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单词 phenomenon
释义
phenomenonphe‧nom‧e‧non /fɪˈnɒmənən $ fɪˈnɑːmənɑːn, -nən/ ●●○ W3 AWL noun (plural phenomena /-nə/) [countable] Word Origin
WORD ORIGINphenomenon
Origin:
1500-1600 Late Latin, Greek phainomenon, from phainein ‘to show’
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • Still walking five miles a day at the age of 95, the woman was an absolute phenomenon.
  • The cell phone is a relatively recent phenomenon. It's difficult at the moment to assess its effects.
  • the increasing phenomenon of the single parent family
  • We now know that our system of planets orbiting the sun is not a unique phenomenon.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • A new phenomenon is identified in some prisons.
  • He is yet another phenomenon of questionable tangibility to emerge from the twelfth century.
  • In dealing with this new phenomenon, I have two points to make.
  • Industrial ReD in the public sector is a relatively new phenomenon and the expectations from it are not very clear.
  • Is it an illusion to imagine that this is a merely modern phenomenon? he wrote.
  • The same phenomenon was observed in New York.
  • Then an interesting phenomenon takes place: they become a safety valve.
Thesaurus
THESAURUS
something that happens, especially something important, interesting, or unusual: · He spoke of the tragic event in which more than 100 people died.· recent political events
formal something that happens – used especially when saying how often something happens: · Divorce is a common occurrence these days.· Storms like this one are fortunately a rare occurrence.· Accidents are almost a daily occurrence on this road.
something that happens, especially something that is unusual or unpleasant, or something that is one of several events: · He died after a violent incident outside a nightclub.· This latest incident could put an end to his career.
an important social event or celebration: · She only wore the dress for special occasions.· It was his 100th birthday, and friends and family gathered to mark the occasion.
[usually singular] something that happens, especially something shocking in political or public life which involves several people and events: · The affair has caused people to lose confidence in their government.
something that happens or exists in society, science, or nature, especially something that is studied because it is difficult to understand: · natural phenomena such as earthquakes· Homelessness is not a new phenomenon.
Longman Language Activatorsomething that happens, that is not planned
something that happens, especially something that is important or interesting: · Meeting Professor Kearney was an event which changed my life.· The book discusses the events leading up to the outbreak of World War Two.· The evening meal is a time when all the family can get together and discuss the day's events.chain/sequence of events (=the order in which events happened): · Police are attempting to reconstruct the sequence of events on the night of the killing.the course of events (=the way that events happened): · Nothing we could have done would have changed the course of events.
informal something that happens: · So many things have happened since I last saw you.a funny thing happened: · A funny thing happened to me on the way to work this morning.not remember a thing (=used to emphasize that you do not remember what happened): · When I woke up the next morning, I couldn't remember a thing.
formal something that happens, use this especially to say whether something happens often or not often: a common/daily/frequent etc occurrence: · Vicious fights and arguments were a daily occurrence in the shipyards.· Earthquakes are an unusual occurrence in England but are not totally unknown.
something that happens, especially something that is unusual or unpleasant or something that is part of a longer series of events: · Apart from the incident in Las Vegas our vacation was completely trouble-free.· One violent incident turned into a political and family tragedy.a bomb/shooting/terrorist etc incident (=used especially in news reports): · Friday's shooting incident in East London led to several arrests.without incident (=without anything unpleasant happening): · The fans were well behaved, and the game was played without incident.
something that happens, especially something that is strange or unusual: · The happenings of the last two days had left me feeling dazed.· 'The X Files' is a fictional television programme about strange, unexplained happenings.
plural phenomena a natural or social process that can be seen or is known to happen, and is often studied: · We now know that our system of planets orbiting the sun is not a unique phenomenon.· The cell phone is a relatively recent phenomenon. It's difficult at the moment to assess its effects.phenomenon of: · the increasing phenomenon of the single parent familynatural phenomenon: · A thorough understanding of mathematics is sufficient to explain a wide variety of natural phenomena.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRYadjectives
· The idea that we may be able to live forever is is not a new phenomenon.
· Detailed food labelling is a fairly recent phenomenon.
· Cloudy water is a common phenomenon in new aquariums.
· Planes have occasionally disappeared in midair, but this is a rare phenomenon.
· What could explain this strange phenomenon?
(=one that happens in nature)· Natural phenomena such as the appearance of comets intrigued him.
· Crime is a complex social phenomenon.
(=ones that appear to be against the laws of nature)· Ghosts are one example of paranormal phenomena.
(=relating to the power of the human mind to do strange things)· psychic phenomena such as telepathy
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
· Most of the difficulty stems from the fact that an eruption is an extremely complex phenomenon.· The Industrial Revolution is a complex phenomenon.· Rather, it reflects the need for different conceptualizations to cover the different dimensions of a highly complex phenomenon.· No single strategy or tactic will resolve such a complex phenomenon as inter-group conflict.· There is some truth in this simple account of the rise of semi-literacy, but in fact it is a complex phenomenon.· First, because of its multidimensional nature, power is a complex phenomenon.· Previous research has shown that trust is a complex phenomenon and a variety of new measures are needed to capture its complexity.· Crime is a complex social phenomenon with no single cause or solution.
· He thereby pays less attention than he might to interpreting the science of art as a cultural phenomenon.· This preoccupation with death and judgment was not merely a cultural phenomenon it was deliberate.
· He asks whether a general phenomenon would cease to be a feature of a society if particular individuals held different beliefs.· Since this is a general phenomenon it calls for a general explanation, interesting as individual instances may be.· And he concludes that, since it would not, the individual beliefs can not be the explanation of the general phenomenon.· The assimilation of legacy and trust is not, then, a general phenomenon but is related somehow to Scaevola in particular.
· Is it an illusion to imagine that this is a merely modern phenomenon? he wrote.· The distortion, however, is a modern phenomenon.· This, I guess, must have been a post-post-modern phenomenon.· This is a modern phenomenon and also related to the growth of modern corporate enterprise.· It all seems a peculiarly modern phenomenon.· Like social movements, political parties are a modern phenomenon.· Family sentiment linked to a particular place is not a modern phenomenon.
· Instead they see low concentrations of magnesium as a natural phenomenon exacerbated by air pollution.· It is regarded as a purely natural phenomenon which, by an unusual coincidence, occurs in the walls of their convent.· And nomatterhow minor that discovery is, there is a peculiar excitement about understanding some natural phenomenon for the first time.· He told the story of what had occurred as if it were a natural phenomenon, not mechanical failing or human error.
· Machismo is a New World phenomenon with roots in old world cultures.· Illiteracy is not a new phenomenon in the United States.· A new phenomenon is identified in some prisons.· This is not a new phenomenon.· Thus, what is happening in the Republican Party in 1996 is not a new phenomenon.· Running away from home is not a new phenomenon.· The movement of peoples from East to West is a newer phenomenon.
· All this results in a rare phenomenon: Marks and Spencer is a company people are fond of.· Nevertheless, the expulsion of a bishop was a relatively rare phenomenon.· This is not a rare phenomenon.· This will exclude the counter-examples, but it will also make knowledge a rare phenomenon at best.
· Background and History Compacts are a comparatively recent phenomenon.· Indeed, the notion that all students should engage in serious academic work and learn it deeply is a relatively recent phenomenon.· The problem of deposits on soft contact lenses is not a recent or unique phenomenon.· A recent phenomenon has been the development of groups for adults who grew up with an alcoholic parent.· Compulsory state education for all is, in the historical sense, a recent phenomenon.· We should also remember that official disapproval is a recent phenomenon.· Comprehensive food labelling is a fairly recent phenomenon.
· Daedalus now points out that the solar wind is an exactly similar phenomenon.· Among certain kinds of self-defeating organiza-tions, we see a similar phenomenon at work.· A somewhat similar phenomenon occurred with the ships that the Vikings used as coffins.· Since glow-worms, fireflies, electric eels and many fish exhibit a similar phenomenon, the statement is not unrealistic.
· Stereotyped deviant behaviour is inevitably a social phenomenon, and concerns us almost as much as it does social psychologists or psychiatrists.· To explain a social phenomenon is therefore to capture its uniqueness and show why it happened when it need not have done.· Crime is a complex social phenomenon with no single cause or solution.· When women ponder on an individual, emotion or social phenomenon, it is called Gossip.· It follows that punishment - or indeed any social phenomenon - is an inevitably highly complex phenomenon which requires extremely subtle analysis.· Other research sets out to explain a social phenomenon.
· The demise of jobs is such a shift: people are still calling it a temporary phenomenon.
· Thus it can be seen how a practice which has little educational validity can become a universal phenomenon.· But trade in slaves has been a universal phenomenon, affecting all primitive societies.· However, although the closed shop is a feature of some unions, it is not a universal phenomenon.
· The important aspect of Johnson's statement is that he dismisses the whole phenomenon of labouring poets as misapplied patronage.· Let us for the time being not take a stand on this issue but address ourselves to the whole phenomenon in its strong sense.
VERB
· Eventually the whole viewfield becomes white by this phenomenon.· H.. Norman Schwarzkopf, to become a media phenomenon.· Thus it can be seen how a practice which has little educational validity can become a universal phenomenon.· By 1976, the show had become a national phenomenon.· They became a worldwide phenomenon and are still in circulation.· Dissent, hitherto confined to a number of intellectuals, became a mass phenomenon with the Protestant Church playing a leading role.· It has become a huge phenomenon since the beginning of the 90s.· Aggression becomes a category or phenomenon whose presence or absence is a matter for empirical investigation.
· The demise of jobs is such a shift: people are still calling it a temporary phenomenon.
· Parliamentary answers intended to explain the phenomenon left a messy impression.· Ever try explaining the Monkees phenomenon to your kids?· Lucas has advanced certain ingenious theoretical devices to explain the phenomenon of persistence which we shall examine later in this chapter.· I can not explain this phenomenon: I merely record it.· Chomsky explains this phenomenon by suggesting that human individuals are innately endowed with a deep structure grammar of language.· All sorts of theories to explain the phenomenon have been advanced, but as far as I am concerned, it works.· But it is not prepared to accept that the mathematical models developed to explain the phenomenon are sufficiently proven.· This is a clear example of attempting to explain an unknown phenomenon by means of models based on known phenomena.
· It had not always been possible for him to observe the phenomenon on his own.· I sat in cafés or stood in bus queues observing the phenomenon of heterosexuality.
· If you had that sort of phenomenon occur you have to take note of it.· What some consider an isolated situation in Tucson Water is actually a phenomenon occurring the world over, according to Ullery.· He argues that Marxist accounts assume that the phenomenon occurs solely due to the needs of corporations and their owners.· This phenomenon occurs on a broader level as well, although the dynamics are somewhat different.· We can see why this phenomenon should occur.· That apart, a strange phenomenon has occurred.· The phenomenon occurs because the falling rain or snow closest to the light reflects some of it.
· And nomatterhow minor that discovery is, there is a peculiar excitement about understanding some natural phenomenon for the first time.· Evidence strongly suggests that a serious problem exists and research is needed to better understand this phenomenon and its causes.· There is no attempt to understand or explain the phenomenon in terms of wider social forces.· Although our early behavioral observations often stimulated productive studies, they often misled us in our understanding of a specific phenomenon.· Strengthened by his ability to understand the phenomenon of sound, early man became conscious of the creative power inherent in it.· I wanted to understand the phenomenon at an individual, a social and a sociological level.
1something that happens or exists in society, science, or nature, especially something that is studied because it is difficult to understandphenomenon of the growing phenomenon of telecommuting Homelessness is not a new phenomenon.natural/historical/social etc phenomenon Language is a social and cultural phenomenon.► see thesaurus at event2something or someone that is very unusual because of a rare quality or ability that they haveCOLLOCATIONSadjectivesa new phenomenon· The idea that we may be able to live forever is is not a new phenomenon.a recent phenomenon· Detailed food labelling is a fairly recent phenomenon.a common phenomenon· Cloudy water is a common phenomenon in new aquariums.a rare phenomenon· Planes have occasionally disappeared in midair, but this is a rare phenomenon.a strange phenomenon· What could explain this strange phenomenon?a natural phenomenon (=one that happens in nature)· Natural phenomena such as the appearance of comets intrigued him.a social/cultural etc phenomenon· Crime is a complex social phenomenon.supernatural/paranormal phenomena (=ones that appear to be against the laws of nature)· Ghosts are one example of paranormal phenomena.psychic phenomena (=relating to the power of the human mind to do strange things)· psychic phenomena such as telepathy
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