| 单词 | plan |
| 释义 | plan I. 1. a. b. c. 2. a. b. 3. a. < could not avoid suspecting that it was a plan to obtain freedom in the evenings — Arnold Bennett > b. < the usual plan is to bring with each course the implements considered correct for handling it — Agnes M. Miall > c. < drew up a secret plan for the defense of the country > < the plan called for the establishment of flexible four-year programs for the six basic industries — Current Biography > d. < had just entered college with the plan of studying medicine — J.C.Cozzens > 4. a. < the conventional plan of state universities throughout the country — American Guide Series: Minnesota > < a plan of life so delightfully simple — J.W.Krutch > < detailed to him the plan of a very moral and aristocratical novel she was preparing — T.L.Peacock > b. < drew up a plan study for himself > < the plan of the graduation exercises > c. < an easy-payment plan > < a pay-as-you-go plan > Synonyms: < her plan to try hitching rides in automobiles — Millen Brand > < drew plans for factory and home sites — American Guide Series: Maryland > < it imposes plan and meaning and order on its materials — W.V.O'Connor > design adds to plan the idea of intention in the disposition of individual parts, often suggesting definiteness of pattern or a degree of order or harmony achieved < a great man by accident rather than design — H.J.Laski > < a complex moral and philosophical design that lay behind the surface reality — J.W.Aldridge > < the design of constitutional governments — C.L.Jones > plot connotes a laying out in or analyzing into distinguishable, proportioned, and comprehensible sections with attention to the proper relation of parts, applying now chiefly to the fundamental design of action or narrative in a literary or dramatic work or to a clandestine plan contrived by a group as for political revolution or assassination < the fundamental elements of storytelling — suspense, pace, and clean-cut plot — Current Biography > < a plot to overthrow the goverment > scheme in the sense of a plan, design, or order, especially one revealed by analysis, suggests system and careful choice or ordering of detail < the place of man in the scheme of things — E.D.Adrian > < the strong and the weak places in the general scheme of transportation by rail — O.S.Nock > < the rapid development of pension schemes — G.O.May > < the long-term schemes for building up India's economy — Collier's Year Book > In more recently current use, it can apply to a plan motivated by craftiness or self-seeking < a scheme to undermine public confidence in the administration > < a scheme to take over the control of a labor union > project in current use is a neutral word designating any plan or prospective or actual undertaking or enterprise, often of considerable size < his pet project of forming a citizens' committee > < the project consists of 80 farmsteads, each having a modern five-room house, a barn, and a poultry shed — American Guide Series: Louisiana > < a man of huge projects but small accomplishments > In the verbal uses of the terms, plan, plot, and project signify to form or contrive a plan, plot, or project as distinguished by the noun meanings < planning a dinner without taking into account the number of guests — M.R.Cohen > < planned my life from the outset largely and spaciously — Havelock Ellis > < a story thus plotted would choke on its own melodrama — Frederic Morton > < arguing whether the right to plot revolution is un-American — S.W.Chapman > < although his health was rapidly failing, he projected a new book — C.A.Dinsmore > < a group of New Haven citizens that projected a railway between New Haven and Hartford and obtained a charter for it — G.S.Bryan > design signifies to formulate or achieve a design or intention < design a new gown > < this book is designed to supply some of this information — R.M.Dawson > scheme confines itself almost exclusively to the formulation of a scheme in the more current sense distinguished above, a clandestine, usually self-seeking, planning or plotting < open-air daylight creatures like us … called to plot and scheme and hide against the frozen silliness of the world — Eden Phillpotts > < scheming for a slice of official cake — S.H.Adams > < scheming to overthrow the party in power > II. transitive verb 1. < planned the new school for beauty as well as utility > < planned the mural to blend with the architecture of the lobby > < planned his program for the next semester > 2. < planned and organized extensive home-missionary programs — S.G.Hefelbower > < prepared to plan, instead of improvise, foreign policy — Time > 3. < explored their houses, planned their cities — T.E.Lawrence > 4. < the many jewels she had accumulated and which she planned to leave them — R.B.Gehman > < plans a movie of the salvage operations — Current Biography > — sometimes used with on < planned on seeing him later > 5. < planning a more balanced if less profitable economy with the resources available — David Mitrany > < proposed a central authority to plan the state's future utilization of electric power on an overall basis — Current Biography > intransitive verb 1. < she must plan — plot if she must — Pearl Buck > 2. < found planning necessary during the war > < can be prepared to scrap the whole system of planning when the emergency passes — New Republic > Synonyms: see plan I |
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