| 单词 | place |
| 释义 | place I. 1. a. < calling “place! place!” to clear the way for their master — G.P.R.James > < place is made for it on his class schedule — H.W.Dodds > b. < all are strangers, rootless in place or time — T.H.White b.1915 > c. < the feeling for place was in him like the feeling for a personality — R.L.Cook > 2. a. < visit the far places of the earth > < small supplies of foreign ore … brought from places like No. Africa — Samuel Van Valkenburg & Ellsworth Huntington > < schools continued to spring up all over the place — Bernard Kalb > b. (1) < place of amusement > < place of worship > < a secondhand car place — Robert Westerby > specifically < found a little Italian place with an eighty-five cent dinner — Mary McCarthy > (2) archaic < posted upon a parade, or place of arms — Daniel Defoe > c. archaic < in the world I fill up a place which may be better supplied when I have made it empty — Shakespeare > d. < wished he could go some place and run a lunchroom — Time > < has no place to turn for allies — M.H.Rubin > < the magic rests, more than any place else, in a sense of ambiguity — M.F.Harrington > 3. a. < Britain is an ideal place to tour by bus — Richard Joseph > < Denver, Salt Lake City, and hundreds of other places, large and small — Motor Transportation in the West > b. < invited them to his place for the evening > < our twenty-eight-acre place on the edge of Baltimore — A.W.Turnbull > specifically < a few places were … harrowing summer fallow — H.L.Davis > c. < to effect the release of … Americans held there, a group of American settlers in Texas attacked the place — E.C.Barker > d. 4. a. < worn place in a rug > < sore place on the back of the hand > < steep place in the road > < this is the right place — M.R.Werner > b. (1) < in places he might have been a little bolder in dealing with the … text — G.R.Crone > (2) obsolete < comparing two places of Scripture — Thomas Fuller > (3) < dropped the book and lost her place > c. obsolete 5. a. (1) < put the country people in their place, and with a few tactful rebuffs … checked any undue familiarity — Lord Dunsany > < color drew a line around several million people who were thereby condemned to permanent inferiority of place — Oscar Handlin > (2) < the place of health in the life of the individual — Marie Theresa > < decisions which have brought our science and our engineering to their present place — H.S.Truman > b. < in the first place, the house … is haunted — Charles Lee > < from eleventh place … the city rose to seventh — American Guide Series: Maryland > c. (1) (2) < 1st place in the dog show > < won a 2d place in the handcrafts division > 6. a. (1) < the junior college has a place to fill in this emergency — L.L.Medsker > < scientific names are the surest way of indicating to biologists of various nations the places of insects … in the natural world — E.S.McCartney > < whenever an artist has a reasoned conception of any musical work as a unit … tempos naturally fall into place — Virgil Thomson > (2) < a frontier plantation … was no place to educate a boy — T.J.Wertenbaker > < turns to individual personality as the logical place to study cultural integration — H.J.Muller > b. < this is not the place to discuss compensation — Robert Moses > c. obsolete < there is no place of doubting but that it was the very same — Henry Hammond > 7. a. (1) < places were booked for him in the boat train — John Buchan > < has a 2-place sailplane > < Eton's 1100 nonscholarship places are booked solid until 1971 — Newsweek > especially < a man drinking a glass of orange juice was sitting at the table … and two places farther along a second man was munching a piece of toast — Hamilton Basso > (2) < seldom … sat down to a meal without laying one or two extra places for friends — David Garnett > b. < coffeehouses supplied in some measure the place of a journal — T.B.Macaulay > < lost his bike and had to get another in its place > c. < put yourself in my place > < in a tight place they still call on the North Wind — Alfred Duggan > 8. < 12 is a two place number > < in 316 the figure 1 is in the tens place > 9. a. < rather starve than take a place as a servant — Ellen Glasgow > < was offered a place on the Times to do political reporting — Irish Digest > especially < no judge of a high court … views the function of his place so narrowly — B.N.Cardozo > b. (1) < a policy imposed by a corrupt use of pension and place — J.H.Plumb > (2) < it was not his place to make the final decision > c. < would on no terms either collaborate with … or yield place to him — Times Literary Supplement > < spent the remainder of her life … in an endless quest for preferment and place — Time > 10. a. b. • - in place - in place of - out of place - place in the sun - upon the place II. transitive verb 1. < the furniture has been placed for a definite reason — Betty Fisk > < before the artist put any of the black in his picture … he placed all the principal branches — Ernest Knaufft > < five … strategically placed seaports — R.S.Thoman > < shows the emperor placing and giving orders to his artillery — Tom Wintringham > 2. a. < would place a finger on the list of figures she was tabulating — Jane Woodfin > < carbide … is finely ground and placed in electric cyanamide ovens — N.R.Heiden > < waste … talent and potential leadership by placing higher education beyond their reach — L.M.Chamberlain > < the growing railroad system placed increasing demands on iron and coal mines — R.H.Brown > < we have … been rather better placed than some to weigh the particular criticisms — Barbara Ward > < place our faith in knowledge — H.I.Poleman > b. < the pending debate should be placed before a larger audience — Leo Cherne > c. < place the company in a better financial position > < place a performer under contract > < the airlines placed modern equipment into service — H.G.Armstrong > d. < disrupted the defenses with his uncanny ability to place the ball — A.J.Daley > < the bombs were placed directly upon the assigned target — Tex McCrary & D.E.Scherman > e. 3. < was made lieutenant colonel and placed in command of a company — L.S.Mayo > 4. a. (1) < place the girl as a typist > < aims … to place all physically handicapped persons in remunerative positions — American Guide Series: Minnesota > (2) < boarding out with foster parents is the method to be given first consideration in placing a child — Social Services in British > b. (1) < the manuscript was … submitted to a literary agent in New York who was unable to place it — Haldeen Braddy > (2) 5. a. (1) < of the factors of strategic intelligence … geography is often placed first — G.B. & Charlotte L. Dyer > < fails to sustain that mysterious quality of life which would place it among the real masterpieces of the novel — Carlos Lynes > (2) < the same area has iron ore reserves placed at 1.3 billion metric tons — Americana Annual > b. (1) < the estimated time of burial was placed in the early Tintah stage — Meridel Le Sueur > (2) < relatively profuse body hair clearly places the Caucasoids closest of all living races to the lower primates — Weston La Barre > (3) < listening and placing the sounds that break the silence of a winter night — Rose Feld > specifically < the man looked familiar but he couldn't place him — Willard Robertson > c. (1) < judges must occupy the judges' box … and their sole duty shall be to place the horses — Dan Parker > (2) < placed two men on the … Olympic team — American Guide Series: Connecticut > 6. archaic < placed it all to judicious affection — Jane Austen > 7. a. < place a million dollars in bonds > < place half of the capital of the firm in plane production > b. (1) < place an order for a new generator > < place an order to have the house painted > (2) < place a telephone call > < place a bet > < placed his insurance with another company > intransitive verb 1. < only the first three men or women to place in each event are honored — Collier's Year Book > < placed third in the bridge tournament > specifically < bet on each horse to win, place, or show > 2. < you cannot place to a yard by means of shoulder and arm energy alone — Manchester Guardian Weekly > Synonyms: see set |
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