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单词 giving
释义
givinggiv‧ing /ˈɡɪvɪŋ/ adjective Examples
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • But it seemed to Paige now that he was doing all the giving and she was taking without returning anything.
  • Education is not just about giving people the facts.
  • Flesh against flesh, just giving comfort and pleasure at first.
  • For a Liberal Democrat to argue that giving institutions the power to run their own affairs is a centralising measure is extraordinary.
  • Manion felt comfortable with the pitch he was giving Karen.
  • The latter involves the recipient of the memo in additional work, whereas merely giving information does not.
  • The physical expression of female sexuality is her monthly period and its triumph lies in her giving birth.
  • The plight of some 600 detainees acknowledged by the authorities was also giving cause for concern.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(=to give people prizes for good achievements at school or college)· A prize-giving ceremony will take place tomorrow night at the university.
· I’m tired of you giving me crap (=saying bad things) about my long hair.
 I’d love to be a professional writer, but I’m not giving up my day job just yet.
 ‘Go on,’ he whispered, giving me a prod in the back.
· They believed that the water had special health-giving properties.
 A salesman started giving us a spiel about life insurance.
 All this talk about ghosts is giving me the willies.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN
· The physical expression of female sexuality is her monthly period and its triumph lies in her giving birth.· Aside from giving birth to the Blessed Mary at the age of forty, little is known of her.· Surprisingly, I find that all my reasons for postponing giving birth still apply: I don't particularly like children.· He's much more in his element in prometheus, which heaves and sighs as though it's actually giving birth to fire.· His first wife, Helena, died in 1845 giving birth to a daughter.
kind, caring, and generous OPP  mean:  She’s a very giving person.
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