单词	orient
释义	orient1 verborient2 noun oriento‧ri‧ent1 /ˈɔːrient, ˈɒri- $ ˈɔː-/ ●○○ AWL (also orientate British English) verb Word Origin WORD ORIGINorient1 Origin: 1700-1800 French orienter, from Old French orient; ➔ ORIENT2 Verb Table VERB TABLE orient Simple Form Present I, you, we, they orient he, she, it orients Past I, you, he, she, it, we, they oriented Present perfect I, you, we, they have oriented he, she, it has oriented Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had oriented Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will orient Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have oriented Continuous Form Present I am orienting he, she, it is orienting you, we, they are orienting Past I, he, she, it was orienting you, we, they were orienting Present perfect I, you, we, they have been orienting he, she, it has been orienting Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had been orienting Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will be orienting Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have been orienting Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES The climbers stopped to orient themselves. Viewers were told how to orient their satellite dishes to best receive broadcasts. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS First I checked the lone pines, by orienting them with respect to the sun. He has trouble orienting himself to any written work. Humankind needed to orient itself Continually by Signs, or by an address. In any case, orienting the piece on the table also takes time. In people, all it does is orient them toward the bottom line. Scheler's phenomenology was based on a metaphysical hierarchy of values orienting the human being. Single conspicuous targets in the half-field contralateral to the lesion could elicit fixations, implying detection and orienting by a subcortical system. That most men orient themselves more as subjects than as citizens is a familiar theme. Phrases PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► be oriented to/towards/around something/somebody All the computers we consider are general-purpose, at least in theory, although they may be oriented towards particular application areas. Attention will be oriented to the imagery and assumptions about reproductive physiology on which methods of contraception and their evaluation are based. First we were oriented towards the orientation building. In contrast, pragmatic parties hold more flexible goals and are oriented to moderate or incremental policy change. Management involvement in internal operations and problems must be oriented to the environment, its opportunities and demands. On the one hand, the questions are oriented towards exposing the discipline, bringing into the open its hidden character. The former are oriented to specialized resources while the latter focus on outputs. This project is oriented towards education. ► orient yourself Alice missed it, as she groped to orient herself. Each centre will be designed to help even the most physically disabled or confused people move around and orient themselves easily. Gender is thus an interesting feature to consider when we ask how we orient ourselves. He has trouble orienting himself to any written work. Humankind needed to orient itself Continually by Signs, or by an address. In the process of being selves we tend to orient ourselves differently according to our gender. That most men orient themselves more as subjects than as citizens is a familiar theme. Word family WORD FAMILYnounorientationverborient 1be oriented to/towards/around something/somebody to give a lot of attention to one type of activity or one type of person:  a course that is oriented towards the needs of businessmen A lot of the training is orientated around communications skills. The organization is strongly oriented towards research.2orient yourself a)to find exactly where you are by looking around you or using a map → disorient, disorientated:  She looked at the street names, trying to orient herself. b)to become familiar with a new situationorient to It takes new students a while to orientate themselves to college life. orient1 verborient2 noun oriento‧ri‧ent2 /ˈɔːriənt, ˈɒri- $ ˈɔː-/ noun Word Origin WORD ORIGINorient2 Origin: 1300-1400 Old French, Latin, present participle of oriri ‘to rise’ Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS The orient has three species of tarsiers. Phrases PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► the Orient But in the Orient Hsu Fu could also be a spiritual and religious icon, a figure to be revered. Duty here, therefore, does not mean at all what it means throughout the Orient. For there is in the Orient no interest in the individual as such, or in unique, unprecedented facts or events. IsabelIa responded warmly to the promise that the explorer would extend Christendom and convert people of the Orient to Catholicism. Learned geographers of the day insisted that adventurers could reach the Orient by sailing westward. This morning, the Cheltenham restaurant, the Orient Rendezvous, was closed. This unthinkable predicament of modernity in the Orient is what now confronts the West in the Gulf. the Orient old-fashioned the eastern part of the world, especially China and Japan → the East at east1, Occident
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