ways
n. 方法; (做某事现有的)方法和资源; 你不可能做到两全其美; (所说的话)不止一个意思; 路( way的名词复数 ); 方法; 方向; 某方面
If you refer to a way of doing something, you are referring to how you can do it, for example the action you can take or the method you can use to achieve it.
Freezing isn't a bad way of preserving food...
冷冻不失为一种保存食物的好方法。
Another way of making new friends is to go to an evening class...
另一种交友的办法就是去上夜校。
If you talk about the way someone does something, you are talking about the qualities their action has.
She smiled in a friendly way...
她友好地笑了笑。
He had a strange way of talking...
他说话的方式怪怪的。
If a general statement or description is true in a particular way, this is the form of it that is true in a particular case.
Computerized reservation systems help airline profits in several ways...
电子订票系统通过多种方式帮助航空公司获利。
She was afraid in a way that was quite new to her...
她感到从未有过的害怕。
You use way in expressions such as in some ways ,in many ways, and in every way to indicate the degree or extent to which a statement is true.
In some ways, the official opening is a formality...
从某些方面来说,正式的开幕仪式只不过是走个形式。
She described her lover as 'perfect in every way'.
她形容她的爱人“各方面完美至极”。
The ways of a particular person or group of people are their customs or their usual behaviour.
He denounces people who urge him to alter his ways...
他指责那些督促他改变习惯的人。
I think you've been too long in Cornwall. You've forgotten the ways of the city...
我认为你们在康沃尔呆的太久了,已经忘记了城市的生活方式。
If you refer to someone's way, you are referring to their usual or preferred type of behaviour.
She is now divorced and, in her usual resourceful way, has started her own business...
如今她离了婚。一贯足智多谋的她已开始自己创业。
Direct confrontation was not his way.
正面冲突不是他的风格。
You use way to refer to one particular opinion or interpretation of something, when others are possible.
I suppose that's one way of looking at it...
我想那是其中的一种看法。
With most of Dylan's lyrics, however, there are other ways of interpreting the words...
但是,迪伦的大多数歌词都有其他的解读方式。
You use way when mentioning one of a number of possible, alternative results or decisions.
There is no indication which way the vote could go...
没有迹象表明投票结果会怎样。
The judge could have decided either way.
两种结果法官怎样判都有可能。
The way you feel about something is your attitude to it or your opinion about it.
I'm terribly sorry — I had no idea you felt that way.
我非常抱歉——没有想到你是那样想的。
If you mention the way that something happens, you are mentioning the fact that it happens.
I hate the way he manipulates people...
我讨厌他摆布别人。
You may remember the way each scene ended with someone looking pensive or significant.
你或许还记得,每一场的结尾要么是某人作沉思状,要么是某人故作深沉。
You use way in expressions such as push your way ,work your way, or eat your way, followed by a prepositional phrase or adverb, in order to indicate movement, progress, or force as well as the action described by the verb.
She thrust her way into the crowd...
她挤进了人群。
He thought we were trying to buy our way into his company...
他以为我们是想通过贿赂进入他的公司。
The way somewhere consists of the different places that you go through or the route that you take in order to get there.
Does anybody know the way to the bathroom?...
有谁知道洗手间在哪里吗?
I'm afraid I can't remember the way...
我恐怕不记得路了。
If you go or look a particular way, you go or look in that direction.
As he strode into the kitchen, he passed Pop coming the other way...
他大步走进厨房,与迎面而来的爸爸擦身而过。
They paused at the top of the stairs, doubtful as to which way to go next...
他们在楼梯顶部停住了,不知道接下来该往哪边走。
You can refer to the direction you are travelling in as your way .
It's not very far out of his way...
就在他走的路上不远处。
She would say she was going my way and offer me a lift.
她会说和我同路,可以载我一程。
If you lose your way, you take a wrong or unfamiliar route, so that you do not know how to get to the place that you want to go to. If you find your way, you manage to get to the place that you want to go to.
The men lost their way in a sandstorm and crossed the border by mistake...
那些人在沙尘暴中迷了路,不小心穿越了边境。
They've changed a lot of the old street names, and people can't find their way anymore.
许多老的街道名都被改了,人们再也找不到原来的路了。
You talk about people going their different ways in order to say that their lives develop differently and they have less contact with each other.
It wasn't until we each went our separate ways that I began to learn how to do things for myself...
直到大家各奔东西,我才开始学着自力更生。
You go your way and I'll go mine.
你走你的阳关道,我过我的独木桥。
If something comes your way, you get it or receive it.
Take advantage of the opportunities coming your way in a couple of months...
把握住这几个月之内你可能获得的机会。
If I run into anything that might interest you, I'll send it your way.
如果我碰上你可能感兴趣的东西,我就给你寄过去。
If someone or something is in the way, they prevent you from moving forward or seeing clearly.
'You're standing in the way,' she said. 'Would you mind moving aside'...
“你挡着道了,”她说,“麻烦你让一下。”
Get out of my way!
滚开!
Way is used in the names of some roads, and also in the names of some long paths for walkers in the countryside.
Silvertown Way, was that the road?
锡尔弗敦路,是这条路么?
...the well-trodden 250-mile Pennine Way.
长250英里、人来人往的奔宁路
You can use way to refer to the area near where someone lives or near a specified place.
If you speak standard English anywhere round our way, people tend to view you with suspicion.
如果你在我们这里说标准英语,大家就会对你产生怀疑。
...somebody from Newcastle way.
从纽卡斯尔那边来的人
You use way in expressions such as the right way up and the other way around to refer to one of two or more possible positions or arrangements that something can have.
The flag was held the wrong way up by some spectators...
一些观众把旗子拿倒了。
It's important to fit it the right way round.
将它安到正确位置上很重要。
You can use way to emphasize, for example, that something is a great distance away or is very much below or above a particular level or amount.
Way down in the valley to the west is the town of Freiburg...
从这里往西远远的山谷中是弗赖堡镇。
These exam results are way above average...
这些考试成绩远高于平均水平。
If you split something a number of ways, you divide it into a number of different parts or quantities, usually fairly equal in size.
The region was split three ways, between Greece, Serbia and Bulgaria...
这一地区被希腊、塞尔维亚和保加利亚分成了3部分。
Splitting the price six ways had still cost them each a bundle.
即使把价钱平摊成6份,每人也还是要花一大笔钱。
Way is used in expressions such as a long way ,a little way, and quite a way, to say how far away something is or how far you have travelled.
Some of them live in places quite a long way from here...
他们中有些人住的地方离这里很远。
A little way further down the lane we passed the driveway to a house...
顺着巷子再走过去一点,我们经过车道来到一幢房子前。
Way is used in expressions such as a long way ,a little way, and quite a way, to say how far away in time something is.
Success is still a long way off...
离成功还远着呢。
August is still an awfully long way away.
离8月还早着呢。
You use way in expressions such as all the way ,most of the way and half the way to refer to the extent to which an action has been completed.
He had unscrewed the caps most of the way...
他已经快把螺丝帽拧下来了。
When was the last time you listened to an album all the way through?
你上一次完整地听完一张专辑是什么时候?
If something is across the way, it is nearby on the opposite side of a road or area.
...the big gabled house across the way.
街对面那座带三角屋顶的大房子
You use all the way to emphasize how long a distance is.
He had to walk all the way home...
他不得不一路步行回家。
That dress came all the way from New York.
那条裙子是大老远从纽约送来的。
You can use all the way to emphasize that your remark applies to every part of a situation, activity, or period of time.
Having started a revolution we must go all the way...
既然已经发动了革命,我们就一定要进行到底。
I'll support him all the way.
我自始至终都会支持他。
You can use as is the way to say that a particular situation or example of behaviour is typical and you would not expect it to be different.
As is the way with these gatherings, the declarations were largely drafted before the delegations arrived.
就像通常的这种集会一样,宣言内容在代表团到达之前就差不多拟好了。
If you say that someone is in a bad way, you mean that they are very ill or unhealthy.
He's in a bad way, but able to talk.
他病得很重,但还能说话。
If you say that something exists, happens, or develops in a big way, you are emphasizing its great extent or importance.
The man who took over a few weeks later has also helped further her career in a big way...
几周后上台的那个人也帮助她把事业推进了一大步。
Soccer in the States has never taken off in a big way.
足球在美国从来就没获得过大发展。
If someone says that you can't have it both ways, they are telling you that you have to choose between two things and cannot do or have them both.
Countries cannot have it both ways: the cost of a cleaner environment may sometimes be fewer jobs in dirty industries...
各国不可能两全其美:环境更清洁的代价有时可能就是污染企业就业岗位的减少。
Make up your mind, you can't have it both ways.
你决定吧,反正鱼与熊掌不可兼得。
You say by the way when you add something to what you are saying, especially something that you have just thought of.
The name Latifah, by the way, means 'delicate'...
顺便说一句,Latifah 这个名字意思是“娇嫩”。
By the way, how did your seminar go?
对了,你的研讨会进行得怎样?
You use by way of when you are explaining the purpose of something that you have said or are about to say. For example, if you say something by way of an introduction, you say it as an introduction.
By way of contrast, Manchester United will travel slightly more than 1,200 miles...
相比而言,曼联队的行程将略多于1,200英里。
'I get very superstitious about things like that,' she said by way of explanation.
“在那种事儿上我会很迷信,”她解释道。
If you do something by way of a particular method, you use that method to do it.
I teach psychology by way of a range of traditional lectures, practicals and tutorials.
我采用传统授课与实践和指导相结合的方式教授心理学。
If you go somewhere by way of a particular place, you go through that place in order to get to where you want.
The path goes under the river by way of the tunnel.
这条通道经隧道从河下经过。
If someone changes their ways or mends their ways, they permanently improve their behaviour or their way of doing something.
What can be done to encourage convicted offenders to change their ways?
怎样才能激励这些罪犯洗心革面呢?
If you clear the way ,open the way, or prepare the way for something, you create an opportunity for it to happen.
The talks are meant to clear the way for formal negotiations on a new constitution...
会谈旨在为新宪法的正式商讨扫清道路。
The decision could open the way for other children to sue their parents.
这项判决可能会为其他孩子起诉他们的父母开辟一条通道。
If you say that someone takes the easy way out, you disapprove of them because they do what is easiest for them in a difficult situation, rather than dealing with it properly.
As soon as things got difficult he took the easy way out...
事情刚变得有点棘手他就急忙脱身。
It is the easy way out to blame others for our failure.
把我们的失败归罪到别人头上倒是省事。
You use either way in order to introduce a statement which is true in each of the two possible or alternative cases that you have just mentioned.
The sea may rise or the land may fall; either way the sand dunes will be gone in a short time.
可能会出现海平面上升或陆地下沉:不论发生哪种情况,沙丘都会在短时间内消失。
If you say that a particular type of action or development is the way forward, you approve of it because it is likely to lead to success.
...people who genuinely believe that anarchy is the way forward...
真的相信无政府主义才是未来出路的人
Young players have got to be the way forward for every club.
培养年轻球员应该是所有俱乐部谋求发展之道。
If someone gets their way or has their way, nobody stops them doing what they want to do. You can also say that someone gets their own way or has their own way .
She is very good at using her charm to get her way.
她非常善于利用自己的魅力随心所欲。
If one thing gives way to another, the first thing is replaced by the second.
First he had been numb. Then the numbness gave way to anger...
起初他只是麻木,接着转为了愤怒。
The last houses give way to soybean fields.
最后一批房子也被拆掉用作了大豆地。
If an object that is supporting something gives way, it breaks or collapses, so that it can no longer support that thing.
The hook in the ceiling had given way and the lamp had fallen blazing on to the table.
天花板上的钩子断了,灯落下来砸到桌子上燃起了火。
If you give way to someone or something that you have been resisting, you stop resisting and allow yourself to be persuaded or controlled by them.
It seems the President has given way to pressure from the hardliners...
总统似乎已迫于强硬派的压力而妥协了。
He finally gave way to an impulse and pulled her toward him.
他最终还是没能抑制住冲动,把她拉向了自己。
If a moving person, a vehicle, or its driver gives way, they slow down or stop in order to allow other people or vehicles to pass in front of them.
Give way to traffic coming from the left.
让从左边来的车先行。
If you say that someone or something has a way of doing a particular thing, you mean that they often do it.
Bosses have a way of always finding out about such things.
老板总喜欢把这类事情搞清楚。
If you say hat a person has a way with something or someone, you mean that that person seems to have a natural skill or instinct for dealing with them.
Constance doesn't have a way with words like you do...
康斯坦丝没有你这么健谈。
He seems to have had a way with foreigners.
他似乎天生就善于和外国人交往。
If you say have it your way or have it your own way, you are telling someone in an annoyed way that you will agree with or accept their suggestion even though you do not think they are right.
All right then, have it your way. Be like that.
那好吧,随你的便。就那样吧。
You use in no way or not in any way to emphasize that a statement is not at all true.
In no way am I going to adopt any of his methods...
我绝对不会采纳他的任何方法。
A spokesman insisted the two events were 'in no way related'...
一位发言人坚称这两起事件“绝无关联”。
If you say that something is true in a way, you mean that although it is not completely true, it is true to a limited extent or in certain respects. You use in a way to reduce the force of a statement.
In a way, I suppose I'm frightened of failing...
我想我有点惧怕失败。
It made things very unpleasant in a way.
这把事情弄得有点不大愉快。
If you say that someone does something in a small way, you mean that although they do not do very much, their actions are useful or important.
...demonstrations against corruption, which began in a small way last week...
上周开始的小规模的反腐示威游行
By doing this you will, in a small way, help win the victory.
这样做你就会为获胜贡献一份小小的力量。
If you say that someone gets in the way or is in the way, you are annoyed because their presence or their actions stop you doing something properly.
'We wouldn't get in the way,' Suzanne promised. 'We'd just stand quietly in a corner.'
“我们不会妨碍你的,”苏珊娜保证道,“我们就在角落里安安静静地站着。”
To get in the way of something means to make it difficult for it to happen, continue, or be appreciated properly.
She had a job which never got in the way of her leisure interests.
她有一份从来不会影响她的业余爱好的工作。
If you know your way around a particular subject, system, or job, or if you know your way about it, you know all the procedures and facts about it.
He knows his way around the intricate maze of European law...
他通晓错综复杂的欧洲律法。
He knows his way about the system better than do most ministers.
他比大多数部长都更熟悉这套体系。
If you say that someone is laughing all the way to the bank, you mean that they are making a lot of money very easily.
The lucrative contract with television means that England's wealthy football clubs will now be laughing all the way to the bank.
与电视台签订的这项大合同会让富有的英格兰足球俱乐部财源滚滚。
If you lead the way along a particular route, you go along it in front of someone in order to show them where to go.
She grabbed his suitcase and led the way.
她拿过他的箱子在前面带路。
If a person or group leads the way in a particular activity, they are the first person or group to do it or they make the most new developments in it.
Sony has also led the way in shrinking the size of compact-disc players.
索尼公司在缩小CD播放机的体积方面也处于领先地位。
If you say that someone or something has come a long way, you mean that they have developed, progressed, or become very successful.
He has come a long way since the days he could only afford one meal a day.
那种一天只吃得起一顿饭的日子已经离他很遥远了。
You can use by a long way to emphasize that something is, for example, much better, worse, or bigger than any other thing of that kind.
It was, by a long way, the worst meeting I have ever attended...
这绝对是我参加过的最差劲的会议。
Our favourite by a long way was the supermarkets' own brand.
我们的最爱绝对是超市的自产品牌。
If you say that something is a long way from being true, you are emphasizing that it is definitely not true.
She is a long way from being the richest person in Britain...
比起英国首富,她还差得远呢。
That's a long way from the truth.
这与事实相差甚远。
If you say that something goes a long way towards doing a particular thing, you mean that it is an important factor in achieving that thing.
Although by no means a cure, it goes a long way towards making the patient's life more tolerable.
虽然并不能根治,但它对减轻病人的痛苦大有帮助。
If you say that someone has lost their way, you are criticizing them because they do not have any good ideas any more, or seem to have become unsure about what to do.
Why has the White House lost its way on tax and budget policy?
为什么白宫在税收和预算政策问题上束手无策呢?
When you make your way somewhere, you walk or travel there.
He made his way to the marketplace, as he had been instructed to do...
他按照指示去了市场。
He made his way home at last.
他终于到家了。
If one person or thing makes way for another, the first is replaced by the second.
He said he was prepared to make way for younger people in the party...
他说他已准备好让位于党内的年轻一代。
A number of houses would have to be demolished to make way for the new building.
建这幢新大楼将不得不推倒一些房子。
If you say there's no way that something will happen, you are emphasizing that you think it will definitely not happen.
There was absolutely no way that we were going to be able to retrieve it.
我们绝对不可能把它找回来。
You can say no way as an emphatic way of saying no.
Mike, no way am I playing cards with you for money...
迈克,我是决不会和你玩牌赌钱的。
That was not the life Jack Hewitt planned to live. No way!
那不是杰克·休伊特想要的生活,绝对不是!
You use in the way of or by way of in order to specify the kind of thing you are talking about.
Latvia is a country without much in the way of natural resources...
拉脱维亚并不是一个自然资源丰富的国家。
Meetings held today produced little in the way of an agreement...
今天举行的会议没有达成什么协议。
If you are on your way, you have started your journey somewhere.
He has been allowed to leave the country and is on his way to Britain...
他已获准离境,正在去往英国的路上。
By sunrise tomorrow we'll be on our way.
明天天亮前我们就将赶路。
If you go on your way, you continue with your journey.
She picked up her bag, and went on her way.
她提起包继续赶路。
If something happens on the way or along the way, it happens during the course of a particular event or process.
You may have to learn a few new skills along the way.
在这个过程中你可能还得新学几招。
If you are on your way or well on your way to something, you have made so much progress that you are almost certain to achieve that thing.
I am now out of hospital and well on the way to recovery.
我现在已经出院,快康复了。
If something is on the way, it will arrive soon.
The forecasters say more snow is on the way...
天气预报员说不久还将有降雪。
She is married with twin sons and a third child on the way.
她已经结婚,有一对双胞胎儿子,第三个宝宝也即将出世。
You can use one way or another or one way or the other when you want to say that something definitely happens, but without giving any details about how it happens.
...those who had entered Germany one way or another during the war...
那些在战争时期以各种方式进入德国的人
You know pretty well everyone here, one way or the other.
无论如何,这里的每个人你肯定都很了解。
You use one way or the other or one way or another to refer to two possible decisions or conclusions that have previously been mentioned, without stating which one is reached or preferred.
We've got to make our decision one way or the other...
不是这样就是那样,我们无论如何都得作出决定了。
I didn't really care one way or another.
管它怎样,我真的不在乎。
You say in more ways than one to indicate that what you have said is intended to have more than one meaning.
These local elections may prove a turning point in more ways than one.
这些地方选举从许多方面来说都是一个转折点。
You use the other way around or the other way round to refer to the opposite of what you have just said.
You'd think you were the one who did me the favor, and not the other way around.
应该是你帮了我,而不是我帮了你。
If something or someone is on the way out or on their way out, they are likely to disappear or to be replaced very soon.
There are encouraging signs that cold war attitudes are on the way out...
有令人欣慰的迹象表明冷战思维即将成为历史。
The ban on Sunday shopping could be on its way out before Christmas...
周末购物的禁令可能会在圣诞节前被取消。
If you go out of your way to do something, for example to help someone, you make a special effort to do it.
He was very kind to me and seemed to go out of his way to help me.
他对我非常友善,似乎是特意帮我的忙。
If you keep out of someone's way or stay out of their way, you avoid them or do not get involved with them.
I'd kept out of his way as much as I could...
我一直尽量躲着他。
He warned the army to stay out of the way of the relief effort.
他警告军队不要介入救援工作。
When something is out of the way, it has finished or you have dealt with it, so that it is no longer a problem or needs no more time spent on it.
The plan has to remain confidential at least until the local elections are out of the way...
此项计划至少在地方选举结束之前都得保密。
It would have been better to have got it out of the way earlier.
如果当时能早点结束就更好了。
If you go your own way, you do what you want rather than what everyone else does or expects.
In school I was a loner. I went my own way.
在学校里我独来独往,我行我素。
You use in the same way to introduce a situation that you are comparing with one that you have just mentioned, because there is a strong similarity between them.
There is no reason why a gifted aircraft designer should also be a capable pilot. In the same way, a brilliant pilot can be a menace behind the wheel of a car.
杰出的飞机设计师没有理由一定也是个出色的飞行员。同样,一个优秀的飞行员或许会是个糟糕的司机。
If you say that someone is set in their ways, you mean that they have been behaving in the same way for many years and do not want to change.
He was too set in his ways to make any real changes.
他已经积习成性,不肯作任何真正的改变。
You can use that way and this way to refer to a statement or comment that you have just made.
Some of us have habits few people know about and we keep it this way...
我们中的一些人有些不为人知的习惯,我们也不想改变这一状况。
We have a beautiful city and we pray it stays that way...
我们的城市很美丽,但愿它能保持下去。
You can use that way or this way to refer to an action or situation that you have just mentioned, when you go on to mention the likely consequence or effect of it.
Keep the soil moist. That way, the seedling will flourish...
保持土壤湿润,那样幼苗就能茁壮成长。
I know it's unfair that I am left holding the baby; but at least this way I know that she's being well looked after.
我知道把我留下来看孩子很不公平,但这样至少我知道孩子受到了很好的看护。
You can use the way things are going to indicate that you expect something to happen because of the way the present situation is developing.
The way things are going, perhaps he won't come at all.
现在看来他是不会来了。
You add to my way of thinking to a statement in order to indicate that you are giving your opinion.
To my way of thinking, it didn't seem as if it ought to be so terribly complicated.
我觉得,事情好像没必要这么复杂。
If you say that there are no two ways about it, you are emphasizing that there is no doubt at all about a particular situation or about how it should be interpreted.
You stay here, you die. No two ways about it.
你若留在这里,必死无疑。
If an activity or plan is under way, it has begun and is now taking place.
A full-scale security operation is now under way...
一项全面的安全行动正在进行中…
The court case got under way last autumn.
这个案子从去年秋天起开始审理。
Every which way and any which way are used to emphasize that something happens, or might happen, in a lot of different ways, or using a lot of different methods.
He re-ran the experiment every which way he could...
他用尽所有可能的方法重复做这个实验。
They are just happy to sell their inventory any which way they can.
只要存货能脱手,无论采取什么方式他们都愿意。
Every which way is used to emphasize that things move in a lot of different directions or are arranged in a lot of different positions.
...cars parked every which way.
横七竖八停着的车辆
1. the property of distance in general;
2. structure consisting of a sloping way down to the water from the place where ships are built or repaired
1. n is between 2 and infinity;
Julian has been thinking up new ways of raising money.
朱利安想出了不少筹款的新办法。
New ways to treat arthritis may provide an alternative to painkillers.
关节炎的新疗法可能是止痛药之外的另一种选择。
I even began to exploit him in subtle ways.
我甚至开始巧妙地利用他。
In many ways, it was a very modern school for its time.
从很多方面来说,这所学校在当时是非常先进的。
Millions of people want new, simplified ways of interacting with a computer.
数以百万计的人们想要新的简化方式实现人机交互。