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call

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基本释义

v.
称呼; 把…说成; 喊,叫; 打电话; 召唤,召集; 拜访,停留; 取消(比赛等)
n.
打电话; 叫声; 呼吁,请求; 需求; 吸引力; 呼唤; 决定,裁决; 短暂拜访

词性变化

实用例句

Why should they get first call on the best property?

凭什么最好的房产尽着他们先挑?

He called me over the Tannoy.

他用天朗扩音器喊我。

I made a phone call to the United States to talk to a friend...

我打电话给美国的一个朋友。

I've had hundreds of calls from other victims...

我已经接到了其他受害人打来的上百个电话。

The Committee decided to call a meeting of the All India Congress...

委员会决定召开国大党会议。

The RSC was calling a press conference to announce the theatre's closure...

皇家莎士比亚剧团要召开新闻发布会,宣布剧院关闭。

The child waited two hours before she was called to give evidence...

小女孩等了两个小时才被传唤进去作证。

I was called as an expert witness.

我作为专家证人被传唤出庭。

A market researcher called at the house where he was living...

一位市场调查人员造访了他的住处。

Andrew now came almost weekly to call.

现在安德鲁几乎每星期都来。

The steamer calls at several ports along the way.

一路上,汽船在好几个港口停靠。

The second game of the series had ended in a 3-3 tie after ten innings when the game was called on account of darkness...

系列赛第二场在十局过后,双方战成3比3平,此时由于天黑,比赛取消。

We called the next game.

我们取消了下一场比赛。

There have been calls for a new kind of security arrangement...

不少人呼吁出台新的安全措施。

Almost all workers heeded a call by the trade unions to stay at home for the duration of the strike.

工会号召工人在罢工期间呆在家里,几乎所有工人都响应了这一号召。

'Have you got just plain chocolate?' — 'No, I'm afraid there's not much call for that.'

“你们有纯巧克力吗?”——“没有,恐怕那东西没几个人要。”

You must be feeling exhilarated by the call of the new.

新鲜事物的魅力一定让你兴奋不已。

...the plaintive call of a whale.

鲸的哀鸣

...a wide range of animal noises and bird calls.

各种各样的鸟兽叫声

'Boys!' she called again.

“小子们!”她又叫道。

Would you call me as soon as you find out?...

你一弄清楚了就给我打电话好吗?

A friend of mine gave me this number to call...

一个朋友要我打这个号码。

He screamed for his wife to call an ambulance...

他尖叫着让他老婆打电话叫救护车。

One night he was called to see a woman with tuberculosis.

一天夜里,有人打来电话,请他去给一位患肺结核的妇女看病。

She called her young son: 'Here, Stephen, come and look at this!'...

她喊她的小儿子:“喂,斯蒂芬,过来看看这个!”

I always wanted to call the dog Mufty for some reason...

不知怎么的,我老想把这条狗唤作穆夫提。

'Doctor...' — 'Will you please call me Sarah?'...

“大夫…”——“就叫我萨拉好了。”

The speech was interrupted by members of the Conservative Party, who called him a traitor...

演说被保守党人士打断,他们称他是叛徒。

I wouldn't call it a burden; I call it a responsibility...

我不觉得这是负担;我觉得它是一种责任。

He could hear the others downstairs in different parts of the house calling his name...

他听到其他人从楼下不同地方喊他的名字。

真题例句

Recruitment advertisements routinely call for team players.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

Calling out our fears explicitly, as Leah did, can help us act decisively.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

Whenever she called her parents or other relatives, she always had to think about the time difference so that she wouldn’t wake someone up or call when she knew they were at church.

出自-2017年6月听力原文

I think that things have become very gloomy these days, lots of misunderstanding, misleading cues, a lot of what the ancients would have called sophistry .

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

I call this a fixed mind-set .

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

After such an experience an animal often remains passive even when it can effect change—a state they called learned helplessness.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

Why do so many Americans eat tons of processed food, the stuff that is correctly called junk 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

To call people's attention to prisoners' conditions in America.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

His face went down lower and lower, and then, with complete joy he called out, Dad.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

Many of its 800 stores are likely to close following the company’s decision to call in administrators after an attempt to sell the business for a token £1 failed.

出自-2015年12月听力原文

Also, mothers may call on their children more often than fathers, given traditional gender norms.

2019年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C

And now I've got what you'd call a good old-fashioned pub.

2015年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section B

As I sat blocked and clueless for two solid days, I momentarily wondered if I couldn't just call an expert on the subject matter which I was tackling, or someone who took the class previously, to get me going.

2017年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

But I get off the phone pretty quickly when I call.

2016年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section B

Director of Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation Chris Murray described it as an "urgent call to action".

2018年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section A

I can call to add two more to the table,if you would like.

2018年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section B

I prefer to make a call if I'm in a hurry.

2016年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section B

I will give you a call that morning no matter what.

2019年6月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section B

If I call them, I'll have to have a long conversation.

2016年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section B

It would seem silly to call such a thing a "disease".

2017年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

Many of its 800 stores are likely to close following the company's decision to call in administrators after an attempt to sell the business for a token £1 failed.

2015年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section A

Other choices, in descending order of personalization, are: a real-time phone call, a voice-mail message, a handwritten note, a typewritten letter and the most unfriendly is email.

2018年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section A

Recruitment advertisements routinely call for "team players".

2017年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

Some colleges have what they call an "honor code", though if you are smart enough to get into these schools, you are either smart enough to get around any codes or hopefully, too ethical to consider doing so.

2017年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

That's what we call it in the workplace, " says a woman in her 20s.

2019年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

Their invention is a small biological circuit they call E-Kaia.

2016年12月四级真题(第二套)听力

We're not trying to assign blame or criticize anyone or call anyone consciously sexist.

2017年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

Whenever she called her parents or other relatives, she always had to think about the time difference so that she wouldn't wake someone up or call when she knew they were at church.

2017年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

They call for increased investments.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

One of the largest feeders for high school math competitions—including those that eventually lead to the IMO—is a middle school program called MathCounts.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

In his resignation letter, Morgan called the reorganization unworkable.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

Another influential feeder for advanced-math students is an online school called Art of Problem Solving, which began about 13 years ago and now has 15,000 users.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

Although calls to share data often concentrate on the moral advantages of sharing, the practice is not purely altruistic .

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

A New York City-based nonprofit called Bridge to Enter Mathematics runs a residential summer program aimed at getting underserved students, mostly black and Hispanic, working toward math and science careers.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

The idea is that we are taking more out of what you might call the planet's environmental bank balance than it can sustain; we are living beyond our ecological means.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

One recent study attempted to calculate the extent of this ecological overshoot of the human economy, and found that we are using 1.2 Earth's-worth of environmental goods and services—the implication being that at some point the debt will be called in, and all those services—the things which the planet does for us for free—will grind to a halt.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

Now Fred, you went to university in Canada? A recent International Labour Organization report says the deterioration of real wages around the world calls into question the true extent of an economic recovery, especially if government rescue packages are phased out too early.

出自-2016年6月听力原文

To call stress an epidemic isn't exaggeration.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

Perlow calls this vicious cycle the cycle of responsiveness: Once bosses and colleagues experience an employee's increased responsiveness, they increase their demands on the employee's time.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

Meanwhile, emerging technologies – the drones, 3D printers and smart-home devices of the world – now seem a bit too old to be called the next big thing.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

Calling on all the nations concerned to make joint efforts.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

The third element of love in Sternberg’s theory is what he calls decision commitment, the decision that one is in a love relationship, the willingness to label it as such and the commitment to maintain that relationship at least for some period of time.

出自-2016年12月听力原文

Sternberg would argue it’s not love if you don’t call it love and if you don’t have some desire to maintain the relationship.

出自-2016年12月听力原文

Some 10,000 pairs of the birds, called fulmars, a kind of Arctic seabird, make their nests on Devon Island, north at the Arctic circle.

出自-2016年12月听力原文

And he has a theory of love that argues that it’s made up of three components: intimacy,passion and commitment, or what is sometimes called decision commitment.

出自-2016年12月听力原文

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

She is expecting up to 20 people at the first meeting she has called, at her local pub in the Cornish village of Polperro.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

More than a decade ago, cognitive scientists John Bransford and Daniel Schwartz, both then at Vanderbilt University, found that what distinguished young adults from children was not the ability to retain facts or apply prior knowledge to a new situation but a quality they called preparation for future learning.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

In Paying for the Party, Hamilton describes what she calls the party pathway, which eases many students through college, helped along by various clubs that send students into the party scene and a host of easier majors.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

Team management calls for new skills if personnel potential is tobe fully realized.

出自-2015年12月听力原文

As more journals and funders adopt data-sharing requirements, and as a growing number of enthusiasts call for more openness, junior researchers must find their place between adopters and those who continue to hold out, even as they strive to launch their

2017年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

I guess you could call it a liquid salad.

2018年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section A

It is a movement building steady momentua call to make research data, software code and experimental methods publicly available and transparent.

2017年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

Penguins, like other seabirds and marine mammals, occupy higher levels in the food chain and they are what we call bio-indicators of their ecosystems.

2019年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C

Psychologists call them "masters of deception", those rare individuals with a natural ability to tell, with complete confidence, when someone is telling a lie.

2018年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

Some passengers enjoy the animals so much that they call the airport to schedule flights around their visits.

2019年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section B

Sternberg would argue it's not love if you don't call it love and if you don't have some desire to maintain the relationship.

2016年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

That's when they call Maple hill.

2019年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

These include the centuries-old custom of "bul",  where leaders would call a temporary stop to fishing for key species in order to give fish stocks an opportunity to replenish.

2017年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section A

They may be able to handle a drought of some length, and many people use the term "drought tolerant" to describe such plants, but they never actually stop needing to consume water, so Farrant prefers to call them drought resistant.

2018年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

To begin to figure out how computers are struggling, researchers at the University of Washington created a massive database of faces—they call it MegaFace—and tested a variety of facial-recognition algorithms as they scaled up in complexity.

2018年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C

To call stress an epidemic isn't exaggeration.

2016年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

We call these labels learning styles.

2019年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C

We race to get all our ground work done: packing, going through security, doing a last-minute work call, calling each other, then boarding the plane.

2018年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

A computer analysis blindly compared calls produced by mothers and chicks, ranking them by similarity.

2017年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

A free schedule of events for each term is available by calling the box office at 556-4183.

2016年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

A legend, also called a key, is a guide to the symbols and colors used in the graph.

2015年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

A Swiss study reported that while the weight of electronic goods represented by precious metals was relatively small in comParison to total waste, the concentration of gold and other precious metals was higher in so-called e-waste than in nature.

2015年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

A warning call reached the lighthouse.

2015年高考英语湖南卷 阅读理解 阅读C 选项

A week went by, a woman called to speak to Alice.

2015年高考英语重庆卷 完形填空 A 原文

And if you want to make a change, please call me before march the 10th.

2016年高考英语北京卷 听力 原文

And the more frequently mothers had called to their eggs, the more similar were the babies' begging calls.

2017年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

At the heart of the phenomenon lie tiny marine microorganisms (海洋微生物) called phytoplankton.

2019年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

But when he finally reached her, the woman flooded him with questions: "Who are you? What antique shop?" However, when she hung up, she regretted the way she had handled the call.

2019年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

By next year, half of the calls we receive will be scams (欺诈).

2019年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Changing levels of body chemicals called hormones not only make teenagers' bodies develop adult characteristics, but also make it hard for teenagers to fall asleep before 11 pm.

2017年高考英语浙江卷(6月) 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

Ccharlie, do you know a restaurant called bravo?

2018年高考英语全国卷3 听力 原文

Many studies show that older parents—today's grandparents—would have called their children more often if the means and cost of doing so had not been a barrier.

2015年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

Determined to be myself, move forward, free of shame and worldly labels, I can now call myself a "marathon winner".

2018年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

During my second year at the city college, I was told that the education department was offering a "free" course, called thinking chess, for three credits.

2018年高考英语全国卷I 完形填空 原文

Ehlers called the number of Jeff and Lisa to tell them he had found their dog.

2019年高考英语全国卷2 完形填空 原文

Five minutes after he arrived, he had an emergency call and left.

2015年高考英语上海卷 听力 原文

For want of better names, we shall call these two classes immediate reward and delayed reward.

2015年高考英语江苏卷 任务型阅读 原文

He would call in advance to make sure there was no alcohol at the party.

2017年高考英语天津卷 阅读表达 原文

Hi, I'm calling to make some changes to an existing reservation.

2016年高考英语全国卷1 听力 原文

How often do you call each other?

2017年高考英语浙江卷(11月) 听力 原文

I got a rescue call from a woman in muttontown.

2017年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

I hate it when she calls me at work—I'm always too busy to carry on a conversation with her.

2016年高考英语天津卷 单项填空 原文

I raced to the staircase and called out, "Sally! Come down immediately! "

2018年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

If something were wrong,someone would have called you.

2017年高考英语浙江卷(11月) 听力 原文

If you give us your number, we'll call you when the card arrives.

2018年高考英语全国卷I 听力 原文

If you lose something on a bus or train or in a station, please call lost & found at 202-962-1195.

2014年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

In Greece, people share a special cake called vasilopita.

2015年高考英语安徽卷 阅读理解 阅读E 原文

In much of asia, especially the so-called "rice bowl" cultures of China, japan, korea, and vietnam, food is usually eaten with chopsticks.

2016年高考英语全国卷3 语法填空 原文

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

2018年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

In these cultures, silence is a call for reflection.

2016年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

It really annoys me when Kate calls her friends during office hours.

2016年高考英语全国卷1 听力 原文

It's called apple day but in practice it's more like apple month.

2016年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Long before most of us even noticed what we now call "the environment," Buckminster Fuller said, "Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting."

2017年高考英语浙江卷(11月) 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Looking back on your day, you will find it hard to deny that a horseback safari is as close as you will ever come to answering the call of the wild.

2015年高考英语重庆卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

My mother's call returned me to the real world.

2015年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Naomi heard multiple stops and starts, Steve struggling, searching while his wife joni called him "honey" and encouraged him.

2019年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

New-born chicks can then imitate their mom's call within a few days of entering the world.

2017年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

None more so than husband and wife team Kenneth and Carol Adelman, well-known advisers to the White House, who started up a training company called "movers and Shakespeares".

2015年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Oh, may I ask for a wake-up call, please?

2017年高考英语浙江卷(11月) 听力 原文

Okay, I'll give them a call.

2015年高考英语全国卷1 听力 原文

On January 31, a musher named Seppala had to cross a frozen body of water called Norton Sound.

2016年高考英语北京卷 完形填空 原文

On the third Monday of April, the holiday sechselauten is kicked off when a cotton snowman called the boogg is stuffed with explosive and paraded through town by bakers and other tradesmen who throw bread to the crowds.

2015年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

Once called the garden of Amsterdam, it still attracts travelers to come over to cycle and walk through the surrounding forests.

2015年高考英语湖北卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Once lighthouses had telephones, keepers would call each other to warn that the inspector was approaching.

2015年高考英语湖南卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

One early morning, I went into the living room to find my mother reading a thick book called best loved poems to read again and again.

2016年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

One is related to what freud calls the pleasure principle, the other to what he calls the reality principle.

2015年高考英语江苏卷 任务型阅读 原文

One thing is for certain—Larry went above and beyond the call of duty by getting so close to the burning vehicle! His efforts most likely saved the woman's life.

2016年高考英语全国卷1 完形填空 原文

Senior citizens and disabled customers can get free guide on how to use proper metrobus and metrorail services by calling 202-962-1100.

2014年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

She called on the White House to help.

2016年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读B 选项

So she called Zac back and apologized.

2019年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

So, four days later, he called his friend greg, and the two drove back.

2019年高考英语全国卷2 完形填空 原文

Sorry, I don't have the information now, I'll call you back.

2017年高考英语北京卷 听力 原文

Such situations have led to calls for the tech giants to be broken up.

2017年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Tell you what, I'll be calling jim late this week anyway, so I'll mention it to him.

2016年高考英语四川卷 听力 原文

Thank you for calling, and goodbye.

2015年高考英语湖南卷 听力 原文

The benefits of this kind of engineering come with consequences 一 called light pollution 一 whose effects scientists are only now beginning to study.

2015年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

The core of what children's minds have and chimps' don't is what Tomasello calls shared intentionality.

2016年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

The foundation began another campaign called national red scarf day, a day when people donate $20 and wear red scarves in support of Canada's hungry and homeless.

2017年高考英语北京卷 完形填空 原文

The instructors called for an ambulance.

2018年高考英语全国卷2 完形填空 原文

The lives of these people have finally been recorded thanks to the effects of a Frenchman form Paris called gin.

2016年高考英语四川卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

The man who had his bright lights on came over and told Larry he had made an emergency call.

2016年高考英语全国卷1 完形填空 原文

The miracle of 1511 took place during six freezing works called the winter of death.

2015年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

The problem of robocalls has gotten so bad that many people now refuse to pick up calls from numbers they don't know.

2019年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

The proposal attempts to deal with what some call the "death valley" of autonomous vehicles: the grey area between semi-autonomous and fully driverless cars that could delay the driverless future.

2017年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

The reason I'm calling is that we'd like to offer you the position you were interviewed for last thursday.

2019年高考英语全国卷2 听力 原文

The researchers call the effect "Enclothed Cognition, " suggesting that all manner of different clothes probably affect our cognition in many different ways.

2017年高考英语浙江卷(11月) 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

The science of creating and reading coded messages is called cryptography.

2016年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 七选五 原文

Then they identified begging calls by analyzing the order and number of notes.

2017年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

There is an emergency shelter in winnipeg called "Hannah's place", something that Hannah is very proud of.

2017年高考英语北京卷 完形填空 原文

These advertise the presence of chicks to adults; they might also encourage our chick to start calling as well.

2017年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

They're called "motorheads" by the rest of the student body.

2016年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

This is called " transactive memory".

2015年高考英语安徽卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

This is called "herd immunity", which protects the people who get hurt easily, including those who can't be vaccinated for medical reasons, babies too young to get vaccinated and people on whom the vaccine doesn't work.

2017年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

We will give you a call as soon as it's fixed.

2015年高考英语北京卷 听力 原文

Whaley recalls how at the beginning of the year, when called upon to read, chris would excuse himself to go to the bathroom.

2019年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

When a secretary in my office first called him "motorhead", I was shocked.

2016年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

When another person helps us in such ways, he or she is participating in what I've called a social prosthetic system.

2016年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

When I was 17, I read a magazine article about a museum called the mcnay, once the home of a watercolorist named marian mcnay.

2018年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

When the eggs were hatched, the baby birds made the similar chirp to their mothers—a sound that served as their regular "Feed me!" call.

2017年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

When we got a call saying she was short-listed, we thought it was a joke.

2019年高考英语全国卷2 语法填空 原文

Without delay, I called to thank her.

2019年高考英语天津卷 完形填空 原文

You can end up with what astronauts call a carbon-dioxide headache.

2015年高考英语湖北卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

You can even listen through the headset only and put the TV on mute if the situation calls for a quiet environment —maybe the baby is sleeping.

2015年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

He argued that human evolution was characterized by a struggle he called the “survival of the fittest,” in which weaker races and societies must eventually be replaced by stronger, more advanced races and societies.

出自-2009年考研阅读原文

” Yet bank shares rose and the changes enhance what one lobby group politely calls “the use of judgment by management.

出自-2010年考研阅读原文

They found that the principal requirement for what is called “global cascades” -the widespread propagation of influence through networks -is the presence not of a few influentials but, rather, of a critical mass of easily influenced people.

出自-2010年考研阅读原文

These men believed in journalism as a calling,and were proud to be published in the daily press.

出自-2010年考研阅读原文

The supposed importance of influentials derives from a plausible sounding but largely untested theory called the “two step flow of communication”: Information flows from the media to the influentials and from them to everyone else.

出自-2010年考研阅读原文

Over the past decade, thousands of patents have been granted for what are called business methods Amazon.

出自-2010年考研阅读原文

In his book The Tipping Point,Malcolm Aladuell argues that social epidemics are driven in large part by the acting of a tiny minority of special individuals,often called influentials,who are unusually informed,persuasive,or well-connected.

出自-2010年考研阅读原文

Even Tommasini, who had advocated Gilbert’s appointment in the Times, calls him “an unpretentious musician with no air of the formidable conductor about him”.

出自-2011年考研阅读原文

Rosenberg, the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize, offers a host of example of the social cure in action: In South Carolina, a state-sponsored antismoking program called Rage Against the Haze sets out to make cigarettes uncool.

出自-2012年考研阅读原文

I call it a secret war for two reasons.

出自-2012年考研阅读原文

But in her new book Join the Club, Tina Rosenberg contends that peer pressure can also be a positive force through what she calls the social cure, in which organizations and officials use the power of group dynamics to help individuals improve their lives and possibly the word.

出自-2012年考研阅读原文

In most of the homeless gardens of New York City the actual cultivation of plants is unfeasible, yet even so the compositions often seem to represent attempts to call arrangement of materials, an institution of colors, small pool of water, and a frequent presence of petals or leaves as well as of stuffed animals.

出自-2013年考研翻译原文

To encourage innovation and competition, the report calls for increased investment in research, the crafting of coherent curricula that improve students’ ability to solve problems and communicate effectively in the 21st century, increased funding for teachers and the encouragement of scholars to bring their learning to bear on the great challenges of the day.

出自-2014年考研阅读原文

Rather, we ascribe meanings to test on the basis of interaction between what we might call textual and contextual material: between kinds of organization or patterning we perceive in a text’s formal structures and various kinds of background, social knowledge, belief and attitude that we bring to the text.

出自-2015年考研阅读原文

Mental health has commonly been called conscience,instinct,wisdom,common sense,or the inner voice.

出自-2016年考研翻译原文

Simply arranging a meeting, making a phone call, or hosting an event is not an official act.

出自-2017年考研阅读原文

Perhaps that is why we explore the starry skies, as if answering a primal calling to know ourselves and our true ancestral homes.

出自-2017年考研阅读原文

Calls to disassemble all telescopes on Mauna Kea or to ban future development there ignore the reality that astronomy and Hawaiian culture both seek to answer big questions about who we are, where we come from and where we are going.

出自-2017年考研阅读原文

A group of labour MPs, among them Yvette Cooper, are bringing in the new year with a call to institute a UK "town of culture" award.

2020年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Koziatek's school is a wake-up call.

2018年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Last year, Europe Commission vice President Viviane Reding issued a call to voluntary action.

2013年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

simply arranging a meeting, making a phone call, or hosting an event is not an "official act".

2017年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Social psychologists have amassed oceans of research into what they call the "above average effect", or "illusory superiority".

2014年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

The food industry will be alarmed that such senior doctors back such radical moves, especially the call to use some of the tough tactics that have been deployed against smoking over the last decade.

2011年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

The key messages that have been put together for World Environment Day do include a call for governments to enact legislation to curb single-use plastics.

2019年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

You can call their views stupid, or joke about how ignorant they are.

2020年考研真题(英语一)翻译 Section Ⅲ

英英释义

Noun
  • 1. a telephone connection;

    "she reported several anonymous calls"

    "he placed a phone call to London"

    "he heard the phone ringing but didn't want to take the call"

  • 2. a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition;

    "the speaker was interrupted by loud cries from the rear of the audience"

  • 3. a demand especially in the phrase "the call of duty"

  • 4. the characteristic sound produced by a bird;

    "a bird will not learn its song unless it hears it at an early age"

  • 5. a brief social visit;

    "senior professors' wives no longer make afternoon calls on newcomers"

  • 6. a demand by a broker that a customer deposit enough to bring his margin up to the minimum requirement

  • 7. a demand for a show of hands in a card game;

    "after two raises there was a call"

  • 8. a request;

    "many calls for Christmas stories"

    "not many calls for buggywhips"

  • 9. an instruction that interrupts the program being executed;

    "Pascal performs calls by simply giving the name of the routine to be executed"

  • 10. brief visit in an official or professional capacity;

    "the pastor's visits to his parishioners"

    "a visit to a dentist"

    "the salesman's call on a customer"

  • 11. (sports) the decision made by an umpire or referee;

    "he was ejected for protesting the call"

  • 12. the option to buy a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date

Verb
  • 1. assign a specified, proper name to;

    "They named their son David"

    "The new school was named after the famous Civil Rights leader"

  • 2. get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone;

    "I tried to call you all night"

    "Take two aspirin and call me in the morning"

  • 3. ascribe a quality to or give a name of a common noun that reflects a quality;

    "He called me a bastard"

    "She called her children lazy and ungrateful"

  • 4. order, request, or command to come;

    "She was called into the director's office"

    "Call the police!"

  • 5. utter a sudden loud cry;

    "she cried with pain when the doctor inserted the needle"

    "I yelled to her from the window but she couldn't hear me"

  • 6. pay a brief visit;

    "The mayor likes to call on some of the prominent citizens"

  • 7. call a meeting; invite or command to meet;

    "The Wannsee Conference was called to discuss the `Final Solution'"

    "The new dean calls meetings every week"

  • 8. order or request or give a command for;

    "The unions called a general strike for Sunday"

  • 9. order, summon, or request for a specific duty or activity, work, role;

    "He was already called 4 times for jury duty"

    "They called him to active military duty"

  • 10. indicate a decision in regard to;

    "call balls and strikes behind the plate"

  • 11. stop or postpone because of adverse conditions, such as bad weather;

    "call a football game"

  • 12. read aloud to check for omissions or absentees;

    "Call roll"

  • 13. send a message or attempt to reach someone by radio, phone, etc.; make a signal to in order to transmit a message;

    "Hawaii is calling!"

    "A transmitter in Samoa was heard calling"

  • 14. declare in the capacity of an umpire or referee;

    "call a runner out"

  • 15. utter a characteristic note or cry;

    "bluejays called to one another"

  • 16. utter in a loud voice or announce;

    "He called my name"

    "The auctioneer called the bids"

  • 17. make a prediction about; tell in advance;

    "Call the outcome of an election"

  • 18. challenge (somebody) to make good on a statement; charge with or censure for an offense;

    "He deserves to be called on that"

  • 19. consider or regard as being;

    "I would not call her beautiful"

  • 20. demand payment of (a loan);

    "Call a loan"

  • 21. give the calls (to the dancers) for a square dance

  • 22. greet, as with a prescribed form, title, or name;

    "He always addresses me with `Sir'"

    "Call me Mister"

    "She calls him by first name"

  • 23. make a stop in a harbour;

    "The ship will call in Honolulu tomorrow"

  • 24. make a demand, as for a card or a suit or a show of hands;

    "He called his trump"

  • 25. require the presentation of for redemption before maturation;

    "Call a bond"

  • 26. lure by imitating the characteristic call of an animal;

    "Call ducks"

  • 27. challenge the sincerity or truthfulness of;

    "call the speaker on a question of fact"

  • 28. rouse somebody from sleep with a call;

    "I was called at 5 A.M. this morning"

同义词辨析

call, summon, send for

这些动词或词组均含有"召集,召唤"之意。

  • call: 非正式用词,含义广泛,指用说话或呼叫的形式召唤。
  • summon: 正式用词,指官方或正式的召集,召集者具有权力或权威性。
  • send for: 作"召唤"解时,语气较随便,暗示委派一件工作。

cry, shout, exclaim, roar, scream, shriek, yell, call

这些动词都有"喊,叫"之意。

  • cry: 一般指因恐惧、痛苦、惊奇等而喊叫。
  • shout: 指有意识地高声喊叫,常用于提出警告、发命令或唤起注意等。
  • exclaim: 多指因高兴、愤怒、痛苦、惊讶等突发感情而高声喊叫。
  • roar: 指发出大而深沉的声音、吼叫或咆哮。
  • scream: 指因恐具、快乐或痛苦而发出的尖叫声。
  • shriek: 指因惊恐、痛苦等或其它感情而发出比scream更为尖锐、刺耳的叫声。
  • yell: 多指求援、鼓励时的呼叫。也可指因外界因素刺激而发出尖厉声音。
  • call: 指大声说话或喊叫,以引起某人的注意。

name, call, designate

这些动词均含"命名,称呼"之意。

  • name: 含义最泛,指给人或物命名以示区别或便于记忆。
  • call: 指给某人或某物取名字以某人或某物的特征称呼。
  • designate: 指用特别的名字、符号或词句来称某人或某物。

同义词

vt.叫喊,呼叫

cryyellshout

最新英语单词

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