many Grand Tourists when in 1744 he described himself as being impatiently desirous of viewing a country so famous in history, a country which once gave laws to the world, and which is at present the greatest school of music and painting, contains the noblest productions of sculpture and architecture, and is filled with cabinets of rarities, and collections of all kinds of historical relics.

Technological innovations have unleashed the power of renewables such as wind, hydro, solar, and geothermal ( ' , 地热).

Nearly all members of last year's winning U.S.IMO team took part in MathCounts as middle school students, as did Loh, the coach.

Much of the waste is discarded rotten meat, mixed in with other human debris such as plastic bags and old toys.

Most Grand Tourists, however, stayed for briefer periods and set out with less scholarly intentions, accompanied by a teacher or guardian, and expected to return home with souvenirs of their travels as well as an understanding of art and architecture formed by exposure to great masterpieces.

Most American parents say they are not concerned about their children's grades as long as they work hard.

More than a quarter of children live in single-parent households—a historic high, according to Pew—and these children are three times as likely to live in poverty as those who live with married parents.

Middle-class and higher-income parents see their children as projects in need of careful cultivation, says Annette Lareau, whose groundbreaking research on the topic was published in her book Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race and Family Life.

Many scientists believe that El Ni o events, caused by warming in the Pacific, are becoming more intense as a result of climate change.

Less-educated parents, and poorer and black and Latino parents are more likely to believe that there is no such thing as too much involvement in a child's education.

Last year, the Royal Society in London said in its report that scientists need to shift away from a research culture where data is viewed as a private preserve.

It also adds the element of artistic creativity to attract a new pool of students who may not see themselves as math people.

Interestingly, parents' attitudes toward education do not seem to reflect their own educational background as much as a belief in the importance of education for upward mobility.

In the past decade, even as income inequality has grown, some of the socioeconomic differences in parenting, like reading to children and going to libraries, have narrowed.

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.

If you look at a lot of low-income communities in the United States, there are programs that are serving them, but they're primarily centered around ‘Let's get these kids' grades up,' and not around ‘Let's get these kids access to the same kinds of opportunities as more-affluent kids,' said Daniel Zaharopol, the founder and executive director of the program.

For example, the United Nations Children's Fund estimates that some 11 million children in Africa face hunger, disease, and water shortages as a result of the strongest El Ni o ( ' , 厄尔尼诺) weather phenomenon in decades.

Designer sportswear was not modeled on that of Europe, as modern art would later be; it was genuinely invented and developed in America.

Data on management expenses at the college system and in other state departments will be part of a business justification the state will use as officials deliberate the specifics of an outsourcing plan.

Could utility alone justify the new ideas of the American designers? Fashion is often regarded as a pursuit of beauty, and some cherished fashion's trivial relationship to the fine arts.

Closings were simple, practical, and accessible, as the modern woman depended on no personal maid to dress her.

Beginning in the late sixteenth century, it became fashionable for young aristocrats to visit Paris, Venice, Florence, and above all, Rome, as the culmination ( ' , 终极) of their classical education.

Andrea Flack of the Max Planck Institute found that birds following traditional migration routes were more likely to die than German storks that flew only as far as northern Morocco, and spent the winter there on rubbish dumps.

And it would raise the demand for technologies such as carbon capture and storage, spurring their further development.

A tax on upstream carbon sources is one easy way to put a price on carbon emissions, although some countries may wish to use other methods, such as emissions trading schemes.

You need to understand as a citizen and as a tax payer and as a voter what’s really behind the arguments.

In the past, health experts warned us that the day would come in which it would become very difficult to provide medical care for even common problems such as lung infection or severe sour throat.

In fact, you may have heard about the new superbugs, which are antibiotic-resistant bacteria that have developed as a result of overprescribed antibiotics.

And, apparently, that day has come because seemingly routine operations such as knee replacements are now much more hazardous due to the looming threat of these infections.

When this water is used for agricultural irrigation, farmers risk absorbing disease-causing bacteria, as do consumers who eat the produce raw and unwashed.

Today's teenagers admire their parents and welcome parental guidance about important matters such as career choice—though certainly not Mom and Dad's advice on matters of personal taste, such as music or fashion.

They include such measures as accountable care organizations to take charge of a patient's needs with an eye on both cost and quality, and chronic disease management to make sure the seriously ill, who are responsible for the bulk of all health care costs, are treated properly.

The one in the House bill would have to negotiate rates with providers, rather than using Medicare rates, as many reformers wanted.

The changes would have to be approved or rejected as a whole by Congress, making it hard for narrow-interest lobbies to bend lawmakers to their will.

The average Norwegian is better off than the average US citizen, but contributes about half as much to climate change.

That was as it should be: kitchens were for servants, and the aspiring middle classes wanted nothing to do with them.

That statement comes not, as you might imagine, from a stereotypical tree-hugging, save-the-world greenie ( ' , 环保主义者), but from Gordon Brown, a politician with a reputation for rigour, thoroughness and above all, caution.

Teenagers of today often turn to their parents for advice on such important matters as career choice.

Still, in my studies and others I have read, I find the same patterns as in USA WEEKEND's survey.

Southern states without strong teachers' unions have schools at least as awful as those in union states.

Right into the early 20th century, kitchens were smoky, noisy places, generally located underground, or to the back of the house, and as far from living space as possible.

Recently, we examined more than 400 essays on the laws of life that teens from two communities had written as part of an educational program initiated by the John Templeton Foundation in Radnor, Pa.

Measuring emissions is not a precise science, particularly when it comes to issues surrounding land use; not all nations have released up-to-date data, and in any case, emissions from some sectors such as aviation are not included in national statistics.

Marketers must qualify their claims on the product packaging and limit them to a specific benefit, such as how much of the product is recycled.

Manufacture as many green products as possible.

Just having a strong teacher for one elementary year left pupils a bit less likely to become mothers as teenagers, a bit more likely to go to college and earning more money at age 28.

It is regarded as the center of a modern home.

It gave a third party the authority to label its products as environmentally friendly.

In other words, structural unemployment is a fake problem, which mainly serves as an excuse for not pursuing real solutions.

Hunt through the reports prepared by UN agencies and development groups—many for conferences such as this year's Millennium Goals review—and you will find that the linkage between environmental protection and economic progress is a common thread.

How much is today's spirit of harmony a change from our more turbulent past? A mere generation ago, parentchild relations were described as the generation gap.

Get a teacher from the top 20%, and it's as if a child has gone to school for an extra month or two.

Get a bottom 1% teacher, and the effect is the same as if a child misses 40% of the school year.

Changes in policy would be approved or rejected as a whole so that lobbyists would find it hard to influence lawmakers.

By and large, these are very nice kids, and as the band The Who used to sing, The kids are alright.

But now, as then, powerful forces are ideologically opposed to the whole idea of government action on a sufficient scale to jump-start the economy.

But is this right? Do things get better or worse as we get richer? Here the Stockholm declaration is ambiguous.

But frequently untreated human waste harvested from lavatories is delivered to farms and spread as fertilizer.

But could Norway keep its standard of living and yet cut its emissions to Moroccan or even Ethiopian levels? That question, repeated across a dozen environmental issues and across our diverse planet, is what will ultimately determine whether the human race is living beyond its ecological means as it pursues economic revival.

But as the working classes prospered and the servant shortage set in, housekeeping became a matter of interest to the educated classes.

As countries become richer, they produce more greenhouse gases; and the impact of those gases will fall primarily in poor parts of the world.

As a result, the bills do not require, as they should, that the results of these studies be used to set payment rates in Medicare.

As a report in The New England Journal of Medicine concluded, Pretty much every proposed innovation found in the health policy literature these days is contained in these measures.

As a country's wealth grows, so do its greenhouse gas emissions.

As I said, structural unemployment isn't a real problem, it's an excuse—a reason not to act on America's problems at a time when action is desperately needed.

And the World Resources Institute ( ' , WRI) in its World Resources 2005 report, issued at the end of August, produced several such examples from Africa and Asia; it also demonstrated that environmental degradation affects the poor more than the rich, as poorer people derive a much higher proportion of their income directly from the natural resources around them.

And on reflection, this is not surprising; the single word environment has so many dimensions, and there are so many other factors affecting wealth—such as the oil deposits—that teasing out a simple economy-environment relationship would be almost impossible.

Asked what they would like to change in the world, the students mentioned only personal concerns such as slowing down the pace of life, gaining good friends, becoming more spiritual, becoming either more materially successful or less materially oriented ( ' , depending on the student's values), and being more respectful of the Earth, animals and other people.

You know, one of the first things I like to tell people when they ask me about the supplements, is that a lot of them are promoted as a cure for your memory, but your memory doesn’t need a cure.

Today, my guest is Dana Ivanovich, who has worked for the last twenty years as an interpreter.

The US has already lost more than a third of the native languages that existed before European colonisation, and the remaining 192 are classed by UNESCO as ranging between unsafe and extinct.

Still, there are good reasons to make positive changes in how we live and what we eat as we age.

He predicts high failure rates for smaller, regional banks in 2010 as commercial real estate loans come due.

Gregg Rosen lost his job as a sales nearly three years ago and is still unemployed.

Cognitive decline is the loss of ability to learn new skills, or recall words, names, and faces that is most common as we age.

As U.S.banks recovered with the help of the American government and the American taxpayer, president Obama held meetings with top bank executives, telling them it’s time to return the favor.

After the failure of Lehman Brothers, many of the world’s largest banks feared the worst as the collapse of the housing bubble exposed investments in risky loans.

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Your job is literally killing you, as The Washington Post put it.

You can see that we're here to stay, said Vladimir Cheberdak, 57, chief of the Bellingshausen Station, as he sipped tea under a portrait of Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, a high-ranking officer in the Imperial Russian Navy who explored the Antarctic coast in 1820.

While we argue phasing out racial terminology ( ' , 术语 ) in the biological sciences, we also acknowledge that using race as a political or social category to study racism, although filled with lots of challenges, remains necessary given our need to understand how structural inequities and discrimination produce health disparities ( ' , 差异 ) between groups, Yudell said.

What happens to the centralized electric grid, which took decades and billions of dollars to build, as more and more people become prosumers, who produce and consume their own energy on-site?No one knows which – if any – battery technology will ultimately dominate, but one thing remains clear: The future of energy is in how we store it.

Today's battery breakthroughs come as the world looks to expand modern energy access to the billion or so people without it, while also cutting back on fuels that warm the planet.

This might not be right, but school-leavers who fail to acknowledge as much risk making the wrong decision about going to university.

They do not often demonstrate risky behaviors as their peers.

They are almost as liable to depression as the high-risk group.

The research stations on King George lsland offer a glimpse into the long game on this ice-blanketed continent as nations assert themselves, eroding the sway long held by countries like the United States, Britain, Australia and New Zealand.

The practice of clocking in for an eight-hour workday is a leftover from the days of the Industrial Revolution, as reflected in the then-popular saying, Eight hours labor, eight hours recreation, eight hours rest.

The newer players are stepping into what they view as a treasure house of resources.

The market demand for electronic devices is now either declining or not growing as fast as before.

The booths are still exciting, and the demos are still just as crazy.

The Paris agreement has been widely hailed as a positive step forward in addressing climate change for all, although the details on addressing climate justice can be best described as sketchy.

The researchers also acknowledged that there are a few areas where race as a construct might still be useful in scientific research: as a political and social, but not biological, variable.

As you make reading a regular part of your life, you'll make more connections, stay more focused and understand the text better.

A desk dictionary is medium-sized, generally containing over 170, 000 entries as well as extra features.

A local farmer told them the dog sounded like one advertised as lost in the local paper.

A photography exhibition held by Han Media to celebrate its founding in New York city on April 24, featuring three emerging Chinese photographers; yingxi Michael Shi, Haiyin lin and liming Guan, whose works have appeared in publications such as Vogue.

A politician may read an account of his latest successful public meeting, not for its delayed reward, but very much as his wife reads an account of a party.

The Internet can help make up for our mental and emotional deficiencies as a wooden leg can compensate for a bodily deficiency.

A rethink is required - and as a new approach starts to become apparent, two ideas stand out.

A study of British accents during 1970s found that a voice sounding like a BBC newsreader was viewed as the most attractive voice.

A study of travelers conducted by the website tripadvisor names Yangshuo as one of the top 10 destinations in the world.

A team of researchers trained three rhesus monkeys to associate 26 clearly different symbols consisting of numbers and selective letters with 0-25 drops of water or juice as a reward.

A week-long celebration leads up to an exciting tomato battle as the highlight of the week's events.

Abridged dictionaries, such as pocket and desk dictionaries, are shortened.

According to life in likes, as children grew, they became more anxious to get more public approval.

According to London underground, only 40 percent of travelers walk the full length of long escalators, leaving the majority at the bottom as they wait to get on to the "standing "side.

According to sparrow, we are not becoming people with poor memories as a result of the Internet.

According to the Dallas area cultural advocacy coalition, arts agencies employ more than 10, 000 people as full-or part-time employees or independent contractors.

Across Britain, burnt toast will be served to mothers in bed this morning as older sons and daughters rush to deliver their supermarket bunches of flowers.

After he steadied himself, he shook Glenn's mother's hand, and the inspection continued as though nothing had happened.

After sharing the story online, I heard from someone, who identified the lady as Erin Smith.

Again, not a move, the next time, I had my camera ready to record what you see here, one of several dozen such pictures, so long as she had a slice to eat, she never bothered the one on her head.

All special exhibitions, as well as films, lectures, guided tours, concerts, gallery talks, and.

Although it doesn't taste of anything special, it's still worth a try, as is the knobbly cat's head which is more of a curiosity than anything else.

Americans eat only about fifteen pounds of fish per person per year, but we eat twice as much fish in restaurants as at home.

Amy, as well as her brothers, was given a warm welcome when returning to the village last week.

An A-team may require A balance—not just A players, but a few generous B players as well.

An endless number of books and movies qualify as love stories in popular culture.

And both Helena Bonham-Carter, who plays the part of lady Tottington, and Ralph finesse as victor are really funny.

And they are as clear as glass.

Another argument against television is that it replaces reading as a form of entertainment.

Another patient noticed what I was reading and struck up a conversation with me because he had one of his books with him as well.

Another simple way of building some savings is by depositing as little as two percent of your monthly income into a savings account.

Another study of 302 volunteers at hospitals in Chicago focused on individual differences in the degree to which people view "volunteer" as an important social role.

Arts as an economic driver our communities benefit from arts in terms of economy.

As a child, Adeline couldn't understand why the medal was so significant.

As a child, few people guessed that he was going to be a famous scientist whose theories would change the world.

As a first-year, I was afraid to make any noise towards campus issues that I noticed.

As a general rule, all forms of activity lead to boredom when they are performed on a routine basis.

As a matter of fact, I'm feeling a bit cold.

As a matter of fact, we can see this principle at work in people of all ages.

As a parent, I hated seeing my daughter playing her best, but still defeated.

As a result it's likely to see a rise in the size of its working-age population and to witness strong economic growth over the longer term.

As a result, humans can perform very complex tasks with their hands.

As a result, humans developed a range of character types that still exists today.

As a result, in the last twenty years or so, many people have come to believe that whatever change is happening today is the result of great technological progress, going against which will be like trying to turn the clock back.

As a result, I've always kept up with the newspapers, faithfully read news magazines and learned to really enjoy books, all of which have been an invaluable help to me in radio and television reporting.

As a result, many special are quickly dying out.

As a result, people will eat more food to try to make up for that something missing.

As a retired ear doctor, I heartily recommend TV ears to people with normal hearing as well as those with hearing loss.

As a senior next year, I think extra periods should be used to take optional subjects.

As a third generation native of Brownsville, Texas, mildred Garza never pleased move away.

As always, you should stretch at least ten minutes before each run to prevent injuries.

As an inexperienced teacher, I tried every means to get them to be quiet, but in vain.

As busy people, we are always looking for ways to save time and make our lives easier.

As Cancandy's success grows, so does Moore's credibility as a young entrepreneur.

As children, we thought very little about these educational wonders.

As cultural symbols go, the American car is quite young.

As data and identity theft becomes more and more common, the market is growing for biometric technologies to keep others out of private e-spaces.

As early as 1966, biologists asked the government to consider reintroducing wolves to Yellowstone park.

As executives with banks, consulting firms, established law firms, and major corporations, many are now well on their way to impressive careers.

As expected, I got a roasting, but I now understand why I need discipline.

As experts continue to study the science of risk-seeking, we'll continue to hit the mountains, the waves or the shallow end of the pool.

As for crowds, a Hong Kong study found that they increased a restaurant's reputation, suggesting great food at fair prices.

As for driverless cars, what is the author's major concern?

As for me, I shared none of their canine lust.

As for the bad news, a new bank has been built.

As for the USA, it is almost unique among developed nations in having a population that is expected to grow by 20% from 2010—2030.

As for the working environment, Tains prefers working by herself.

As he got closer, he found another vehicle upside down on the road.

As he grows you also age, and your ambitions become more unachievable.

As he was purchasing it, the salesgirl said, "oh, look, the game box hasn't even been opened yet.

As I approached mile 23, I could see my wife waving a sign.

As I began my own personal weight program, I was filled with the fear that I would.

As I got a little older, I began to understand what my dad really meant.

As I sat in my own personal heaven, I started thinking about having more.

As I squeezed back into my car, I saw the same lady looking in at me.

As I type this, I am in my university dorm room.

As I was in a good mood, I let her have it.

As I watch her chase after a squirrel, throwing her whole being into the here-and-now of an exercise that has never once ended in victory.

As it happened, the bite was virtually painless: more the kind of small bite you might get from a naughty child.

As it turned out, their initial judgments often held true.

As long as one doesn't come to rely on it, wishing for a few good things to happen never hurts anybody.

As long as there have been codes, people have tried to break them.

As more and more people speak the global languages of English, Chinese, Spanish, and Arabic, other languages are rapidly disappearing.

As Muhammad Ali puts it, "champions aren't made in gyms."

As natural architects, the pueblo Indians figured out exactly how thick the adobe walls needed to be to make the cycle work on most days.

As one group of workers carried out the rubbish, another group began removing seats and other theater equipment in preparation for the building's end.

As one would expect, his writing is mostly clear and, to be fair, some chapters stand out above the rest.

As our society grows old, we need the contributions of our older citizens.

As perfect as it was, the price remained too high for us.

As recently reported in The Auk: ornithological advances, some mother birds may teach their young to sing even before they hatch?

As sad as it was, I couldn't help smiling.

As she looked up at the three new humans in her life small, medium, and large, she calculated, "the medium one is the sucker in the pack.

As shown here, Lainey can become excited about reading when presented with literature on topics that interest her, and when the people around her model involvement in the reading process.

While it is easy to ignore in our contact with them the effect of our acts upon their disposition, it is not so easy as in dealing with adults.

Only gradually was the by-product of the institution noted, and only more gradually still was this effect considered as a directive factor in the conduct of the institution.

Even today, in our industrial life, apart from certain values of industriousness and thrift, the intellectual and emotional reaction of the forms of human association under which the world's work is carried on receives little attention as compared with physical output.

But in dealing with the young, the fact of association itself as an immediate human fact, gains in importance.

Thus, in his view, diverse aspects of culture, such as the structure of families, forms of marriage, categories of kinship, ownership of property, forms of government, technology, and systems of food production, all changed as societies evolved.

This theory was known as diffusionism.

They also focused on important rituals that appeared to preserve a people’s social structure, such as initiation ceremonies that formally signify children’s entrance into adulthood.

The findings of a research institution have consistently shown that workers in all countries can be trained on the job to achieve radical higher productivity and, as a result, radically higher standards of living.

The U.workforce was derided as poorly educated and one of primary cause of the poor U.economic performance.

Supporters of the theory viewed culture as a collection of integrated parts that work together to keep a society functioning.

So it seems antithetical to talk about habits in the same context as creativity and innovation.

Rather than dismissing ourselves as unchangeable creatures of habit, we can instead direct our own change by consciously developing new habits.

Other anthropologists believed that cultural innovations, such as inventions, had a single origin and passed from society to society.

Mean while , many settles had slighter religious commitments than Dane’s, as one clergyman learned in confronting folk along the coast who mocked that they had not come to the New world for religion.

In the early 1900s in North America, German-born American anthropologist Franz Boas developed a new theory of culture known as historical particularism.

In order to study particular cultures as completely as possible, he became skilled in linguistics, the study of languages, and in physical anthropology, the study of human biology and anatomy.

Critics also argue that commercial genetic testing is only as good as the reference collections to which a sample is compared.

But in keeping with our examination of southern intellectual life, we may consider the original Puritans as carriers of European culture adjusting to New world circumstances.

Boas felt that the culture of any society must be understood as the result of a unique history and not as one of many cultures belonging to a broader evolutionary stage or type of culture.

As education improved, humanity's productivity potential increased as well.

We have no land ethic yet, but we have at least drawn nearer the point of admitting that birds should continue as a matter of intrinsic right,regardless of the presence or absence of economic advantage to us.

Some species of trees have been"read out of the party"by economics-minded foresters because they grow too slowly, or have too low a sale value to pay as timber crops.

In Europe, where forestry is ecologically more advanced, the noncommercial tree species are recognized as members of the native forest community, to be preserved as such, within reason.

“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'.

These men believed in journalism as a calling,and were proud to be published in the daily press.

Such food service operators range from snack machines to large institutional catering ventures, but most of these businesses are known in the trade as “horeca”： hotels, restaurants and cafes.

Similarly, some Wall Street investment films armed themselves with patents for financial products, even as they took positions in court cases opposing the practice.

Overall, Europe’s wholesale market for food and drink is growing at the same sluggish pace as the retail market, but the figures, when added together, mask two opposing trends.

Neville Cardus, who wrote for the Manchester Guardian from 1917 until shortly before his death in 1975,is now known solely as a writer of essays on the game of cricket.

Moreover, average overall margins are higher in wholesale than in retail; wholesale demand from the food service sector is growing quickly as more Europeans eat out more often; and changes in the competitive dynamics of this fragmented industry are at last making it feasible for wholesalers to consolidate.

Meanwhile, as the recession is looming large, people are getting anxious.

Later, move established companies raced to add such patents to their files, if only as a defensive move against rivals that might bent them to the punch.

In re Bilski, as the case is known, is.

Closer inspection reveals important differences among the biggest national markets, especially in their customer segments and wholesale structures, as well as the competitive dynamics of individual food and drink categories.

At least, that is how it looks as a whole.

” Achievement happens because you as a person embody the external achievement； you don‘t “ get” success but become it.

With its theme that “Mind is the master weaver，” creating our inner character and outer circumstances， the book As a Man Thinking by James Allen is an in-depth exploration of the central idea of self-help writing.

Nevertheless， as any biographer knows， a person’s early life and its conditions are often the greatest gift to an individual.

However， Allen believed that the unconscious mind generates as much action as the conscious mind， and while we may be able to sustain the illusion of control through the conscious mind alone， in reality we are continually faced with a question： “Why cannot I make myself do this or achieve that？ ”Since desire and will are damaged by the presence of thoughts that do not accord with desire， Allen concluded ： “ We do not attract what we want， but what we are.

While traditional “paid” media – such as television commercials and print advertisements – still play a major role, companies today can exploit many alternative forms of media.

When Liam McGee departed as president of Bank of America in August, his explanation was surprisingly straight up.

We define such sold media as owned media whose traffic is so strong that other organizations place their content or e-commerce engines within that environment.

Toyota Motor, for example, alleviated some of the damage from its recall crisis earlier this year with a relatively quick and well-orchestrated social-media response campaign, which included efforts to engage with consumers directly on sites such as Twitter and the social-news site Digg.

This trend ,which we believe is still in its infancy, effectively began with retailers and travel providers such as airlines and hotels and will no doubt go further.

There are also stories about newly adoptive – and newly single – mom Sandra Bullock, as well as the usual “Jennifer Aniston is pregnant” news.

The growth in public money for academic research has speeded the process: federal research grants rose fourfold between 1960 and 1990, but faculty teaching hours fell by half as research took its toll.

The decision of the New York Philharmonic to hire Alan Gilbert as its next music director has been the talk of the classical-music world ever since the sudden announcement of his appointment in 2009.

Rather than concluding that children make parents either happy or miserable, Senior suggests we need to redefine happiness: instead of thinking of it as something that can be measured by moment-to-moment joy, we should consider being happy as a past-tense condition.

Professionalism has turned the acquisition of a doctoral degree into a prerequisite for a successful academic career: as late as 1969 a third of American professors did not possess one.

One of the reasons why the appointment came as such a surprise, however, is that Gilbert is comparatively little known.

No disciplines have seized on professionalism with as much enthusiasm as the humanities.

In the third quarter, CEO turnover was down 23% from a year ago as nervous boards stuck with the leaders they had, according to Liberum Research.

Gilbert’s own interest in new music has been widely noted: Alex Ross, a classical-music critic, has described him as a man who is capable of turning the Philharmonic into “a markedly different, more vibrant organization”.

For earned media , such marketers act as the initiator for users’ responses.

Ellen Marram quit as chief of Tropicana a decade age, saying she wanted to be a CEO.

As the first signs of recovery begin to take hold, deputy chiefs may be more willing to make the jump without a net.

As the economy picks up, opportunities will abound for aspiring leaders.

As boards scrutinize succession plans in response to shareholder pressure, executives who don’t get the nod also may wish to move on.

As a description of the next music director of an orchestra that has hitherto been led by musicians like Gustav Mahler and Pierre Boulez, that seems likely to have struck at least some Times readers as faint praise.

Just as the bewildering variety of human courtship rituals might all be considered forms of sexual selection, perhaps the world’s languages, music, social and religious customs and even history are governed by universal features.

Within the complex social structure of the scientific community, researchers make discoveries; editors and reviewers act as gatekeepers by controlling the publication process; other scientists use the new finding to suit their own purposes; and finally, the public ( ' , including other scientists) receives the new discovery and possibly accompanying technology.

What counts as meaningful uploading? My definition revolves around the concept of.

The second half of the 20th century saw a collection of geniuses, warriors, entrepreneurs and visionaries labour to create a fabulous machine that could function as a typewriter and printing press, studio and theatre, paintbrush and gallery, piano and radio, the mail as well as the mail carrier.

The networked computer is an amazing device, the first media machine that serves as the mode of production, means of distribution, site of reception, and place of praise and critique.

The most glaring flaw of the social cure as it’s presented here is that it doesn’t work very well for very long.

Nobel Laureate and physiologist Albert Azent-Gyorgyi once described discovery as “seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.”

Instead, the company has done precisely what it had long promised it would not challenge the constitutionality of Vermont’s rules in the federal court, as part of a desperate effort to keep its Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant running.

In the end, credibility “happens” to a discovery claim - a process that corresponds to what philosopher Annette Baier has described as the commons of the mind.

In South Africa, an HIV-prevention initiative known as LoveLife recruits young people to promote safe sex among their peers.

First, scientific work tends to focus on some aspect of prevailing Knowledge that is viewed as incomplete or incorrect.

Consequently, discovery claims should be thought of as protoscience.

But as the Nuclear Regulatory Commission ( ' , NRC) reviews the company’s application, it should keep it mind what promises from Entergy are worth.

Britain’s Labor Party, as its name implies, has long been associated with trade unionism.

As the cost to everyone else has become clearer, politicians have begun to clamp down.

As a discovery claim works it through the community, the interaction and confrontation between shared and competing beliefs about the science and the technology involved transforms an individual’s discovery claim into the community’s credible discovery.

As a condition of receiving state approval for the sale, the company agreed to seek permission from state regulators to operate past 2012.

And that’s the problem with a social cure engineered from the outside: in the real world, as in school, we insist on choosing our own friends.

An emerging body of research shows that positive health habits-as well as negative ones-spread through networks of friends via social communication.

When we are deprived of green, of plants, of trees, most of us give into a demoralization of spirit which we usually blame on some psychological conditions, until one day we find ourselves in garden and feel the expression vanish as if by magic.

This distinction is so much so that where the latter is lacking, as it is for these unlikely gardens, the foremer becomes all the more urgent.

The gardens of the homeless which are in effect homeless gardens introduce from into an urban environment where it either didn’t exist or was not discernible as such.

In most of the homeless gardens of New York City the actual cultivation of plants is unfeasible, yet even so the compositions often seem to represent attempts to call arrangement of materials, an institution of colors, small pool of water, and a frequent presence of petals or leaves as well as of stuffed animals.

A sacred place of peace, however crude it may be, is a distinctly human need, as opposed to shelter, which is a distinctly animal need.

This is an adequate amount so long as it is aimed in the right direction.

These labels encourage style-conscious consumers to see clothes as disposable-meant to last only a wash or two, although they don’t advertise that –and to renew their wardrobe every few weeks.

These issues all have root causes in human behavior: all require behavioral change and social innovations, as well as technological development.

The 8-0 objection to President Obama trues on what Justice Samuel Alito describes in his objection as “a shocking assertion assertion of federal executive power”.

Stemming climate change, for example, is as much about changing consumption patterns and promoting tax acceptance as it is about developing clean energy.

On May 31st Microsoft Set off the row: It said that Internet Explorer 10,the version due to appear windows 8, would have DNT as a default.

Now utopia has grown unfashionable, as we have gained a deeper appreciation of the range of threats facing us, from asteroid strike to epidemic flu and to climate change.

It could be that we are evolving two communities of social scientists: one that is discipline-oriented and publishing in highly specialized journals, and one that is problem-oriented and publishing elsewhere, such as policy briefs.

In the last decade or so ,advances in technology have allowed mass-market labels such as Zara ,H&M, and Uniqlo to react to trends more quickly and anticipate demand more precisely.

During the late 1990s，national spending on social sciences and the humanities as a percentage of all research and development funds-including government, higher education, non-profit and corporate—varied from around 4% to 25%; in most European nations, it is about 15%.

But as Cline is the first to note, it took Beaumont decades to perfect her craft; her example can’t be knocked off.

As so often, the past holds the key to the future: we have now identified enough of the long-term patterns shaping the history of the planet, and our species, to make evidence-based forecasts about the situations in which our descendants will find themselves.

As of 2005, there were almost half a million professional social scientists from all fields in the world, working both inside and outside academia.

The music is abrupt and seemingly disconnected, as in the last piano sonata.

Beethoven’s music tends to move from chaos to order as if order were an imperative of human existence.

You cannot buy class, as the old saying goes, and these upstart entrepreneurs cannot buy their prizes the prestige of the Nobels.

Today, professors routinely treat the progressive interpretation of history and progressive public policy as the proper subject of study while portraying conservative or classical liberal ideas —such as free markets, self-reliance—as falling outside the boundaries of routine, and sometimes legitimate, intellectual investigation.

词组搭配

as and when

at the time when (used to refer to an uncertain future event)

[用于指不确定的未来之事]当

They deal with an issue as and when it rears its head.
事到临头他们才会开始处理。

as for

with regard to

至于，关于

As for you, you'd better be quick.
至于你，你最好快点。

as from (或 of)

(chiefly Brit.)used to indicate the time or date from which something starts

(主英)[用于指某事开始之时或开始的日期] 从

As from 1 January, a free market will be created.
从1月1号开始，一个自由市场将建成。
I'm on the dole as from now.
从现在开始我就要吃救济了。

as if (或 though)

as would be the case if

好像，似乎，仿佛

She behaved as if he wasn't there.
她的所作所为好像他根本不在场似的。

as if!

(informal)I very much doubt it

(非正式)我很怀疑！

You know how pools winners always say it won't change their lives? Yeah, as if.
你知道那些足球赛赌博的赢家们总是说赢了钱还是改变不了他们的生活吗？当然知道，可我才不信呢。

as (it) is

in the existing circumstances

在目前情况下，按现在情况来看

I've got enough on my plate as it is.
眼下我要做的事情已够多的了。

as long as

只要；和…一样长

As long as my heart still beats, I will go on working for the people.
只要我的心脏还在跳动，我就要为人民工作。

as much

同样地

I'm as much in the dark as you.
我和你一样毫不知情。

as of

到…时候为止

As of this writing, no reply has been received.
到写这封信时为止，尚未得到答复。

as per

按照；根据

I approached an Intourist official, as per instructions.
我按照指示接洽了一位苏联国际旅行社官员。

as such

同样地；就其本身而论

How can there be things as such?
哪会有这种事？

as though

好像，仿佛

I thought it looked as though the battery was going.
我看电池好像该换了。

as to

with respect to; concerning

关于；在…方面

This gave me a clue as to the source of the problem.
这件事给我提供了找出问题根源的线索。

as well

也;还

He should pay and maintain you as well.
他得给你钱，还得供养你。

实用场景例句

They were all dressed as clowns.: 他们都打扮成小丑。

The bomb was disguised as a package.: 炸弹伪装成一个包裹。

She works as a courier.: 她的职业是导游。

Treat me as a friend.: 要把我当作朋友。

She is to retire as from 1 October.: 她将于10月1日退休。

Anne shrugged, as if she didn't know...: 安妮耸了耸肩，好像她并不知晓。

He burst into a high-pitched laugh, as though he'd said something funny.: 他突然放声大笑，好像讲了什么好笑的事似的。

The border, effectively closed since 1981, will be opened as of January the 1st...: 实质上从1981年就已关闭的边境将于1月1日开放。

They should make decisions as to whether the student needs more help...: 他们应该决定学生是否需要更多的帮助。

Andy sat down at the table and inquired as to what the problem was.: 安迪在桌边落座，询问出了什么问题。

In this changing business environment, different demands are being placed on employees. As a consequence, the education system needs to change.: 在当今变幻莫测的商业环境下，员工被提出各种不同的要求。因此，教育体系有必要随之改变。

As you can see, we're still working...: 如你所见，我们仍在工作。

We were sitting, as I remember, in a riverside restaurant.: 我记得我们当时是坐在一个河畔的餐馆里。

They are regularly sent booklets about personal safety, but they barely read them as they have so much paperwork to deal with...: 他们经常会收到关于人身安全问题的宣传册，但因为大量文案工作缠身，他们几乎无暇阅读。

Enjoy the first hour of the day. This is important as it sets the mood for the rest of the day.: 好好享受每天的第一个小时。这之所以重要是因为它会决定你一整天的心情。

I'd understood the words, but I didn't, as it were, understand the question.: 字面的意思我懂了，但是可以说我并不能理解这个问题。

I want to work at home on a Tuesday but as it turns out sometimes it's a Wednesday or a Thursday.: 我想周二在家工作，但实际上有时却是周三或是周四。

I feel that there's a lot of pressure put on policemen. And as for putting guns in their hands, I don't think that's a very good idea at all.: 我觉得给警员的压力太大了。至于让他们佩枪，我并不认为是一个明智之举。

The news apparently came as a complete surprise...: 这个消息显然让人大吃一惊。

She loved singing as a child and started vocal training at 12.: 她从小就喜欢唱歌，12岁开始了声乐训练。

I'll behave toward them as I would like to be treated...: 我会以希望别人对待我的方式来对待他们。

Today, as usual, he was wearing a three-piece suit...: 像往常一样，他今天穿的是三件套。

As a result of the growing fears about home security, more people are arranging for someone to stay in their home when they're away...: 因为越来越担心住宅安全，更多的人在出门的时候会在家中留人。

She gets as many as eight thousand letters a month.: 她一个月里收到的信件多达8,000封。

He has worked as a diplomat in the US, Sudan and Saudi Arabia...: 他曾任驻美国、苏丹和沙特阿拉伯的外交官。

You can look forward to a significant cash return by saving from as little as £10 a month...: 只要每个月存下区区10英镑，你就有希望得到相当可观的现金收益。

There was no obvious reason why this could not be as good a film as the original.: 找不出明显的理由来解释为什么这部片子拍得不如原先的好。

I never went through a final exam that was as difficult as that one...: 我从来没有碰到过像那次那么难的期末考试。

All the jury's eyes were on him as he continued...: 在他继续陈述的时候，全体陪审员的目光都集中在他身上。

Another policeman has been injured as fighting continued this morning...: 今早又有一名警员在冲突中受伤。

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