首页英语词典paperpaper的意思

paper

英 ['peɪpə] 美['pepɚ]

英英释义同义词辨析词组搭配考试真题实用场景例句

近义词log annals memoirs letters chronicle

n. 纸；论文；文件；报纸
adj. 纸做的
vt. 用纸糊；用纸包装
vi. 贴糊墙纸；发交通违章传票
n. (Paper)人名；(俄)帕佩尔

CET4TEM4考研CET6高频词基本词汇

词态变化

复数: papers;第三人称单数: papers;过去式: papered;过去分词: papered;现在分词: papering;

中文词源

paper 纸，报纸，试卷

来自拉丁语papyrus,纸莎草，纸莎草制的纸，词源同papyrus.最终来自埃及语。引申诸相关词义。

英英释意

1. a material made of cellulose pulp derived mainly from wood or rags or certain grasses

2. an essay (especially one written as an assignment);: "he got an A on his composition"

3. a daily or weekly publication on folded sheets; contains news and articles and advertisements;: "he read his newspaper at breakfast"

4. a scholarly article describing the results of observations or stating hypotheses;: "he has written many scientific papers"

5. medium for written communication;: "the notion of an office running without paper is absurd"

6. a business firm that publishes newspapers;: "Murdoch owns many newspapers"

7. a newspaper as a physical object;: "when it began to rain he covered his head with a newspaper"

英文词源

paper: paper: [14] Paper gets its name from the papyrus, a sort of rush from which in ancient times paper was made. The Greek word for this (presumably borrowed from some Oriental language) was pápūros, and its Latin in descendant papyrus passed into English via Old French papier and Anglo-Norman papir. (English papyrus [14] itself was an independent borrowing direct from Latin.)
=> papyrus, taper
paper (n.): mid-14c., from Anglo-French paper, Old French papier "paper, document," from Latin papyrus "paper, paper made of papyrus stalks" (see papyrus).

Meaning "paper money" attested from 1722. As shortened form of newspaper, first attested 1640s. In plural, "collection of papers to establish one's identity, credentials, etc.," it is attested from 1680s. Paper chase is British slang from 1932.
paper (v.): 1590s, "to write down on paper," from paper (n.). Meaning "to decorate a room with paper hangings" is from 1774. Related: Papered; papering. Verbal phrase paper over in the figurative sense is from 1955, from the notion of hiding plaster cracks with wallaper.
paper (adj.): 1590s, from paper (n.). Figurative of something flimsy or unsubstantial from 1716. Paper tiger (1952) translates Chinese tsuh lao fu, popularized by Mao Zedong. Paper doll attested from 1849; paper plate from 1723.

同义词辨析

composition, article, essay, paper, prose, thesis, theme, dissertation

这些名词均含"文章，论文"之意。

composition：多指学校里老师给学生的作文练习。

article：多指在报刊、杂志上发表的非文艺性的文章，包括新闻报导、学术论文等。

essay：指任何一种非小说性的，篇幅不长、结构简练的文章，如论说文、报道、评论、讽刺性杂文等。

paper：正式用词，多指在学术刊物上发表或在学术会议上宣读的专题论文，也指高等学校的学期论文，或学校里的作文练习。

prose：专指散文。

thesis：既可指毕业论文、学位论文，又可指一般的为阐述学术观点而写的论文。

theme：一般指大学或高中生作为作业所写的篇幅有限、较完整论述某个观点的文章。也可指作品或谈话的主要论题。

dissertation：书面语用词，指独立研究后所写的较为详细的专题文章；也可指学位论文。

paper, document

这两个名词均含"文件"之意。

paper：普通用词，泛指成册供将来参考或使用的任何文件或公文等。

document：即可指法律性文件，也可指用作证明或消息来源的文件或记录等。

考试真题

While consumers are spending less on toilet paper, they remain fussy – in theory at least – when it comes to paper quality.

Top of Britons' toilet paper wish list is softness ( ' , 57%) followed by strength ( ' , 45%) and thickness ( ' , 36%).

Toilet paper manufacturers compete with one another to improve product quality.

Toilet paper manufacturers are facing a great challenge in promoting its sales.

This has wiped 6% off the value of the soft tissue paper market in the UK.

They reject using toilet paper with unnecessary features.

They prefer cheap toilet paper to recycled toilet paper.

They emphasize the strength of toilet paper the most.

They are particular about the quality of toilet paper.

These extra features are deemed unnecessary by the majority of shoppers, which probably reflects how these types of products are typically more expensive than regular toilet paper, even when on special offer.

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.

Shoppers in the UK are spending less money on toilet paper to save money, research has shown.

Overall, almost three in five people say they try to limit their usage of paper – including facial tissue and kitchen roll – to save money.

One in 10 buyers rank toilet rolls made from recycled paper among their top considerations, highlighting how overall the environment is much less of a consideration for shoppers than product quality.

More and more Britons buy recycled toilet paper to protect the environment.

In the last year alone, despite an increase in the UK population and a subsequent rise in the number of households, sales of toilet paper fell by 2%, with the average household reducing their toilet roll spending from £43 in 2014 to £41 in 2015.

In a challenge for manufacturers, 81% of paper product users said they would consider buying recycled toilet tissue if it were comparable in quality to standard paper.

Environmental protection is not much of a concern when Britons buy toilet paper.

A couple of recent papers have finally opened a window on these people's extraordinary minds.

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

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

Instead of digging through pieces of paper and peering into corners, we move our fingers left and right.

Everything about the look and feel of a wallet—the way the fastenings and materials wear and tear and loosen with age, the plastic and paper and gold and silver, and handwritten phone numbers and printed cinema tickets—is the very opposite of what our world is becoming.

Printing with moveable type on paper dramatically reduced the cost of producing a book compared with the old-fashioned ones handwritten on vellum, which comes from sheepskin.

So a third of the people in my program were using the iPad in class to take notes, the other third were using laptops and the last third were using paper and pencil.

According to Kalpit Shah, some students still use paper and pencil because they have get tired of reading on the iPad

The paper provides support for newer forms of psychotherapy (心理治疗) that urge people to accept their negative thoughts and feelings rather than fight them.

I'll tell my secretary to put the paper in my mail box, and I'll get it when I return.

In the morning, I just sit in comfort and read the papers to catch up with the news.

The small paper is successful again.

There was a time when any personal information that was gathered about us was typed on a piece of paper and locked away in a file cabinet

It's about a newspaper editor who's being driven out of business by a big newspaper syndicate—you know, a group of papers owned by the same people.

Pamela is not good at writing research papers

Well, the main activities in the region were historically steel and paper processing, I think.

As for paper processing, there's still a little

It has a history as long as paper processing.

I always start by choosing two boarder topics when I'm doing a research paper.

It takes a lot of energy, but that's not part of my paper.

: What problem does the man have while working on his paper

: What does the woman say is common in writing papers?

Good morning, I'm calling about the job that was in the paper last night.

"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.

But one lawyer tells the paper that the changes still have to be adopted by local governments and these procedures take time.

Everything about the look and feel of a wallet—the way the fastenings and materials wear and tear and loosen with age, the plastic and paper and gold and silver, and handwritten phone numbers and printed cinema tickets—is the very opposite of what our wor

In Shanghai, a young couple at a marriage registration office told the paper that they decided to register their marriage as soon as possible to take advantage of the existing policy because an extra holiday was a big deal for them.

Let's see what it says in the paper.

Now we also want some drawing pens, ink and rulers, and some drawing paper.

The critic in the local paper says it's the funniest thing he's ever seen.

Top of Britons' toilet paper wish list is softness 57% followed by strength 45% and thickness 36%.

Sweden was the first European country to print and use paper money, but it may soon do away with physical currencies.

The stimulus package provided money to convert the inefficient, paper-driven medical system to electronic records that can be easily viewed and transmitted.

Conversion of paper to electronic medical records will help eliminate redundant tests and prevent drug interactions.

In the paper, he and his colleagues used the example of cystic fibrosis, which is underdiagnosed in people of African ancestry because it is thought of as a white disease.

Hall's findings suggest there's an argument to be made for electing to use African American, though one can't help but get the sense that it's a decision that papers over the urgency of continued progress.

They think if they do a topic of their choice, "I'll just go get that history paper I did last year on the Roman Empire and turn it into a first-person application essay!

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

In the 1930s,when only one in 10 Americans had a degree from a four-year college, an admissions committee was content to ask for a sample of applicants'chool papers to assess their writing ability

In the old days, applicants only had to submit a sample of their school papers to show their writing ability

Books, conferences and research papers have multiplied.

Perhaps the best examples are the five scientific papers Einstein wrote in his "miracle year" of

We all get papers like those in the mail," Greene said.

They attach great importance to publishing academic papers

People have to compete in order to get their papers published.

It is hard for a scientist to have his papers published today

Papers like Einstein's would unlikely get published today.

Nobody will read papers on apparently ridiculous theories

When he submitted his papers in 1905, Einstein was little known in academic circles.

knew nothing about the format of academic papers

Did you see the headlines in the paper this morning?

We can turn the most luxuriant forests into throwaway paper products

Did you read the article in the paper about the mayor's speech at the economic forum?

But many papers lack interest in reporting something positive like peace, love and generosity.

I always start by choosing two boarder topics when I'm doing a research paper.

And they didn't even report the actual test scores in the final paper.

In so doing, they can potentially get three citation—one each for the data and software, in addition to the paper itself.

Scientists can use a DOI to publish each step of the research life cycle, not just the final paper.

Terrie Moffitt's paper on "The link Between Childhood Self-control and Adult Status Decades Later" is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The paper is published online by the Annals of Internal Medicine.

This paper is a large part of your cumulative grade, so make sure to follow the instructions.

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

According to a paper in 2011 by Mr Hsiang and co-authors, civil conflict is related to El nino's harmful effects.

Among the bag makers' arguments: many cities with bans still allow shoppers to purchase paper bags, which are easily recycled but require more energy to produce and transport.

Anything interesting in the paper today, dear?

At first the price of single copies was seldom a penny-usually two or three cents was charged-and some of the older well-known papers charged five or six cents.

At the bottom of the paper were these words:" see what you can do when you keep trying? "

But the phrase "penny paper" caught the public's fancy, and soon there would be papers that did indeed sell for only a penny.

Companies produce thousands of different kinds of disposable products: paper plates, plastic cups, and cameras, to name a few.

He broke down as he thought of his failure to sell all his papers.

He had hoped to sell more papers tonight to make more money to buy a cake for his mother and some seeds for his bird.

He lost sale of twenty papers because he would not tell a lie, but got a well-paid job because he told the truth.

He was extremely worried as the suitcase had all his important papers, including his passport.

He would have to go home too, carrying the papers instead of money.

I didn't expect anything when I handled in my paper to mrs.

I have hundreds of printer paper, covered in self-written notes from your video.

I once wrote a paper on the influence of fairy tales on Roald Dahl's writing and it gave me a new appreciation for his strange and delightful words.

If you're meeting with the professor to go over a paper or test, or to ask questions about a particular lecture or reading, make sure you bring that paper or test, or your lecture notes or a copy of the article.

In 105 AD, paper was invented in China.

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.

I've got to write a paper about Hollywood in the 30s and 40s, and I'm really struggling.

My husband rushed to their home to find a kind family holding all his papers and documents.

On the way, we spotted a man holding a piece of paper that said, "lost my job".

Publishers already in business, people who were owners of successful papers, had little desire to change the tradition.

Seventeen states allow parents to get an exemption豁免, sometimes just by signing a paper saying they personally object to a vaccine.

Should you come across waste paper thrown out of a passing car, pick it up.

That was why he had bought the papers with all his money.

The girl's parents got rashid's phone number from a letter in his papers.

The little boy had been running up and down the street, but there were still twenty papers left.

The trend, then, was toward the "penny paper"--a term referring to papers made widely available to the public.

Their young daughter had gone to the trash can and found a pile of unfamiliar papers.

Then he said they had found a pile of papers in their trash can that had been left out on the footpath.

There is also l'enigme sans fin from 1938, works on paper, objects, and projects for stage and screen and selected parts from television programmes reflecting the artist's showman qualities.

They hope paper bags will be banned someday too and want shoppers to use the same reusable bags for years.

Those are the classic rules for the evening broadcasts and the morning papers.

To my surprise, I found that she would pack a paper bag full of canned goods and head out every morning at about nine.

We can't mix liquid with paper.

White hasn't finished grading the papers.

You won't find paper cutting difficult as long as you keep practicing it.

In those far-off days, it was taken for granted that the critics of major papers would write in detail and at length about the events they covered.

However, the numbers are still small: in 2010, about 1,600 of the 100,000 social-sciences papers published globally included one of these keywords.

Analyses reveal that the number of papers including the keywords.

Vaux says that Science’s idea to pass some papers to statisticians “has some merit, but a weakness is that it relies on the board of reviewing editors to identify ‘the papers that need scrutiny’ in the first place”.

I think that, for the majority of scientific papers nowadays, statistical review is more essential than expert review,” he says.

Asked whether any particular papers had impelled the change, McNutt said: “The creation of the ‘statistics board’ was motivated by concerns broadly with the application of statistics and data analysis in scientific research and is part of Science’s overall drive to increase reproducibility in the research we publish.

“Sometime in the future,” the paper’s publisher said back in 2010.

Nostalgia for ink on paper and the rustle of pages aside, there’s plenty of incentive to ditch print.

The runaway success of The Pickwick Papers, as it is generally known today, secured Dickens’s fame.

The comic novel, The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, appeared serially in 1836 and 1837, and was first published in book form in 1837.

A recent paper, titled "The Natural Selection of Bad Science", published on the Royal Society's open science website, attempts to answer this intriguing and important question.

Although electronic means of payment may be more efficient than a payments system based on paper, several factors work against the disappearance of the paper system.

Companies located in places with happier people invest more, according to a recent research paper.

I came to recognise various signs of a bad paper: the kind of paper that purports to show that people who eat more than one kilo of broccoli a week were 1.17 times more likely than those who eat less to suffer late in life from pernicious anaemia.

Later this year, we will publish a white paper setting out exactly how we will achieve this.

Nostalgia for ink on paper and the rustle of pages aside, there's plenty of incentive to ditch print.

Second, paper checks have the advantage that they provide receipts, something that many consumers are unwilling to give up.

The authors of the paper are from different universities, and their findings are based on a study involving 147 students at an unnamed private university.

Third, the use of paper checks gives consumers several days of "float" — it takes several days before a check is cashed and funds are withdrawn from the issuer's account, which means that the writer of the check can earn interest on the funds in the meant

This has created "a paradox" in that recruiting first-generation students, but then watching many of them fail, means that higher education has "continued to reproduce and widen, rather than close" an achievement gap based on social class, according to th

This is the famed citation index, that is to say the number of times a paper has been quoted elsewhere in the scientific literature, the assumption being that an important paper will be cited more often than one of small account.

词组搭配

paper over

To put or keep out of sight; conceal

隐藏：使不被看到；掩饰

paper over a deficit with accounting gimmicks.
在帐上耍花招来掩饰亏空

To downplay or gloss over (differences, for example), especially in order to maintain a nominal, apparent, or temporary unity.

虚饰：掩饰或暂平息（如不同点），尤其为了维持名义上的、表面的或暂时的团结

be not worth the paper it is written on

be of no value or validity whatsoever despite having been written down

毫无价值

make the papers

be written about in newspapers and thus become famous or notorious

因上了报纸而出名

paper over the cracks

disguise problems or divisions rather than trying to solve them

掩饰分歧；掩盖问题

on paper

In writing or print.

书面上：书写或印刷形式

In theory, as opposed to actual performance or fact

理论上：在理论上，不同于真实的表现或事实

It is a good team on paper, but its members play poorly together.
在理论上它是一支不错的队，可是队员们配合不好

实用场景例句

a piece/sheet of paper: 一片 / 一张纸

a package wrapped in brown paper: 一个牛皮纸包裹

recycled paper: 再生纸

She wrote her name and address on a slip (= a small piece) of paper .: 她把姓名、地址写在一张纸条上。

Experience is more important for this job than paper qualifications (= that exist on paper, but may not have any real value) .: 就这项工作而言，经验比纸面上的资格重要。

paper losses/profits (= that are shown in accounts but which may not exist in reality): 账面亏损 / 利润

This journal is available in paper and electronic form.: 这份刊物有印刷版本和电子版本。

a local/national paper: 地方性 / 全国性报纸

He wrote his name down on a piece of paper for me...: 他把他的名字写在一张纸上交给我。

She sat at the table with pen and paper.: 她拿着纸笔坐在桌旁。

I might get a paper in the village...: 我或许能在村子里找到一份报纸。

I'll cook and you read the paper.: 我做饭，你看报纸。

You can't believe everything you read in the paper...: 报纸上看到的东西不能全信。

There's been a lot in the papers about the problems facing stepchildren.: 报纸上有很多关于继子女所面临的问题的报道。

Her papers included unpublished articles and correspondence.: 她的资料包括未发表的文章和信件。

A young Moroccan stopped by police refused to show his papers...: 一位被警察拦下的摩洛哥青年拒绝出示他的证件。

They have arrested four people who were trying to leave the country with forged papers.: 他们已经逮捕了4名企图利用伪造证件离境的人。

He just published a paper in the journal Nature analyzing the fires.: 他刚刚在《自然》杂志上发表了一篇分析火灾的论文。

...the ten common errors that appear most frequently in student papers.: 学生论文中最常见的10个错误

We sat each paper in the Hall...: 我们每一场考试都是在大厅里考的。

She finished the exam paper.: 她答完了考卷。

...a new government paper on European policy.: 有关欧洲政策的新政府文件

They expressed deep mistrust of the paper promises...: 他们对书面承诺表现出极度的不信任。

We're looking for people who have experience rather than paper qualifications.: 我们要找有经验的人，而不是有文凭的人。

We papered all four bedrooms...: 我们把4个卧室都贴了墙纸。

We have papered this bedroom in softest grey...: 我们给这个卧室贴上了极柔和的灰色壁纸。

It is important to get something down on paper...: 把一些东西写在纸上很重要。

It was the first time I had put it all down on paper. I found it helped.: 这是我第一次把所有的东西都写在纸上，我觉得这有帮助。

On paper, I am the healthiest man alive, yet I feel permanently unwell.: 理论上，我是活着的最健康的人，但是我总感觉不舒服。

The family is estimated to have been worth, on paper at least, more than £1.1billion.: 据估计，这个家族理论上至少拥有11亿英镑以上的财富。