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  • why so?
    for what reason or purpose? 为什么这样?
英语四级真题
  • Why learning and forgetting are complementary.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • That's why leaders continue to manage the present while building toward the big changes of the future.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • Instead of giving people practice, the gradual reduction likely gave them cravings ( ' , 瘾) and withdrawal symptoms before they even reached quit day, which could be why fewer people in that group actually made it to that point.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • That’s why horses, which also come from Central Asia, like both apples and carrots so much.
    出自-2017年6月听力原文
  • Why do some people live to be older than others? You know the standard explanations: keeping a moderate diet, engaging in regular exercise, etc.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • Stan Glantz, a professor of medicine in San Francisco,explains why: And you know, one thing that I wanted to ask you.
    出自-2016年6月听力原文
  • Why do some students give up when they encounter difficulty, whereas others who are no more skilled continue to strive and learn? One answer, I soon discovered, lay in people's beliefs about why they had failed.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • In other words, there's a reason why people like to gamble.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • It’s: why are the British so cold? And they’re talking about the British personality—the famous British reserve.
    出自-2016年12月听力原文
  • Why not instead think of learning as if it were food—something so valuable to humans that they have evolved to experience it as a pleasure?Joy should not be trained out of children or left for after-school programs.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • Why do so many Americans eat tons of processed food, the stuff that is correctly called junk ( ' , 垃圾 ) and should really carry warning labels? It's not because fresh ingredients are hard to come by.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • Shouldn't preparing—and consuming—food be a source of comfort, pride, health, well-being, relaxation, sociability? Something that connects us to other humans? Why would we want to outsource ( ' , 外包 ) this basic task, especially when outsourcing it is so harmful? When I talk about cooking, I'm not talking about creating elaborate dinner parties or three-day science projects.
    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
  • Criticism, at its best, is deeply personal, and gets to the heart of why we write the way we do.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • Leo, why do you say English will become the world language? Hello, yes? No one knows for sure just how old kites are.
    出自-2015年12月听力原文
  • So here's a suggestion offered by two researchers at the Rand Corporation: Why not take a lesson from alcohol control policies and apply them to where food is sold and how it's displayed?
    出自-2013年6月阅读原文
  • Oh… Why don't you use the ladder?
    出自-2014年6月听力原文
  • Why did Alex fail to receive the warm response he had hoped for?
    出自-2010年6月听力原文
  • Why does the speaker say the worst way to complain is over the telephone
    出自-2010年6月听力原文
  • But I don't understand why you're so excited.
    2019年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section B
  • Economic factors seem to explain less of why young adult women are increasingly likely to live at home.
    2019年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • hi, Leo, why do you say English will become the world language?
    2015年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section B
  • How and why does children's thinking change?
    2015年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section A
  • If breakfast alone isn't a guarantee of weight loss, why is there a link between obesity and breakfastskipping?
    2019年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • Instead of giving people practice, the gradual reduction likely gave them cravings 瘾 and withdrawal symptoms before they even reached quit day, which could be why fewer people in that group actually made it to that point.
    2017年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
  • 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
  • like, if people jump the traffic lights, I don't know why there isn't a camera on the traffic lights to stop people doing that.
    2016年6月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section B
  • New evidence shows why getting enough sleep is a top priority.
    2016年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • One answer, I soon discovered, lay in people's beliefs about why they had failed.
    2016年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • Only about one-in-five say women's family responsibilities are a major reason why there aren't more females in top leadership positions in business and politics.
    2019年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • Scientists have different theories as to why there's a relationship between the two.
    2019年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • Some people wonder why countries spend millions of dollars on space projects.
    2017年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • That is why being self-aware, investing in broader networks of friends, and being open to new ideas will become even more crucial skills.
    2019年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • That's why the British don't like flats.
    2016年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section B
  • That's why there is most often a delay associated with muscle soreness.
    2019年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • The journalist Ian Leslie, in his new and enjoyable book Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends on it, insists that the answer to that last question is "Yes".
    2017年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • There is absolutely no reason why men can't go into this profession.
    2019年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section A
  • They're documenting why teaching is such a fruitful way to learn, and designing innovative ways for young people to engage in instruction.
    2018年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
  • This is why few locals in Seattle carry an umbrella generally.
    2019年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • While the study didn't assess why divorce is more likely when wives but not husbands become seriously ill, Karraker offers a few possible reasons.
    2019年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
英语六级真题
  • Why should you consider taking a course in demography in college? You’ll be growing up in a generation where the baby boomers are going into retirement and dying.
    出自-2017年6月听力原文
  • Why, then, has this claim become so popular?Part of the answer is that this is what always happens during periods of high unemployment—in part because experts and analysts believe that declaring the problem deeply rooted, with no easy answers, makes them sound serious.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • Whether this is right, and if so where and when the ecological axe will fall, is hard to determine with any precision—which is why governments and financial institutions are only beginning to bring such risks into their economic calculations.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • That's why school reform is so critical.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • It is also the reason why development agencies are not united in their view of environmental issues; while some, like the WRI, maintain that environmental progress needs to go hand-inhand with economic development, others argue that the priority is to build a thriving economy, and then use the wealth created to tackle environmental degradation.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • If this is not happening today, we should ask why.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • Here are some of the important proposals in the House and Senate bills to try to address those problems, and why it is hard to know how well they will work.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • And that, fundamentally, is why claims that we face huge structural problems have been multiplying: they offer a reason to do nothing about the mass unemployment that is crippling our economy and our society.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • Yet the persistent question of Why do I need that? – or, perhaps more tellingly, Why do you need to know that? – dogs the steps of many new ventures.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • That is why government has historically intervened, banning advertising, imposing health warnings and punitive ( ' , 惩罚性的) duties.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • That could be another explanation for why companies seem to be strengthening their talk of the practicality of their devices.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • So why has it taken so long? The Department of Health declared its intention to consider the move in November 2010 and consulted through 2012.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • Perhaps the reason why so many universities offer their students so little is they know studying at a top university remains a brilliant investment even if you don't learn anything.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • But that isn't why the government—under pressure from cancer charities, health workers and the Labour party—has agreed to legislate for standardised packaging.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • That helps explain why, as I'm First's Rubinoff indicated, the schools to which these students end up resorting can end up being some of the poorest matches for them.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • So what factors, at the community level, do predict if poor children will move up the economic ladder as adults? What explains, for instance, why the Salt Lake City metro area is one of the 100 largest metropolitan areas most likely to lift the fortunes of the poor and the Atlanta metro area is one of the least likely?Harvard economist Raj Chetty has pointed to economic and racial segregation, community density, the size of a community's middle class, the quality of schools, community religiosity, and family structure, which he calls the single strongest correlate of upward mobility.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • Why does love die?Changing technology and markets have stimulated the team approach tomanagement.
    出自-2015年12月听力原文
  • The College Essay: Why Those 500 Words Drive Us Crazy
    出自-2013年12月阅读原文
  • Question 15: Why did Dennis Hutton go to New York?
    出自-2013年12月听力原文
  • Why did James Dean move back to Indiana when he was young?
    出自-2010年6月听力原文
  • A robot's appearance affects its ability to successfully interact with humans, which is why the riKEN-Tri Collaboration Center for Human-Interactive Robot Research decided to develop a robotic nurse that looks like a huge teddy bear.
    2018年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • And it goes some way towards explaining why books about swimming, in which people tackle icy lakes, and overcome oceans while reflecting on their lives have recently become so popular.
    2018年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section B
  • As a zoologist focusing on the studies of apes and monkeys, I've been studying why humans evolved to become the naked ape and why skin comes in so many different shades around the world.
    2019年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • As he and other researchers examined the question of why teens were more apt to take risks in the company of other teenagers,they came to suspect that a crowd's influence need not always be negative.
    2018年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • I never really understood why so many girls were such big fans of her.
    2019年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section A
  • I wanted to know why so I began self-monitoring to try to understand my behavior.
    2017年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • In other words, we really must make the case for why we are doing it.
    2019年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section A
  • It is also the reason why development agencies are not united in their view of environmental issues; while some, like the Wri, maintain that environmental progress needs to go hand-in-hand with economic development, others argue that the priority is to bu
    2016年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • Moffitt said it's still unclear why some children have better self-control than others, though she says other researchers have found that it's mostly a learned behavior, with relatively little genetic influence.
    2016年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • Our long-term operation in the region depends on a healthy and thriving Antarctic marine ecosystem, which is why we have always had an open dialogue with the environmental non-governmental organisations.
    2019年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • So if ifs so easy to get your protein in food, why add more in the form of powders, snack bars or a boost at your local juice bar?
    2019年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • So please tell us, why did you decide to open a café?
    2018年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section A
  • So why has it taken so long?
    2016年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
  • Take some time to reflect on your attitudes, to think about what you believe and why.
    2019年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • That helps explain why, as I'm first's Rubinoff indicated, the schools to which these students end up resorting can end up being some of the poorest matches for them.
    2015年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • That is why government has historically intervened, banning advertising, imposing health warnings and punitive duties.
    2016年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
  • That may be one reason why so many people find relief in swimming when life seas get rough.
    2018年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section B
  • That's why women are told to eat 25 grams a fiber a day—men even more.
    2017年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section B
  • That's why, for example, may say they believe in the benefits of recycling or exercise, but don't behave in line with their views, because it takes awareness, effort and courage to go beyond merely stating that you believe something is a good idea.
    2019年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • There are good reasons why crop plants do not use dryness defenses already.
    2018年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • There is another reason why I want to chat with you before Monday.
    2017年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section A
  • There's a surplus of physical shopping space for the crowds, which is one reason why stores are downsizing and closing.
    2019年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • This is why we're all on board in focusing on those thousand days to improve nutrition.
    2015年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • Too many people in this country, including some among our elected leadership, still do not understand how science works or why robust, long-range investments in research vitally matter.
    2016年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section A
  • Twenge and her colleagues wanted to understand why this change in average well-being occurred.
    2019年12月六级真题(第一套)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 cause or intention underlying an action or situation, especially in the phrase `the whys and wherefores'
  • Adverb
    1. question word; what is the reason (`how come' is a nonstandard variant);
    "why are you here?""how come he got an ice cream cone but I didn't?"