首页英语词典severalseveral的意思

several

英 ['sev(ə)r(ə)l] 美['sɛvrəl]

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近义词various numerous many some

adj. 几个的；各自的
pron. 几个；数个

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中文词源

several 切开的，一些，几个

sever,切开，-al,形容词后缀。即切开的，引申词义切成几份的，一些的，几个的。

英英释意

1. considered individually;: "the respective club members"; "specialists in their several fields"; "the various reports all agreed"

2. distinct and individual;: "three several times"

3. (used with count nouns) of an indefinite number more than 2 or 3 but not many;: "several letters came in the mail"; "several people were injured in the accident"

英文词源

several: several: [15] Etymologically, several means ‘separate’. It comes via Anglo-Norman several from medieval Latin sēparālis, a derivative of Latin sēpar ‘separate’. This in turn was formed from sēparāre ‘separate’ (source of English separate), whose Vulgar Latin descendant *sēperāre passed into English via Anglo- Norman severer as sever [14]. Several’s original sense ‘separate, individual’ survives in legal terminology, but it has been superseded in the general language by ‘many’, which emerged in the 16th and 17th centuries via ‘different, various’.
=> prepare, separate, sever
several (adj.): early 15c., "existing apart," from Anglo-French several, from Middle French seperalis "separate," from Medieval Latin separalis, from Latin separ "separate, different," back-formation from separare "to separate" (see separate (v.)). Meaning "various, diverse, different" is attested from c. 1500; that of "more than one" is from 1530s, originally in legal use.
Here we are all, by day; by night we're hurled
By dreams, each one into a several world
[Herrick, 1648]
Related: Severalty. Jocular ordinal form severalth attested from 1902 in American English dialect (see -th (2)).

同义词辨析

little, few, several

这几个词用作形容词时均含"少量的"之意。

little：只修饰不可数名词，含否定意义。

few：只修饰可数名词的复数形式，侧重指数量非常少，给人一种模糊概念，含否定意义。

several：修饰可数名词的复数形式，指至少有3个，但不会超过5、6个。

考试真题

Several years ago, she became interested in eggs and learned the traditional Ukrainian technique to draw her very modern characters.

His team was hit by a snowmobile driver, injuring several dogs and killing a three-year-old male dog.

He faces trial on several charges.

Vietnam banned its exports for several months for the same reason.

During the second half of the 20th century, grain prices rose dramatically several times.

She primarily speaks to students in health classes, but sometimes the school will arrange for her to speak to several different groups of girls.

Werbach gives the example of several Disneyland hotels in Anaheim, California, which used large digital leaderboards to display how efficiently laundry workers were working compared to one another.

Recently I attended several meetings where we talked about ways to retain students and keep younger faculty members from going elsewhere.

The Scottish Environment Protection Agency has issued more than 35 flood warnings covering several regions, as Scotland continues to clean up after Storm Frankhit the country last Wednesday.

Facing an 8.3-billion-dollar budget deficit this year, closing post offices is one of several proposals the Postal Service has put forth recently to cut costs.

Did you know that besides larger places like France and Germany, Europe is home to several extremely tiny countries? One of these countries contains less than a square mile of land.

A recent report makes several recommendations, including the abolition of most post-conviction penalties, except for those specifically needed to protect public safety.

And authorities have been hunting several attackers who are still at large.

But I think successful negotiators have several things in common.

Confronted with this evidence, several bottled-water manufacturers including Nestle and Coca-Cola undertook their own studies using the same methodology.

Each ship was coal-powered by several boilers constantly kept running by exhausted crews below deck.

For the past several decades, it seems there's been a general consensus on how to get ahead in America: Get a college education, find a reliable job, and buy your own home.

Goel and his team developed several versions of Jill Watson before releasing her to the online forums.

his team was hit by a snowmobile driver, injuring several dogs and killing a three-year-old male dog.

Indoor pollution, which includes sources like home heating and cooking, has remained constant over the past several decades despite advances in the area.

Jody has created several different presentations which she gives to different types of audiences, and she tries to establish an emotional connection with the students so that they will feel comfortable asking questions or talking to her privately.

michigan's dominance in auto research and development is under attack from several states and countries which desire to replace our leadership in transportation.

Several times a month, you can find a doctor in the aisles of Ralph's market in Huntington Beach, California, wearing a white coat and helping people learn about food.

The club grew quickly and when it reached 180 members and the kids in the program won several state championships she decided to devote all her time to cultivating and developing it.

The confused creature and camera-holding humans stared at each other through a fence for several minutes.

The program will offer patients several bags of food prescribed for their condition, along with intensive training in how to cook it.

The Scottish Environment Protection Agency has issued more than 35 flood warnings covering several regions, as Scotland continues to clean up after Storm Frank hit the country last Wednesday.

The storm blew the ship west for several days.

Tourism throughout' Turkey is expected to fall this year as the country has been the victim of several deadly terrorist attacks.

vietnam banned its exports for several months for the same reason.

Werbach gives the example of several disneyland hotels in Anaheim, California, which used large digital leaderboards to display how efficiently laundry workers were working compared to one another.

That letter, which includes several concerns Morgan has with the plan, was originally obtained by The Commercial Appeal in Memphis.

In these groups, which came out of an Eastern European tradition of developing young talent, professors teach promising K-12 students advanced mathematics for several hours after school or on weekends.

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.

With several monitoring stations operating in Antarctica, Russia is trying hard to counter America's dominance in the field of worldwide navigational facilities.

Her son Doug is one of several hundred thousand high-school seniors who had a painful fall.

Since then, several academic institutions have begun to require IDPs for post docs And in June, the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) Biomedical Research Workforce Working Group recommended that the NIH require IDPs for the approximately 32,000 postdoctoral researchers they support.

For more than 20 years, therefore, I have been going several times a year-often for no longer than three days-to a Benedictine hermitage（修道院）,40 minutes down the road, as it happens, from the Post Ranch Inn.

Iowa's Waldorf College has graduated several hundred students in its three-year degree program, but it now phasing out the option.

It has been running for several decades

Several opponents have recently emerged, ranging from rival tech giants such as Microsoft and Amazon to small bodies representing authors and publishers across the world.

While 9 out of 10 white students routinely get their diplomas within six years, only 7 out of 10 black students made it to graduation day in several recent classes.

Moreover they site several advantages: alleviation of school overcrowding, strengthen family relationships, lower dropout rates, the facts that students are allowed to learn at their own rate, increased motivation, higher standardized test scores, and reduced discipline problems.

This company has built automated garages in several countries overseas and in the United States for residents of a Washington, D.C. apartment building.

If you tell an acquaintance you are a grandfather who recently lost his wife and who does volunteer work on weekends, several elements of your self-image are bought to light — the roles of grandparent, widower and conscientious citizen

If the light flashed on and off several times, the dolphins were supposed to press the left-hand lever followed by the right-hand one.

For instance, witnesses sometimes see photographs of several suspects before they try to identify the person they saw in a lineup of people

Chris has made several changes for his Division in the past year.

She has also made several changes over the year

Several days ago, my 23-year-old daughter came to me with some important news.

We have several models that are especially adaptive for extreme conditions.

"You've also got color, texture and shape sensors looking down at the ground to check pasture quality," says Salah Sukkarieh of the University of Sydney, who will carry out trials on several farms in central New South Wales.

After studying these products for several years, I wrote a book about how they do it.

And the World Resources Institute WR 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 p

As Apple and several security experts have argued, an order compelling Apple to write software that gives the Fbi access to the iPhone in question would establish an unsettling precedent.

But there are nonetheless several empirically proven benefits.

He laid off several hundred workers; especially hard hit were the blue- and pink-collar departments such as subscription fulfillment.

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.

In last week's lecture, we discussed the characteristics of the newly born offspring of several mammals.

In part, the authors wrote in HBR, this pattern may have to do with the way work itself has changed over the past several decades.

Instead, most people seem to learn better if they're taught in several ways, especially if one is visual.

Physicians who have been on the job for several hours, for example, are more likely to prescribe antibiotics to patients when it's unwise to do so.

Several companies around the world have produced prototypes that can drive on roads and fly, airbus has a futuristic modular concept involving a passenger capsule that can be detached from the road- going chassis and picked up by a helicopter-type machine

Several companies around the world have produced prototypes that can drive on roads and fly.

Several noted nutritionists and research projects have concluded that this diet is one of the most healthful in the world in terms of preventing such illnesses as heart disease and cancer, and increasing life expectancy.

Several years ago when my grandparents were well into their eighties, they were faced with the reality of no longer being able to adequately care for themselves.

The bird Clark's nutcracker, for example, hides up to 100, 000 seeds per year, up to 30 kilometers away from the seed source, and has a very close symbiotic(共生的) relationship with several pine species, most 32 notably the whitebark pine.

The code talkers played an important part in several battles.

They help us take in more information, hold several ideas in mind at once and understand how different ideas relate to each other.

After he got home, Peter went online to several auction websites looking for his game.

After several weeks' successful work, I began to notice that egg production was going down.

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.

And, there are several new clubs, too.

Brooks gained fame for several books.

But the textile boom lasted only several decades.

Chamber orchestra: the orchestra plays at memorial hall at 1406 elm street, which offers several concerts from march through June.

Despite their many differences, all human beings share several defining characteristics.

El nifio sees warm water, collected over several years in the western pacific, flow back eastwards when winds that normally blow westwards weaken.

Finally, I'd like to remind you that there will be several parent's evenings during this term.

Frozen bananas will last several weeks, depending on their ripeness and the temperature of the freezer.

Hannah's place is divided into several areas, providing shelter for people when it is so cold that sleeping outdoors can mean death.

Helene tied several chopsticks together to show the strength of family unity.

I discovered even more about one of humanity's earliest forms of life art during several years of research around the world.

I have not tried reading my newspaper out loud on a train, but, several years ago, I read some chapters from Harry porter to my bored and noisy children.

I have several guests coming to visit for the holidays, and I want to know how I can get them from the airport to my house.

I learned that Freddy did several jobs after his graduation from high school and remained the same caring person I met forty years before.

If a predator can eat several species, it can survive the extinction of one of them.

In spite of all the problems, several of the players produced excellent performances.

It restarts several times within an hour, and I can't save what I have typed.

Next, she tied several chopsticks together, representing a family.

Now, several states are moving to tighten laws by adding new regulations for opting out.

On one of her trips to New York several years ago, Eudora Welty decided to take a couple of New York friends out to dinner.

Researchers have identified several factors that motivate people to get involved.

Several boys were crowding around chad, who declared with a proud smile that he sold six dozen the day before.

Several important things happened that day.

Several others checked the instructions and made something according to one of the model plans provided.

Several passengers seemed to appreciate what I did.

Several recent studies examined the role of talent in the sports world.

Several safari camps operate as the base for this adventure, providing unique rides twice a day to explore deep into the delta.

Several years ago I received a letter from seventeen-year-old kerry, who described herself as a world-class fault-finder, almost always bothered by things.

She has turned down several invitations to star at shows in order to concentrate on her studies after school she plans to take a year off to model full time before going to university to get a degree in engineering or architecture.

So condors with high levels of lead are sent to Los Angeles zoo, where they are treated with calcium edta, a chemical that removes lead from the blood over several days.

The four-year-old dog set off racing after the sheep across several fields and, being a city animal, lost both her sheep and her sense of direction.

There are several reasons to believe that the urges to help, inform and share are not taught, but naturally possessed in young children.

There are several reasons why school uniforms are good idea.

They are required to process the food that we eat, to recover from injury and for several other bodily functions.

When you want to avoid interruptions at work, there are several ways to handle things.

According to several studies concluding that parents are less happy than childless couples, single parents are the least happy of all.

Though several fast-fashion companies have made efforts to curb their impact on labor and the environment – including H&M, with its green Conscious Collection line –Cline believes lasting change can only be effected by the customer.

The commission ignores that for several decades America’s colleges and universities have produced graduates who don’t know the content and character of liberal education and are thus deprived of its benefits.

The growth of the use of English as the world`s primary language for international communication has obviously been continuing for several decades.

After several decades, the same data were subjected to econometric analysis.

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.

American farmers have been complaining of labor shortages for several years.

At the same time, the European Union, Spain, Britain and several other countries have all seriously contemplated digital services taxes.

Dr Kroo points out that the aircraft could be separated by several nautical miles, and would not be in the intimate groupings favoured by display teams like the Red Arrows.

Even then several states automatically exempted women from jury duty unless they personally asked to have their names included on the jury list.

For example, Business Week predicted in 1975 that electronic means of payment would soon "revolutionize the very concept of money itself", only to reverse itself several years later.

If you have no friends or relatives, try to participate in several online communities, full of people who are always willing to share advice and encouragement.

More than three million doses were to be made available in early October 2009, though most of those initial doses were of the Flumist nasal spray type, which is not recommended for pregnant women, people over 50 or those with breathing difficulties, hear

The commission ignores that for several decades America's colleges and universities have produced graduates who don't know the content and character of liberal education and are thus deprived of its benefits.

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.

They cite past research by several authors to show that this is the gap that must be narrowed to close the achievement gap.

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

Though several fast-fashion companies have made efforts to curb their impact on labor and the environment -- including H&M, with its green Conscious Collection line -- Cline believes lasting change can only be effected by the customer.

Yet, in several instances, justices acted in ways that weakened the court's reputation for being independent and impartial.

实用场景例句

Several letters arrived this morning.: 今天上午来了几封信。

He's written several books about India.: 他写过几本关于印度的书。

Several more people than usual came to the meeting.: 到会的人比平时多了几个。

If you're looking for a photo of Alice you'll find several in here.: 你要是想找艾丽斯的照片的话，这儿有几张。

Several of the paintings were destroyed in the fire.: 那些画有好几幅被大火烧毁了。

They said goodbye and went their several ways .: 他们道别后，便各自走了。

I had lived two doors away from this family for several years...: 我和这家人是好几年的邻居了，中间就隔着两家。

Several blue plastic boxes under the window were filled with record albums...: 窗下的几个蓝色塑料盒里装满了唱片。

I asked him several times, but he didn't say anything.: 我问过他几遍, 他都没吱声.

Several words were smeared.: 好几个单词弄得模糊不清.

These books fall into several categories.: 这些书可分成几类.

Only several goods left unsold.: 只有几件商品未售出.

The railway line follows the river for several miles.: 铁路线沿着河流延伸几英里.

This policy stretches across several different departments.: 这项政策影响着几个不同的部门.

When an atom of U 235 is split, several neutrons are set free.: 一个铀235原子分裂时, 释放出几个中子.

He made several attempts but none of them came off.: 他进行了几次尝试,但却没成功.

It took me several weeks to search out the book that I wanted.: 我费了几个星期的时间才找到我需要的那本书.

The grain store holds several thousand tonnes.: 这个粮仓可以存放几千吨粮食.

She sang several numbers from her latest album.: 她唱了几首她近期唱片中的歌曲.

There were several kids lolling around outside the club.: 有几个小孩在俱乐部外面闲荡.

Several women knelt down before the statue of Buddha and prayed.: 几个妇女跪在佛像前祈祷.

There are several solutions round this.: 关于这一点有几个解决办法.

Troops have been landed at several places.: 部队已在几个地点登陆.

Several branches had been lopped off ( the tree ).: ( 从树上 ) 砍下了几条枝桠.

My wife had laryngitis and lost her voice for several days.: 我妻子患喉炎,噪子哑了好几天了.

The draft was revised several times before it was finalized.: 稿子几经删改才定下来.

Several matters have cropped up at the same time.: 几件事挤在一块儿了.

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