terms

terms

英[tɜːmz]美[tɜːrmz]

n.条款，条件，费用，措辞；

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He drove a hard bargain with me over the terms of the contract.他就合约条件极力地和我讨价还价。

The company will lend you money on very unfavourable terms.这家公司会以非常刻薄的条件借钱给你。

Tony and Craig had a big row and are not on speaking terms.托尼和克雷格大吵了一架，两人谁也不理谁了。

He’s on speaking terms with a number of senior politicians.他和好几个高层**家都说得上话。

He couldn’t come to terms with his sexuality.他难以接受自己的性取向。

He thought of everything in terms of money.他是从钱的角度来看每一件事。

He referred to your work in terms of high praise.他对你的工作大加赞扬。

I told him in no uncertain terms what I thought of his behaviour.我直言不讳地说出了我对他行为的看法。

Your thesis wouldn't get across if you used too many technical terms in it.如果你用了过多的专业术语, 你的论文就不会被人理解。

The terms of settlement seem just.和解的条件似乎是公道的。

同义词解析

以下这两个名词均有"条件" 的意思

condition：通常指为实现许诺、协议、计划、合同等而订出的必须遵守或满足的作为前提的条件或要求。

terms：指谈判或订立合同等时，一方或双方提出或同意的条件。

英语四级真题

Why couldn't Britain compete with some of its neighbouring countries in terms of food in the post-war decades?

It is invalid in terms of methodology

Excessive Internet use should be defined not by the number of hours spent online but "in terms of losses," said Maressa Orzack, a Harvard University professor.

They also took terms in watering, weeding and maintaining the plot.

Now, however, recent developments in electric vehicle technology mean they can match conventional petrol engines in terms of performance and safety

"The Greeks are always concerned about boxing themselves in, in terms of convictions (信念)," he says.

"This is Aesop, the fabulist, the man of these charming little tales, often told in terms of animals and animal relationships," he says.

According to a new Pew Research Center survey on women and leadership, most Americans find women indistinguishable from men on key leadership traits such as intelligence and capacity for innovation, with many saying they're stronger than men in terms of b

Genuine criticism creates a precious opening for an author to become better on his own terms— a process that is often extremely painful, but also almost always meaningful.

I might just have to review a few accountancy terms.

I think it will be very interesting to see what etiquette (礼仪) emerges in terms of whether you tell people you have a camera or not, and whether guests have a right to ask that it be tuned off, if it's not a security issue.

In a multi-state study of assisted living, for instance, University of North Carolina researchers found that a host of variables—the facility's type, size or age; whether achain owned it; how attractive the neighborhood was—had no significant relationship

In terms of class, digital divide exists among different types of workers and between the upper and middle classes and the lower class.

The nutritional and health crises that followed the policy of structural adjustment, he says, led to many children and teenagers failing to reach their full potential in terms of height.

To help quantify the costs of a poor diet, I recently tried to estimate this impact in terms of a most famous food, the burger.

英语六级真题

A key process in interpersonal interaction is that of social comparison, in that we evaluate ourselves in terms of how we compare to others.

The child of tomorrow, I realized, may actually be ahead of us, in terms of sensing not what is new, but what is essential

When a noted leader on the art of management, Peter Drucker, coined the phrase "Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things," he was seeking to clarify the distinctions he associates with the terms.

What does the author think of UK universities in terms of commercialisation

One fifth of them were on bad terms with their sisters and brothers.

Throughout the body of the speech, Juan dealt only with the basic mechanics of the earthquakes and carefully avoid technical terms.

But thinking about or remembering descriptions in terms of their social meaning activated the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex—part of the brain's social network—even as traditional memory regions registered low levels of activity.

But we're on very good terms with all the shops.

Even when a tiny number grows by a large percentage terms, it is often still tiny.

External conditions also matter in terms of when and how often we lie.

From a political perspective, we need to understand the terms on which major countries like China and the USA might sign up to a global agreement because at the moment we don't have that consensus.

In order to make sure it doesn't control us,we should come to terms with the fact that it's more than the technology itself that's responsible for our habits.

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.

Many dairy farmers were persuaded to switch to grass-fed when they saw its advantage in terms of profits.

One could therefore present Napoleon in terms of his desire to impress or Churchill in terms of his lonely gloom.

Several noted nutritionists and research projects have concluded that this diet is one of the most healthful in the world in terms of preventing such illnesses as heart disease and cancer, and increasing life expectancy.

So, we expect that the second part of the year will not be very good in terms of wage growth.

The report finds more than a quarter of the countries experienced flat or falling monthly wages in real terms.

The study also found that when subjects thought about and later recalled descriptions in terms of their informational content, regions associated with factual memory, such as the medial temporal lobe, became active.

Thoughts turn first to some sort of global statistic, some indicator which would rate the wealth of nations in both economic and environmental terms and show a relationship between the two.

Yudell said scientists need to get more specific with their language, perhaps using terms like "ancestry"or "population" that might more precisely reflect the relationship between humans and their genes, on both the individual and population level.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

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在…方面;从…角度看;根据…来说

If you talk about something in terms of something or in particular terms, you are specifying which aspect of it you are discussing or from what point of view you are considering it.

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用…术语;用…语言;用…字眼

If you say something in particular terms, you say it using a particular type or level of language or using language which clearly shows your attitude.

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术语;学科用语

A term is a word or expression with a specific meaning, especially one which is used in relation to a particular subject.

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VERB

把…称作;把…叫作

If you say that something is termed a particular thing, you mean that that is what people call it or that is their opinion of it.

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N-VAR

学期

A term is one of the periods of time that a school, college, or university divides the year into.

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(**、*府的)任期

A term is a period of time between two elections during which a particular party or government is in power.

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(工作、居住的)期间，期限

A term is a period of time that someone spends doing a particular job or in a particular place.

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(合同、保险的)有效期

A term is the period for which a legal contract or insurance policy is valid.

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怀孕期;足月;临产

The term of a woman's pregnancy is the nine month period that it lasts. Term is also used to refer to the end of the nine month period.

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N-PLURAL

(协议、条约等的)条款，条件

The terms of an agreement, treaty, or other arrangement are the conditions that must be accepted by the people involved in it.

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勉强接受;向…让步;对…妥协

If you come to terms with something difficult or unpleasant, you learn to accept and deal with it.

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在平等的条件下;在相同的基础上

If two people or groups compete on equal terms or on the same terms, neither of them has an advantage over the other.

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关系融洽;友好相处

If two people are on good terms or on friendly terms, they are friendly with each other.

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从长远来看/从短期来看/从中期来看

You use the expressions in the long term ,in the short term, and in the medium term to talk about what will happen over a long period of time, over a short period of time, and over a medium period of time.

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按照…的条件;根据…的意见

If you do something on your terms, you do it under conditions that you decide because you are in a position of power.

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正在考虑，正在打算(做某事)

If you say that you are thinking in terms of doing a particular thing, you mean that you are considering it.

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英英词典释义

Noun

1. status with respect to the relations between people or groups;

2. the amount of money needed to purchase something;