| 单词 | unprecedented |
| 释义 | unprecedented (ʌnpresɪdentɪd ) 1. adjective If something is unprecedented, it has never happened before. Such a move is rare, but not unprecedented. Unfortunately we are living in unprecedented times. In 1987 the Socialists took the unprecedented step of appointing a civilian to command the force. Synonyms: unparalleled, unheard-of, exceptional, new 2. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] If you describe something as unprecedented, you are emphasizing that it is very great in quality, amount, or scale. [emphasis] Each home boasts an unprecedented level of quality throughout. The scheme has been hailed as an unprecedented success. Synonyms: extraordinary, amazing, remarkable, outstanding Collocations: in unprecedented detail The inner workings of a storm were revealed in unprecedented detail. Times, Sunday Times This mobile unit uses cameras and sensors to record impacts, so accidents can be analysed in unprecedented detail, and future injuries can be prevented. Times, Sunday Times As advances in neuroscience have mapped out the brain in unprecedented detail in recent years, businesses have been clamouring to commercialise the emerging research. Times, Sunday Times But, if he needs to know where his game has gone off the boil, he can now see it in unprecedented detail. Times, Sunday Times Objects like black holes could now be studied in unprecedented detail. The Sun It would be an unusual but far from unprecedented achievement to top the chart so late in the week. Times, Sunday Times This unprecedented achievement was partly attributed the availability of a velodrome. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This unprecedented achievement was otherwise unmatched for other years as well. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This unprecedented achievement was the result a hardworking staff and a 5 months preparation during which more than 100 players were called for trials. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It's hard to know where to begin when describing his unprecedented achievements. The Sun After being threatened with a 250,000 fine, the corporation has been forced to take unprecedented action to crack down on foul and offensive language. Times, Sunday Times The company faces the unprecedented action because of fears it has not acted quickly enough over fire risks. The Sun Officials across the world have taken unprecedented action to prevent a financial crisis because experience has shown that these leave deeper and more lasting scars than recessions. Times,Sunday Times In an unprecedented action, ticket buyers were required to register their name and date of birth at the time of purchase. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 We have taken unprecedented actions to cut costs, including reduced production volumes, significant cuts to investment plans and some 2,200 job losses. Times, Sunday Times What we saw was an unprecedented combination of the epoch-making and the minutely domestic. Times, Sunday Times He pinpoints the unprecedented combination of technology and globalisation. Times, Sunday Times Much of the combat phase of this operation was viewed live around the world due to an unprecedented combination of embedded media and satellite video technology. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The football radical who developed teams with unprecedented combinations of pace, power and skill has compromised his ambitions and seems happy to settle for money without glory. Times, Sunday Times We should not be too surprised at this unprecedented decline in activity. Times, Sunday Times Retail property has suffered an unprecedented decline in value in recent years, hit by the rise of online shopping and a surge in retailers' operating costs. Times,Sunday Times Premier said that it was up against an 'unprecedented decline' in the normally stable grocery and bread markets, which fell 4 per cent in the first half of the year. Times, Sunday Times The ideas that opened up energy markets, and led to unprecedented declines in consumer prices, are banished. Times, Sunday Times Pharmacies and health shops have already faced unprecedented demand for hand sanitisers. Times,Sunday Times Companies that sell underground shelters have seen unprecedented demand. Times,Sunday Times In the event of unprecedented demand we reserve the right to send suitable substitute products. Times, Sunday Times By working at pace with politicians, regulators and industry leaders, banks have already delivered extraordinary levels of support in response to unprecedented demand. Times,Sunday Times They normally swap stock every six weeks but have carried on selling the bag due to the unprecedented demand. The Sun We are now dealing with the unprecedented event of coronavirus. Times,Sunday Times An unprecedented event was about to take place. Times, Sunday Times The sun, shockingly, continues to shine for two consecutive days, a practically unprecedented event here. Times, Sunday Times This was not an unprecedented event. Times, Sunday Times The strike was described as complete and entire, an unprecedented event outside the continental countries. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The postwar international economy, with its unprecedented increase in living standards, has been built on the idea of trade liberalisation. Times, Sunday Times Despite unprecedented increase in the use of custody, reconviction rates have soared. Times, Sunday Times The company said the unprecedented increase in capital spending would cover such commitments as the ongoing upgrade of the ageing transmission network and connecting wind farms to the energy grid. Times, Sunday Times This was accompanied by unprecedented increase in people's movements. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 One effect of industrialization was an unprecedented increase in urbanization. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The leaks have provided an unprecedented insight into the greed and shady dealing of some of the world's best-known players, agents and clubs. Times, Sunday Times Democracy may be nowhere on the agenda but social media, beloved by conservatives and liberals alike, has given the country's rulers unprecedented insight into the public mood. Times, Sunday Times These fossilized remains offer unprecedented insights into mosasaur feeding habits, about which little was previously known. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Moreover, genome sequences provided unprecedented insights into the evolution of reductive dehalogenation and differing strategies for niche adaptation. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A major political post carrying unprecedented power will have been stitched up in secret by 27 member states without a single voter being consulted. The Sun Technology now gives the state unprecedented power to monitor the lives of individuals. Times, Sunday Times Even as it accelerated humanity into a century that would be dominated by machines of unprecedented power, it precipitated a descent into barbarity on an industrial scale. Times, Sunday Times This was interpreted that some unprecedented power has descended at the temple. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 His unprecedented power to create whirlwind for mass destruction made him one of the most fearsome evil force. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The agency's warning comes as final salary, or defined benefit, pension schemes come under unprecedented pressure. Times, Sunday Times However, unprecedented pressure on dividends has unhelpfully coincided with a collapse in returns from so-called risk-free assets: cash and government bonds. Times, Sunday Times Insiders said that may be about to change, as banks are under unprecedented pressure from politicians and regulators to improve in a number of areas. Times, Sunday Times Supermarkets are under unprecedented pressure as they struggle to cope with huge increases in demand, both in stores and online. Times,Sunday Times Builders are under unprecedented pressure to boost production while maintaining standards. Times, Sunday Times The unprecedented protest vote marked one of the few instances in which shareholders have defeated a remuneration plan for directors. Times, Sunday Times Observers say the unprecedented protests are beginning to take effect. Times, Sunday Times The unprecedented protests in a country known for brutally suppressing dissent came after four days of violence. The Sun It's another stark indication that we are losing biodiversity at an unprecedented rate. Times, Sunday Times Now practised investors have returned and, despite higher prices caused by a shortage of stock, they are buying at an unprecedented rate. Times, Sunday Times These institutions are ratcheting up the giveaways at an unprecedented rate. Times,Sunday Times The speed at which resources are being used has had the effect of destroying biodiversity at an unprecedented rate. Times, Sunday Times Famous people are taking photographs of themselves at an unprecedented rate, arms outstretched, grinning into the flash of their smartphones, then sharing the results with the world. Times, Sunday Times The economic boom that preceded this crisis saw an unprecedented rise in global prosperity and incomes. ST Benefit claims centres have been overwhelmed by an unprecedented rise in applications. Times,Sunday Times The unprecedented rise in student numbers has not been accompanied by rises in university staff. Times, Sunday Times The service has had to create a second counterterrorism unit because of the unprecedented rise in workload and to seek extra funding. Times, Sunday Times In this campaign there has been an unprecedented rise in the number of people opting to exchange their votes, with thousands using websites such as voteswap.org or swapmyvote.uk. Times, Sunday Times The breakthrough enabled him to sequence genes with unprecedented speed. Times, Sunday Times Think about the unprecedented speed and learning involved internationally in the creation of a vaccine, and the logistics of delivering it. Times,Sunday Times They are tools expanding at an unprecedented speed and scale, increasingly used by recruiters and policymakers. Times,Sunday Times The potential of digital technology, far from fostering passivity, has empowered a generation to engage vigorously, and at unprecedented speed. Times, Sunday Times National day sold out with unprecedented speed and crowds of 33,000 and 45,000 are expected for the first two days, which until recently attracted a fraction of that. Times, Sunday Times Yet even with the recent slowdown, the five banks have made a record $9 billion in fees from arranging deals as private equity firms made an unprecedented volume of acquisitions. Times, Sunday Times They will now be stress-tested at scale with unprecedented volumes of data. Times,Sunday Times Data scientists hold the key to the problem created by the computer revolution: how to make sense of the unprecedented volumes of data generated daily. Times, Sunday Times Sky has been on the outside looking in at an unprecedented wave of consolidation in the telecoms sector. Times, Sunday Times The move that triggered an unprecedented wave of criticism. The Sun The country has been riding an unprecedented wave of industrialisation, urbanisation and investment. Times, Sunday Times Other avenues, such as caloric restriction, an extreme form of dieting, have also gained fresh attention amid an unprecedented wave of research — and investment dollars — into the business of ageing. Times, Sunday Times Still, the paltry recovery comes amid a disastrous two-year run for lenders and bond investors, who have been snared in an unprecedented wave of large corporate bankruptcies. Globe and Mail The work would reveal an unprecedented wealth of information about the site's history and architecture. Times, Sunday Times Surrounded by unprecedented wealth, we fear deprivation. Christianity Today The big, overwhelmingly foreign-owned investment banks cleaned up, enjoying, by mid-2007, 'unprecedented wealth and influence'. Times, Sunday Times Burials contained jewellery and ornaments of unprecedented wealth and artistic style. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The steamboat ushers in a new era of commerce, industry, and unprecedented wealth. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Half an hour later he did something virtually unprecedented in our marriage and called me, unprompted. Times,Sunday Times Such tactics, combined with the daily cycle of negative commercials, are virtually unprecedented. Times, Sunday Times The stellar nature of the line-up was virtually unprecedented, and even today the performance still elicits superlatives. Times, Sunday Times The fact that with 12 points they could still have gone out was virtually unprecedented. The Sun Thanks to social media, the 58-yearold has reached a level of celebrity virtually unprecedented for a scientist. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 空前的 Japanese: 先例のない |
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