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单词 concentrate
释义
concentrate
(kɒnsəntreɪt )
Word forms: concentrates , concentrating , concentrated
1. verb B1
If you concentrate on something, or concentrate your mind on it, you give all your attention to it.
It was up to him to concentrate on his studies and make something of himself. [VERB + on]
Water companies should concentrate on reducing waste instead of building new reservoirs. [V on n/-ing]
At work you need to be able to concentrate. [VERB]
This helps you to be aware of time and concentrates your mind on the immediate task. [VERB noun + on]
2. verb [usually passive]
If something is concentrated in an area, it is all there rather than being spread around.
Italy's industrial districts are concentrated in its north-central and north-eastern regions. [be V-ed in n]
Most development has been concentrated in and around cities. [be VERB-ed + in]
[Also be V-ed adv]
3. variable noun
Concentrate is a liquid or substance from which water has been removed in order to make it stronger, or to make it easier to store.
...orange juice made from concentrate.
4. concentrate someone's mind phrase
If you say that an unpleasant fact or situation concentrates someone's mind, you mean that it makes them think clearly, because they are aware of the serious consequences if they do not.
A term in prison will concentrate his mind wonderfully.
Collocations:
concentrate exclusively on
The institution then ceased providing college programs to concentrate exclusively on the university programs.
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In 1949, following a factory fire, the decision was made to concentrate exclusively on electrical wiring devices (switches and sockets).
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For that to happen, 'government must move away from concentrating exclusively on support to young first-time buyers'.
Times, Sunday Times
He also has a bar menu that concentrates exclusively on smaller plates.
Globe and Mail
In the 1640s he returned to printing concentrating exclusively on etching.
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concentrate fully on
The suspension can prop that up without thinking, and so concentrate fully on what it's supposed to be doing.
Times,Sunday Times
I can concentrate fully on committing myself to the club.
Times, Sunday Times
Only recently have the band members been able to concentrate fully on music.
The Sun
So it was a case of getting him to think clearly, learn when to concentrate fully on the task at hand and when to switch off.
The Sun
That can be really good as it allows me to concentrate fully on the melody and the lyrics.
The Sun
concentrate hard
When viewers were concentrating hard on another visual task, subliminal images of household objects failed to be registered by the brain.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
You must concentrate hard to try to generate powerful theta waves - a type of brain wave that can be associated with meditation.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
You had, however, to concentrate hard to pick up that biographical detail from this annoyingly uninquisitive film.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
concentrate heavily on
But it still allows schools the option to concentrate heavily on literary works.
Times, Sunday Times
To lead or sustain with innovations, managers need to concentrate heavily on the innovation network, which requires deep understanding of the complexity of innovation.
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This discouraged many sheriffs from concentrating heavily on law enforcement.
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Concentrating heavily on vocal harmonies, they quickly put a show together and began booking themselves in local bars and restaurants.
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The book concentrates heavily on where he eats and the people he eats with and the unusual flavours he tastes on the road.
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concentrate mainly on
The programmes concentrate mainly on practical work, but also include theory.
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They concentrate mainly on cultivation and cattle breeding, as it pertains to dairy farming.
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The smiths gradually came to concentrate mainly on making sheet metal or plate.
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Current government policies concentrate mainly on the improvement of energy efficiency, in both residential and industrial sectors, as well as increasing renewable energy.
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As a college student, he concentrated mainly on the sociological end of issues.
Christianity Today
concentrate mostly on
Both have concentrated mostly on defeating their common enemy.
Times, Sunday Times
The police procedural takes its remit for realism a bit too far this week, concentrating mostly on how one person extracts information from another in the interview room.
Times, Sunday Times
In later years, he concentrated mostly on mathematics.
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He concentrated mostly on security matters, and did not become involved in foreign policy decisions.
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He undertook a wide range of civil legal work, but his practice concentrated mostly on wills, trusts and estates.
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concentrate power
The dynasty tried to eradicate local warlords and concentrate power in its hands, but this in fact only increased the level of hostility.
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He was concerned for the good of the collective and ever suspicious of those who wished to concentrate power in the hands of the few.
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And union mergers have concentrated power in fewer and fewer hands.
Times, Sunday Times
They have concentrated power in the hands of the apparat and its activist followers.
Times,Sunday Times
The problem with the 'trusts', to use the term of the time, was that they concentrated power in private hands to the detriment of the commonwealth.
Times, Sunday Times
concentrate primarily on
The paintings concentrate primarily on expressing feelings and moods rather than reproducing objective reality, usually distorting colour and form.
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However, it now concentrates primarily on its meat and coffee products.
Times, Sunday Times
In his professional life, after striking it big with the first of his two famous series, he eschewed big-budget bluster, concentrating primarily on independent film.
Times, Sunday Times
But both collections, concentrating primarily on the first half of the twentieth century, gather together articles that shed light on interesting and sometimes littleknown aspects.
The Times Literary Supplement
She began painting again, and now concentrates primarily on her art.
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concentrate resources
Many big companies are narrowing their science to concentrate resources on a handful of therapeutic areas.
Times, Sunday Times
It will concentrate resources in one place and sounds the safest and quickest way to get us going again.
The Sun
Labour preferred to credit the size of its victory, with 55 per cent of the vote, to its decision to concentrate resources on local organisation.
Times, Sunday Times
I now hear of plans to merge the two into one from the summer - not owing to any financial cutbacks, but to concentrate resources and efforts into one stronger channel.
Times, Sunday Times
As a result of the move, which will concentrate resources in more winnable areas, some results have already been settled.
Times, Sunday Times
concentrate solely on
Players often ignore the upside of making a bold play and concentrate solely on the negatives.
Times,Sunday Times
Normally at a racecourse you can shut out the crowd and concentrate solely on how you ride your horse.
The Sun
I'll just stay in our changing room give the team talk and concentrate solely on winning a game which we desperately need to win.
The Sun
With this weight off his mind and his future sorted, he can concentrate solely on playing his very best football.
The Sun
Don't concentrate solely on 'moles', however.
Times, Sunday Times
concentrate wealth
The unfettered market, on this view, concentrates wealth at the centre and starves the provinces.
Times,Sunday Times
It increases social inequality by concentrating wealth in similar households.
Times, Sunday Times
A new way of concentrating wealth in art supplants the old, leading to rows about whether such trade should be happening at all and, if so, where and between whom.
The Times Literary Supplement
Subsidies have concentrated wealth in the hands of a minority.
Times, Sunday Times
concentrated largely
Losses were concentrated largely in wheat.
canada.com
For several years, she concentrated largely on this work, and played little in the way of concerts.
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Revolutionary sentiment was concentrated largely among the more educated and urban sectors of the populace.
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He concentrated largely on smaller neighborhood venues during this period.
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fruit concentrate
They would have been filled with liquid hydrogen peroxide disguised with food dye and fruit concentrate.
The Sun
It's a striped fruit roll made with real fruit concentrate and real yogurt.
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She has also indicated that the fruit concentrates are just sugar.
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Translations:
Chinese: 集中
Japanese: 集中する
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