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reason

高中CET4CET6

英[ˈriːzn]
美[ˈriːzn]

基本释义

n.
原因; 道理; 理智
v.
推理; 思考,判断

词性变化

实用例句

I'd like to know the reason why you're so late.

我想知道你为什么迟到那么长时间。

牛津词典

We aren't going for the simple reason that we can't afford it.

我们不去,只是因为我们负担不起。

牛津词典

She gave no reasons for her decision.

她没有对她的决定作出任何解释。

牛津词典

I have no particular reason for doubting him.

我没有什么特别的理由怀疑他。

牛津词典

He said no but he didn't give a reason .

他说不行,但没有说明原因。

牛津词典

Give me one good reason why I should help you.

我为什么要帮你?给我一个充分的理由。

牛津词典

For some reason (= one that I don't know or don't understand) we all have to come in early tomorrow.

出于某种原因,我们大家明天都不得不早点来。

牛津词典

The man attacked me for no apparent reason .

那个人不知何故攻击我。

牛津词典

She resigned for personal reasons .

她出于个人原因而辞职。

牛津词典

For reasons of security the door is always kept locked.

为了保证安全,门总是锁着的。

牛津词典

He wants to keep them all in his office for reasons best known to himself .

他想把他们都留在他的办公室里,原因只有他自己知道。

牛津词典

There is a reason for every important thing that happens...

每件重要事情的发生都有原因。

Who would have a reason to want to kill her?

谁会有杀她的动机呢?

They had reason to believe there could be trouble...

他们有理由相信可能会遇到麻烦。

He had every reason to be upset...

他完全有理由生气。

...a conflict between emotion and reason...

情感和理智的冲突

Mike is my voice of reason. He thinks logically and points out where I'm going wrong.

迈克帮我保持理智。他的思维很有逻辑性,可以指出我的错误。

I reasoned that changing my diet would lower my cholesterol level...

我推断改变自己的饮食可以降低我的胆固醇水平。

'Listen,' I reasoned, 'it doesn't take a genius to figure out what Adam's up to.'

“听着,”我分析道,“要弄清楚亚当想要干什么很容易。”

For reasons best known to himself, Algie changed his name.

不知是出于什么原因,阿尔吉改了名字。

The boss retains enormous influence by reason of his position...

老板由于自身的地位而一直有极大的影响力。

He pleaded innocent by reason of insanity.

他以精神不健全为由申辩无罪。

The company's top executives had refused to listen to reason.

公司的高层管理人员拒绝理智行事。

The guards, he said, would punch them for no reason...

他说警卫会无缘无故殴打他们。

For no reason at all the two men started to laugh.

两个人莫名其妙地开始大笑。

Chloe is my reason for living.

克洛艾是我活着的理由。

For some reason, the curtains were shut...

不知什么原因,窗帘拉着。

For some inexplicable reason she was attracted to Patrick.

因为某些无法解释的原因,她被帕特里克所吸引。

I will take any job that comes along, within reason...

我会接受任何给我的工作,只要是正当的。

It means working, within reason, for whatever time is necessary.

这意味着在合理的范围内花费所有必要的时间工作。

真题例句

One of the reasons I find this topic very interesting is because my mom was a smoker when I was younger, says Lindson-Hawley, who studies tobacco and health at the University of Oxford.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

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

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

The study, which followed more than 2,000 healthy adults between the ages of 18 and 60, found that certain mental functions—including measures of abstract reasoning, mental speed and puzzle-solving—started to dull as early as age 27.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

The study included healthy, educated adults who took standard tests of memory, reasoning and perception at the outset and at some point over the next seven years.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

More people who lived in cities and suburbs said they wanted to try driverless cars than those who lived in rural areasWhile there's reason to believe that interest in self-driving cars is going up across the board, a person's age will have little to do with how self-driving cars can become mainstream.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

There is reason to believe that gamification will be here to stay.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

There is no reason this will go away.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

The reasons behind the plunge of oil prices.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

One reason is that more countries are big oil producers now, so the nations suffering from the price drop account for a larger share of the global economy.

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

Does that mean the link between lower oil prices and growth has weakened?Some experts say there are still good reasons to believe cheap oil should heat up the world economy.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

I’m speakingto Delroy Simmonds , an  unemployed Brooklyn man who  missed a job interview Tuesday  for the best reasons.

出自-2016年12月听力原文

As she neared the end of her prison sentence, a well-known columnist wrote that she was paying her dues, and that there is simply no reason for anyone to attempt to deny her right to start anew.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

I suspect the reason is a deep-rooted love of the fire.

出自-2014年6月阅读原文

Moreover, students should be prepared not just for their first job, but for their 4th and 5th jobs, as there's little reason to doubt that people entering the workforce today will be called upon to play many different roles over the course of their careers

出自-2014年6月阅读原文

The first reason is that we need it to keep our economy running.

出自-2014年6月阅读原文

For these reasons I think physical books will have a longer existence as a commercial product than some currently predict.

出自-2014年6月阅读原文

But there are reasons that we buy all that old from elsewhere

出自-2014年6月阅读原文

Such "collaborative (合作的) consumption" is a good thing for several reasons.

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

The reason it hasn't caught on yet, he tells me, is that the functionality of e-edition textbooks is incredibly limited, and some students just aren't motivated to learn new study behavior.

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

While the emphasis on teaching to higher, test-driven standards as set in No Child Left Behind resulted in significantly better performance in elementary(and some middle)schools, high schools for a variety of reasons seemed to have made little progress.

出自-2012年6月阅读原文

Her main reason for returning to academia mid-career was to take advantage of the greater freedom to choose research questions.

出自-2010年12月阅读原文

The reason for these and countless other patterns of social behaviour is that they are controlled by social norms--shared rules or guidelines which prescribe the behavior that is appropriate in a given situation.

出自-2013年12月听力原文

Today, any data that is collected about us in one place or another — and for one reason or another — can be stored in a computer bank.

出自-2013年6月听力原文

And what was your reason for wanting to do the class?

出自-2012年12月听力原文

I first met Joe Ganz when we were both nine years old, which is probably the only reason he's one of my best friends.

出自-2012年6月听力原文

Is there any reason why you went to Nottingham University?

出自-2011年12月听力原文

Do you have any special reason for wanting to come back?

出自-2010年12月听力原文

And the reason we don't know about a lot of them is that a lot of them have vanished entirely.

2019年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

As if you needed another reason to hate the gym, it now turns out that exercise can exhaust not only your muscles, but also your eyes.

2017年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section A

As she neared the end of her prison sentence, a well-known columnist wrote that she was "paying her dues," and that " there is simply no reason for anyone to attempt to deny her right to start anew."

2015年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C

Japan says fear of disease is its main reason to block fresh imports.

2018年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section A

One reason for these decreases in height is the economic situation in the 1980s, said Alexander Moradi of University of Sussex.

2019年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

One reason may be breakfast's nutritional value partly because cereal is fortified with vitamins.

2019年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

One reason women may feel exhausted is that they have a hard time saying "no".

2017年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C

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

That was actually Songdo, " says Jung Won Son, a professor of urban development at London's Bartlett School of Planning, "Part of the reason to shoot there is that it's new and nice.

2019年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

The reason is that all-girls schools encourage women to enter fields traditionally dominated by men such as science, technology and engineering.

2019年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

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

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

2016年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

While there's reason to believe that interest in self-driving cars is going up across the board, a person's age will have little to do with how self-driving cars can become mainstream.

2016年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

The reasoning behind this saying is that low oil prices discourage investment in new production capacity, eventually shifting the oil supply curve backward and bringing prices back up as existing oil fields—which can be tapped at relatively low marginal cost—are depleted.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

The reason is that when carbon is priced, those emissions reductions that are least costly to implement will happen first.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

Historically, scientists have objected to sharing for many reasons: it is a lot of work; until recently, good databases did not exist; grant funders were not pushing for sharing; it has been difficult to agree on standards for formatting data; and there is no agreed way to assign credit for data.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

Economic reasoning shows that the least expensive way for each country is to put a price on carbon emissions.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

This is the reason you are here in a university.

出自-2017年6月听力原文

We need to accept that fact across much of the planet, so waste with little or no treatment will be used in agriculture for good reason.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

Virtually all experts agree that the fee-for-service system—doctors are rewarded for the quantity of care rather than its quality of effectiveness—is a primary reason that the cost of care is so high.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, a vast four-year global study which reported its initial conclusions earlier this year, found reasons to believe that managing ecosystems sustainably—working with nature rather than against it—might be less profitable in the short term, but certainly brings long-term rewards.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

It's true that the main reason inner-city schools do poorly isn't teachers' unions, but poverty.

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

In other words, poor and rich both over-exploit the natural world, but for different reasons.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

As I said, structural unemployment isn't a real problem, it's an excuse—a reason not to act on America's problems at a time when action is desperately needed.

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

Still, there are good reasons to make positive changes in how we live and what we eat as we age.

出自-2016年6月听力原文

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

One reason for the rise in deaths from Alzheimer’s disease in this group may be that developing this condition remains possible even after people beat the odds of dying from other diseases such as cancer.

出自-2016年12月听力原文

One reason any campaign wants a popular celebrity spokesperson is because kids are attracted to them no matter what they are doing.

出自-2016年12月听力原文

In practical terms, the new guidelines being develop could result in doctors choosing one drug over another for cost reasons or even deciding that a particular treatment — at the end of life, for example — is too expensive.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

In particular, Arum and Roksa found, college students were not developing the critical thinking, analytic reasoning and other higher-level skills that are necessary to thrive in today's knowledge-based economy and to lead our nation in a time of complex challenges and dynamic change.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

But this vote of confidence in Oprah sends a troubling message at precisely the time when American universities need to do more to advance the cause of reason.

出自-2014年6月阅读原文

It seems very good for Harvard to honor such a high profile popularizer of the irrational…… at a time when political and religious nonsense so jeopardize the rule of reason in this allegedly enlightened democracy and around the world

出自-2014年6月阅读原文

Supervisors must identify the reasons for poor performance.

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

There are good reasons it causes such anxiety," says Lisa Sohmer, director of college counseling at the Garden School in Jackson Heights, N.Y.

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

It does not give people reason for pessimism.

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

What we want to encourage in these students is an active intellectual experience, in which they develop the wide range of complex reasoning abilities required of good lawyers.

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

Professor Robert Summers at Cornell Law School banned laptop computers from his thinks qualified lawyers need to possess a broad array of complex reasoning abilities

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

It is partly for policy reasons.

出自-2012年12月阅读原文

One reason why pension and health care reforms are slow in coming is that politicians are afraid of losing votes in the next election.

出自-2010年12月阅读原文

The reason why employers are unwilling to keep older workers is that younger workers are readily available

出自-2010年12月阅读原文

There's no reason we wouldn't have seen the same effect on our views of women if Hillary Clinton or Sarah Palin had been elected," says Effron.

出自-2010年6月阅读原文

What parents do, in other words, is of deep concern to the state, for the obvious reason that caring for children is not only morally urgent but essential for the future of society

出自-2010年6月阅读原文

Reasons for this ranged from inheritance disputes to hostility between spouses.

出自-2014年6月听力原文

This experiment certainly does not definitely prove that girls start to reason before boys, but it provides a clue that scientists would like to study more carefully.

出自-2012年12月听力原文

Scientists think that there is a physical reason for this

出自-2012年12月听力原文

In other words, the little girls are reasoning.

出自-2012年12月听力原文

Girls seem to start reasoning earlier than boys

出自-2012年12月听力原文

Is there any reason why you went to Nottingham University?

出自-2011年12月听力原文

The reason why these people feel less satisfied is that a world of possibilities may also be a world of missed opportunities.

出自-2011年6月听力原文

But, as the human study suggests, another reason for dolphins keeping their eyes open during sleep is that they can look out for predators while asleep.

2017年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section A

For a similar reason, online gambling is highly popular.

2015年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

For this reason, community interventions and government job programs that offer summer and vacation work are not only economically beneficial but also help to stimulate the adolescent's sense of worth.

2016年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section A

I don't necessarily think that's a reason to go to one.

2018年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

If you've ever started a sentence with, "If I were you…" or found yourself scratching your head at a colleague's agony over a decision when the answer is crystal-clear, there's a scientific reason behind it.

2018年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C

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

Part of the reason this ban is being discussed and implemented is because energy officials see that they will not reach their emissions goals by 2050 if they do not eliminate a large portion of vehicle emissions.

2017年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section A

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

The reason for constructing the buildings from wood is probably that ideally proportioned straight and slender timber was available in large quantities in Scandinavia's vast pine forests.

2019年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

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

virtually all experts agree that the fee-for-service system— doctors are rewarded for the quantity of care rather than its quality of effectiveness — is a primary reason that the cost of care is so high.

2016年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

Yet like many college teachers around the U.S., the faculty remain doubtful that their work as educators can be measured by a "learning outcome" such as a graduate's ability to investigate and reason.

2017年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section A

Anger is a particularly strong feeling and Maybe people think that they have reasons to feel angry.

2018年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 七选五 原文

Another reason for corn's rise: the government encourages farmers to grow corn instead of rice to improve water quality.

2018年高考英语全国卷2 语法填空 原文

Cities usually have a good reason for being where they are, like a nearby port or river.

2018年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

Every animal sleeps, but the reason for this has remained foggy.

2017年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 七选五 原文

For legal reasons, most restaurants have a policy against giving away food waste.

2019年高考英语浙江卷 完形填空 原文

For some reason, when certain shows switched into a commercial, a loud noise would sound for a few seconds.

2015年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

From my experience, there are three main reasons why people don't cook more often: ability, money and time, money is a topic i'll save for another day.

2014年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 七选五 原文

He added that the theater's location was also a reason.

2017年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

However, anger can easily turn violent, and it is best to know the reasons for anger to appear in order to prevent its presence.

2018年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 七选五 原文

However, there are a number of other reasons that might explain why you want to garden.

2016年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 七选五 原文

Irene said, "I don't see any reason to give up work."

2019年高考英语全国卷2 语法填空 原文

It is not surprising that young people are likely to burst out, particularly when there are reasons to do so.

2016年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

Laurie likes to go to the Snoopy Café for many reasons.

2015年高考英语上海卷 听力 原文

Li Drake, a Chinese native raising two children in minnesota with an American husband, had another reason for looking for an au pair from China.

2014年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

One day, mentally exhausted, I wrote down all the reasons why this problem could not be solved.

2016年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

One reason for this is biological.

2016年高考英语四川卷 阅读理解 七选五 原文

One reason is that, according to findings of a new survey of office workers conducted by wakefield research for the it company citrix, most bosses are doubtful about remote working.

2016年高考英语浙江卷(10月) 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Parents ought to be able to opt out only for limited medical or religious reasons.

2017年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Research shows that giving up driving is one of the key reasons for a fall in health and well-being among older people, leading to them becoming more isolated隔绝 and inactive.

2017年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

That freedom to choose is one reason more people like to eat alone.

2019年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

That isn't a reason to stop, it's just the mind, that little man or woman on your shoulder, trying to talk you out of something again.

2015年高考英语福建卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

The main reasons we get angry are triggering events, personality traits, and our assessment of situations.

2018年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 七选五 原文

The real reason why prices were, and still are, too high is complex, and no short discussion can satisfactorily explain this problem.

2015年高考英语江苏卷 单项填空 原文

The reason for the explosion is not that people have been reproducing like rabbits, but that people have stopped dropping dead like flies.

2017年高考英语江苏卷 任务型阅读 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 reason that robocalls are a headache has less to do with amount than precision.

2019年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

The reason why any of us take any risks at all might have to do with early humans.

2016年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读E 原文

The reason why someone is triggered by something and others are not is often due to one's personal history and psychological traits.

2018年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 七选五 原文

The reason why the ponies here are naughty is that Haytor is a tourist-heavy area and tourists are constantly feeding the ponies foods, despite signs asking them not to.

2015年高考英语湖北卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

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

2016年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

There are several reasons why school uniforms are good idea.

2019年高考英语浙江卷 语法填空 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

Understanding these reasons will control our own anger if we are willing to evaluate ourselves with a critical eye.

2018年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 七选五 原文

With these main reasons in mind, we can evaluate our level of anger throughout the day and prevent cases of outbursts by comprehending the reasons for our feelings.

2018年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 七选五 原文

In the former case the education is incidental; it is natural and important, but it is not the express reason of the association.

出自-2009年考研翻译原文

A tailor named John Dane, who emigrated in the late 1630s, left an account of his reasons for leaving England that is filled with signs.

出自-2009年考研阅读原文

In Europe, where forestry is ecologically more advanced, the noncommercial tree species are recognized as members of the native forest community, to be preserved as such, within reason.

出自-2010年考研翻译原文

One reason why it is hard to design and teach such courses is that they cut across the insistence by top American universities that liberal-arts education and professional education should be kept separate, taught in different schools.

出自-2011年考研阅读原文

One of the reasons why the appointment came as such a surprise, however, is that Gilbert is comparatively little known.

出自-2011年考研阅读原文

We reason together, challenge, revise, and complete each other’s reasoning and each other’s conceptions of reason.

出自-2012年考研阅读原文

There are three reasons for the public-sector unions’ thriving.

出自-2012年考研阅读原文

One reason for the persistence of this pyramid of production is that for the past half-century, much of the world's media culture has been defined by a single medium - television - and television is defined by downloading.

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 for all the reasons there are to celebrate the computer, we must also tread with caution.

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That's one reason why we have launched Arc, a new publication dedicated to the near future.

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It is also the reason why when we try to describe music with words, all we can do is articulate our reactions to it, and not grasp music itself.

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There are many reasons for this.

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The other reason why costs are so high is the restrictive guild-like ownership structure of the business.

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There is no reason why everyone cannot be welcomed on Mauna Kea to embrace their cultural heritage and to study the stars.Robert F.

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It has not gotten anywhere close to that, and one big reason is sticker shock.

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A survey by Barna research group found the top reason given by Americans for the fake news phenomenon is “reader error”, more so than made-up stories or factual mistakes in reporting.

出自-2018年考研阅读原文

A survey by Barna research group found the top reason given by Americans for the fake news phenomenon is " reader error," more so than made- up stories or factual mistakes in reporting.

2018年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

And yet, John Hagel, author of The Power of Pull and other books, says Brynjolfsson and McAfee miss the reason why these jobs are so vulnerable to technology in the first place.

2014年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

But perhaps the most significant reason is that the issue has always been so politically charged.

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But while this may be true, it's not a good enough reason to condemn gap years.

2017年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Davidson's article is one of a number of pieces that have recently appeared making the point that the reason we have such stubbornly high unemployment and declining middle-class incomes today is largely because of the big drop in demand because of the Gre

2013年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

It was with these great revelations that a new kind of philosophy founded in reason was born.

2020年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

It's not popular to say, but one reason their pay has gone up so much is that CEOs really have upped their game relative to many other workers in the U.S.

2020年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Next time you talk with someone who takes a stand, ask them to give you a reason for their view.

2020年考研真题(英语一)翻译 Section Ⅲ

One reason for the persistence of this pyramid of production is that for the past half-century, much of the world's media culture has been defined by a single medium - television - and television is defined by downloading.

2012年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

One reason for the persistence of this pyramid of production is that for the past half-century, much of the world's media culture has been defined by a single medium—television—and television is defined by downloading.

2012年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

One reason why it is hard to design and teach such courses is that they cut across the insistence by top American universities that "liberal-arts education and professional education should be kept separate, taught in different schools".

2011年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Sociologist Catherine Kohler riessman reports in her new book divorce Talk that most of the women she interviewed — but only a few of the men — gave lack of communication as the reason for their divorces.

2010年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

The most likely reason for departing a board was age, so the researchers concentrated on those "surprise" disappearances by directors under the age of 70.

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The Renaissance was over and it was time for a new era-the Age of Reason.

2020年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

There is no reason why everyone cannot be welcomed on Mauna Kea to embrace their cultural heritage and to study the stars.

2017年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

These views of arguments also undermine reason.

2020年考研真题(英语一)翻译 Section Ⅲ

This is apparently the reason MacDonald's restricts the availability of its popular Mcrib - a marketing trick that has turned the pork sandwich into an object of obsession.

2014年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

We reason together, challenge, revise, and complete each other's reasoning and each other's conceptions of reason.

2012年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

英英释义

Noun
  • 1. a rational motive for a belief or action;

    "the reason that war was declared"

    "the grounds for their declaration"

  • 2. an explanation of the cause of some phenomenon;

    "the reason a steady state was never reached was that the back pressure built up too slowly"

  • 3. the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination;

    "we are told that man is endowed with reason and capable of distinguishing good from evil"

  • 4. the state of having good sense and sound judgment;

    "his rationality may have been impaired"

    "he had to rely less on reason than on rousing their emotions"

  • 5. a justification for something existing or happening;

    "he had no cause to complain"

    "they had good reason to rejoice"

  • 6. a fact that logically justifies some premise or conclusion;

    "there is reason to believe he is lying"

Verb
  • 1. decide by reasoning; draw or come to a conclusion;

    "We reasoned that it was cheaper to rent than to buy a house"

  • 2. present reasons and arguments

  • 3. think logically;

    "The children must learn to reason"

同义词辨析

argue, quarrel, debate, dispute, discuss, reason

这些动词均含"辩论,争论,说理"之意。

  • argue:指提出理由或证据为自己或自己一方的看法或立场辩护,着重说理、论证和企图说服。
  • quarrel:指两人之间或两个团体之间不友好的、吵吵嚷嚷地大声争论某事,尤指"吵嘴、吵架"。
  • debate:侧重指意见等对立的双方之间正式或公开的争辩。
  • dispute:侧重对分歧进行激烈或热烈的争论或争辩,带一定感情色彩,常隐含"各持已见"或"争论不休"意味。
  • discuss:最常用词,指就某一或某些问题表明观点、看法等,以便统一认识,解决问题。
  • reason:指据理力争以说服对方或求得对问题作更深入的研究。

cause, reason, excuse

这些名词均有"原因"之意。

  • cause: 指直接导致事情发生的原因,与所发生的事个有因果关系。
  • reason: 强调指从逻辑推理上得出的结论性原因,不是直接说明起因。
  • excuse: 指为自己辩解,希望得到谅解时所提出的种种理由,是借口性的理由。

think, deliberate, meditate, muse, reason, reflect, speculate

这些动词均有"思考,判断,思索"之意。

  • think: 一般用词,指开动脑筋形成看法或得出结论的脑力活动。不着重结论是否正确,见解是否有用。
  • deliberate: 指缓慢、按部就班地作仔细而认真的思考或判断。
  • meditate: 语气较强,指认真地长时间集中精力进行思考。
  • muse: 通常指漫无目的地猜想。
  • reason: 指根据资料、证据或事实进行推断,作出结论或判断的逻辑思维活动。
  • reflect: 指回想或回顾,侧重认真而冷静地反复地思考某个问题,尤指对已发生事情的思索。
  • speculate: 指推论过程,隐含在证据不足的基础上作出推测或设想。

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反义词

n.理由;理性;情理

passion

其他释义

passionfeeling

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