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单词 feat
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feat
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Word forms: feats
countable noun
If you refer to an action, or the result of an action, as a feat, you admire it because it is an impressive and difficult achievement. [approval]
A racing car is an extraordinary feat of engineering.
Synonyms: accomplishment, act, performance, achievement  
Collocations:
accomplish a feat
Eighteen months ago, they accomplished a feat that matched that of any side preceding them, by winning a series in India for the first time in 27 years.
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Now modern science has unearthed archaeological evidence of where he accomplished this feat.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
What could not have been predicted with such certainty was that he would accomplish this feat at his home ground.
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astonishing feat
Despite not quite making it, their journey was an astonishing feat of endurance.
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It was an astonishing feat.
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The astonishing surgical feats that saved thousands of lives are mostly a distant memory.
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attempt the feat
Her parents, who thought they had persuaded her not to attempt the feat, were in Egypt when she died.
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As he attempts the feat, he will be warmly received, with a whole sport rooting for him.
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It would be a good time for her to attempt this imaginative feat, for two reasons.
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complete a feat
The cold water, the tides and currents, the wave size and the sheer time required to complete the feat, are monumental (often over 24 hours).
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She was the fifth person to complete the feat and the first to do so posthumously.
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The best ponies could complete this feat in under three hours, never breaking gait.
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Whatever the day brings, he completes a feat - almost 2½ decades in international sport - that few can comprehend, let alone contemplate.
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Only later do we deduce that he completes this feat in his late seventies!
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considerable feat
This would have been a considerable feat since he was in prison at the time.
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He owned racehorses himself, some with such conspicuous success that he had to pull off the considerable feat of commentating on them impartially.
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It was a considerable feat.
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There can be no denying that attracting such a large crowd, only ten weeks after the relocation had been announced, was a considerable feat of marketing.
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Although they are the best-funded team, with the deepest playing pool, reaching the final has been seen as a considerable feat.
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engineering feat
Stonehenge, built perhaps 5,000 years ago, was an impressive engineering feat, requiring time and vast amounts of manual labour.
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The dam was considered to be an engineering feat in its time.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
It was hailed as one of the engineering feats of the 20th century.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
feat of imagination
But making the leap to cleaner energy involves a feat of imagination as well as money.
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A wild feat of imagination.
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It would take a considerable feat of imagination, or a peculiar act of malevolence, to come up with a structure less appropriate to a historic landscape than a wind turbine.
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The effect of one-degree warming, therefore, requires no great feat of imagination.
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Yet the abundant eyewitness testimony provides a starting point for later feats of imagination.
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feat of strength
That song has to be done quietly, which turns out to be a feat of strength.
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He once boasted that he had lifted a mule onto his shoulders and toted her five miles to the doctor, an impressive feat of strength (if true).
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There are other routines of spectacular skill here, feats of strength, balance and dexterity, but they're strictly rationed.
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Its simplest, quietest moments make much more impact than its most spine-crunching, eye-watering feats of strength and agility.
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A reunion would spur them to new feats of strength, he argued.
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great feat
To land his glider, at night, in a small field, to within 100 yards of the bridge, was a great feat.
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It would be a great feat for the team.
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It would be a great feat of training to get him back to a peak here.
The Sun
We had pulled off a great feat as the world watched.
The Sun
The effect of one-degree warming, therefore, requires no great feat of imagination.
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heroic feat
Although this was a defeat, the withdrawal under fire was played up as a heroic feat.
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What extravagant titles and heroic feats will the propagandists dream up?
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Denied their usual explosive gestures and heroic feats of endurance, they instead sculpt precise nano-improvisations, like shiny snail trails scarring a frosty tundra.
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The inescapable fretting about the forecast adds an oddly querulous note to the heroic feats of aerobatics, as the elite pilots' summer season continues apace.
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This was not the first time: it had been called to perform heroic feats.
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impossible feat
Everyone assumed it was an impossible feat.
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He asked me to perform the difficult if not impossible feat of keeping it confidential until after the announcement eight days later.
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For example, a large group may be able to perform arrangements that have more than a dozen separate parts, an impossible feat for smaller groups.
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The chrya explained that it was an impossible feat for anyone else.
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The sport lent itself well to big-screen adaptations with its costumed heroes and villains, larger-than-life personalities, and impossible feats of strength played straight.
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impressive feat
For them to have succeeded would have been an impressive feat, especially bearing in mind a series of injuries and the loss last summer of two key members of the coaching staff.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
It's still an impressive feat of engineering design and construction today.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
This seems to me an impressive feat.
The Times Literary Supplement (2014)
incredible feat
It would be an incredible feat for any able-bodied person to trek 124 miles across the frozen wasteland of Antarctica.
The Sun (2014)
It's an incredible feat of engineering.
The Sun (2012)
That puts him in an elite club alongside three other players who have managed that incredible feat.
The Sun (2009)
manage a feat
Scientists have shown that they manage this feat by dramatically reducing their heart-rate the deeper they dive.
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He managed the feat four minutes into the second half which levelled the match at 6-6.
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Margarine manufacturers managed this feat in part by an innovative workaround.
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He managed the feat by blessing a handful of water and throwing it on her.
The Sun
No horse had managed the feat in 207 years.
The Sun
miraculous feat
That miraculous feat, from take-off to rescue boats arriving, took nine minutes.
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Enrich has achieved the miraculous feat of rendering this comprehensible, even readable.
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This was the first miraculous feat that he exhibited at the age of 10 and its report spread far and wide.
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Thus, his dependents and followers also performed miraculous feats.
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His devotees consider him to have been a great spiritual master and have testified to miraculous feats he supposedly accomplished.
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no mean feat
Given his eloquent wordsmithery, even writing them down is no mean feat.
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That's no mean feat in a society that was dubbed 'obesogenic' in a report this week.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
No mean feat when you consider the total area of the arena covers more than five football pitches.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
It's no mean feat because it was one of the best platform games of last year.
The Sun (2012)
It's no mean feat keeping a massive entertainment show fresh and current with high ratings.
The Sun (2014)
no small feat
It's an exciting film that plays like a thriller (no small feat).
Christianity Today
It was no small feat to create an exhibition that simultaneously delights, educates, and persuades.
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Instead, he agreed we should pay their rent — no small feat in the height of summer.
Times, Sunday Times
And that's no small feat.
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Getting to these places was no small feat in itself: travelling with trunkloads of cumbersome equipment would be difficult enough now, let alone in the days before long-haul flights.
Times, Sunday Times
perform feats
By performing feats of physical strength and agility, one wins a good name with the crowd.
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He performed both feats without safety nets or harnesses and set new records for tightrope walking.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
No technology at that time could perform these feats.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
physical feat
So make no mistake he has once again achieved an immense physical feat.
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Here one extends the above into physical feats of a bravura that feels modishly 2012.
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But many fight through their pain and preserve their dignity and sanity by achieving amazing physical feats.
The Sun
She has been there time and again, her career a mixture of mindboggling physical feats and vulnerability.
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The physical feats they perform defy gravity, endurance or any normal idea of what the human body can achieve.
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rare feat
It put them into the final, which they won, a rare feat for a minor county.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
But at least he did complete a full 90 minutes, a rare feat in his footballing career.
The Sun (2007)
It's a rare feat.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
remarkable feat
There is no doubt it is a remarkable feat of structural engineering.
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This understatedly remarkable feat of writing and performance is set with only subtle suggestions of place.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
It was a remarkable feat of navigation made without magnetic compasses.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
repeat the feat
Now let's see if they can repeat the feat and finish the job in Switzerland in a fortnight's time.
The Sun (2016)
Can he repeat the feat when the teams meet again?
The Sun (2012)
She aims to repeat that feat next month.
The Sun (2014)
spectacular feat
By 1999 the distance was only 3.5m and, in a spectacular feat of engineering, the entire structure was moved 50m inland.
Times, Sunday Times
This clearly drew on the work of many surveyors, but was a spectacular feat nonetheless, and caused a considerable stir from the first.
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The lines are spectacular feats of engineering, and, now the government has splurged millions on upgrades and repairs, they're efficient and comfortable, too.
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Along with re-rolls gained through spent possibilities, card play, and other possible influences, this allows truly spectacular feats to be accomplished by player characters.
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superhuman feat
In sport, as in science, today's superhuman feats are achieved by standing on the shoulders of giants.
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People in this region rave about his superhuman feats.
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Even harsh weather conditions do not deter him from performing superhuman feats in water.
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He could seemingly perform a number of superhuman feats or resist a variety of attacks via his illusions.
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The strength of the controlled character allows for superhuman feats of destruction against multiple foes, and the battles revolve around defeating large amounts of enemies.
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technical feat
The well-planned camerawork bespeaks a sense of decorum, but it also makes the film a clear technical feat.
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Yet even this dazzling technical feat has its point in a show that embraces excess and effervescence, silliness and seriousness with daring, flair and immediacy.
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The trusty old story retains most of its power and the visuals are a technical feat.
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The mission will not only be an astounding technical feat but also an important scientific one.
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This realisation makes the technical feat even more remarkable.
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technological feat
She loved every minute of it, and marvelled at the technological feat.
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He loves the mechanics of planes and the technological feats that get these huge machines airborne.
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Technology organizes any technological feats, like presentations for the speakers.
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unique feat
In his rookie year, the imposing right tackle started every game, a unique feat at that level, although it was not without its challenges.
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He was the author of several patents on drilling equipment - unique feat amongst oil industrialists of the time.
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He scored 85 runs in the second innings, failing to accomplish the unique feat of scoring a double-century and a century in a single match.
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His unique feats of the newly cultivated art had soon won robust acclamation from the press and the public alike.
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unprecedented feat
It takes him to the cusp of the career grand slam and an unprecedented feat.
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The song closed out the entire alternative rock panel in one week, an unprecedented feat.
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This completed the unprecedented feat of a single nation taking the top four positions at the championship event.
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It repeated this unprecedented feat in 2012.
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Translations:
Chinese: 功绩
Japanese: 偉業
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