首页英语词典seriesseries的意思

series

英 ['sɪəriːz; -rɪz] 美['sɪriz]

n. 系列，连续；[电] 串联；级数；丛书

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复数: series;

中文词源

series 一系列，连续

来自拉丁语 series,顺序，次序，连续，来自 serere,连接，来自 PIE*ser,连接，词源同 social,sort.

英英释意

1. similar things placed in order or happening one after another;: "they were investigating a series of bank robberies"

2. a serialized set of programs;: "a comedy series"; "the Masterworks concert series"

3. a periodical that appears at scheduled times

4. (sports) several contests played successively by the same teams;: "the visiting team swept the series"

5. a group of postage stamps having a common theme or a group of coins or currency selected as a group for study or collection;: "the Post Office issued a series commemorating famous American entertainers"; "his coin collection included the complete series of Indian-head pennies"

6. (mathematics) the sum of a finite or infinite sequence of expressions

7. (electronics) connection of components in such a manner that current flows first through one and then through the other;: "the voltage divider consisted of a series of fixed resistors"

英文词源

series: series: [17] Latin seriēs (from which English got series) denoted a ‘succession of things connected together’. It was derived from serere ‘connect’, which has also given English assert and insert [16]. Serial [19] was coined specifically with reference to stories published in instalments.
=> assert, insert, serial
series (n.): 1610s, "a number or set of things of one kind arranged in a line," from Latin series "row, chain, series, sequence, succession," from serere "to join, link, bind together, arrange, attach, put; join in speech, discuss," from PIE root *ser- (3) "to line up, join" (cognates: Sanskrit sarat- "thread," Greek eirein "to fasten together in rows," Gothic sarwa (plural) "armor, arms," Old Norse sörve "necklace of stringed pearls," Old Irish sernaid "he joins together," Welsh ystret "row").

Meaning "set of printed works published consecutively" is from 1711. Meaning "set of radio or television programs with the same characters and themes" is attested from 1949. Baseball sense "set of games on consecutive days between the same teams" is from 1862.

同义词辨析

sequence, progression, series, succession

这些名词均含"连续，顺序"之意。

sequence：多指时间、空间或事件等有规律、合乎逻辑的连续。

progression：指向前推进的行为过程或状态的连续。

series：指按照性质类似或基本相同的关系而安排的一系列事物。

succession：侧重一些类似的东西或事件一个接一个连续不断。

考试真题

The researchers, led by Martin Reimann, carried out a series of experiments to see if people would choose a smaller meal if it was paired with a non-food item.

"To me, neon represents memories of the past," says photographer Sharon Blance, whose series Hong Kong Neon celebrates the city's famous signs.

Blance spent a week in Hong Kong and photographed more than 60 signs; 22 of them appear in the series that capture the signs lighting up lonely streets—an approach that makes it easy to admire their colors and craftsmanship.

During its flight it reached 3000 feet and performed a series of gentle turns all over a safe area.

his manuals including The Royal Parisian Baker and the massive five-volume Art of French Cooking Series 18-1847, completed after his deat first systematized many basic principles of cooking, complete with drawings and step-by-step directions.

So large is the Pacific, covering 30% of the planet's surface, that the specific energy generated by its warming is enough to touch off a series of weather changes around the world.

To determine which feeling won out, the researchers did a series of experiments.

About 100,000 students around the country participate in the program's competition series, which culminates in a national game-show-style contest held each May.

Welcome to the third lecture in our series on the future of small businesses in Europe.

We hope you enjoy the series about how you can make a difference by becoming a social worker.

Throughout these series, you will learn more about the profession, the necessary steps to get a social work degree, the rich history of social work and many ways that social workers help others.

Later in these series, you will hear from Stacy Collins and Mill Wilson, fellow social workers at the National Association of Social Workers.

NASA is developing a series of robotic probes that will get the most bang from a buck.

Smith has written a breezy guidebook, with a series of short chapters dedicated to specific aspects of urbanity - parks, say, or the various schemes that have been put forward over the years for building the perfect city.

In response to the embargo, the US government enforced a series of policies designed to reduce reliance on foreign oil

A series of tests in recent years has shown.

About 100,000 students around the country participate in the program's competition series, which culminates in a national game-showstyle contest held each May.

According to a series of experiments published in the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology by professors Gary Lupyan and Daniel Swignley, the act of using verbal clues to 27 trigger mental pictures helps people function quicker.

And welcome to the third in our series of business seminars in the program Doing Business Abroad.

Apple's stance on these issues emerged post-Snowden, when the company started putting in place a series of technologies that, by default, make use of encryption to limit access to people's data.

Before writing Metamorphosis, Merian spent decades documenting European plants and insects that she published in a series of books.

Dehl and her fellow researchers wanted to find out if that was true, so they embarked on a series of nine experiments in the lab and in the field testing people's enjoyment in the presence or absence of a camera.

I'm sorry, do you mean to say, it's a real-life series about a real person?

In a series of several experiments, the researchers illustrated just how much we've come to admire busyness, or at least the appearance of it.

They're still constrained by funders, launch providers and a series of regulations-all of which rein in what CubeSat developers can and cannot do.

What sealed Nokia's fate was a series of decisions made by Stephen Elop in his position as CEO, which he assumed in October 2010.

I had an early start at the age of nine with a role in a 1990s TV series, but it wasn't until I finished film studies that I pursued my career as an actress.

In the 1760s, Mathurin Roze opened a series of shops that boasteda special meat soup called consomme.

Jo usmar is a writer for cosmopolitan and co-author of the this book will series of lifestyle books.

The eight-part series, save money: good food, follows in the footsteps of itv's save money: good health, which gave viewers advice on how to get value from the vast range of health products on the market.

The psychologist Michael Tomasello has studied this cooperativeness in a series of experiments with very young children.

The Federal Circuit’s action comes in the wake of a series of recent decisions by the supreme Count that has narrowed the scope of protections for patent holders.

Soon after Sketches by Boz appeared, a publishing firm approached Dickens to write a story in monthly installments, as a backdrop for a series of woodcuts by the ten-famous artist Robert Seymour, who had originated the idea for the story.

A series of fires ( ' , including those set by the British in 1814) and overcrowded conditions led to the construction of the existing Treasury Building.

A series of fires and overcrowded conditions led to the construction of the existing Treasury Building.

But it can be done: Glasgow's year as European capital of culture can certainly be seen as one of complex series of factors that have turned the city into the power of art, music and theatre that it remains today.

Dr simonsohn found if the score of the previous candidate in a daily series of interviewees was 0.75 points or more higher than that of the one before that, then the score for the next applicant would drop by an average of 0.075 points.

In 1924 America's National Research Council sent two engineers to supervise a series of experiments at a telephone parts factory called the Hawthorne Plant near Chicago.

In a series of four experiments, behavioral scientists at the University of Chicago and the Wisconsin School of Business tested students' willingness to expose themselves to unpleasant stimuli in an effort to satisfy curiosity.

Soon after Sketches by Bozappeared, a publishing firm approached Dickens to write a story in monthly installments, as a backdrop for a series of woodcuts by the then-famous artist Robert Seymour, who had originated the idea for the story.

The Federal circuit's action comes in the wake of a series of recent decisions by the Supreme Court that has narrowed the scope of protections for patent holders.

These pauses typically occur at about three per second, and the eyes then jump to another spot, until several important points in the image are registered like a series of snapshots.

Yet humans remain fascinated by the idea of robots that would look, move, and respond like humans, similar to those recently depicted on popular sci-fi TV series such as "Westworld" and "Humans".

词组搭配

in series

In an arrangement that forms a series.

连续地：形成系列的排列

实用场景例句

The incident sparked off a whole series of events that nobody had foreseen.: 那一事件引发出一连串谁都没有料到的事。

the latest in a series of articles on the nature of modern society: 论现代社会性质的一系列文章中最新的一篇

the World Series (= in baseball ): 世界系列美国职业棒球锦标赛

England have lost the Test series (= of cricket matches) against India.: 英格兰板球队在同印度队的系列比赛中落败。

...a series of meetings with students and political leaders.: 与学生和政治领袖的一系列会面

...a series of explosions.: 一连串的爆炸事件

...the TV series 'The Trials of Life' presented by David Attenborough.: 由戴维·阿滕伯勒主持的电视系列片《生命之源》

...the world's longest-running radio series, Britain's 'The Archers'.: 世界上最长的广播剧，英国的《阿彻一家》

We paid ￡10 , 000 for the shop, and ￡2000 for its goodwill.: 我们用一万英镑买下了这家商店, 两千英镑买下了它的信誉.

At five o'clock in the afternoon the city streets are a series of bottlenecks.: 下午五点市中心的街道就成了拥挤不堪的窄路.

It is called series circuits in physics.: 它在物理学上被称为串联电路.

The series was based on the autobiographies of the author.: 这部连续剧是根据那位作家的自传拍摄的.

This drama series is supposedly modern yet its characters live in a curiously dated world.: 这个系列剧应当是现代的,但剧中的角色却生活在一个奇特的过去世界里.

The imperialist powers forced the Qing Dynasty to sign a series of unequal treaties.: 帝国主义列强迫使清王朝签订了一系列不平等条约.

The new dance consists of a series of glides.: 这种新舞蹈中有一连串的滑步.

The country was paralysed by a series of strikes.: 一系列的罢工使那个国家陷于瘫痪之中.

The sparrow crossed the lawn in a series of hops.: 那麻雀一蹦一跳地穿过草坪.

I managed to get there by a series of stealthy movements.: 我通过一连串悄无声息的动作设法到达了那里.

a series of racist attacks: 一连串的种族袭击行为

The events that led up to the murder were shown in a series of flashbacks.: 通过一系列倒叙展现出了导致谋杀的各个情节。

a series of sex scandals: 一系列性丑闻

The path descended the hill in a series of zigzags.: 小路呈连续的之字形顺着山坡蜿蜒而下。

Frustration, anger and desperation have led to a series of wildcat strikes.: 挫败感、愤怒和绝望引起了一系列自发性的罢工。

Meanwhile, Dusty Springfield's new TV series began a run on BBC 1.: 同时，达斯蒂·斯普林菲尔德的电视剧新作开始在BBC1台播放。

Marine insurance is governed by a strict series of rules and regulations.: 关于海险有一系列严格的规章制度对其作了规定。

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