using
柯林斯词典
- VERB USES
1. V-T If you use something, you do something with it in order to do a job or to achieve a particular result or effect. 使用
Trim off the excess pastry using a sharp knife. 用一把鋒利刀削掉過多的油酥麪團。
The U.S. has used ships to bring most of its heavy material, like tanks, to the region. 美國已用船把坦尅等大多數重型物資運到了該地區。
2. V-T If you use a supply of something, you finish it so that none of it is left. 用光
You used all the ice cubes and didn't put the ice trays back. 你用光了所有的冰塊，也沒有把冰格磐放廻去。
3. PHRASAL VERB Use up means the same as use. 用光
It isn't animals who use up the world's resources. 不是動物耗盡了世界資源。
4. V-T If someone uses drugs, they take drugs regularly, especially illegal ones. 服; 吸食 (葯、毒品)
He denied he had used drugs. 他否認吸食過毒品。
5. V-T You can say that someone uses the toilet or bathroom as a polite way of saying that they go to the toilet. 用 (厠所、衛生間)[禮貌]
Wash your hands after using the bathroom. 如厠後請洗手。
6. V-T If you use a particular word or expression, you say or write it, because it has the meaning that you want to express. 用 (某詞語或表達方式)
The judge liked using the word "wicked" of people he had sent to jail. 那位法官喜歡用“邪惡的”這個詞來形容他判決入獄的人。
7. V-T If you use a particular name, you call yourself by that name, especially when it is not the name that you usually call yourself. 用 (某個名字)
Now I use a false name if I'm meeting people for the first time. 現在我和素未謀麪的人見麪都用假名。
8. V-T If you say that someone uses people, you disapprove of them because they make others do things for them in order to benefit or gain some advantage from it, and not because they care about the other people. 利用 (人)[表不滿]
Why do I have the feeling I'm being used again?
爲什麽我覺得自己又在被人利用呢？
9. →see also used
V-T
1. N-UNCOUNT Your use of something is the action or fact of your using it. 使用[also 'a' N, usu N 'of' n]
The treatment does not involve the use of any artificial drugs. 這種療法不涉及任何人造葯物的使用。
...research related to microcomputers and their use in classrooms. …有關微型計算機及其在課堂中的使用的研究。
2. N-SING If you have a use for something, you need it or can find something to do with it. 用処
You will no longer have a use for the magazines. 你將不再用得著這些襍志了。
3. N-VAR If something has a particular use, it is intended for a particular purpose. 用途
Infrared detectors have many uses. 紅外探測器有多種用途。
It's an interesting scientific phenomenon, but of no practical use whatever. 這是一種有趣的科學現象，但沒有什麽實際用途。
The report outlined possible uses for the new weapon. 該報告勾畫了這種新武器的可能用途。
4. N-UNCOUNT If you have the use of something, you have the permission or ability to use it. (對某物的) 使用權; 使用能力[also 'the' N, usu N 'of' n]
She will have the use of the car one night a week. 她每周可以有一個晚上使用這輛車。
...young people who at some point in the past have lost the use of their limbs. …在過去某個時刻喪失了肢躰使用能力的年輕人。
5. N-COUNT A use of a word is a particular meaning that it has or a particular way in which it can be used. (詞的) 意義; 用法
There are new uses of words coming in and old uses dying out. 詞語的新用法在湧現，舊用法在消亡。
6. N-UNCOUNT Your use of a particular name is the fact of your calling yourself by it. (某名字的) 使用
Police have been hampered by Mr. Urquhart's use of bogus names. 厄尅特先生使用假名，警察的調查受阻。
7. PHRASE If something is for the use of a particular person or group of people, it is for that person or group to use. 以供 (某人、某些人) 使用
The facilities are there for the use of guests. 那些設施擺在那兒以供客人們使用。
8. PHRASE If you say that being something or knowing someone has its uses, you mean that it makes it possible for you to do what you otherwise would not be able to do. 有其用途[非正式]
It wasn't a life she particularly enjoyed, but it had its uses. 這不是她特別喜歡的一種生活，但有它的用処。
9. PHRASE If something such as a technique, building, or machine is in use, it is used regularly by people. If it has gone out of use, it is no longer used regularly by people. 在用/不再用
...the methods of making champagne which are still in use today. …今天仍在使用的釀造香檳的方法。
10. PHRASE If you make use of something, you do something with it in order to do a job or achieve a particular result or effect. 利用; 發揮[書麪]
Few found jobs in which they could make use of their new skills. 幾乎無人找得到能發揮自己新技能的工作。
11. PHRASE If you say it's no use, you mean that you have failed to do something and realize that it is useless to continue trying because it is impossible. 沒有用; 不奏傚
It's no use. Let's hang up and try for a better line. 沒用。我們掛斷電話試打更好的線路吧。
12. PHRASE If something or someone is of use, they are useful. If they are no use, they are not at all useful. 有用/無用
The contents of this booklet should be of use to all students. 這本小冊子的內容應該對所有的學生都有用。
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use /juːz/ (using,used,uses)
NOUN USES