| 单词 | domestic |
| 释义 | domestic (dəmestɪk ) Word forms: domestics 1. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] B2 Domestic political activities, events, and situations happen or exist within one particular country. ...over 100 domestic flights a day to 15 U.K. destinations. ...sales in the domestic market. Synonyms: home, state, national, internal domestically (dəmestɪkli ) adverb [ADVERB after verb, ADVERB -ed/adjective] Opportunities will improve as the company expands domestically and internationally. Domestically, he's going to make some compromises that he doesn't want to make. 2. See also gross domestic product 3. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] B2 Domestic duties and activities are concerned with the running of a home and family. ...a plan for sharing domestic chores. Synonyms: household, home, family, private 4. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] B2 Domestic items and services are intended to be used in people's homes rather than in factories or offices. ...domestic appliances. 5. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] B2 A domestic situation or atmosphere is one which involves a family and their home. It was a scene of such domestic bliss. I was called out to attend a domestic dispute. 6. graded adjective Someone who is domestic enjoys being at home and running a family. She was kind and domestic and put her family before her part-time job. Synonyms: home-loving, homely, stay-at-home, domesticated 7. adjective A domestic animal is one that is not wild and is kept either on a farm to produce food or in someone's home as a pet. ...a domestic cat. Synonyms: domesticated, trained, tame, house 8. countable noun A domestic, a domestic help, or a domestic worker is a person who is paid to come to help with the work that has to be done in a house such as the cleaning, washing, and ironing. Synonyms: servant, help, maid, woman [informal] Collocations: domestic context Since 2006 courts were advised only that offences in a domestic context were 'no less serious' than others. Times, Sunday Times In law, context was everything and the domestic context was very different from the commercial world. Times, Sunday Times In the domestic context it instils fear and mistrust and destroys relationships, so too in the international military context. Times, Sunday Times These days, the importance to be attached to who paid for what in a domestic context might be very different from its importance in other contexts or long ago. Times, Sunday Times Part boardroom thriller, part domestic drama, the novel, as its punning title suggests, is a tale of fantastic credulity. Times, Sunday Times (2016) Radio 3 makes its own foray into domestic drama this week. Times, Sunday Times (2016) We can strip it to its bare essentials, make it into a domestic drama and see what happens. Times, Sunday Times (2007) Often, she would be the first to admit, her creativity and spontaneity took over from her domestic duties and responsibilities. Times, Sunday Times If not, ensure that he shares domestic duties and childcare so you have more free time and energy. Times, Sunday Times Holidays, of course, often help to ease the stress by creating a new environment away from the pressures of work and domestic duties. Times, Sunday Times He would be off playing football and drinking while she did all the domestic duties. Times, Sunday Times Domestic duties would have been considered far more important than education. Times,Sunday Times Home information pack inspectors and domestic energy assessors will be added soon. Times, Sunday Times (2007) Will the score awarded by the domestic energy assessor be the new way to compete with the neighbours this winter? Times, Sunday Times (2008) They bleat that they make tiny profits on domestic energy. The Sun (2013) This figure now seems trifling in relation to recent double-digit domestic energy cost rises. Times, Sunday Times (2008) Orders-on-hand are considered a leading indicator of the performance of domestic exports. Globe and Mail In 1987 the potato earned 10 percent of the total value of domestic exports, more than any other item except clothing. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 However, the value of domestic exports decreased from 1958 to 1959. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The value of domestic exports increased from $1,234,700,000 to $5,591,200,000, and increased by 18.18% every year. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The order underlined the difficulty of finding domestic growth opportunities. Times, Sunday Times The company began emphasising the size of international markets as its domestic growth began to slow. Times, Sunday Times Multinational companies like markets which offer domestic growth and markets with good export potential. Times, Sunday Times They add to signs of accelerating domestic growth, with business confidence picking up and employment rising. Times,Sunday Times Both moves hit reliable drivers of domestic growth — urbanisation, construction and spending on household fittings. Times, Sunday Times Up to 40 officers, many helmeted and in black body armour, raced to the scene in seven cars following reports of a domestic incident. The Sun Police yesterday said it was a 'domestic incident' and confirmed they were not looking for anyone else. The Sun Detectives believe the attack was a 'targeted domestic incident'. The Sun It was still in its wrapping when found by cops probing a domestic incident involving the chum he was sharing digs with. The Sun A police source said the attack was thought to be a domestic incident. The Sun The justification was that they had received paltry pay while domestic industry boomed. The Times Literary Supplement Possible charges against those involved are criminal association, counterfeiting, domestic industry fraud and traffic in stolen goods. Times, Sunday Times Import-substitution strategies, to protect domestic industry, provided sub-standard goods and preserved inefficiencies. Times, Sunday Times In fact, imports are a benefit to consumers, expanding the range of choice and constraining price increases, and to domestic industry, which becomes more efficient. Times, Sunday Times Cotton spinning and weaving was the largest domestic industry in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Using wires to suspend debris from the ceiling, the work captures what looks like a domestic interior in mid-explosion. Times, Sunday Times Domestic interior, office, shrink's consulting room, sports centre and cinema: all were conjured out of thin air, a table and a couple of chairs. Times, Sunday Times Summer greens are the season's most delicious addition to the domestic interior. Times, Sunday Times He describes the domestic interior as a blank slate on which his customers 'paint the picture' of their lives. Times, Sunday Times And it has also become the ideal domestic interior for many homebuyers - especially the more moneyed. Times, Sunday Times Whichever party wins the general election, education will be the most important and divisive domestic issue over the next five years. Times, Sunday Times The central domestic issue will be how to hold the public services together during a period of continuing austerity. Times, Sunday Times Social mobility has been identified by bright and aspiring politicians in all main parties as the next decade's domestic issue. Times, Sunday Times But it needs to find time to deal with domestic issues, too. The Sun Don't be quick to make decisions over major domestic issues, such as rebuilding or extending. The Sun Her childhood was a preparation for the world of domestic labour, which required her to absorb the necessary virtues of honesty, cleanliness, application and perseverance. Times,Sunday Times They often work in sectors that find it hard to recruit domestic labour, such as the care, hospitality and construction industries. Times, Sunday Times In fact, the images may even serve to denigrate domestic labour as they were taken in professional studios with celebrities and the wealthy effectively playing at make-believe. The Times Literary Supplement Live entertainment and domestic labour have become more expensive while electronic gadgets are astonishingly cheap. Times, Sunday Times As in, despite being the one not in paid work, they failed fully to pull their weight as regards domestic labour. Times, Sunday Times There was nothing in domestic law that precluded that construction of 'sentence of imprisonment'. Times, Sunday Times The court was satisfied that there was no basis for holding that the decision was unlawful according to domestic law. Times, Sunday Times Furthermore, it was primarily for the national authorities to resolve problems of interpretation of domestic law. Times, Sunday Times These resources are complemented by an aggressive effort to enhance domestic law enforcement, interdiction, and supply control programs. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Domestic laws will copy many single market rules. The Sun In addition, parliament could also not vote for the domestic legislation, any domestic legislation required as well. Times,Sunday Times It was common ground that she was not entitled to income support under the domestic legislation. Times, Sunday Times Both countries have enacted domestic legislation essentially granting a blank cheque to private companies to embark on a winner-takes-all gold rush on celestial bodies. Smithsonian Mag This has never been done comprehensively for domestic legislation because politicians have never thought it worth the necessary time and money. Times, Sunday Times The requirement to pay those fees had been based on domestic legislation. Times, Sunday Times Give name, full mailing address, and telephone number for importer or domestic manufacturer. Christianity Today In 1995, it was one of the three largest producers of plate steel and the largest domestic manufacturer of alloy-plate. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Tariffs increase the price of an imported product, helping to protect domestic manufacturers. Times, Sunday Times Domestic manufacturers fail to develop product branding and credibility and rely heavily on advertising to generate sales. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Domestic manufacturers, especially pharmaceuticals and textiles, have lost their ability to compete in traditional regional markets. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Manufacturers are looking increasingly to the domestic market for opportunities, where growth remains strong. Times, Sunday Times The strong domestic market means that unlike most ready-to-wear designers, accessories brands can build sturdy foundations before they start exporting. Times, Sunday Times If the country can successfully stimulate its domestic market, it can ride out the global financial downturn, they said. Times, Sunday Times The oil deficit increased to 506 million, its highest in a year, as maintenance work depressed production volumes and strong sales to the domestic market reduced exports. Times, Sunday Times Developing countries should liberalise trade and should use taxes and subsidies as means not of protecting favoured sectors but of compensating for rigidities and distortions in domestic market mechanisms. Times, Sunday Times Broadly, their points-per-game figures show the gap between them and their domestic opponents. Times, Sunday Times The president has been deeply unwilling to give ammunition to hardline domestic opponents who have accused him of weakness over the affair. Times, Sunday Times Confronted with nightmarish perils we instinctively choose to seize the opportunity to blame each other, cursing our domestic opponents for the situation they've put us in. Times, Sunday Times We knew it cracked down on all domestic opposition. The Sun What a pity that achievement will come with a little asterisk to signify the complete absence of domestic opposition. The Sun The domestic opposition or reform factions had become exhausted. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Authoritarian systems of government, however, frequently employ denial and deception campaigns both domestically and abroad to manipulate domestic opposition and foreign governments. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This concession drew strong domestic opposition against foreign ownership of railways. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Domestic policy means much more. Times, Sunday Times Domestic policy has to take a second place. Times, Sunday Times His detractors pointed out that his experience was largely in foreign affairs and described him as an unknown when it came to domestic policy. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Domestic policy in the period since decolonization has resulted in the development of stifling set of inequalities. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Domestic policy may also face challenges in the courts. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Many are under domestic pressure not to accept a one-way deal. Times, Sunday Times There was thus no external or domestic pressure to democratise. Times, Sunday Times No sign of domestic pressure there at least. The Times Literary Supplement After years of domestic pressure, they are happy to pitch in with the dusting and the ironing. Times, Sunday Times Both face domestic pressures and need to downplay their differences. Mail and Guardian Any economic setbacks could then limit the money available to spend on domestic priorities. Times,Sunday Times Could it, small in terms of the public finances, be used instead for domestic priorities? Times, Sunday Times But he leaves us a debt that we must pay even if it damages domestic priorities. Times, Sunday Times To install it globally would be a heavy burden on poor countries with competing domestic priorities. Times, Sunday Times Imports of crude oil were greater than domestic production for the first time since 1978. Times, Sunday Times Domestic production of foods such as frozen peas, apples and fresh carrots would be severely curtailed. Times, Sunday Times Domestic production of coal dwindled to 12m tons last year, an all-time low. Times, Sunday Times Domestic production expanded in the early 1980s, however, and by 1985 soybean imports fell and exports exceeded 1 million tons. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Domestic production increased until 1980, after which it declined sharply due to low uranium prices. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The 727 became a mainstay of airlines' domestic route networks and was also used on short- and medium-range international routes. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Politicians forced it to fly unprofitable domestic routes to remote constituencies. Times, Sunday Times Most long-distance flights would not be affected, but domestic routes would be hit hard. Times, Sunday Times First, which domestic routes make commercial sense for other airlines to fly. Times,Sunday Times Affordable and environmentally sustainable, it will mean we can add new domestic routes while significantly boosting flights to fast-growing markets abroad. The Sun We can only imagine the domestic scene in which he stands. Times, Sunday Times But what can be done on the domestic scene? Times, Sunday Times Did they simply not believe it or did they fail to connect a horrible domestic scene with a crime in the community at large? Times, Sunday Times It was in 2009 that the domestic scene turned irreparably toxic. Times, Sunday Times Your domestic scene seems to have encountered some minor problems. The Sun But such expenditure merely reflects the trend in all types of domestic setting. Times, Sunday Times Most of the action plays out in this surreal domestic setting. The Times Literary Supplement One of her suspended sheets of paint-dipped polythene or paper would look both beautiful and surprising in a domestic setting [from 2,500 to 9,000]. Times, Sunday Times Even so, the real-life domestic setting gave the play's meanderings poignancy, the novelty of the set-up overcoming a slight tendency towards the twee. Times, Sunday Times According to the survey, the main motivation was a desire to improve and update our domestic setting rather than play property developer and achieve a higher selling price. Times, Sunday Times In money terms, domestic spending has risen by nearly 7 per cent on a year ago. Times, Sunday Times International visitors will spend 749.3 million, while domestic spending will rise by 54.3 million. Times, Sunday Times About $600 billion will also be cut from domestic spending. Times, Sunday Times That should mean more exports and less domestic spending. Times, Sunday Times More recently, particularly as the euro crisis escalated, the weakness from exporters spread, affecting manufacturing and weighing on domestic spending, as well. Times, Sunday Times The actors occupy a single stage and must ignore anything happening in their line of vision, but beyond their imagined domestic sphere. Times, Sunday Times He brought the world into the domestic sphere, and now we can't get rid of it. Times, Sunday Times And as technology slowly moved into the domestic sphere, people weighed themselves more. The Times Literary Supplement It's us trying to colonise the domestic sphere. Times, Sunday Times But we play to our strengths and interests in the domestic sphere. Times, Sunday Times Many companies that make the leap are blighted by a lack of skilled workers and a thinned-out domestic supply chain. Times, Sunday Times And firms may increasingly opt to recruit in the global rather than domestic market to mitigate domestic supply problems. Times, Sunday Times Manufacturers may beef up domestic supply chains to protect themselves against overseas shutdowns. Times,Sunday Times The power projects side, which supplies more permanent kit, often to countries whose economic development has outstripped domestic supply, was up by 5 per cent. Times, Sunday Times Today the demand for nuns remains but the domestic supply has dried up. Times, Sunday Times Domestic travel was down by 3.3 per cent. Times, Sunday Times As such, literary accounts of domestic travel constitute a record of profound cultural, political and ideological struggle. The Times Literary Supplement Around the world domestic travel will become the norm, rather than the last resort. Times,Sunday Times Such switching of holidays could provide a prop for the domestic travel industry against the impact of the economic downturn. Times, Sunday Times Domestic travel will open up first: people will feel more confident avoiding big airports and the risk of being stranded overseas. Times,Sunday Times Domestic workers are sometimes expected to cover their heads. Times, Sunday Times Domestic workers are brought in on individual visas rather than through agencies. Times, Sunday Times Domestic workers were the most urgently needed. Times, Sunday Times Domestic workers often migrate to financially support their immediate family, extended family, and even other members of their community. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Domestic workers also became covered and the minimum wage was increased to $2.30 per hour in stages. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 His rage appears more than purely domestic anger; it seems to encompass a deep-seated spiritual anguish as well. Times, Sunday Times Fourth, in the highly integrated international economic system we now inhabit, economic cycles tend to be driven by global events, not purely domestic factors. Times, Sunday Times But even the share prices of purely domestic companies have been doing well. Times, Sunday Times Even under purely domestic law principles, a test of substantial severability was appropriate, rather than a rigid insistence on textual severability. Times, Sunday Times Reports at the time indicate that an apparently accidental glitch resulted in the interception of communications that were purely domestic in nature. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 国内的 Japanese: 国内の |
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