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释义

prep. 关于；大约

adj. 在附近的；四处走动的；在起作用的

adv. 大约；周围；到处

n. 大致；粗枝大叶；不拘小节的人

n. (About)人名；(法)阿布

近义词

upon

中文词源

about 大约

来自古英语onbutan, a- 同on , -b同by, -ut为out词根。字面意思为在外面的,后指大约。

英文词源

about: about: [OE] About in Old English times meant ‘around the outside of’; it did not develop its commonest present-day meaning, ‘concerning’, until the 13th century. In its earliest incarnation it was onbūtan, a compound made up of on and būtan ‘outside’ (this is the same word as modern English but, which was itself originally a compound, formed from the ancestors of by and out – so broken down into its ultimate constituents, about is on by out).
=> but, by, out
about (adv.): Old English abutan, earlier onbutan "on the outside of," from on (see on; also see a- (1)) + be "by" (see by) + utan "outside," from ut (see out (adv.)). By 13c. it had forced out Old English ymbe, ymbutan for meaning "in the neighborhood of." Abouts, with adverbial genitive, still found in hereabouts, etc., probably is a northern dialectal form. About face as a military command (short for right about face) is first attested 1861, American English.

双语例句

1. No matter where you go in life or how old you get, there's always something new to learn about. After all, life is full of surprises.: 不管你生活在哪里，你有多少岁，总有新东西要学习，毕竟，生活总是充满惊喜。

2. Instead of complaining about what's wrong, be grateful for what's right.: 别抱怨不好的事，要对好的事心存感恩。

3. If you're not satisfied with the life you're living, don't just complain. Do something about it.: 对于现况的不满，不能只是抱怨，要有勇气作出改变。

4. It's not about making the amazing saves. It's the little things and small things that made great gatekeepers great.: 伟大的门将不是靠神奇的扑救成就，而是靠注重小事和细节成功。（Tim Howard美国国家队门将）

5. Doctors are complaining about being barraged by drug-company salesmen.: 医生们抱怨他们疲于应付医药公司的销售人员。

英英释意

1. on the move;: "up and about"; "the whole town was astir over the incident"

实用场景例句

The children were rushing about in the garden.: 孩子们在花园里跑来跑去。

Her books were lying about on the floor.: 她的书在地板上东一本西一本地放着。

People were standing about in the road.: 人们在路上闲站着。

There was nobody about.: 附近没有人。

There's a lot of flu about.: 这一带流感肆虐。

It costs about $10.: 这大约要花10元钱。

They waited (for) about an hour.: 他们等了一小时左右。

He arrived (at) about ten.: 他是十点钟左右到的。

I'm just about ready.: 我就要准备好了。

This is about the best we can hope for.: 这差不多是我们所能希望的最好结果。

She came in for a coffee, and told me about her friend Shona...: 她进来喝了杯咖啡，并向我谈起了她的朋友肖纳。

She knew a lot about food...: 她对食物很在行。

Leadership is about the ability to implement change.: 领导才能就是要有实施变革的能力。

'I'm sorry about Patrick,' she said...: “我为帕特里克感到难过，”她说。

I feel so guilty and angry about the whole issue.: 我对整件事深感内疚和气愤。

Rachel was going to do something about Jacob...: 蕾切尔将对雅各布有所行动。

He said he'd ask Nina for a divorce, but he never did anything about it.: 他说会跟尼娜提出离婚，可是他却从未付诸实际。

There was a warmth and passion about him I never knew existed...: 他身上有一股我从不知道的热情和激情。

I think there's something a little peculiar about the results of your test.: 我认为你的化验结果有点不对劲。

In my local health centre there's about forty parking spaces...: 我们本地的保健中心约有40个停车位。

The rate of inflation is running at about 2.7 percent.: 通货膨胀率大约为2.7%。

Everyone was running about.: 大家都在跑来跑去。

Helen threw her arms about him...: 海伦张开双臂拥抱他。

She was elegantly dressed with a double strand of pearls about her neck.: 她着装典雅，搭配着一条双层珍珠项链。

There's lots of money about these days for schemes like this.: 近来这类计划资金充足。

I think he's about to leave...: 我看他要走了。

Argentina has lifted all restrictions on trade and visas are about to be abolished...: 阿根廷已经取消所有贸易限制，签证制也将废止。

Despite considerable pain she has been getting out and about almost as normal...: 尽管还很痛，她已经基本上行动如常。

The regulations were relaxed and the prisoners could get out and about a bit.: 规定有所放宽，犯人可以出去短暂放风。

They often saw me out and about.: 他们经常看见我四处奔波。

考试真题

They are particular about the quality of toilet paper.

There's something about their delicate nature that appeals to me, says New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast.

The least that can be concluded from this research is that companies need to think harder about managing teams.

Six months out, more people who had quit abruptly had stuck with it—more than one-fifth of them, compared to about one-seventh in the other group.

One had to quit abruptly on a given day, going from about a pack a day to zero.

Not everyone with a tendency to fantasise will develop HSAM, though, so Patihis suggests that something must have caused them to think so much about their past.

Leah reflects on a time she listened to the whispers: About the time my daughter was five years old, I started having a sense that ‘this isn't right.

It's not about that; it's about growth for me.

I could tell you everything about every day after that.

Either way, we have choices about how we respond to it when it comes.

Could he help explain her experiences?McGaugh invited her to his lab, and began to test her: he would give her a date and ask her to tell him about the world events on that day.

By studying about 700 adult smokers, she found out that her mom quit the right way—by stopping abruptly and completely.

Almost half of those surveyed said their companies were either in the middle of restructuring or about to embark on ( ' , 开始) it; and for the most part, restructuring meant putting more emphasis on teams.

Wild carrots probably evolved with the other flowering plants about 360 million years ago.

Whenever she called her parents or other relatives, she always had to think about the time difference so that she wouldn’t wake someone up or call when she knew they were at church.

We were beginning to be adventurous about food, but we were more interested in meeting people than in eating or drinking.

Soon however, Katherine found herself comparing herself with the people she was reading about on Facebook.

She loved learning about the success of people she knew when she was just a teenager.

Another thing Katherine loved about Facebook was that she didn’t have to think about time zones when updating family.

may be better at solving puzzlescan memorize things with more easemay have greater facility in abstract reasoningcan put what they have learnt into more effective usefind ways to slow down our mental declinefind ways to boost our memoriesunderstand the complex process of mental functioningunderstand the relation between physical and mental healthThe most important thing in the news last week was the rising discussion in Nashville about the educational needs of children.

Worry only about things that you can control.

What does the author say about pre-kindergarten education?It should cater to the needs of individual children.

What about supply? The three environmental trends—the shortage of fresh water, the loss of topsoil and the rising temperatures—are making it increasingly hard to expand the world's grain supply fast enough to keep up with demand.

We all have our own ideas about what would bring our parents happiness.

There is nothing new about the four objectives.

The results do not mean that young adults need to start worrying about their memories.

The nice thing about ancient philosophy as offered by the Greeks is that they tended to see life clear and whole, in a way that we tend not to see life today.

The concept has multiple forms, and scholars and policymakers argue about the shape, scope and cost of the ideal program.

The Greeks are always concerned about boxing themselves in, in terms of convictions ( ' , 信念 ), he says.

Stop worrying about what you can not controlAs we begin to examine our life, Soupios says, we come to Rule No.

So, Soupios explains, it is not worth it to waste our physical, intellectual and spiritual energy worrying about things that are beyond our control.

So what Epictetus would say is sitting at home worrying about that would be wrong and wasteful and irrational.

So take a step back, switch off the automatic pilot and actually stop and reflect about things like our priorities, our values, and our relationships.

Scholars and policymakers have different opinions about it.

Researchers from the University of Connecticut Health Center asked the residents a large number of questions about their quality of life, emotional well-being and social interaction, as well as about the quality of the facilities.

Michael Soupios suggests that we should stop and think carefully about our priorities in lifeAncient philosophers strongly advise that we do good.

If we humans aren't quite sure about a decision, we go and ask somebody else.

I am not talking about the quality of care, let me hastily add.

I am about to make things more complicated by suggesting that what kind of facility an older person lives in may matter less than we have assumed.

Long queues, delayed flights and over - crowding at airports have become almost as much a topic for conversation in Britain as the traditional complaining about the weather.

I don’t know about perfecting but they want at least to be able to communicate decently.

How can they go about this? OK, Nathan, so we are talking about driving.

Why do some students give up when they encounter difficulty, whereas others who are no more skilled continue to strive and learn? One answer, I soon discovered, lay in people's beliefs about why they had failed.

What makes a game game-like is that the player -108- actually cares about the outcome, Werbach says.

We then assessed their beliefs about other aspects of learning and looked to see what happened to their grades.

The students who held a fixed mind-set, however, were concerned about looking smart with less regard for learning.

The secret to eating less and being happy about it may have been cracked years ago—by McDonald's.

The principle is about understanding what is motivating to this group of players, which requires some understanding of psychology.

The author conducted an experiment to find out about the influence of students' mind-sets on math learning.

That approach will eliminate most cord-cutting concerns—but what about their wireless equivalent, jamming? With the right device tuned to the right frequency, what's to stop a thief from jamming your setup and blocking that alert signal from ever reaching the base station?Jamming concerns are nothing new, and they're not unique to security systems.

Students' belief about the cause of their failure explains their attitude toward setbacks.

So it isn't surprising that you'll find plenty of strong opinions about the potential vulnerabilities of popular home-security systems.

Recently I attended several meetings where we talked about ways to retain students and keep younger faculty members from going elsewhere.

People now care more about quality than quantity.

Informing students about the brain as a learning machine is a good strategy to enhance their motivation for learning.

If you have a sign in your yard declaring what setup you use, that'd point them in the right direction, though at that point, we're talking about a highly targeted, semi-sophisticated attack, and not the sort of forced-entry attack that makes up the majority of burglaries.

If we are designing for engineers, I'm not talking about a ‘game' at all, Cornetti says.

I'm talking about a ‘simulation（' 模拟), I'm talking about ‘being able to solve this problem.

How do we transmit a growth mind-set to our children? One way is by telling stories about achievements that result from hard work.

Government legislation about models' weight.

Gamification is about understanding what it is that makes games engaging and what game designers do to create a great experience in games, and taking those learnings and applying them to other contexts such as the workplace and education, explains Kevin Werbach, a gamification expert who teaches at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania in the United States.

Forty-eight of the students received instruction in study skills only, whereas the others attended a combination of study skills sessions and classes in which they learned about the growth mind-set and how to apply it to schoolwork.

For instance, talking about mathematical geniuses who were more or less born that way puts students in a fixed mind-set, but descriptions of great mathematicians who fell in love with math and developed amazing skills produce a growth mind-set.

But the word gamification and the widespread, conscious application of the concept only began in earnest about five years ago, Werbach says.

At the beginning of seventh grade, we assessed the students' mind-sets by asking them to agree or disagree with statements such as Your intelligence is something very basic about you that you can't really change.

As a person who writes about food and drink for a living, I couldn't tell you the first thing about Bill Perry or whether the beers he sells are that great.

And Record and Austin are worried not just about the models themselves, but about the vast number of girls and women their images influence.

The U.S. Postal Service announced today that it is considering closing about 3,700 post offices over the next year because of falling revenues.

Our topic today is about something that foreigners nearly always say when they visit Britain.

On Sunday, the castle’s owner John Gordon, 76, was forced to move out his property after the River Dee swept away about 60 feet of land, leaving the castle dangerously close to the river, according to the Scottish Daily Record.

It’s: why are the British so cold? And they’re talking about the British personality—the famous British reserve.

It produces about two million tons of salt that is shipped to more than 1,500 places in the northeastern United States.

He estimated that about 3,000 postmasters, 500 station managers and between 500 and 1,000 postal clerks couldlose their jobs.

Details about what led to the workers’ being trapped in the elevator weren’t immediately available.

What, then, are the effects of thinking about time in these different ways? Does one make us more productive? Better at the tasks at hand? Happier? In experiments conducted by Tamar Avnet and Anne-Laure Sellier, they had participants organize different activities—from project planning, holiday shopping, to yoga—by time or to-do list to measure how they performed under clock time vs task time.

What bothers me about the death of the wallet is the change it represents in our physical environment.

To find out the truth about an issue.

There's nothing mysterious about cooking the evening meal.

There have been half-hearted but well-publicized efforts by some food companies to reduce calories in their processed foods, but the Standard American Diet is still the polar opposite of the healthy, mostly plant-based diet that just about every expert says we should be eating.

The intimate nature of genuine criticism implies something about who is able to give it, namely, someone who knows you well enough to show you how your mental life is getting in the way of good writing.

Shouldn't preparing—and consuming—food be a source of comfort, pride, health, well-being, relaxation, sociability? Something that connects us to other humans? Why would we want to outsource ( ' , 外包 ) this basic task, especially when outsourcing it is so harmful? When I talk about cooking, I'm not talking about creating elaborate dinner parties or three-day science projects.

She cared about me, and my intellectual life, even when I didn't.

Russians, for example, began to wake up about a half-hour later each day after President Vladimir Putin shifted the country permanently to winter time starting on October 26.

It may make you feel uncertain about your own decisions.

Isn't this the same crowd that rails against processed junk and champions craft cooking? And isn't this the generation who say they're concerned about their health and the well-being of the planet? If these are truly the values of many young people, then their behavior doesn't match their beliefs.

I'm talking about simple, easy, everyday meals.

Everything about the look and feel of a wallet—the way the fastenings and materials wear and tear and loosen with age, the plastic and paper and gold and silver, and handwritten phone numbers and printed cinema tickets—is the very opposite of what our world is becoming.

Could you reproduce Silicon Valley elsewhere, or is there something unique about it?It wouldn't be surprising if it were hard to reproduce in other countries, because you couldn't reproduce it in most of the US either.

Cooking real food is the best defense—not to mention that any meal you're likely to eat at home contains about 200 fewer calories than one you would eat in a restaurant.

But, in the years that followed, her sustained tutoring suggested that Kafka might be wrong about the solitude.

But what I learned, and what stuck with me through my time teaching writing at Harvard, was a deeper lesson about the nature of creative criticism.

But perhaps I missed something important in my mother's lessons about creativity and perfection.

At the time, I am sure she thought she was teaching me about mechanics, transitions ( ' , 过渡 ), structure, style and voice.

Adults tend to talk about learning as if it were medicine: unpleasant, but necessary and good for you.

Abundant information about cooking is available either online or on TV.

A look at what goes on in most classrooms these days makes it abundantly clear that when people think about education, they are not thinking about what it feels like to be a child, or what makes childhood an important and valuable stage of life in its own right.

My mother's criticism had shown me that Kafka is right about the cold abyss, and when you make the introspective ( ' , 内省的 ) descent that writing requires you are not always pleased by what you find.

Today, there is a serious question about this issue: Should there be a minimum age limit for executing criminals? In other words, is it right for convicted murderers who kill when they are minors—that is under the age of 18—to receive the death penalty?.

They asked, Was it as good as American beef? It was very exciting for me to be on Japanese TV, speaking in Japanese about how delicious the beef was.

The blasthit a bus about to set off for the Ugandan capital Kampala.

While rich parents are more concerned with their children's psychological well-being, poor parents are more worried about their children's safety.

Wealthy parents are concerned about their children's mental health and busy schedules.

They are more worried about their children being depressed or anxious.

They are more likely to grow up in neighborhoods that their parents say aren't great for raising children, and their parents worry about them getting shot, beaten up or in trouble with the law.

These math circles cost nothing, or they're very cheap for students to get involved in, but you have to know about them, said Rusczyk.

There are usually two parents, who spend a lot of time reading to children and worrying about their anxiety levels and hectic schedules.

The state officials are confident about the outsourcing plan.

The advent of new technologies has added about 4.

Teachers in low-income urban and rural areas with no history of participating in math competitions may not know about advanced-math opportunities like MathCounts—and those who do may not have support or feel trained to lead them.

Only about 50 students are invited based on their performance on written tests and at the USA Math Olympiad.

Most American parents say they are not concerned about their children's grades as long as they work hard.

For example, one of the most popular data sets on multidisciplinary repository Dryad is about wood density around the world; it has been downloaded 5,700 times.

Another influential feeder for advanced-math students is an online school called Art of Problem Solving, which began about 13 years ago and now has 15,000 users.

And we don't know about the long-term consequences.

About 80% of our company's year-over-year declines in comparable sales can be attributed to shortfalls ( ' , 短缺) in cold-weather goods, said chief executive Terry Lundgren in a press release.

About 250 students so far have gone through the program, which receives funding from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation.

About 100,000 students around the country participate in the program's competition series, which culminates in a national game-show-style contest held each May.

You will hear more and more about migration between countries and between rural areas and cities.

With us to talk about the findings in this study is Washington Post columnist Kevin Blackistone.

Well, my current research is really about consumer behaviour.

Retailers make the most money this time of a year, about 20 to 30 percent of annual revenue.

John, tell us about the first survey.

In fact, you may have heard about the new superbugs, which are antibiotic-resistant bacteria that have developed as a result of overprescribed antibiotics.

I think about some of the students who took advantages of their opportunities in a university.

I remember talking with a young lawyer who was about to begin her first jury trial.

Hello, today I’m going to talk about poverty.

About 183.8 million people will shop on Cyber Monday, the first Monday after Thanksgiving.

About 136 million people will shop during the Thanksgiving Holiday weekend.

What can be done about mass unemployment? All the wise heads agree: there're no quick or easy answers.

Today's teenagers admire their parents and welcome parental guidance about important matters such as career choice—though certainly not Mom and Dad's advice on matters of personal taste, such as music or fashion.

This is really about trying to cut through the confusion that consumers have when they are buying a product and that businesses have when they are selling a product, said Jon Leibowitz, chairman of the commission.

They have doubt about current green certification.

The average Norwegian is better off than the average US citizen, but contributes about half as much to climate change.

Some young people like to keep something to themselves and don't want their parents to know about it.

Perhaps there is less to fight about, with the country in a period of tranquility and the dangers of drug abuse and other unwholesome behavior well known.

One prevalent quality we have found in teens' statements about themselves, their friends and their families is a strikingly positive emotional tone.

One of the pioneers of a radical new way of thinking about the kitchen was Catharine Esther Beecher, sister of Harriet Beecher Stowe.

Many contemporary ideas about kitchen design can be traced back to another American, Christine Frederick, who set about enhancing the efficiency of the housewife.

Magna, an advertising agency, reckons it will be worth about $138 million this year.

It's not just about education, but about poverty and justice.

It had, apparently, been fished out of existence; and the once mighty Newfoundland fleet now gropes about frantically for crab on the sea floor.

Interviews with students find many of them are only concerned about personal matters.

I've been looking at what self-proclaimed experts were saying about unemployment during the Great Depression; it was almost identical to what Very Serious People are saying now.

For almost five centuries a very large supply of cod ( ' , 鳕鱼) provided abundant raw material for an industry which at its peak employed about 40,000 people, sustaining entire communities in Newfoundland.

Enrollees would have to pay more money for many services out of their own pockets, and that would encourage them to think twice about whether an expensive or redundant test was worth it.

But missing from all these data is the sense that today's young care very much about their country, about the broader civic and political environment, or about the future of their society.

And that, fundamentally, is why claims that we face huge structural problems have been multiplying: they offer a reason to do nothing about the mass unemployment that is crippling our economy and our society.

Americans are deeply concerned about the relentless rise in health care costs and health insurance premiums.

About once a week, I have a client that will bring up a new certification I've never even heard of and I'm in this industry, said Kevin Wilhelm, chief executive officer of Sustainable Business Consulting.

You know, one of the first things I like to tell people when they ask me about the supplements, is that a lot of them are promoted as a cure for your memory, but your memory doesn’t need a cure.

Now, a new study that began with about 1,000 children in New Zealand has tracked how a child’s low self-control can predict poor health, money troubles and even a criminal record in their adult years.

Earlier this year, British explorer Hadow and his team trekked for three months across the frozen Arctic Ocean, taking measurements and recording observations about the ice.

it is unfair to those climate-vulnerable nationsit aims to keep temperature rise below 2 ℃ onlyit is beneficial to only fewer than 4% of countriesit burdens developed countries with the sole responsibilityThey needn't worry about the food and water they consume.

We have to understand and think about the implications, and balance these great innovations with the potential downsides they naturally carry with them.

This might not be right, but school-leavers who fail to acknowledge as much risk making the wrong decision about going to university.

There's a lot for students to complain about: the repayment threshold for paying back loans will be frozen for five years, meaning that lower-paid graduates have to start repaying their loans; and maintenance grants have been replaced by loans, meaning that students from poorer backgrounds face higher debt than those with wealthier parents.

Their number climbs to about 40 in the warmer summer months.

The 83% of American employees who are stressed about their jobs – up from 73% just a year before – say that poor compensation and an unreasonable workload are their number-one sources of stress.

So much of what CES has been about is the cool.

Secretary Anthony Foxx, to talk about smart cities, and Federal Aviation Administration Administrator Michael Huerta, to talk about drones.

Part of the work-life issue has to talk about uncertainty about the future.

Many consumers wonder about the necessity of having their fitness monitored.

It's a dramatic endorsement for a technology most people think about only when their smartphone goes dark.

It is natural for students to make complaints about university education.

It is about the flashiness and the gadgets, said John Curran, managing director of research at Accenture.

In a study published last year, psychologists coined the term workplace telepressure to describe an employee's urge to immediately respond to emails and engage in obsessive thoughts about returning an email to one's boss, colleagues or clients.

Having already enabled a communications revolution, the battery is now poised to transform just about everything else.

Even among people who have bought connected devices of some kind, 37 percent said that they are going to be more cautious about using these devices and services in the future.

Consumers are becoming increasingly bored with what companies have to offer: A survey of 28,000 consumers in 28 countries released by Accenture found consumers are not as excited about technology as they once were.

Consumers are often hesitant to try smart-home devices because they are worried about compatibility problems.

Consumers are becoming more worried about giving personal information to tech companies to get customized products and services.

Companies are pushing it hard but make it almost overwhelming even to dip a toe in the water for the average consumer, because there are so many compatibility issues to think about.

Chinese officials say the expansion in Antarctica prioritises scientific research, but they also acknowledge that concerns about resource security influence their moves.

Carli says that one of the most significant things about his study is that it provides new early-warning signs for parents, teachers and mental health-care providers.

But US researchers quietly complain about budget restraints and having far fewer icebreakers than Russia, limiting the reach of the United States in Antarctica.

Assumptions about genetic differences between people of different races could be particularly dangerous in a medical setting.

And when it comes to the hyper-connected super-smart world that technology firms are painting for us, it seems that consumers are growing more uneasy about handing over the massive amounts of consumer data needed to provide the personalized, customized solutions that companies need to improve their services.

American scientists complain about lack of sufficient money and equipment for their expansion in Antarctica.

According to the survey, that lack of enthusiasm could stem from concerns about privacy and security.

About 58% of the students demonstrated none or few of the risk behaviors.

83% of workers say they're stressed about their jobs, nearly 50% say work-related stress is interfering with their sleep, and 60% use their smartphones to check in with work outside of normal working hours.

When I teach in classroom, we often end up talking about things like success and what leads to success.

We hope you enjoy the series about how you can make a difference by becoming a social worker.

Today, I’d like to talk about what happens when celebrity role models get behind healthyhabits, but at the same time promote junk food.

Today we are going to be talking about becoming a social worker.

Throughout these series, you will learn more about the profession, the necessary steps to get a social work degree, the rich history of social work and many ways that social workers help others.

Stacy is going to walk you through the step-by-step process of becoming a social worker and Mill will tell you about the range of options you have once you get your social work degree, as well as the high standards of responsibility the social workers must adhere to.

Now what’s interesting about the theory is what do you have if you only have one out of three or two out of three? What do you have and how is it different if you have a different two out of three? What’s interesting about this kind of theorizing is it gives rise to many different combinations that can be quite interesting when you break them down and start to look at them carefully.

No one should have to live with what a Texas mother described as constant stress, tension, even fear about money.

Next, we are going to talk about choosing social work.

I’m going to define what love is, but then most of the experiments I’m going to talk about are really focused more on attraction than love.

However, they also deserve a home of their own, a secure retirement and freedom from worrying about unpaid bills.

At worst, they’ll think the messages about soda are the same as the messages about water.

What Nijay didn't realize about his school—Tennessee State University — was its frighteningly low graduation rate: a mere 29 percent for its first-generation students.

We worry most about now because if we don't survive for the next minute, we're not going to be around in ten years' time, says Professor Elke Weber of the Centre for Research on Environmental Decisions at Columbia University in New York.

We break our promise not to fly after hearing about a neighbour's trip to India.

Train students to think about global issues.

They asked both groups to generate questions about important issues needed to create recovery plans.

They are curious about specific features.

They are concerned about social issues.

A cup of coffee costs about three dollars and fifty cents, but the fun is free.

A listener in China, Wang ming, who is about to get an engineering degree, wants to know how American college graduates find jobs.

A new commodity brings about a highly profitable, fast-growing industry, urging antitrust反垄断regulators to step in to check those who control its flow.

A safe number of interviews to conduct is about six to ten.

About 100 of these stayed rich men for the rest of their lives.

About thirty percent of the world's exports of tea makes its way to London.

According to Anderson, before 1970, Americans had little idea about environmental problems.

According to the world bank, China accounts for about 30 percent of total global fertilizer consumption.

After spotting a wallet on the front seat inside a parked car with its window down, he stood guard in the rain for about two hours waiting for the owner to return.

Americans eat only about fifteen pounds of fish per person per year, but we eat twice as much fish in restaurants as at home.

An argument about different methods of moving blocks to the pyramid site.

An express train was due to go past about thirty minutes later.

An important negative effect of gossip is that it can hurt the person being talked about.

And how about some more onions too?

And I went into a speech about how hard I worked and the gains I was making.

And if you have your lecture notes or the article in hand, you and the professor will be able to examine specific points that are confusing to you, rather than just talking in a general way about the contents.

And if you're upset about that, then what's the point?

And there is nothing mysterious about the mighty forces.

And we'll pour about 30 percent more liquid into a short, wide glass than a tall, skinny glass.

Anxiously I went to bed dreaming about what I would find at the top of this magical mountain.

Are you excited about your trip?

Art students making a good living with these statistics/data/analyses in mind, art students need not worry about their career and have an alternative plan.

As children, we thought very little about these educational wonders.

As I sat in my own personal heaven, I started thinking about having more.

As shown here, Lainey can become excited about reading when presented with literature on topics that interest her, and when the people around her model involvement in the reading process.

Ask about today's activities at the great hall information desk.

At first Robert wouldn't let his daughter go diving, but eventually he gave in as she was so confidence about her skills.

At my high school, there were about only four active club and organizations that students could be a part of.

At present, the world has about 6800 languages.

At space camp, trainees can earn their space exploration badge as they build and fire model rockets, learn about space tasks and try simulated (模拟) flying to space with the crew from all over the world.

At the Beijing Olympic she swept away any doubts about her ability to perform consistently by becoming the first Jamaican woman ever to win the 100 metres Olympic gold.

Babies need a lot of rest: most of them sleep about 18 hours a day! adults need about eight hours.

Because it was getting dark,and she didn't want her mother to worry about her.

Being a good neighbor is more or less about considerate behavior.

Between the ages of about 12 and 50, women produce hormones that are involved in fertility (生育能力).

Body language can give away a lot about your mood, so standing with your arms folded can send out a signal that you are being defensive.

But good news is that there're really only three kinds of decisions you need to make about color in your home: the small ones, the medium ones, and the large ones.

But he did not know about brushes before a visitor told him he needed one.

But I could not help thinking about that silly poem.

But Lehanne's psychology café is about more than knowing oneself: It's trying to help the city's troubled neighborhood cafes.

But station residents have to be careful about staying in one place too long.

But such Ninos come with months of warning, and so much is known about how they happen that governments can prepare.

But the most important information I want to give you now is about safety.

But the only thing that wasn't very fun about it was that he could catch many fish while I couldn't catch anything.

But what about large, heavy structures like the Tremont hotel, which was a six-story brick building?

But, Kate, I still think old age should be about peace and relaxation.

Chimps seldom care about others' interests.

China today attracts a worldwide readership, which shows that more and more people all over the world want to learn about China.

Collection consists of masterworks in sculpture, colored glass, and precious objects from Europe dating from about the 9th to the 15th century.

Competent adults know more about love than work.

Competition is fierce and the chief prize is a complete stilton cheese weighing about four kilos (disappointingly, but understandably the cheeses used in the race are wooden ones).

Dad sat me down and said, "Alice, I know it's hard, but it's all about persistence (坚持不懈)."

Dario's mother asked the building superintendent (管理员) if he knew anything about it.

Daydreaming means people think about something pleasant, especially when this makes them forget what they should be doing.

Dreaming about whether you would want to read minds, see through walls, or have superhuman strength may sound silly, but it actually gets to the heart of what really matters in your life.

During the first week, do not think about distance, but run five minutes longer each day.

During these waits, the brain slips away from the body and wanders about until the water runs over the edge of the counter and onto your socks.

Each time the bowl of rice is pushed over the table edge, it falls in the ground---and, in the process, it belongs out important evidence about how physical objects interact: bowls of rice do not flood in mid-air, but require support to remain stable.

Earth Day, marked on 22 April, is an annual event aiming to raise public awareness about environmental protection.

Ehlers thought about the small dog he had seen trembling alongside the road.

E-mails are then sent to the bookcrossing to keep them updated about where their books have been found.

Enjoy yourselves while learning about web design and make new friends in the club.

Europe has only around 200 languages; the Americas about 1000; Africa 2400; and asia and the pacific perhaps 3200, of which papua new guinea alone accounts for well over 800.

Even as late as 1870 when their numbers had already become smaller, a flock believed to be 1 mile wide and 320 miles about 515 kilometers long was seen near cincinnati.

Even if I weren't excited enough about free credits, news about our instructor was appealing enough to me.

Even more worryingly, the fascination with the Internet by people in rich countries has moved the international community to worry about the "digital divide" between the rich countries and the poor countries.

Every college discussion about community values, social climate and behavior should include recognition of the developmental importance of student autonomy and self-regulation, of the necessary tension between safety and self-discovery.

Every year about 40, 000 people attempt to climb kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa.

Everything they know about you came through this device, sometimes from hundreds of miles away.

Find out more about joining a GDA programme.

Five years ago, when I taught art at a school in seattle, I used tinkertoys as a test at the beginning of a term to find out something about my students.

For Dutch people, Hilversum is all about textile and media industries, and modern architecture.

For example, on Christmas morning, children are excited about playing with their new toys.

For example, Russian, French, and Spanish persons may use silence to show agreement between parties about the topic under discussion.

For hill, it is impossible not to talk about China as the leading player when discussing fashion.

For more information about buying senior/disabled farecards, farecard or smartrip cards and passes, please visit metroopendoors.com.

For the first time, I feel good about myself because I'm doing something, not because someone told me I was doing good.

From the experience, I learned a lot about how the attitude of the leader can affect the members of a team.

Get smart about the people who you spend your time with.

Go straight ahead and walk about three blocks.

Gossip also can have a third effect: It strengthens unwritten, unspoken rules about how people should act.

Hannah began to speak out about the homelessness in manitoba and then in other provinces.

Hannah started to think about how she could help, but, of course, there is not a lot one five-year-old can do to solve the problem of homelessness.

Having created nine such ice reserves, norphel calculates that he has stored about 200, 000m3 of water.

Having interesting things to think about also helps.

He also won praise from social media users after Mr.Anderson posted about the act of kindness on Facebook.

He and I both knew what the deal was, and we didn't talk about it.

He felt concerned about his illness.

He had walked for about a mile when a volunteer searcher found him.

He recommended that she do some research and talk to dentists about what a healthier candy would contain.

He thought about all the survival shows he had watched on TV.

He wants these kids to learn to boast about themselves.

He worried about it very much.

Hearing these stories, I'm skeptical about the place — other destinations are described as "purer" natural experiences.

Helen Mirren stars in the play by Peter Morgan, about queen Elizabeth II of the UK and her private meetings with twelve prime ministers in the course of sixty years.

Her marriage with a serious music critic has drawn her to his world, so she is now crazy about classical music and will not miss any chance to attend a concert with her husband.

Here are the top 5 things nobody told me about college.

He's going to talk about how you can find the right person to produce your music.

How about a pair of running shoes?

How about hiring our mini bus?

factories of Honda Nissan, and Toyota achieved about 95 percent of the productivity of their Japanese countere pants a result of the training that U.

When our ancestors were hunters and gatherers 10,000 years ago, they didn’t have time to wonder much about anything besides finding food.

To take this approach to the New Englanders normally mean to start with the Puritans’ theological innovations and their distinctive ideas about the church-important subjects that we may not neglect.

This DNA can reveal genetic information about only one or two ancestors, even though, for example, just three generations back people also have six other great-grandparents or, four generations back, 14 other great-great-grandparents.

So it seems antithetical to talk about habits in the same context as creativity and innovation.

Will such variations bring about a change in the overall structure of the food and drink market? Definitely not.

Theirs was a serious business, and even those reviewers who wore their learning lightly,like George Bernard Shaw and Ernest Newman,could be trusted to know what they were about.

The researchers’ argument stems from a simple observation about social influence,with the exception of a few celebrities like Oprah Winfrey-whose outsize presence is primarily a function of media,not interpersonal,influence-even the most influential members of a population simply don’t interact with that many others.

The first and more important is the consumer's growing preference for eating out: the consumption of food and drink in places other than homes has risen from about 32 percent of total consumption in 1995 to 35 percent in 2000 and is expected to approach 38 percent by 2005.

In those far-off days, it was taken for granted that the critics of major papers would write in detail and at length about the events they covered.

Curbs on business-method claims would be a dramatic about-face, because it was the federal circuit itself that introduced such patents with is 1998 decision in the so-called state Street Bank case, approving a patent on a way of pooling mutual-fund assets.

Building on the basic truth about interpersonal influence,the researchers studied the dynamics of social influence by conducting thousands of computer simulations of populations manipulating a number of variables relating to people’s ability to influence others and their tendency to be influenced.

There are also stories about newly adoptive – and newly single – mom Sandra Bullock, as well as the usual “Jennifer Aniston is pregnant” news.

The widespread availability of such recordings has thus brought about a crisis in the institution of the traditional classical concert.

Such hijacked media are the opposite of earned media: an asset or campaign becomes hostage to consumers, other stakeholders, or activists who make negative allegations about a brand or product.

It also sent a clear message to the outside world about his aspirations.

Even Tommasini, who had advocated Gilbert’s appointment in the Times, calls him “an unpretentious musician with no air of the formidable conductor about him”.

Equally unsurprisingly, only about half end up with professorships for which they entered graduate school.

Consumers passionate about a product may create “owned” media by sending e-mail alerts about products and sales to customers registered with its Web site.

Besides generating income, the presence of other marketers makes the site seem objective, gives companies opportunities to learn valuable information about the appeal of other companies’ marketing, and may help expand user traffic for all companies concerned.

In the idealized version of how science is done, facts about the world are waiting to be observed and collected by objective researchers who use the scientific method to carry out their work.

In Britain, more than half of public-sector workers but only about 15% of private-sector ones are unionized.

Certainly, there are valid concerns about the patchwork regulations that could result if every state sets its own rules.

As a discovery claim works it through the community, the interaction and confrontation between shared and competing beliefs about the science and the technology involved transforms an individual’s discovery claim into the

词组搭配

about to do something

intending to do something or close to doing something very soon

想要，就要（做某事）

the ceremony was about to begin.
仪式就要开始了。

be not about to do something

be unwilling to do something

不愿意（做某事）

he is not about to step down after so long.
这么久了他还不想下台。

be on about how about just about

he is not about to step down after so long.
这么久了他还不想下台。

know what one is about what about

(informal)be aware of the implications of one's actions or of a situation, and of how best to deal with them

(非正式)明白，知道，心中有数

同义词辨析

about, around, round

这些词均有"在周围，在附近"之意。

about：既可表静态，也可表动态。

around：主要用于美国，静态或动态均可。

round：主要用于英国，多半指动态。

almost, nearly, about, approximately, around, roughly

这些副词均有"大约，差不多"之意。

almost：指在程度上相差很小，差不多。

nearly与almost含义基本相同，侧重指数量、时间或空间上的接近。

about：常可分almost和nearly换用，但about用于表示时间、数量的"大约"时，实际数量可能多也可能少。

approximately：多用于书面语，指精确度接近某个标准以致误差可忽略不计。