| 单词 | external |
| 释义 | external (ɪkstɜːʳnəl ) 1. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] B2 External is used to indicate that something is on the outside of a surface or body, or that it exists, happens, or comes from outside. ...a much reduced heat loss through external walls. ...internal and external allergic reactions. externally adverb [usually ADVERB with verb] B2 Vitamins can be applied externally to the skin. ...externally imposed conditions. 2. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] B2 External means involving or intended for foreign countries. ...the commissioner for external affairs. ...Jamaica's external debt. ...the republic's external borders. Synonyms: foreign, international, alien, exotic externally adverb [usually ADVERB after verb] B2 ...protecting the value of the mark both internally and externally. 3. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] External means happening or existing in the world in general and affecting you in some way. ...a reaction to external events. Such events occur only when the external conditions are favorable. 4. external examiner adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] External experts, for example external examiners, come into an organization from outside in order to do a particular job fairly and impartially, or to check that a particular job was done properly. [mainly British] 5. for external use phrase If medicine is for external use, it is intended to be used only on the outside of your body, and not to be eaten or drunk. Collocations: external assessment Every credible external assessment shares that view. Times, Sunday Times If we want to keep our teachers we need a supportive environment where external assessment and performance measures benefit both teachers and students. Times, Sunday Times All stage 2 subjects have a 30% external assessment, which may be an exam, investigation or performance. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Poor conduct by staff was tolerated and far too great a reliance was placed on favourable external assessments at the expense of the testimony of patients. Times, Sunday Times Some subjects were a mixture of internal and external assessments. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 There are 8-bit input/output buses for external communication, and associated interrupt flags. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Management costs (and external communication costs) represented 4.1% of the total budget. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The infrastructure integrates the ship's electronic systems including, internal and external communication, electronic navigation, aviation and armament systems. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It can also mean the related function within an organization, which handles internal and external communication processes. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This field ought to block all exterior sound, making external communication all but impossible. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Economic hardship was not the only external factor affecting early marriage guidance counsellors' work. Times, Sunday Times Historically, social scientists had treated time as a relevant but external factor to spatial features. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 These cycles will continue in the direction of their momentum until an external factor intervenes and breaks the cycle. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They are structural rather than due to external factors such as the exchange rate. ST Future growth depends on external factors over which he has no control. Times, Sunday Times A body continues at a state of rest unless acted on by an external force? Times, Sunday Times Remember, a body continues in a state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line unless an external force acts upon it. Times, Sunday Times To the pilot, it would feel like fighting an external force, such as a strong wind. Globe and Mail It's as if they are propelled by external force rather than inner urges. Times, Sunday Times Although medical evidence suggested the bladder rupture was not caused by external force, the first jury failed to agree a verdict. Times, Sunday Times Throughout the closure process, the university and the trustees will continue to seek other options, including external funding or transfer to another institution. Times, Sunday Times Most industry observers expect only a small number of firms to seek external funding in the short term. Times, Sunday Times He struggled to raise external funding for a new vacuum cleaner but persevered without. Times, Sunday Times We believe that those looking for external funding will still have numerous options to consider. Times, Sunday Times The dependence on external funding, although bitterly resented, seems to be unavoidable. Times, Sunday Times It would, he said, not tolerate any 'external interference', nor would it promise to renounce the use of force. Times, Sunday Times New rules to require political campaigners to identify themselves on all online advertising to combat external interference in elections. Times, Sunday Times The noise in the model captures external interference and/or electronic noise in the receiver. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The standards also address immunity from external interference. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A sequence of random numbers might also be added in to simulate external interference and/or electronic noise in the receiver. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The capacity did exist to see him restrained, and external intervention was justified. Times, Sunday Times Sadly, he seems to have lost respect for all of you, but with the right external intervention he could and should come back to you. Times, Sunday Times They knew that some things just had to be worked out inside a culture, without external intervention. Times, Sunday Times It can empower employees to perform tasks with a minimum amount of external intervention or training. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Instead, it questioned the motives behind external intervention and selectivity of international action in relation to the strategic interests of those sending troops. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Most acts of literary creation are undramatic, at least to the external observer. The Times Literary Supplement The novel describes the changing and extreme time dilation effects as well as events from the perspective of both the ship and an external observer. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The eyes can never be observed in motion, yet an external observer clearly sees the motion of the eyes. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 At the time, the trials were considered problematic by local and external observers, because they appear to have been used for carrying out political vendettas. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The self-assembly processes can be easily monitored and analyzed by the components themselves or by external observers. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Find support and benefit from an external perspective and a challenge to your disillusionment. Times, Sunday Times We used [consultants] to bring in an external perspective at a time of great change for the council. Times, Sunday Times That's a contrast to the private sector where managers are more often looking for help with delivery or for an independent, external perspective on their business. Times, Sunday Times It's been about advising individuals and families, providing an external perspective and challenging them to think and act differently. Times, Sunday Times From an external perspective, the most notable change between variants was the reduction in the number of connectors. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Authors sought new ways of presenting ideas, stories and external reality. The Times Literary Supplement It assumes, with neo-pragmatists and postmodernists, that signs do not refer to an external reality, but create their own referents. The Times Literary Supplement They bring our inner reality to life and make our external reality comprehensible. Christianity Today The shapes are bolder, simpler, and without any obvious reference to external reality. Times, Sunday Times Has her internal world altered along with her external reality? Times, Sunday Times I believe that the keystone of any reform must be to switch from selfregulation to independent external regulation. The Sun External regulation of bankers' remuneration will not fix the problem alone. Times, Sunday Times Standardisation and external regulation of the industry are in the pipeline. Times, Sunday Times Should it be subject to external regulation, as suggested for the press? Times, Sunday Times But they will be subject to external regulation. Times, Sunday Times A genuine shift in culture can be achieved only by opening up organisations to external review. Times, Sunday Times Since being made aware of the error, the company immediately commissioned an external review of processes and procedures. Times, Sunday Times The external review panel insisted that some of the behaviour at the cardiac unit needed to be stopped at once. Times, Sunday Times It has launched an external review. The Sun The board agrees that it will be valuable to have an external review into the process around the payment. Times, Sunday Times The mine can be triggered by a 50-metre breakwire, command or electronically triggered by an external sensor. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Similarly, the electrical signals generated by organisms in the course of life are not generated with the purpose of communicating the state of the organism to an external sensor. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The external sensors, which measure the pitch of the aircraft relative to oncoming air, are prone to bird strikes. Times,Sunday Times External sensors could dip any undipped beam whenever faced by headlights. Times, Sunday Times Faulty readings by the external sensors - pitot tubes - are believed to have started the chain of events that led to the disaster. Times, Sunday Times They can't insulate an economy from an external shock or bad policy choices by other actors. Times, Sunday Times The state has a vital role in helping the economy to weather an immense external shock. Times,Sunday Times This has improved recently and tends to lead the economy by six months, suggesting stronger economic performance in late 2012 and early 2013 — barring an external shock. Times, Sunday Times It was the right policy to help employees and businesses to withstand a huge external shock and contain the damage to the economy's long-term productive capacity. Times,Sunday Times Yet, after a while, forests can become so densely connected that they become increasingly vulnerable to an external shock, such as fire, which can spread very fast. Times, Sunday Times Human beings are alone in the universe, with no external source of objective value. Times,Sunday Times This could be from an external source or a patient's own cells (see panel right). Times, Sunday Times Make sure when sending to an external source that you delete (not just hide) any comments they should not see. Times, Sunday Times A probe has begun into the outages' 'external source'. The Sun Camels have a series of physiological adaptations that allow them to withstand long periods of time without any external source of water. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In contemporary business corporations, the main external stakeholder groups are shareholders, debtholders, trade creditors, suppliers, customers and communities affected by the corporation's activities. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In digital strategy, surveys may be used to validate or invalidate key questions raised in more qualitative exercises such as external stakeholder interviews and focus groups. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Secure databases allow external stakeholders to access data, while the company's virtual workspace knows no limits. Times, Sunday Times We have conducted extensive quantitative polling, a media mapping exercise and qualitative interviews with internal and external stakeholders. Times, Sunday Times Communication with other external stakeholders, such as regulators or select committees, was next. Times, Sunday Times Riders may synchronize their pedalling to be in time with the rhythm of the music, thus providing an external stimulus to encourage a certain tempo. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Each neuron in the network corresponds to one pixel in an input image, receiving its corresponding pixels color information (e.g. intensity) as an external stimulus. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Contenting oneself with reacting to an external stimulus means being unconscious of the act; an existence within the sheer presence of the body. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The ray regularly emits pulses even without an obvious external stimulus. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The game assumes that all external stimulus affects many aspects of our attitudes, personalities and even our health. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Those whose needs are primarily physical can, in the majority of cases, be cared for at home, albeit with a great deal of external support. Times, Sunday Times I grabbed at external support but it was also a journey that had to be made within. Times, Sunday Times Moody's went on to say that the bank might need 'external support' as a result of bad debts, triggering nervousness about the need for a possible government rescue. Times, Sunday Times Carers' ages range from 17 to over 80 and more than half get no external support. Times, Sunday Times And more than half of the 6,000 people questioned said they receive no external support. The Sun A piece of foam the size of a briefcase had broken off from and external tank and punctured the left wing. The Sun Polyurethane-based foam covers most of the external tank. Houston Chronicle During and after launch much attention was paid to monitoring the external tank for the loss of insulation foam. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This led to the one part rigid seal in the external tank being replaced with a two part flexible seal. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The external tank would then be jettisoned, as on the actually flown shuttle configuration, and the orbiter would then perform its mission. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It would also involve ensuring that the new state could defend itself from internal and external threat. Times, Sunday Times The loss of an external threat often gives rise to an internal crisis, and the need for a new sense of identity. Times, Sunday Times First the external threat that existed in the 1930s from authoritarian, militarist states no longer exists. Times, Sunday Times Sometimes missions are thrust upon a country and it has to achieve safety from external threat. Times, Sunday Times He said that 'common concern' over external threat was still driving the quality of those relationships. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 外部的 Japanese: 外部の |
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