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utility

英 [juːˈtɪləti] 美[ju'tɪləti]

英英释义考试真题实用场景例句

近义词effectiveness use efficacy function service profit value worth avail applicability adaptability good advantage merit benefit

n. 实用；效用；公共设施；功用
adj. 实用的；通用的；有多种用途的

CET4TEM4IELTSTOEFLCET6中低频词常用词汇

词态变化

复数: utilities;

中文词源

utility 功用，公用事业

来自拉丁语uti, 使用，利用，用来指功用，公用事业。

英英释意

1. a company that performs a public service; subject to government regulation

2. the quality of being of practical use

3. the service provided by a utility company;: "the cost of utilities never decreases"

4. (economics) a measure that is to be maximized in any situation involving choice

5. (computer science) a program designed for general support of the processes of a computer;: "a computer system provides utility programs to perform the tasks needed by most users"

6. a facility composed of one or more pieces of equipment connected to or part of a structure and designed to provide a service such as heat or electricity or water or sewage disposal;: "the price of the house included all utilities"

英文词源

utility: utility: see use
utility (n.): late 14c., "fact of being useful," from Old French utilite "usefulness" (13c., Modern French + utilité), earlier utilitet (12c.), from Latin utilitatem (nominative utilitas) "usefulness, serviceableness, profit," from utilis "usable," from uti (see use (v.)). Meaning "a useful thing" is from late 15c. As a shortened form of public utility it is recorded from 1930.

考试真题

They want to cut down their utility expenses.

The only industries swelling their payrolls are health care, utilities and the federal government.

For the consumer, it's a matter of paying now for the hardware to save later on the utilities

David Hunt, an associate professor in sociology at Augusta University, which has rolled out digital textbooks across its math and psychology departments, told BuzzFeed News that he understands the utility of using systems that require access codes.

Of course, much of this argument in the 1930s-40s was advanced because there was little or no experience in justifying apparel ( ' , 服装) on the basis of utility.

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.

A shift of emphasis from beauty to utility.

Even utility companies, which have long viewed batteries and alternative forms of energy as a threat, are learning to embrace the technologies as enabling rather than disrupting.

The Conservatives plan to adopt this strategy by making utility companies print the average local electricity and gas usage on people's bills.

Could utility alone justify the new ideas of the American designers?

Of course, much of this argument in the 1930s-40s was advanced because there was little or no experience in justifying apparel on the basis of utility.

实用场景例句

the administration of public utilities: 公共事业的管理

an all-round utility player (= one who can play equally well in several different positions in a sport): 全面型选手

Belief in the utility of higher education is shared by students nationwide...: 全国的学生都相信高等教育是有用的。

He inwardly questioned the utility of his work.: 他内心质疑自己的工作是否有用。

...public utilities such as gas, electricity and phones.: 煤气、电和电话等公用事业

Therefore, the utility model can prevent manometric liquid entering the bladder from being polluted.: 因此使进入到膀胱中的测压液体不被污染.

The utility model can automatically fill stuffing in egg dumpling wrappers at a definite quantity.: 本实用新型能自动、定量地向蛋饺皮上注馅.

The utility focuses on geometry only at point.: 在这点上,utility仅仅聚焦几何条件.

The utility model relates to a device used to measure the pyroelectric coefficient.: 本实用新型涉及一种测量热释电系数的装置.

There are also 2 utility trays for total of 8 storage trays complete with box covers.: 另外还有2个盘存放其他游戏指示物.一共8个储物盘,每个都有盒子包装.

The utility model has the advantages of small size, light weight and low cost.: 该电疗仪体积极小, 重量轻,成本低,便于推广使用.

The utility model discloses an LED mainly used in illuminating.: 本实用新型公开了一种发光二极管,其主要用途为照明.

To manage the preventive maintenance plan for utility equipment.: 负责组织安排设备预防性维修保养计划并确保其实施.

The sort of small impurities grain of Yunnan is various, utility each different.: 云南的小杂粮种类繁多, 用途各异.

Increasing problems of all kinds with fossil fuel power plants turning power and utility companiesmoreandmore tOtheuseOfnuclearpoweredelectricgeneratingplants.: 矿物燃料发电厂所产生的问题日益增多,这就促使电力公司和公用事业公司越来越倾向于采用核动力发电厂.

Along with water and electricity, gas is an indispensable public utility.: 和水及电一样, 气也是不可缺少的公共服务.

The utility of microwave irradiation in organic synthesis in recent years is reviewed in this article.: 文章综述了近年来微波辐射技术在有机合成中的应用情况.

Research on combustion characteristic of the utility boiler coal.: 电站锅炉燃煤特性研究.

The above utility function also has the property of diminishing marginal utility for each commodity.: 上面的效用函数也有每种商品边际效用递减的性质.

The transformation of the Public Utility Commission.: 转型公用事业委员会.

Utility fluids ( such as steam ) integrated with process units will be considered as process streams.: 工艺装置中的公用工程流体 ( 如蒸汽 ) 将被视作工艺流.

Some organizations rent the platforms from municipalities and public utility companies.: 有些经营种子园的组织,从政府机关或公用公司租用这些机具.

The utility model relates to a peanut dibber which is an agricultural machine.: 花生点播器,是一种农业机械.

The utility model relates to a mechanical device, in particular to a dregs and liquid separator.: 本实用新型涉及一种机械装置, 即一种渣液分离机.

The traveling website construction is faces the realistic demand an utility system.: 旅游网站建设是面向现实需求的一个实用毕业设计.

The utility model discloses a deep sea sampler, comprising a sampling urn bottle.: 本实用新型是一种深海采样器, 其包括,采样缸瓶.

This ware is suitable for decorative purpose but unsuitable for utility.: 这种器皿中看不中用.

Even the survey's most rabid critics acknowledge the utility of this kind of data.: 连该调查最狂热的批评者也承认这类数据的用处.