| 单词 | disrupt |
| 释义 | disrupt (dɪsrʌpt ) Word forms: disrupts , disrupting , disrupted 1. verb B2 If someone or something disrupts an event, system, or process, they cause difficulties that prevent it from continuing or operating in a normal way. Anti-war protesters disrupted the debate. [VERB noun] The drought has severely disrupted agricultural production. [VERB noun] Synonyms: disturb, upset, confuse, disorder 2. verb To disrupt a market or a technology is to change the way it works by introducing new methods that are completely different from those that have been used in the past. If it succeeds, the technology has the potential to seriously disrupt the current market for medical devices. [VERB noun] Collocations: disrupt a class Students who disrupt the class will face an hour's detention after school. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Do the parents whose offspring disrupted a class and used foul language, feel any shame? The Sun Our son was a pain in the neck, whose concentration levels were non-existent, who never kept more than two chair legs on the ground and was constantly disrupting the class. Times, Sunday Times Minor offences, such as disrupting the class, were met with excessive punishments, including handcuffing and sensory deprivation. The Times Literary Supplement Campus protesters singled him out in their placards and chants, and disrupted his classes. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 To what extent, in other words, the replacement player can disrupt the flow. Times, Sunday Times A guru might arrive to be greeted by dozens of disciples who disrupt the flow of passengers. Times, Sunday Times The character's asides disrupt the flow of the action; his reminiscing monologues lack dynamism. Times, Sunday Times The 24 undies contain a pure silver mesh that disrupt the flow of electromagnetic rays. The Sun The union plans rotating strikes at taxation centres across the country to disrupt the flow of revenue into government coffers. canada.com A malfunction of these molecules can disrupt gene expression. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Recombination then occurs in the region of that sequence within the gene, resulting in the insertion of a foreign sequence to disrupt the gene. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Two main approaches have been considered - adding a gene to replace a gene that wasn't working properly, or disrupting genes that were not working properly. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 She would also like to see start-ups disrupting the market. Times, Sunday Times Territorial reductions disrupted the market, undercut the industries and caused a crash of the banking system. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Disrupting the market relies on eradication, interdiction and domestic law enforcement efforts. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Inside, a group of younger protesters made a lukewarm effort to disrupt the meeting but, oddly, waited until the end of proceedings to do so. Times, Sunday Times However, he fears that students would try to disrupt a meeting. Times, Sunday Times However, others were more interested in taking direct action including both civil disobedience and acts of vandalism and property destruction to disrupt the meeting. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Angry audience members and protestors disrupt the meeting. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Anti-war demonstrators disrupted the meeting and 50 were arrested. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Operators on busy routes struggled to maintain punctuality, as any impediment such as a medical emergency or a broken-down train could disrupt the network for hours. Times,Sunday Times Without the proper number of terminators, the signal level will be out of specification and can disrupt the network. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The hydrogen bond networks make both natural and synthetic polymers sensitive to humidity levels in the atmosphere because water molecules can diffuse into the surface and disrupt the network. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Introduction of a non-hydrogen-bonding surface disrupts this network. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The term lag switch encompasses many methods of disrupting the network communication between a client and it's server. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Rather than disrupting his plans, the behemoths' entry to a poorly understood sector helped him drum up interest. Times,Sunday Times Now a sudden twist of fate threatened to disrupt their plans. Times, Sunday Times The recent depreciation of the pound could disrupt her plans to expand the product range. Times, Sunday Times The information was made public before detectives had a chance to question any of the men and therefore disrupted their planned interview strategy. Times, Sunday Times However, over the next number of months the police force disrupted their plans. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The mutation disrupts this process, making the sodium channel protein useless. Times, Sunday Times Somehow, this disrupted the process of cosmic creation, resulting in an additional, opposite universe. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Frontal lobe damage often disrupts this process, preventing the retrieval of information and the evaluation of its output. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Daylight disrupts this process, and some disease-curing spells are known to completely reverse the effect. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This behavior prevents a blocked valve from suddenly freeing itself from the end position and thereby disrupting the process. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Hassle their centre-halves and you disrupt their rhythm at source. Times, Sunday Times Even clicking cameras on the 3rd and the 7th did not disrupt his rhythm and composure. Times, Sunday Times So you have to disrupt the rhythm. Times, Sunday Times I suspect the nature of your work and the pressure you must be under are key factors in disrupting this rhythm. Times, Sunday Times Her characters often suffer traumatic events that disrupt the rhythms of their lives and lead to disorientation and a discontinuity of their identities. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Widespread fears that he would try to disrupt the service proved unfounded. Times, Sunday Times Will he disrupt the service? The Sun They are also nervous about switching because they think it will disrupt their service, said the charity. Times, Sunday Times It was particularly worried by the 'continuity of banking services', essentially that such significant organisational changes could disrupt the service that lenders provide. Times, Sunday Times Or the difficulty in trying to disrupt a system with four jumpers, all of whom run the lineout when they play for their respective clubs. Times, Sunday Times But to disrupt the system, you have to go a bit further, and he was prepared to do that. Times, Sunday Times But solar flares and coronal mass ejections can disrupt the system in minutes. The Times Literary Supplement Of 27,000 calls received to date, 26,000 were from hoaxers out to disrupt the system. The Sun Another advantage would be that the loss or damage of the artifact standards would not disrupt the system of measures. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Dealing with the small wood will require co-operation with the owner and professional advice, as any attempts to remove wet areas may disrupt the ecosystem. Times, Sunday Times The total amount of biocide released into the environment must be ideally kept to a minimum as to not disrupt the ecosystem. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Anyone who comes to the islands must follow stringent procedures designed to prevent any stray species from entering and disrupting the ecosystem. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They disrupt the ecosystems by monotypic colonization, and damage harbors and waterways, ships and boats, and water treatment and power plants. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 However, deforestation has disrupted the ecosystem services and created an eco-climate issue. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He was sorry, he said, that no demonstrators had arrived to disrupt the event. Times, Sunday Times Opposition parties had threatened to disrupt the event. Globe and Mail Their encounter was streamed live as the agitators tried to disrupt the event by setting off fire alarms. Times, Sunday Times I advocated non-violent action: physically disrupting the events themselves. Times, Sunday Times The organizers of the ceremony said the demonstration had not disrupted their event. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They can seize mobile phones and any other items which can disrupt learning. The Sun Pupils could be banned from bringing smartphones and tablet computers into classrooms amid fears that the devices disrupt learning. Times, Sunday Times On occasion, trips are arranged for certain year groups coninciding with these days so as not to disrupt learning. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Credits are based on homework, attendance and helping classmates, while debits are incurred by disrupting learning, wearing a scruffy uniform, or running down corridors. Times, Sunday Times The watchdog highlighted poor behaviour in class disrupting learning, 'informal exclusions', and 'deliberate misrecording of attendance'. The Sun It's distressing, dangerous and seriously disrupts life. The Sun The spurt in growth disrupted life for 300 miles around the mine, and lasted for over 200 years. The Times Literary Supplement Across the country, about 300,000 people blocked roads and disrupted life for fellow citizens. Times, Sunday Times Disrupt life's regulatory system, and pathology results. The Times Literary Supplement The problems that disrupted production into July were more to do with local officials on the ground, and they seem to have been dealt with. Times, Sunday Times (2011) A four-year strike disrupted production and profit flow. Times, Sunday Times (2015) He said that the prospect of insurgents disrupting production from Iraq highlighted the lack of spare oil supplies from elsewhere in the world. Times, Sunday Times (2014) For the workforce, this means that they are disrupting production but not losing any wages in so doing. Business Studies Basic Facts (1990) In addition, strikes involving the loss of working days can seriously disrupt production and lower output. Collins Dictionary of Economics (1993) Technology in the bedroom can disrupt sleep and sleep deprivation will make anxiety worse. The Sun We know that backlit screens disrupt sleep — but that's far from all they wreck. The Sun Doctors said that screens were not harmful in themselves but could disrupt sleep, exercise and family time. Times, Sunday Times For patients, alarms disrupt sleep, cause stress and can harm their health in other ways. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The noise was also thought likely to disrupt sleep. Times, Sunday Times The changes being observed are beginning to disrupt the ability of any organism to make shells out of calcium carbonate. Times, Sunday Times Solar storms disrupt the ability of bees to find their way home and may be contributing to the collapse of colonies, a study has found. Times, Sunday Times High rates of residential mobility and high-rise housing disrupt the ability to establish and maintain social ties. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This damage disrupts the ability of the nervous system to communicate, resulting in problems with muscle movement, balance and vision. The Sun This surgery disrupted her ability to judge the passing of time, something which has helped her ultra-running. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 But the local government has been very wary, anxious not to disrupt the economy or way of life by a sudden influx of oil workers and technical staff. Times, Sunday Times The use of agents that do not cause harm to humans but disrupt the economy have been discussed. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The war had severely disrupted the economy that had developed in the 18th century. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The financial panic of 1873 disrupted the economy nationwide, causing more difficulties. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The wars of independence had disrupted the economy. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 When enlarged, they can disrupt the function of the brain regions into which they project. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This disorder can disrupt the function of the righting reflex as the symptoms of vertigo and disorientation prevent proper postural control. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Because of their potency in disrupting the function of the heart, most are extremely toxic. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The loss of the damaged structure disrupts the function of the remaining intact systems and causes a physiological imbalance. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Malicious software can disrupt the functioning of computers in more ways than one. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This exposes nerves and disrupts their functioning. Times, Sunday Times He considers depression to be a serious illness with tangible physiological effects such as disorganizing the brain and disrupting the functioning of the cardiovascular system. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 But things go wrong when the scriptwriters get involved and disrupt this harmony with 'storylines'. Times, Sunday Times Life at the school can sometimes be fierce, with student gangs seeking to disrupt the harmony. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Despite the anti-materialism that pervaded the commune, rivalries and tensions inevitably disrupted the harmony. The Times Literary Supplement The heroes eventually realize that revealing the truth would only disrupt this peace. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 When you have weak internal sovereignty organization such as rebel groups will undermine the authority and disrupt the peace. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Many of the war-weary sailors felt the operation would disrupt the peace process and prolong the war. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 According to the leaked document, no-deal would 'severely disrupt trade'. Times, Sunday Times This would severely disrupt trade leading to shortages of food and medicine. Times, Sunday Times In return, they will limit themselves to their traditional liberties and malpractices... nothing that will disrupt trade or politics. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Port cities were also attacked to try to disrupt trade and sea communications. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 No, was the answer: she did not want to disrupt traffic. Times, Sunday Times Clearing it will disrupt traffic for weeks. The Sun They are often used in work zones or other events that disrupt traffic. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It had a single column in the middle of the river that rotated 90 to allow boat traffic to pass (the rotation could disrupt traffic for 45 minutes). Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Earlier this year, some five months after his release from jail for disrupting traffic, the lawyer managed to smuggle an hour's worth of footage past his family's guards. Times, Sunday Times Cash seizures and passport restrictions have been stepped up in 2014 as part of sustained efforts to disrupt travel to the conflict zone. Times, Sunday Times Weaker players would be swallowed by larger rivals if the outbreak continued to disrupt travel plans, he said. Times,Sunday Times The incident led to the cancellation or diversion of more than 1,000 flights, disrupting travel plans for about 140,000 passengers. Times, Sunday Times But airlines say that they have seen an improvement in bookings this spring after disrupted travel last year. Times, Sunday Times Flooding also disrupted travel on the railway in other parts of the country, amid warnings of further weather problems today. Times, Sunday Times Nearly 60 per cent suffer severe light pollution, which can disrupt wildlife and affect sleep patterns. The Sun The problem prevents people enjoying starry skies, harms sleep and can disrupt wildlife, said a conservation charity. The Sun The increasing urbanisation of coastal areas, offshore developments, wind farms, oil drilling, aggregate extraction and dredging all disrupt wildlife. Times, Sunday Times Pollution from the power station and the heavy traffic through the protected area also disrupts wildlife. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 扰乱 Japanese: 混乱させる |
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