| 单词 | conventional |
| 释义 | conventional (kənvenʃənəl ) 1. adjective B2 Someone who is conventional has behaviour or opinions that are ordinary and normal. ...a respectable married woman with conventional opinions. Synonyms: proper, conservative, correct, formal conventionally adverb [usually ADVERB with verb] B2 People still wore their hair short and dressed conventionally. 2. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] B2 A conventional method or product is one that is usually used or that has been in use for a long time. ...the risks and drawbacks of conventional family planning methods. This new memory stick holds twice as much information as a conventional pen drive. conventionally adverb [ADVERB with verb] B2 The farmer was fined for passing off conventionally-produced food as organic. 3. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] Conventional weapons and wars do not involve nuclear explosives. We must reduce the danger of war by controlling nuclear, chemical and conventional arms. 4. conventional wisdom phrase The conventional wisdom about something is the generally accepted view of it. ...the conventional wisdom that soccer is a minor sport in America. Collocations: conventional engine If you want to go faster (or further) a conventional engine kicks in. Times, Sunday Times The companies have been working together on conventional engine development for five years and agreed last year to produce a four-cylinder petrol engine. Times, Sunday Times Unlike a conventional engine, they don't need revving. Times, Sunday Times They are filtered and fed into the conventional engine, where they are ignited in the cylinders to power the wheels. Times, Sunday Times Under the regulations, a car must make a noise of between 56 and 75 decibels, equivalent to that of a conventional engine. Times, Sunday Times Men, particularly those in their forties and older, who were brought up with more conventional expectations, mention a new feeling of 'freedom'. Times, Sunday Times These are events of enormous impact that are rare and virtually impossible to predict, not least because they come from beyond the realm of conventional expectations. Times, Sunday Times Or maybe they express some kind of high-handed disdain for conventional expectations of sequence. Times, Sunday Times At one level the novel we go on to read satisfies all of these conventional expectations. The Times Literary Supplement Against all conventional expectations, the cavalry succeed in breaking the squares, although with heavy casualties. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The mouse at the center of the controversy involved transplantation between two genetically similar strains, and hence had a conventional explanation. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 None of them believed they had a conventional explanation, such as a new natural phenomenon, secret government project, or psychologically enlarged meteors. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In their 2002 paper, they posited a more conventional explanation based on temperature changes causing ground tilting, but they suggested that this explanation was unlikely. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 She became interested in working in parapsychology because she was not satisfied with the conventional explanations of certain paranormal or unusual behavior. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 After only two days' review, all cases were claimed to have conventional explanations. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Organic fruit and veg don't just contain more nutrients and fewer artificial chemicals, they are grown by a system that uses 26 per cent less energy than conventional farming. Times, Sunday Times Standards of husbandry are generally much higher than would be the case for conventional farming, with a higher labour input, higher costs and, usually, lower yields. Times, Sunday Times In the initial years of transition from conventional farming there are losses in crop yields. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It was the first, side-by-side comparison of organic and conventional farming. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The transition from conventional farming to greenhouses have resulted in fewer field crops and a greater amount of the hothouse variety. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 And your conventional forces demonstrate the same capacity. The Sun It was an object lesson in the ability of irregulars and insurgents to tie down much larger conventional forces. Times, Sunday Times But the greatest risk comes from deploying conventional forces in strength. Times, Sunday Times There must also be caveats about the potential for joint operations by conventional forces. Times, Sunday Times The cash will bankroll cuttingedge projects while conventional forces are scaled back. The Sun Since no conflicts exist with other classes, faculty can arrange field trips, laboratory work, and other out-of-classroom experiences that would be impossible with the conventional format. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 As with game shows, a gray area exists between such reality television shows and more conventional formats. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 As a result, taking a chance on a series that defied conventional formats and easy categorization was an acceptable risk to the network. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The two conventional formats for newspaper comics are strips and single gag panels. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Almost all cars could run on it (at least when mixed with conventional fuel) and it could be delivered via existing pumps and pipelines. Times, Sunday Times The biofuel for last week's dogfight cost $26 a gallon — six times the rate for conventional fuel. Times, Sunday Times At least with a hybrid you have the conventional fuel system to get you to your destination. The Sun Until now, the precious metal has been an essential material in the electrode catalyst in conventional fuel cells for cars, said the company, which specialises in making small vehicles. Times, Sunday Times It added that electric cars would become more cost-competitive with conventional fuel cars. Times, Sunday Times For loans above £250,000, only companies that do not have the security to be considered for a conventional loan will be considered. Times,Sunday Times He tells a familiar tale of a bridging loan with the promise of an 'exit route' of a conventional loan. Times, Sunday Times If the commercial building was originally a residential one and you have planning permission to change it back to residential, you should be able to take out a conventional loan. Times, Sunday Times The assets will now appear as a conventional loan on the balance sheet. Times, Sunday Times It was intended to give banks confidence to support viable small companies that lack the security to get a conventional loan by providing a government guarantee on the debt. Times, Sunday Times Certainly, by conventional measures, bank shares do look exceptionally cheap. Times, Sunday Times Using conventional measures, the shares trade for just under 20 times earnings. Times,Sunday Times Equity valuations have been such in 2007 that few stocks can be considered outstandingly cheap by conventional measures. Times, Sunday Times By conventional measures, the shares look very cheap, trading on just eight times last year's adjusted earnings per share and yielding 7.2 per cent. Times, Sunday Times But the bulls say that conventional measures are daft in this era of breathtakingly low bond yields. Times, Sunday Times Yesterday he was making arrangements to return home by a more conventional method. Times, Sunday Times (2013) The synthesis of high molecular mass cinnamyl esters under conventional method conditions requires a long time to obtain high yields. 2015, 'Microwave-Assisted Synthesis of Cinnamyl Long Chain Aroma Esters', Molecules Correspondingly, the spermatogonial population was favorably maintained in the pumpless device compared to the conventional method. 2017, 'Pumpless microfluidic system driven by hydrostatic pressure induces and maintains mouse spermatogenesis in vitro', Scientific Reports Hall skilfully avoids a conventional narrative structure in favour of impressionistic tableaux, her brush strokes delicately adding layer upon layer to her characters. Times, Sunday Times The largely anonymous peasantry prospered, and their relatively favourable circumstances contradict the conventional narrative of rapid and destructive change. The Times Literary Supplement Eschewing a conventional narrative, this absorbing novel deceptively contains a crackling energy within its understated, artful prose. Times, Sunday Times Events come at you in a chaotic and unpredictable order, rather than following a conventional narrative arc. Times, Sunday Times But this conventional narrative provides the pretext for something more complex - an ambitious investigation into the nature of truth. The Times Literary Supplement It tries to delimit her within the conventional notion of womanhood. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He took the conventional notion of a bespoke 3 piece suit and turned it on its head using bold scales and mixing patterns. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 All of them exploded any conventional notions about the artist's silent muse. The Times Literary Supplement Conventional notions of what's stylish might get trampled in the snow, but that doesn't mean we're entering a status-free era. Times, Sunday Times He pioneered a free-form approach to the blues, subverting conventional notions of form and employing frequent and surprising changes of tempo and rhythm. The Times Literary Supplement I wouldn't know how to use a conventional oven. Times, Sunday Times They can use 40 per cent less energy than a conventional oven. The Sun It has the same results as a conventional oven - but it simply uses the sun. Times, Sunday Times And it will have that freshly-baked taste you normally only get from a conventional oven. The Sun Not wanting to alienate readers he ensured the dishes would equally work cooked in a conventional oven or on the stove top. Times,Sunday Times Or if not a 'pop star' in the conventional sense, then certainly a pop personality, a player beyond the mixing desk. Times, Sunday Times (2015) He was not a strong leader in the conventional sense, and lacked a compelling political agenda. Times, Sunday Times (2015) It's an armed robbery but not in the conventional sense most people would recognise. Times, Sunday Times (2013) They are not governed in the conventional sense of a proper surgical setting. Times, Sunday Times (2016) There is no effective opposition in Britain in the conventional sense, let alone an alternative government waiting in the wings. Times, Sunday Times (2016) The songs on his seventh album, while still tinged with psychedelia, have a more conventional structure and feel. The Sun It has no conventional structure and scant dialogue, just page upon page of mysticism and hope. Times, Sunday Times And so it goes on, over 17 extremely strange tracks, most of which are devoid of conventional structure or rhythm and some are merely skits. Times, Sunday Times It should be noted however that some plays do not adhere to this conventional structure. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A conventional structure based on welded steel tube fuselage and steel-tube tail, aluminium alloy ribs with wooden wings was employed. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Reflectors that do not produce a lock signal can not be tracked using the conventional technique. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He said fracking was 'probably not necessary' and the oil could be extracted using conventional techniques. Times, Sunday Times The fossils had been almost impossible to study using conventional techniques. Times,Sunday Times He was criticised for his work's lack of social and political awareness and avoidance of adult relationships, love and marriage, and for his conventional techniques. Times, Sunday Times He was so unimpressed by conventional techniques for treating it that he decided to create his own. Times, Sunday Times The resulting swirls of molten metal create electric currents that in turn produce the planet's magnetic field, the conventional theory suggests. Times, Sunday Times Criticisms of the conventional theory are usually associated with theories of endogenous money. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Such a formalism includes the conventional theory of generalized functions (without their product) as a special case. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 When heat was also applied to the unheated arm, conventional theory predicted that the circulatory flow would slow or stop completely. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Advocates of the behavioral approach also challenged the omission of the element of uncertainty from the conventional theory. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The patients were selected after conventional therapy had failed at least twice. Times, Sunday Times Among those on conventional therapy, only 23 per cent achieved this. Times, Sunday Times Alternative therapies should be used in conjunction with conventional therapy. The Sun However, triple conventional therapy - an antihistamine tablet, steroid nasal spray and cromoglycate eye drops - should control all but the most severe hay fever if used daily throughout the season. Times, Sunday Times Autologous transplantation may increase benefit from conventional therapy and high dose melphalan may prolong progression free and overall survival. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 But this might just be wishful, conventional thinking about a novel that is resolutely concerned with metanarrative rather than narrative. The Times Literary Supplement (2012) The conventional thinking is still that this transition goes along with too much food and not enough physical activity. Times, Sunday Times (2017) This combination of funding needs is difficult to serve with conventional thinking. Times, Sunday Times (2012) That is a dramatic turnaround and goes against all conventional thinking. Times, Sunday Times (2013) The power of this culture of shameless self-promotion is overturning all conventional thinking and inducing moral panic. Times, Sunday Times (2007) It uses hydrogen that has been made using natural gas or power-station electricity, so ultimately it's no cleaner than a conventional vehicle. Times, Sunday Times The overall cost of an electric car remains unfeasible at about double that of a conventional vehicle. Times, Sunday Times With a permanent four-wheel-drive system and the benefit of a high and low-ratio box it will easily outperform a conventional vehicle on poor surfaces. Times, Sunday Times Running costs and fuel are also a fraction of those required of a conventional vehicle. Times, Sunday Times Conventional vehicle access possible in the dry season only. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Not quite the conventional view of those timeless streets, perhaps, but compelling all the same. Times, Sunday Times But studies of pain and the brain have, over the past few decades, shown the striking limitations of this conventional view. Times, Sunday Times However, elsewhere he leaves the reader in no doubt that his book conforms to a more conventional view of 1914-18. The Times Literary Supplement Forget, for a moment, the conventional view of books, as objects that deliver entertainment or information, something to read on the train. Times, Sunday Times When scientists started investigating the genome, the conventional view was that all that mattered were a few tens of thousands of genes that encoded proteins. Times, Sunday Times They have taken the nuclear option where conventional warfare would have sufficed. Times, Sunday Times Conventional warfare (and the reporting of war) requires target areas, fronts, advances and victories. Times, Sunday Times The war started as an insurgency and progressed to a large-scale conflict with the mixture of guerrilla and conventional warfare. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A people's war that showed how a superior force can be worn down by lesser military strength contrary to the classic rules of conventional warfare. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Besides training for their conventional warfare role, different infantry battalions specialise in unique roles. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 常规的 Japanese: 慣例にのっとった |
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