单词 | structure |
释义 | struc·ture I. 1. 2. a. < a laboratory housed in a temporary wooden structure > < the dam is a massive structure > < demolish any building, highway, road, railroad, excavation, or other structure — T.W.Arnold > < a structure of posts or stakes across a stream — F.W.Bradley > < structures experimented with …: oxygen-pressure suits, oxygen-pressure balloon gondolas and pressure cabin airplanes — H.G.Armstrong > < all vegetable fibrous structures felted from a water suspension on a wire screen — Paper & Paperboard > especially < the civic auditorium … is the city's most important public structure — American Guide Series: Michigan > b. < leaves and other complex plant structures > < a glandular structure at the base of the brain > < light provided by a fluorescent structure > < collapse the delicate, incomplete structure of agreement — Kenneth Love > < the Nazi structure of falsified facts and perverted history — Alfred Frankfurter > < any object which is in some sense an organized whole is said to have, or to be characterized by, structure — W.C.Clement > < the political and institutional structure of the Commonwealth has been built, and continues to develop, round this living core of tradition and culture — H.D.Hall > < events, or material objects, whose mutual spatial relationships are regarded as constant, constitute a structure — L.A.White > 3. < a rambling country house, basically Gothic in plan, structure, and mass — H.S.Morrison > < structure means the ways in which the stars are organized into clusters and other multiple systems — G.W.Gray b. 1886 > < primitive societies are … pretty rigid and uniform in structure — J.D.Adams > < the structure of a novel > 4. < the structure of soil > < the structure of a plant > < the structure of an animal > as a. b. < an anticlinal structure > < a basin-and-range structure > < an alpine structure > c. 5. < economic structure > < financial structure > < personality structure > < political structure > < symphonic structure > < tax structure > — see social structure 6. a. (1) (2) b. (1) (2) (3) 7. II. transitive verb 1. < the author has structured his book as a simple chronology — E.B.Pettet > < this book succeeds in structuring an admirable vantage point — J.G.Brin > < the male in the old-style mammal was largely structured for aggressive competition — Weston La Barre > < the way in which our collegiate education is structured — E.A.Walker > as a. (1) (2) < a theory to structure empirical research > < the part of television in structuring public events > b. (1) < structure a situation > < structure the perceptual field > (2) (3) 2. intransitive verb |
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