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By naming her fears and facing them head-on, Leah gained confidence.
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One of the creatures made a dramatic appearance by moving on to the head of the team leader as he slept.
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The federal Head Start program, launched 50 years ago, has served more than 30 million children.
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The wallet is heading for extinction.
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The little boy walked out of the school with his head and shoulders hanging down.
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Dr.Carson was headed down a path of self-destruction until a critical?moment in his youth.
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Those are not the most encouraging words to hear just before eating lunch at one of Hong Kong's smartest British restaurants, Alfie's by KEE, but head chef Neil Tomes has more to say.
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Singaporean head chef Tommy Teh Kum Chai offers daily specials on a blackboard, rather than sticking to a menu
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Every one of them instinctively heads to the park or the river.
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State your problem to the head waiter.
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"It's been postponed until 2017," says Anna Somers, the founder and CEO of The Art Newspaper and the former head of Venice in Peril, a group devoted to restoring Venetian art.
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"It's been postponed until 2018," says Anna Somers, the founder and CEO of The Art Newspaper and the former head of Venice in Peril, a group devoted to restoring Venetian art.
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"We realized in the mid-1970s that it was missing," says Effie Kapsalis, head of the Smithsonian Institution Archives.
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And this week, dozens of those students are getting ready to head out to Nashville, Tennessee to compete with about 5000 other young people at the Super Nationals of Chess.
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By 1905, cars began to look like cars of today, with head lamps, windscreen, rubber tyres and number plates.
2016年6月四級真題(第一套)聽力 Section C
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She said her grandmother reckoned you had to shave your head to get it out.
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The former head of the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, which oversees heritage sites, is Francesco Bandarin, a Venetian who now serves as UNESCO' assistant director- general for culture.
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The challenge is if certain types of people are doing something, it's difficult for other people to break into it, said Po-Shen Loh, the head coach of last year's winning U.S.Math Olympiad team.
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After the high-pressure Countdown round at this year's national MathCounts competition, in which the top 12 students went head to head solving complex problems in rapid fire, the finalists for the Math Video Challenge took the stage to show their videos.
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What can be done about mass unemployment? All the wise heads agree: there're no quick or easy answers.
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The wise heads' benefit package.
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And the head-to-head competition might give them a strong incentive to lower their prices, perhaps by accepting slimmer profit margins or demanding better deals from providers.
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We tend to equate(等同于)happiness with freedom, but, as the psychotherapist and writer Adam Phillips has observed, without obstacles to our desires it's harder to know what we want, or where we're heading.
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And if you don't want to do it yourself, head to Aisle 23 or Aisle 35, where a help desk will arrange for an installer.
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Comparing 1929 with 2007-09, Christina Romer, the head of President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers, finds the initial blow to confidence far greater now than then
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Workers were not allowed to use the phone or send e-mail, but simply had the chance to clear their heads and to hear themselves think.
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John Sergent, head of Vanderbilt University Medical School's residency (住院醫生) program, enrolled in Vanderbilt's undergraduate college in 1959.
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As Santiago de la Mora, head of Google Books for Europe, puts it: "By making it possible to search the millions of books that exist today, we hope?to expand the frontiers of human knowledge.
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In a recent essay in the?New York Review of Books,?Robert Darn ton, the head of Harvard University's library, argued that because such books are a common resource – the possession of us all – only public, not-for-profit bodies should be given the power to control them
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To achieve a desired vision for your business, it is vital that you have a personal vision of where you are headed and what you value.
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John Rother, the AARP's head of policy and strategy, points to studies showing that other things being equal, people who remain at work have lower death rates than their retired peers.
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It takes a certain type of person who will bang his head against the wall because you believe you'll find the solution
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They had titles like Young vs Old, Gray Dawn and The Coming Generational Storm, and their message was blunt: health-care systems were heading for the rocks, pensioners were taking young people to the cleaners, and soon there would be intergenerational warfare.
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Obama's success isn't all good news for black Americans As Erin White watched the election results head towards victory for Barack Obama, she felt a burden lifting from her shoulders
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Every year in the late summer, monarch begin their migration to the south, those heading for Mexico go first for the Louisiana Mississippi region.
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And now, if you'll walk this way, ladies and gentlemen, the next room we're going to see is the room in which the family used to hold their formal dinner parties and even occasionally entertain heads of state and royalty.
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It was frequently visited by heads of state
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The head technician in the lab tried to persuade the hospital administration to replace it, but they are trying to cut costs.
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Decisions made by the head technician
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Do you take an opening position in a negotiation which differs from the eventual goal you are heading for?
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Raise their heads above the water.
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After the high-pressure Countdown round at this year's national Math Counts competition, in which the top 12 students went head to head solving complex problems in rapid fire, the finalists for the Math video Challenge took the stage to show their videos.
2017年6月六級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section B
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Every summer when I top up my selection of summer outfits from the department stores, my eyes would nearly pop out of my head.
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If you've ever started a sentence with, "If I were you…" or found yourself scratching your head at a colleague's agony over a decision when the answer is crystal-clear, there's a scientific reason behind it.
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In a few short years, he turned the magazine on its head.
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In some cases, says data scientist Karthik Ram, it may be difficult for junior researchers to embrace openness when senior colleagues—many of whom head selection and promotion committees—might ridicule what they may view as misplaced energies.
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Last summer, Massachusetts grass-fed beef advocate John Smith launched Big Picture Beef, a network of small grass-fed beef farms in New England and New York that is projected to bring to market 2,500 head of cattle from 125 producers this year.
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Or head out to the mall, or Main Street, look and shop, and buy.
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N-COUNT
(人的)頭,頭部
Your head is the top part of your body, which has your eyes, mouth, and brain in it.
例句
She turned her head away from him...
她把頭別過去,不再看他。
He took a puff on his pipe and shook his head.
他抽了口煙斗,搖了搖頭。
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頭腦;心智;才智
You can use head to refer to your mind and your mental abilities.
例句
I can't get that song out of my head.
那首歌在我腦海中揮之不去。
...an exceptional analyst who could do complex maths in his head.
會心算復雜數學題的杰出分析家
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N-SING
(隊伍中的)領頭位置;隊首;排頭
The head of a line of people or vehicles is the front of it, or the first person or vehicle in the line.
例句
...the head of the queue...
隊首
We took our place at the head of the convoy.
我們排在護送隊伍的最前面。
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VERB
排在(隊列等)的最前面
If someone or something heads a line or procession, they are at the front of it.
例句
The parson, heading the procession, had just turned right towards the churchyard.
走在行進隊伍最前面的教區牧師剛剛向右轉彎,朝著教堂墓地走去。
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VERB
居…之首;在…名列首位
If something heads a list or group, it is at the top of it.
例句
Running a business heads the list of ambitions among the 1,000 people interviewed by Good Housekeeping magazine.
在《好管家》雜志采訪過的1,000人中,創立自己的公司在理想抱負中列在首位。
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N-SING
頂部;上端
The head of something is the highest or top part of it.
例句
...the head of the stairs...
樓梯的頂部
Every day a different name was placed at the head of the chart.
每天都有一個不同的名字被列在這張表的最上端。
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(細長物體的)頭部,頂端
The head of something long and thin is the end which is wider than or a different shape from the rest, and which is often considered to be the most important part.
例句
There should be no exposed screw heads...
螺釘頂端不應該外露。
Keep the head of the club the same height throughout the swing.
整個揮桿過程中要使桿頭始終保持在同一高度。
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(中小學的)校長
The head of a school is the teacher who is in charge.
例句
She is full of admiration for the head and teachers.
她對校長和教師們滿心欽佩。
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(公司、組織的)負責人,領導人,首腦,長,主任
The head of a company or organization is the person in charge of it and in charge of the people in it.
例句
Heads of government from more than 100 countries gather in Geneva tomorrow.
來自100多個國家的政府首腦明日將齊聚日內瓦。
...the head waiter.
侍者領班
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VERB
掌管;主管;負責
If you head a department, company, or organization, you are the person in charge of it.
例句
...Michael Williams, who heads the department's Office of Civil Rights.
負責該部民權處的邁克爾·威廉斯
...the ruling Socialist Party, headed by Dr Franz Vranitzky.
由弗朗茲·弗拉尼茲基博士領導的執政社會黨
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膿頭
The head of an infected spot is its white or yellow centre.
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(啤酒表層的)泡沫;酒頭
The head on a glass of beer is the layer of small bubbles that form on the top of the beer.
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(表示牲畜的數目)頭
You can use head to say how many animals of a particular type a farmer has. For example, if they have fifty head of cattle, they have fifty cows.
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頭痛
If you have a bad head, you have a headache.
例句
I had a terrible head and was extraordinarily drunk.
我頭很痛,已經酩酊大醉。
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ADV
(硬幣的)有人頭像的一面,正面
If you toss a coin and it comes down heads, you can see the side of the coin which has a picture of a head on it.
例句
'We might toss up for it,' suggested Ted. 'If it's heads, then we'll talk.'...
“我們可以擲硬幣來決定。”特德建議道,“如果是正面,我們就談談。”
Heads or tails?
你猜是正面還是反面?
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VERB
朝著(某一地點)行進(美國英語中亦作 are headed)
If you are heading for a particular place, you are going towards that place. In American English, you can also say that you are headed for a particular place.
例句
He headed for the bus stop...
他朝著公共汽車站走去。
...an Iraqi vessel heading for the port of Basra...
開往巴士拉港的一艘伊拉克船
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VERB
很可能要遭受,會招致(美國英語中亦作 is headed for)
If something or someone is heading for a particular result, the situation they are in is developing in a way that makes that result very likely. In American English, you can also say that something or someone is headed for a particular result.
例句
The latest talks aimed at ending the civil war appear to be heading for deadlock...
為結束內戰而進行的最新談判好像要陷入僵局。
He said anyone giving orders without respecting the wishes of his people is heading for disaster...
他說任何不尊重人民意愿而發號施令的人都注定會走向滅亡。
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VERB
標題為
If a piece of writing is headed a particular title, it has that title written at the beginning of it.
例句
One chapter is headed, 'Beating the Test'.
有一章的標題為“戰勝考試”。
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VERB
(足球比賽中)用頭頂(球)
If you head a ball in football, you hit it with your head in order to make it go in a particular direction.
例句
He headed the ball across the face of the goal.
他一個頭球,球從球門前橫飛而過。
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PHRASE
每人/人均
You use a head or per head after stating a cost or amount in order to indicate that that cost or amount is for each person in a particular group.
例句
This simple chicken dish costs less than £1 a head...
這道簡單的雞肉菜肴每人的花費還不到1英鎊。
Ethiopia, for instance uses the equivalent of just twenty kilos of oil per head a year.
比如說,埃塞俄比亞每年的人均消費支出僅相當于20公斤的石油。
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PHRASE
讓人生氣;讓人沮喪
If something or someone does your head in, they make you angry or frustrated.
例句
Living with my parents is doing my head in.
和父母住在一起讓我很沮喪。
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PHRASE
從頭到腳;全身
From head to foot means all over your body.
例句
Colin had been put into a bath and been scrubbed from head to foot.
科林被放進浴缸,從頭到腳仔仔細細洗了個干凈。
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PHRASE
擅長
If you have a head for something, you can deal with it easily. For example, if you have a head for figures, you can do arithmetic easily, and if you have a head for heights, you can climb to a great height without feeling afraid.
例句
I don't have a head for business.
我沒有生意頭腦。
...an extraordinarily effective organiser with a remarkable head for figures.
很有算術頭腦、工作效率極高的組織者
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PHRASE
充分理解并接受;打定(主意)
If you get a fact or idea into your head, you suddenly realize or think that it is true and you usually do not change your opinion about it.
例句
Once they get an idea into their heads, they never give up.
一旦接受了一個想法,他們就永遠不會放棄。
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PHRASE
終于明白
If you say that someone has got something into their head, you mean that they have finally understood or accepted it, and you are usually criticizing them because it has taken them a long time to do this.
例句
Managers have at last got it into their heads that they can no longer accept inefficient operations.
管理者們終于意識到自己不能再安于低效率的運營了。
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PHRASE
讓…自由行動;對…不加約束
If you give someone their head, you allow them to do what they want to do, without trying to advise or stop them.
例句
He recognised ability and gave people their heads.
他發現別人的才能,并且讓他們自由發揮。
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PHRASE
(酒)使人感到醉,上頭
If alcoholic drink goes to your head, it makes you feel drunk.
例句
That wine was strong, it went to your head.
那酒勁兒很大,喝了會上頭。
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PHRASE
(贊揚或成功)沖昏…的頭腦,使…驕傲自滿
If you say that something such as praise or success goes to someone's head, you are criticizing them because you think that it makes them too proud or confident.
例句
Ford is definitely not a man to let a little success go to his head.
福特絕對不是那種會被一點點成功沖昏頭腦的人。
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PHRASE
深陷情網
If you are head over heels or head over heels in love, you are very much in love.
例句
I was very attracted to men and fell head over heels many times.
我很容易被男性吸引,曾多次深陷情網。
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PHRASE
保持鎮靜/張皇失措
If you keep your head, you remain calm in a difficult situation. If you lose your head, you panic or do not remain calm in a difficult situation.
例句
She was able to keep her head and not panic...
她設法保持鎮靜,沒有陷入恐慌。
She lost her head and started screaming at me.
她驚慌失措,開始向我大聲尖叫。
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PHRASE
停止;結束
If you knock something on the head, you stop it.
例句
When we stop enjoying ourselves we'll knock it on the head.
等玩夠了,我們就會結束。
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PHRASE
(表示強調)大笑/大聲尖叫
Phrases such as laugh your head off and scream your head off can be used to emphasize that someone is laughing or screaming a lot or very loudly.
例句
He carried on telling a joke, laughing his head off.
他繼續講笑話,自己笑得前仰后合。
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PHRASE
(吸毒后)昏頭昏腦的,神志不清的
If you say that someone is off their head, you mean that they have taken so many drugs that they do not know what they are doing.
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PHRASE
昏了頭的;愚蠢的
If you say that someone is off their head, you think that their ideas or behaviour are very strange, foolish, or dangerous.
例句
He's gone completely off his head.
他已經完全昏了頭了。
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PHRASE
倒過來想;從全新的角度理解
If you stand an idea or argument on its head or turn it on its head, you think about it or treat it in a completely new and different way.
例句
Their relationship turned the standard notion of marriage on its head.
他們的關系完全顛覆了傳統的婚姻觀念。
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PHRASE
超過…的理解力
If something such as an idea, joke, or comment goes over someone's head, it is too difficult for them to understand.
例句
I admit that a lot of the ideas went way over my head.
我承認那些想法中有很多遠遠超出了我的理解力。
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PHRASE
未與…商量地;(尤指)越級
If someone does something over another person's head, they do it without asking them or discussing it with them, especially when they should do so because the other person is in a position of authority.
例句
He was reprimanded for trying to go over the heads of senior officers.
他因試圖越過高層官員自作主張而受到斥責。
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PHRASE
(不好的事情)再次出現,重新抬頭
If you say that something unpleasant or embarrassing rears its ugly head or raises its ugly head, you mean that it occurs, often after not occurring for some time.
例句
There was a problem which reared its ugly head about a week after she moved back in...
她搬回來大約一周之后,一個問題又重新出現了。
The scourge of racial tyranny should never again be allowed to raise its ugly head.
永遠不能讓種族主義暴政的禍患重新抬頭。
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PHRASE
倒立;豎蜻蜓
If you stand on your head, you balance upside down with the top of your head and your hands on the ground.
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PHRASE
理解;弄明白
If you say that you cannot make head nor tail of something or you cannot make head or tail of it, you are emphasizing that you cannot understand it at all.
例句
I couldn't make head nor tail of the damn film.
這部該死的影片我一點兒都看不懂。
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PHRASE
突然決定(做某事,尤指古怪或愚蠢的事);心血來潮
If somebody takes it into their head to do something, especially something strange or foolish, they suddenly decide to do it.
例句
He suddenly took it into his head to go out to Australia to stay with his son.
他突然心血來潮,打算去澳大利亞和兒子一起住。
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PHRASE
到了危急關頭;到達關鍵點
If a problem or disagreement comes to a head or is brought to a head, it becomes so bad that something must be done about it.
例句
These problems came to a head in September when five of the station's journalists were sacked.
這些問題在9月變得十分尖銳,當時該臺有5名記者遭到辭退。
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PHRASE
嚴厲訓斥
If you bang peoples' heads together or knock their heads together, you tell them off severely for doing something wrong or for not doing something they were asked to do.
例句
It is now high time he banged his colleagues' heads together.
現在該是他敲打敲打同事們的時候了。
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PHRASE
集體商討;集思廣益
If two or more people put their heads together, they talk about a problem they have and try to solve it.
例句
So everyone put their heads together and eventually an amicable arrangement was reached.
因此大家集思廣益,最終作出了妥善的安排。
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PHRASE
(尤指在生意方面)勉強逃脫困境
If you keep your head above water, you just avoid getting into difficulties; used especially to talk about business.
例句
We are keeping our head above water, but our cash flow position is not too good.
我們正努力避免陷入困境,但我們的現金流動情況不太好。
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PHRASE
有人會遭殃,有人會(因此)受到懲罰(尤指被解雇)
If you say that heads will roll as a result of something bad that has happened, you mean that people will be punished for it, especially by losing their jobs.
例句
The group's problems have led to speculation that heads will roll.
已經有人猜測,該集團的問題會導致一些人被解雇。
Noun
1. the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains;
"he stuck his head out the window"2. a single domestic animal;
"200 head of cattle"3. that which is responsible for one's thoughts and feelings; the seat of the faculty of reason;
"his mind wandered""I couldn't get his words out of my head"4. a person who is in charge;
"the head of the whole operation"5. the front of a military formation or procession;
"the head of the column advanced boldly""they were at the head of the attack"6. the pressure exerted by a fluid;
"a head of steam"7. the top of something;
"the head of the stairs""the head of the page""the head of the list"8. the source of water from which a stream arises;
"they tracked him back toward the head of the stream"9. (grammar) the word in a grammatical constituent that plays the same grammatical role as the whole constituent
10. the tip of an abscess (where the pus accumulates)
11. the length or height based on the size of a human or animal head;
"he is two heads taller than his little sister""his horse won by a head"12. a dense clusters of flowers or foliage;
"a head of cauliflower""a head of lettuce"13. the educator who has executive authority for a school;
"she sent unruly pupils to see the principal"14. an individual person;
"tickets are $5 per head"15. a user of (usually soft) drugs;
"the office was full of secret heads"16. a rounded compact mass;
"the head of a comet"17. the foam or froth that accumulates at the top when you pour an effervescent liquid into a container;
"the beer had a large head of foam"18. the part in the front or nearest the viewer;
"he was in the forefront""he was at the head of the column"19. a difficult juncture;
"a pretty pass""matters came to a head yesterday"20. forward movement;
"the ship made little headway against the gale"21. a V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer;
"the point of the arrow was due north"22. the subject matter at issue;
"the question of disease merits serious discussion""under the head of minor Roman poets"23. a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about;
"the heading seemed to have little to do with the text"24. the rounded end of a bone that bits into a rounded cavity in another bone to form a joint;
"the head of the humerus"25. that part of a skeletal muscle that is away from the bone that it moves
26. (computer science) a tiny electromagnetic coil and metal pole used to write and read magnetic patterns on a disk
27. (usually plural) an obverse side of a coin that bears the representation of a person's head;
"call heads or tails!"28. the striking part of a tool;
"the head of the hammer"29. (nautical) a toilet on board a boat or ship
30. a projection out from one end;
"the head of the nail", "a pinhead is the head of a pin"31. a membrane that is stretched taut over a drum
32. oral-genital stimulation;
"they say he gives good head"Verb
1. to go or travel towards;
"where is she heading""We were headed for the mountains"2. be in charge of;
"Who is heading this project?"3. travel in front of; go in advance of others;
"The procession was headed by John"4. be the first or leading member of (a group) and excel;
"This student heads the class"5. direct the course; determine the direction of travelling
6. take its rise;
"These rivers head from a mountain range in the Himalayas"7. be in the front of or on top of;
"The list was headed by the name of the president"8. form a head or come or grow to a head;
"The wheat headed early this year"9. remove the head of;
"head the fish"