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同义词
同义词解析
  • 以下这两个动词均有"集中,聚集" 的意思
    concentrate指把人或物集中在一起,也可指把精力或注意力集中于某一事物上。
    focus侧重指把光、热、射线等集中于一点,也可指把思想或精力等集中于某人或某事情上。
英语四级真题
  • an accelerating speeda shift to city centersa new focus on small citiesan ever-increasing demandPeople can live without private cars.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • They need to keep teams small and focused: giving in to pressure to be more inclusive is a guarantee of dysfunction.
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  • The majority of previous research has focused on how we learn and remember new information.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • The Cleveland Clinic, a hospital operator, has reorganised its medical staff into teams to focus on particular treatment areas; consultants, nurses and others collaborate closely instead of being separated by speciality ( ' , 专业) and rank.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • People with HSAM often have to make efforts to avoid focusing on the past.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • Companies are abandoning conventional functional departments and organising employees into crossdisciplinary teams that focus on particular products, problems or customers.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • The researchers also note that dogs scan faces as a whole to sense how people are feeling, instead of focusing on a given feature.
    出自-2017年6月听力原文
  • These experiments indicated that a focus on effort can help resolve helplessness and generate success.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • Nonetheless, the renewed focus on waistlines means that industry groups are under pressure to demonstrate their products are healthy as well as tasty.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • It is the focus of the modeling business.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • Focusing on effort is effective in helping children overcome frustration and achieve success.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • The coach had criticized him for not focusing on his soccer drills.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • Instead of trying to get children to work hard, why not focus on getting them to take pleasure in meaningful, productive activity, like making things, working with others, exploring ideas, and solving problems? These focuses are not so different from the things in which they delight.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • What does the author think a liberal arts college should focus on?
    出自-2013年12月阅读原文
  • the new findings do highlight the benefits of focusing on our food and avoiding TV and multitasking while eating.
    出自-2013年12月阅读原文
  • Many policy measures to control obesity(肥胖症)assume that people consciously and rationally choose what and how much they eat and therefore focus on providing information and more access to healthier foods," note the two researchers.
    出自-2013年6月阅读原文
  • Decades ago, Kodak anticipated that digital photography would overtake film — and in fact, Kodak invented the first digital camera in 1975 — but in a fateful decision, the company chose to shelf its new discovery to focus on its traditional film business
    出自-2013年6月阅读原文
  • In modern western societies, however, the focus on individuality and independence means that people are less concerned about conforming to (遵守) the dictates of family and culture.
    出自-2013年6月阅读原文
  • His insistence on putting users first, and focusing on elegance and simplicity, has become deep-rooted in his own company, and is spreading to rival firms too.
    出自-2012年12月阅读原文
  • Students focused more on test scores.
    出自-2012年6月阅读原文
  • Those who take risks they later regret usually focus on immolate benefits and simply haven't considered what might go wrong.
    出自-2011年12月阅读原文
  • boys can focus on their lessons without being distracted
    出自-2011年12月阅读原文
  • It focuses more on mixed school education.
    出自-2011年12月阅读原文
  • Tony Little, headmaster of Eton, warned that boys were being faded by the British education system because it had become too focused on girls.
    出自-2011年12月阅读原文
  • Annan stressed the need for the negotiations to focus on increasing the flow of money from rich to poor regions to help reduce their vulnerability to climate hazards while still curbing the emissions of the heat-trapping gases.
    出自-2011年6月阅读原文
  • What does Kofi Annan say should be the focus of the Copenhagen conference
    出自-2011年6月阅读原文
  • By focusing on the notes in the margins.
    出自-2014年6月听力原文
  • They focus too much attention on themselves.
    出自-2013年6月听力原文
  • What did Obcamp's speech focus on?
    出自-2011年12月听力原文
  • According to the same study, efforts to reduce consumption should focus on improving consumer awareness and behaviour.
    2019年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
  • But I'm here to tell you that instead of focusing on doing what we love, I think we should focus on loving what we do.
    2019年6月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • Companies are abandoning conventional functional departments and organising employees into cross-disciplinary teams that focus on particular products, problems or customers.
    2017年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • Each episode will focus on a different area of science, and tell us what we know, how we know it, and what we still don't know.
    2019年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section B
  • He became one of the first modern chefs to focus on the appearance of his table, not just the flavor of his dishes.
    2018年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • I cant seem to focus on anything, because 1 still haven't decided if I should accept the offer for that PhD program in London, or if I should take the job offer in New York.
    2019年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section B
  • In one the focus could be on building financial success and personal achievement, in another on creating a better work/life balance, still another on exploring and understanding options more fully, or becoming an independent producer, yet another on makin
    2019年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • Instead of trying to get children to work hard, why not focus on getting them to take pleasure in meaningful, productive activity, like making things, working with others, exploring ideas, and solving problems?
    2015年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • It lets him leave his royal duties on the ground and fully focus on something else.
    2018年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section A
  • My research focus is on what happens to our immune system as we age.
    2019年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • Nevertheless, you should always focus on quality, not quantity.
    2018年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • The Cleveland Clinic, a hospital operator, has reorganised its medical staff into teams to focus on particular treatment areas; consultants, nurses and others collaborate closely instead of being separated by speciality and rank.
    2017年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • The general consensus is that the best ones avoid mindless violence, and instead focus on strategy and challenge us to solve problems and achieve broad goals.
    2019年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • Though Chasin says the focus of the work is on the activity of writing, rather than the text that ends up getting written, some of the work that comes out of the sessions has stuck with her.
    2019年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
  • We believe that to focus on longevity as primarily an issue of aging is to miss its full implications.
    2019年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
英语六级真题
  • Within Italy, the great focus was Rome, whose ancient ruins and more recent achievements were shown to every Grand Tourist.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • To focus more on beauty products than clothing.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • The nations participating at COP 21 are focusing on quantitative emissions-reduction commitments.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • Some math training programs primarily focus on raising students' math scores.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • In an email statement from the state's Office of Customer Focused Government, which is examining the possibility of outsourcing, spokeswoman Michelle R.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • For the next few years, you have a chance to focus on thinking.
    出自-2017年6月听力原文
  • The report focused on poor urban areas, where farms in or near cities supply relatively inexpensive food.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • I'd be sympathetic if the union focused solely on higher compensation.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • The Consumer Electronics Show in recent years has begun to focus more on the practical value than the showiness of electronic devices.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • Studying at university will only become less attractive if employers shift their focus away from where someone went to university--and there is no sign of that happening anytime soon.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • Some of the ventures focus on the Antarctic resources that are already up for grabs, like abundant sea life.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • Rather than just dazzling with a high cool factor, there is a focus on the practical.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • Companies that have long focused on hardware now have to think of ecosystems instead to give consumers practical solutions to their everyday problems.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • The team focused on athletes since they are theoretically the best role models for active, healthy lifestyles for children.
    出自-2016年12月听力原文
  • Social work is different from other professions, because we focus on the person and environment.
    出自-2016年12月听力原文
  • I’m going to define what love is, but then most of the experiments I’m going to talk about are really focused more on attraction than love.
    出自-2016年12月听力原文
  • Its primary mission is to enhance human well-being and help meet the basic needs of all people, with the particular focus on those who are vulnerable, oppressed and living in poverty.
    出自-2016年12月听力原文
  • It is most imperative to focus our efforts on the elimination of income inequality.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • Fifth graders tended to focus on features of individual eagles ( ' , How big are they? and What do they eat?).
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • College students focused on critical issues of interdependence between eagles and their habitats (栖息地).
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • A recent article in The Harvard Crimson noted the shocking growth of Harvard's public relations arm in the last five years and it questioned whether a focus on risk management and avoiding controversy was really the best outward-looking face of this great institution.
    出自-2014年6月阅读原文
  • What does the author think a prestigious university like Harvard should focus on
    出自-2014年6月阅读原文
  • In face of global warming, much effort has been focused on reducing greenhouse gas emissions through a variety of strategies.
    出自-2012年6月阅读原文
  • Organizations cannot thrive without being focused on their desired end results any more than an individual can thrive without goals to provide a sense of purpose
    出自-2012年6月阅读原文
  • Leadership is the most significant word in today's competitive business environment because it directs the manager of a business to focus inward on their personal capabilities and style.
    出自-2011年12月阅读原文
  • It is the result of America's growing focus on domestic market
    出自-2011年12月阅读原文
  • Interest in this aspect of the settlement has focused on "orphan" works, where there is no known copyright holder – these make up an estimated 5-10% of the books Google has scanned.
    出自-2011年12月阅读原文
  • When Stephen Covey, founder and director of the Leadership Institute, explored leadership styles in the past decade, he focused on the habits of a great number of highly effective individuals
    出自-2011年12月阅读原文
  • State and federal governments could sharpen that focus everywhere by broadly publishing minority graduation rates.
    出自-2011年6月阅读原文
  • It focuses on theory rather than on practical skills.
    出自-2011年6月阅读原文
  • Much of the concern among politicians about the state of American universities today is focused on the absence of "real world" education—which means preparation for professional and scientific careers.
    出自-2010年12月阅读原文
  • What is the focus of Ashby Plant's study?
    出自-2010年6月阅读原文
  • A man who had recently reconciled with his brother told Gold there's something that lets older people to put aside bad deeds of the past and focus a little on what we need now, especially when it's sisters and brothers.
    出自-2014年6月听力原文
  • They tend to forget past unhappy memories and focus on their present needs
    出自-2014年6月听力原文
  • workers who bill or get paid by the hour, think employer and fast-food workers, report focusing more on pursuing more money than those who get paid by salary and the fact has been fast.
    出自-2014年6月听力原文
  • He had also planned the content of his speech to focus on the teams with the best records, the ones that had won the most games in the last season.
    出自-2013年12月听力原文
  • What is the focus of Delia Sedona's presentation?
    出自-2012年12月听力原文
  • What did Obcamp's speech focus on?
    出自-2011年12月听力原文
  • When you look at every possible option, you tend to focus more on what was given up than what was gained.
    出自-2011年6月听力原文
  • Focus on the accuracy of the language he used.
    出自-2010年6月听力原文
  • But she says nations will not make progress fighting hunger and poverty until they begin to focus on those critical first thousand days.
    2015年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • Consequently, before going into any stressful situation, focus only on what you want to have happened.
    2017年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section B
  • Ego aside, a third advantage is that the emotional neutrality of indifferent relationships has been found to enhance critical evaluation, to strengthen one's focus on task resolution, and to gain greater access to valuable information.
    2019年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
  • I bet Brenda is glad it's done with, and she can focus on wedding preparations.
    2019年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section A
  • Instead of narrowing our focus, like negative emotions do, positive emotions affect our brains in ways that increase our awareness, attention and memory.
    2016年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • Italy is not the only country to focus on reducing food waste.
    2017年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section A
  • Kasselman wants to build an array of solar magnifying mirrors at one end of the line to collect and focus heat onto water-filled tubes.
    2018年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • Rather than just dazzling with a high cool factor, there is a focus on the practical.
    2016年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • Smartphone-based data collection comes at an appropriate time in the evolution of psychological science Today, the field is in transition, moving away from a focus on laboratory studies with undergraduate participants towards more complex, real-world situ
    2018年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
  • Studying at university will only become less attractive if employers shift their focus away from where someone went to university—and there is no sign of that happening anytime soon.
    2016年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
  • Surfing the Internet during class doesn't just steal focus from the educator; it also hurts students who're already struggling to grasp the material.
    2018年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读
  • That institute examined a wider range of potential problems for humanity, while the LCFI has a narrow focus.
    2019年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
  • They focus on improving diets or providing micro-food supplements.
    2015年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • within Italy, the great focus was Rome, whose ancient ruins and more recent achievements were shown to every Grand Tourist.
    2017年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • Yet our schools focus primarily on students as individual entities.
    2018年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义
英汉词典释义
英英词典释义
  • Noun
    1. the concentration of attention or energy on something;
    "the focus of activity shifted to molecular biology""he had no direction in his life"
    2. maximum clarity or distinctness of an image rendered by an optical system;
    "in focus""out of focus"
    3. maximum clarity or distinctness of an idea;
    "the controversy brought clearly into focus an important difference of opinion"
    4. a central point or locus of an infection in an organism;
    "the focus of infection"
    5. special emphasis attached to something;
    "the stress was more on accuracy than on speed"
    6. a point of convergence of light (or other radiation) or a point from which it diverges
    7. a fixed reference point on the concave side of a conic section
  • Verb
    1. direct one's attention on something;
    "Please focus on your studies and not on your hobbies"
    2. cause to converge on or toward a central point;
    "Focus the light on this image"
    3. bring into focus or alignment; to converge or cause to converge; of ideas or emotions
    4. become focussed or come into focus;
    "The light focused"
    5. put (an image) into focus;
    "Please focus the image; we cannot enjoy the movie"
行业词典
  • 力学: 焦点;
    医学: 〔复foci〕焦点,聚光点:光线或声波的会聚点;病灶:疾病过程的主要中心;疫源地;
    数学: 焦点;
    水产: 病灶;组织或器官遭受致病因子的作用而引起病变的部位。;
    物理学: 焦点;一种奇点。;
    航天: 焦点;