| 单词 | chapter |
| 释义 | chapter (tʃæptəʳ ) Word forms: chapters 1. countable noun B1 A chapter is one of the parts that a book is divided into. Each chapter has a number, and sometimes a title. As we shall see in Chapter 9, there is a totally different explanation. I took the title of this chapter from one of my favorite books. Synonyms: section, part, stage, division 2. countable noun [adjective NOUN] A chapter in someone's life or in history is a period of time during which a major event or series of related events takes place. [written] This had been a particularly difficult chapter in the country's recent history. [+ in] ...one of the most dramatic chapters of recent British politics. [+ of] Synonyms: period, time, stage, phase 3. collective countable noun A chapter is a group of Christian clergy who work in or who are connected with a cathedral. The Archbishop began his address, thanking the Dean and Chapter of Westminster for inviting him to the Abbey. Synonyms: convocation [formal], council, congress, assembly 4. countable noun A chapter is a branch of a society or club. To find out more about cancer warning signs call your local chapter of the American Cancer Society. 5. chapter and verse phrase [PHRASE after verb] If you say that someone gives you chapter and verse on a particular subject, you are emphasizing that they tell you every detail about it. [emphasis] She came home and gave me chapter and verse about going to his place after a drink. Idioms: a chapter of accidents [British] a series of unlucky events in a short time In fiction, however, such a chapter of accidents can end up seeming comic. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers chapter and verse full and accurate information about something I explained everything to Lapiere. I gave him chapter and verse. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Collocations: chapter deals with One chapter deals with road rage and its causes. Times, Sunday Times Eight chapters deal with the first fifteen years of the reign and the bulk of the remaining chapter deals with the period 1640-42. The Times Literary Supplement Another useful chapter deals with soda bread and the baking powder griddle cakes such as singing hinnies. The Times Literary Supplement The next chapter deals with the idea of evolutionary progress. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Each chapter deals with the life story of one or more students in the class. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The first chapter describes how just six bottles are needed to make 25 classics, which shows he's coming from exactly the right place. Times, Sunday Times One chapter describes his experiments with an orb web spider that had made its home above his desk. Times, Sunday Times A further chapter describes the felts of outlying and border lands. The Times Literary Supplement The ninth chapter describes regions he passed through. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The second chapter describes the nadis, the internal fire, and the working of the jiva. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 One especially helpful chapter discusses the working relationships of the pastoral counselor with the hospital staff. Christianity Today A final chapter discusses 'the plan', the role of experts and architects in the restructuring, renewal and regularizing of urban space in the late twentieth century. The Times Literary Supplement Another chapter discusses 'the book's ownership, use and idolization by generations of actors and theatre professionals', who marked up copies for performance. The Times Literary Supplement Each chapter discusses one specific stage of your lifes journey. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The second chapter discusses literature as an art form. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Each chapter ends with advice on how to avoid the contemporary forms of heresy. Christianity Today The group's private equity backers will be hoping that new chapter ends with a return of benign trading conditions and an initial public offering. Times, Sunday Times Each chapter ends with ideas for incorporating wartime thrift into our modern lives. Times, Sunday Times A chapter ends here, stilling the reader on the words 'enough' and 'more'. The Times Literary Supplement I hate not being able to flick back to remind myself of something, or forward to see when the chapter ends. Times, Sunday Times Each has a spider body with a chapter heading and a series of wavy lines going in and another going out. Times, Sunday Times These are the chapter headings of the speech. Times, Sunday Times Royalty provides such convenient chapter headings for the march of time. Times, Sunday Times Hardly chapter headings for proper history books. The Sun The chapter headings give the game away. Times, Sunday Times He invited his followers to 'write a new chapter of history' by voting no. Times, Sunday Times By then, though, it was clear that a new chapter of history was to be written. Times, Sunday Times I felt part of a wonderful chapter of history. Times, Sunday Times This chapter of history has been left in the shadows. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 So they are escaping into the past, revelling in more glorious chapters of history when they were proud, courageous and strong. Times, Sunday Times It was time for us to close that chapter and, naturally, it was very tough. The Sun We were all excited to move on and close this chapter. The Sun I feel lighter than air and am so happy to close this chapter for good. The Sun In doing so you wouldn't close a chapter in your life and relationship, but slowly create the narrative for a new one to begin. Times,Sunday Times The writing process has helped me to close a chapter of my life in the best possible way, but it has come at a personal cost. Times,Sunday Times But even they did not expect such a mindboggling closing chapter after the 90th minute. The Sun The closing chapter, with all the loose ends tied up and marital harmony restored, might be a bit cloying for some tastes. Times, Sunday Times The closing chapters of the book prove most valuable. Christianity Today In some senses, however, the closing chapters of the book are its least compelling. The Times Literary Supplement The closing chapters are more stimulating to the appetite. The Times Literary Supplement Each year he contributed the chapters on the development of the law on tax avoidance and on sources of tax law. Times, Sunday Times I had the special privilege of speaking at the conference and contributing a chapter to the book. Christianity Today He subsequently contributed a chapter on their importance to the published edition. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 And there's a chapter dedicated to humanoid aliens and their technology. The Sun The form - which dedicates a chapter to every year - invites a level of readerly commitment and endurance, too. The Times Literary Supplement The book consists of 14 chapters, with one chapter dedicated to each hour of the night, from 6 pm to 5 am. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Chapters are based in cities or small locales around the world with four chapters dedicated to specific causes worldwide. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 There are also chapters dedicated to all the kiddie rides, attractions, grounds, and party areas that made the park so popular for over 30 years. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 His memoirs, which he publiced in 1952, devote a chapter to his self-defense. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Many university level textbooks on physical chemistry, quantum chemistry, and inorganic chemistry devote a chapter to symmetry. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Then she devotes a chapter to each principle, providing concrete examples. Christianity Today He devotes a chapter to his specialty, the neural mechanisms of vision. Globe and Mail He devotes a chapter to describing his experiments with video feedback. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They are drawing up an emergency resolution demanding the deletion of an entire chapter of the bill relating to competition in the health service. Times, Sunday Times His hairless calves - which warrant an entire chapter in his new book (his fourth) - look like they're encasing halved grapefruits. Times, Sunday Times He spends the entire chapter using speed and alcohol. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The film omits the entire chapter where four journalists are expelled by the writer and adds a police investigation. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He supplied an entire chapter (lib. iv. chap. 5) which had previously been omitted, placing it also in the appendix. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A more daring work might contain a final chapter suggesting: plus ça change. Times, Sunday Times His book only takes off in its final chapter, on contemporary global cheese politics. The Times Literary Supplement He 'gave generously to charities for the rest of his life', the author tells us, rather plaintively, in her final chapter. The Times Literary Supplement This belated final chapter assails the senses with its quickfire images of modern war, destruction and technology. Times, Sunday Times After 42 years and nine films, it's the final chapter of the most life-changing film franchise in history. The Sun The player must sometime complete levels in a certain order in order to finish a chapter. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 I feel she finished that chapter. The Sun Twenty years and eight books later, his finishing her chapters and her liberating the dialogue out of his prose comes as naturally as finishing each other's sentences. Globe and Mail Upon this he spent eleven hundred marks, and another thousand marks in finishing the chapter house. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Well, let them improve upon that, he thought as he finished the chapter... Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 But in the end he gathered himself for some memorable finales and, almost the remarkable thing about him, there was yet another glorious chapter ahead. Times, Sunday Times History will judge that this has been a glorious chapter in our military history. The Sun Now he reckons the current squad can write their own glorious chapter in football history. The Sun So they are escaping into the past, revelling in more glorious chapters of history when they were proud, courageous and strong. Times, Sunday Times It has been a momentous year for these famous old clubs, filled with glorious chapters that will stay in the memory banks of their supporters forever. Times, Sunday Times It can be good advice to write first and name later, just as the introductory chapter of a book may sometimes be the last to be written. Times, Sunday Times An introductory chapter traces the intellectual trajectory that made him a historian of ideas and ideologies, cultures and customs. The Times Literary Supplement The preface and introductory chapter are very hard-going, indeed. The Times Literary Supplement Concluding this introductory chapter, she describes the nature of the historical record from this period, and the multiple problems that historians face in understanding it. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Considering it to be a curious and intriguing work, she thought it noteworthy that there was no introductory chapter exploring the author's goals. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Here, she updates us with the latest chapter of her story. The Sun Sixty-five candidates remain for the latest chapter in sport's most enduring drama. Times, Sunday Times The entrepreneur's campaign against remuneration marks the latest chapter in his feud with the company he founded in 1995. Times, Sunday Times The challenge marks the latest chapter in a quarrel between two former friends. Times, Sunday Times He sees the repression as the latest chapter of an historical struggle. Times, Sunday Times Every week a new adventure, a new chapter in this epic space opera that painted an overwhelmingly optimistic view of the future. Times, Sunday Times (2013) A new chapter slips into informational textbook rhythms. Globe and Mail (2003) As the fifth anniversary of the death approaches she feels that perhaps a new chapter in her life will open. Times, Sunday Times (2011) This is a new chapter for both clubs. The Sun (2012) This is a big club and a new chapter for me. The Sun (2015) Distinctions between ritual, liturgy and drama are addressed in the book's opening chapter, and implicitly inform the subsequent discussion. The Times Literary Supplement I doubt that any book published this year will start with a more gripping opening chapter than hers. Times,Sunday Times There's the opening chapter to a novel in that one scene. Times, Sunday Times With the fourth edition of the franchise currently showing in the cinemas, why not relive the opening chapter of this animated adventure. The Sun Think of the international literary festival as the opening chapter — or a mid-story twist, or a fitting postscript — to an adventure worth writing home about. Times, Sunday Times The steel company discussed in the preceding chapter did, of course, practice racial discrimination. MANAGEMENT: task, responsibilities, practices (1974) Reference was made to the historical story of Jonah and the whale in the preceding chapter. Moby Dick (1901) In the preceding chapter, the weaker results for physical capital were explained in terms of the international mobility of this factor. Competing in a Global Economy (1990) And they cover much the same theoretical ground as this and the preceding chapter, with similar disagreements over the nature of the empirical evidence. The Sociology of Modernization and Development (1988) Work, as has been said in the preceding chapter, is impersonal and objective. MANAGEMENT: task, responsibilities, practices (1974) This will help you immensely when you read a chapter or a set of verses. Christianity Today We each read the chapter we are studying that week and write down all the observations we can find. Christianity Today You can each read a chapter at a time and then discuss it afterward (books with discussion questions included work well). Christianity Today But as you read this chapter, you can learn from someone who's already been there, who identifies the hazards and points the way around them. Christianity Today If this sounds like an overstatement, then read her chapter on what happens if your official record - your 'information doppelganger' - diverges from who you really are. Times, Sunday Times The final sad chapter of his life was surely worse than anything from his nightmares. Times, Sunday Times It's as if it was a book and a rich and fantastic and very sad chapter came to an end. Times, Sunday Times This latest episode, however, represents another sad chapter in the country's troubled history. Times, Sunday Times If the reports are true, the illness represents the latest sad chapter in what has become an increasingly public family drama. Times, Sunday Times A sad chapter in an enchanting story. Times, Sunday Times Unfortunately, it was a very short chapter of my life. Times, Sunday Times Don't end this list until it has taken up the best part of a typically short chapter. The Times Literary Supplement The passage occupies a short chapter. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Short chapters too, for the stress-addled attention span. Times,Sunday Times The big novels are anything but loose and baggy; they are made of digestible short chapters that form patterns of 'agreeable regularity'. The Times Literary Supplement I did not want to preach a whole chapter. Christianity Today On this most slender of foundations, it went on to suggest that the whole chapter was inaccurate and/or unchecked. Times, Sunday Times He deals at some length (relatively speaking) with both in the second half of the book, and spends a whole chapter on time travel (not possible, he thinks). Times, Sunday Times This immediately cuts out a whole chapter of the sledging manual. Times, Sunday Times Once the 'big' names have been taken, however, there's a sense here of the essayists rummaging among authors who don't necessarily deserve a whole chapter. Times, Sunday Times He had considered asking every expedition member to write a chapter each but this, he considered, would have reduced the sale. Times, Sunday Times They want to make history, they want to write a chapter in history. The Sun I write a chapter a day. The Sun Each week, a different author will write a chapter in the eight-part series. Globe and Mail I write a chapter about him in this new book. The Times Literary Supplement Translations: Chinese: 章 Japanese: 章 |
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