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单词 multiple
释义
multiple
(mʌltɪpəl )
Word forms: multiples
1. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun]
You use multiple to describe things that consist of many parts, involve many people, or have many uses.
He died of multiple injuries.
The most common multiple births are twins, two babies born at the same time.
Synonyms: many, several, various, numerous  
2. countable noun
If one number is a multiple of a smaller number, it can be exactly divided by that smaller number.
Their numerical system, derived from the Babylonians, was based on multiples of the number six. [+ of]
3. countable noun
A multiple or a multiple store is a shop with a lot of branches in different towns. [British]
It made it almost impossible for the smaller retailer to compete against the multiples.
Collocations:
multiple causes
The predicament we find ourselves in has multiple causes; therefore, solutions cannot emerge 'from just one way of interpreting and transforming reality,'; says the pope.
Christianity Today
Perhaps there are multiple causes, because we were also bound to wonder whether the game itself lacked a magnetic draw.
Times, Sunday Times
There were multiple causes for suspicion.
Times, Sunday Times
Third, it has multiple causes.
Times, Sunday Times
The report urged a 'multifaceted approach' to tackle the multiple causes of the crisis: 'power production, industry, transport, fuel use, urban planning, construction and agriculture'.
Times, Sunday Times
multiple occasions
He gave police the slip on multiple occasions.
Times, Sunday Times
Many charities continued to mail her despite being told of her circumstances on multiple occasions.
Times, Sunday Times
Exchanges have warned that they could inadvertently pay out on multiple occasions to the same customer.
Times, Sunday Times
Some fined themselves on multiple occasions.
The Sun
It accused him of leaking information to the media and said that he had 'lacked candour - including under oath - on multiple occasions'.
Times, Sunday Times
multiple offers
We are getting a lot of multiple offers on homes priced between 550,000 and 700,000.
Times, Sunday Times
Desirable properties, particularly those priced below 1m, are attracting multiple offers, and many are going for more than the asking price.
Times, Sunday Times
Multiple offers are not just confined to the capital.
Times, Sunday Times
We have made offers on four properties, but all of these have received multiple offers and ended up going for well over the asking price.
Times,Sunday Times
This could happen if a bidder makes multiple offers and all are accepted.
Globe and Mail
multiple patients
Outbreaks occur as a result of doctors and nurses reusing syringes, contaminating the saline bag with the blood of multiple patients.
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Multiple patients should be cohorted (sequestered) to a separate building or a ward with an isolated air-handling system.
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In most occasions, multiple patients must be treated at once and even more patients may be brought in over time.
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multiple perspectives
This means that you can view the story from multiple perspectives.
Times, Sunday Times
If you could take a familiar object out of its context, you could play with its meaning, offer multiple perspectives and multiple interpretations.
Times, Sunday Times
She devised 'a kind of modern polytheism' where incompatible values continuously collided, and narrated her stories from multiple perspectives to mirror this.
The Times Literary Supplement
Podcasts provide us with opportunities for active listening, a chance to hear multiple perspectives on a subject without the temptation to click away or draw conclusions too soon.
Christianity Today
What follows examines this market practice from multiple perspectives, each one given its fair due.
Globe and Mail
multiple roles
The days are long, and staff often serve in multiple roles.
Christianity Today
Likewise, today's sermons must play multiple roles.
Christianity Today
According to some, having multiple roles in life enables people to be more content.
Times, Sunday Times
The five actors work terrifically hard in their multiple roles, and all turn in fine performances.
Times, Sunday Times
Mounting concern about directors holding multiple roles and not devoting enough time to each company was one of the main reasons for revolts this year.
Times, Sunday Times
multiple sources
The strategy also suggests regularly ventilating homes 'to avoid an accumulation of emissions from multiple sources'.
Times, Sunday Times
The order, sent out in the past few days, was confirmed by 'multiple sources', it said.
Times, Sunday Times
More people are now working beyond the age of 55 and may have multiple sources of income other than their pension.
Times,Sunday Times
We now know from multiple sources of evidence that it was global.
Times, Sunday Times
The newspaper said that it had multiple sources for the information.
Times, Sunday Times
multiple winners
From the beginning, people knew they would become multiple winners.
Times, Sunday Times
Prize shared if multiple winners.
Times, Sunday Times
In the event of multiple winners, the prizes will be shared.
The Sun
If multiple winners, prizes are shared.
The Sun
Multiple winners selected at random.
The Sun
on multiple fronts
The secret will be to drive forward on multiple fronts.
Times, Sunday Times
Hundreds of firefighters have been drafted in from neighbouring forces as some places fight fires on multiple fronts.
Times, Sunday Times
In foreign policy terms this means operating with appropriate force and decisiveness on multiple fronts at the same time.
Times, Sunday Times
Instead, he finds himself clinging on to a shrinking state as rebels advance on multiple fronts.
Times, Sunday Times
But these one-stop shops are now being squeezed on multiple fronts.
Times, Sunday Times
Translations:
Chinese: 多部分的, 倍数
Japanese: 多数の, 倍数
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