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单词 scheme
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scheme

noun
 OPAL W
/skiːm/
/skiːm/
Idioms
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  1.  
    (British English) a plan or system for doing or organizing something
    • a training scheme
    • scheme for doing something a local scheme for recycling newspapers
    • scheme to do something to introduce/operate a scheme to improve links between schools and industry
    • under a scheme Under the new scheme only successful schools will be given extra funding.
    • to introduce/launch/run a scheme
    • a salary/insurance/loan scheme
    • The houses have been demolished as part of a major regeneration scheme.
    see also pension scheme
    Extra Examples
    • The project is based on a successful pilot scheme in Glasgow.
    • The scheme allows customers to trade in their own computer against the cost of a new one.
    • Under the scheme, land would be sold to building companies.
    • a government-backed scheme
    • a scheme whereby the elderly will be provided with help in the home
    Topics Businessb2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • major
    • multi-million-pound
    • ambitious
    verb + scheme
    • have
    • come up with
    • design
    scheme + verb
    • offer something
    • provide something
    • allow something
    preposition
    • in a/​the scheme
    • under a/​the scheme
    • scheme for
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  2.  
    a plan for getting money or some other advantage for yourself, especially one that involves cheating other people
    • scheme to do something an elaborate scheme to avoid taxes
    • They hatched a scheme to rob a Monte Carlo casino.
    • scheme for doing something Is this another one of your crazy schemes for making money?
    see also pyramid scheme
    Extra Examples
    • Police uncovered a scheme to steal paintings worth more than $250 000.
    • This is not one of those get-rich-quick schemes that you see on the internet.
    • She's come up with a hare-brained scheme for getting her novel published.
    • He has an ingenious scheme to attract funding.
    • They concocted an elaborate fund-raising scheme.
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • crazy
    • hare-brained
    • elaborate
    verb + scheme
    • concoct
    • devise
    • dream up
    scheme + verb
    • involve something
    See full entry
  3. an ordered system or arrangement
    • It is a poem with a rhyme scheme and a defined structure.
    see also colour scheme
  4. (Scottish English, informal) an area of social housing (= houses or flats for people to rent or buy at low prices)
    • I'm from Glasgow and grew up in a scheme.
  5. Word Originmid 16th cent. (denoting a figure of speech): from Latin schema, from Greek skhēma ‘form, figure’. An early sense was ‘diagram of the position of celestial objects’, giving rise to ‘diagram, outline’, which led to the current senses. The unfavourable sense “plot” arose in the mid 18th cent.
Idioms
the/somebody’s scheme of things
  1. the way things seem to be organized; the way somebody wants everything to be organized
    • My personal problems are not really important in the overall scheme of things.
    • This small annoyance isn't much in the grand scheme of things.
    • I don't think marriage figures in his scheme of things.

scheme

verb
/skiːm/
/skiːm/
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they scheme
/skiːm/
/skiːm/
he / she / it schemes
/skiːmz/
/skiːmz/
past simple schemed
/skiːmd/
/skiːmd/
past participle schemed
/skiːmd/
/skiːmd/
-ing form scheming
/ˈskiːmɪŋ/
/ˈskiːmɪŋ/
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  1. [intransitive, transitive] (disapproving) to make secret plans to do something that will help yourself and possibly harm others synonym plot
    • scheme (against somebody) She seemed to feel that we were all scheming against her.
    • scheme to do something His colleagues, meanwhile, were busily scheming to get rid of him.
    • scheme something Her enemies were scheming her downfall.
  2. [transitive] scheme something (South African English, informal) to think or form an opinion about something
    • What do you scheme?
    • ‘Do you think he'll come?’ ‘I scheme so.’
    Topics Opinion and argumentc2
  3. Word Originmid 16th cent. (denoting a figure of speech): from Latin schema, from Greek skhēma ‘form, figure’. An early sense was ‘diagram of the position of celestial objects’, giving rise to ‘diagram, outline’, which led to the current senses. The unfavourable sense “plot” arose in the mid 18th cent.
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