| 单词 | experiment |
| 释义 | experiment Word forms: experiments, experimenting , experimented pronunciation note: The noun is pronounced (ɪksperɪmənt ). The verb is pronounced (ɪksperɪment ). 1. variable noun B1 An experiment is a scientific test which is done in order to discover what happens to something in particular conditions. He carried out a series of experiments on the properties of plants. ...a proposed new law on animal experiments. This question can be answered only by experiment. Synonyms: test, trial, investigation, examination 2. verb B2 If you experiment with something or experiment on it, you do a scientific test on it in order to discover what happens to it in particular conditions. In 1857 Mendel started experimenting with peas in his monastery garden. [V + with/on] The scientists have already experimented at each other's test sites. [VERB] experimentation (ɪksperɪmenteɪʃən ) uncountable noun ...the ethical aspects of animal experimentation. experimenter Word forms: experimenters countable noun When the experimenters repeated the tests, they observed an opposite effect. 3. variable noun B1+ An experiment is the trying out of a new idea or method in order to see what it is like and what effects it has. As an experiment, we bought Ted a watch. ...the country's five year experiment in democracy. She needs plenty of room for experiment in her life. 4. verb B2 To experiment means to try out a new idea or method to see what it is like and what effects it has. ...if you like cooking and have the time to experiment. [VERB] He believes that students should be encouraged to experiment with bold ideas. [VERB + with] experimentation uncountable noun Decentralization and experimentation must be encouraged. Collocations: experiment fails When a scientific experiment fails, its findings can still be useful and lead to better, successful experiments. Times,Sunday Times If the experiment fails, it isn't art; if it succeeds, it isn't an experiment. Times, Sunday Times Experiment fails due to use of non-identical sisters. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 You can always try another approach; even change your subject when a scientific strategy or experiment fails. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 However, his experiment fails numerous times. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In among the gimmickry, we had meteor craters, moon rocks and an experiment involving lava. Times, Sunday Times (2013) Their clinching experiment involved a piece of adhesive tape. Times, Sunday Times (2014) An experiment involving rice plants found that classical music triggered activity in two genes. Times, Sunday Times (2009) This simulation method was verified by a shock tube experiment involving pulverized coal and gas flow. 2017, 'Propagation characteristics of pulverized coal and gas two-phase flow during an outburst', PLOS ONE If this experiment proves effective, other such regional conferences may be held in other parts of the country. Christianity Today If the experiment proves a success, all companies will be forced to offer their personnel the bike bonus, according to the transport ministry. Times, Sunday Times Alas, this experiment proves no more successful than the first. The Times Literary Supplement For others, the short-lived experiment proves the futility of economic forecasting. Times, Sunday Times As the scientists among you are shouting, this uncontrolled experiment proves nothing. Times, Sunday Times The no-handshake experiment resulted in no behavioural changes. The Sun Our room was definitely the science faculty, with a diagram of the brain, star charts and experiment results pinned to the wall. The Sun These experiments resulted in developing the use of radar for fire control. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The experiment resulted in both of them temporary losing their powers for almost a month. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Serial dilutions are used to accurately create highly diluted solutions as well as solutions for experiments resulting in concentration curves with a logarithmic scale. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The experiment reveals that each vowel has a character, and lends itself to different kinds of sound and to different lengths of word. Times, Sunday Times However, the experiment reveals the opposite - immediately following reversal, the flashed object was lagging behind the moving object. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This simple experiment reveals that coreshell fibers are promising objects for preparing biosensors based on biological objects. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A natural experiment reveals the prevalence of one kind of unwarranted optimism. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Film footage of the experiment shows he actually spent four-and-ahalf hours talking to a fire extinguisher. The Sun This experiment shows that ordinary citizens are perfectly capable of undertaking complex governmental tasks. Times, Sunday Times But my experiment shows that carrier bags are not the bags of choice. Times, Sunday Times If nothing else, the experiment shows that the age-old binary of text and performance remains a source of perplexing fascination. The Times Literary Supplement One experiment shows a dot moving across a screen until it contacts a second dot, whereupon it stops and the second dot starts to move in the same direction. Times, Sunday Times Half-hour power naps can reverse much of the chemical damage done to the body by a poor night's sleep, an experiment suggests. Times, Sunday Times The experiment suggests that even if we aren't naturally savers, we can use tricks to persuade our brains to behave more as though we are. Times, Sunday Times Now, though, a new experiment suggests that free will could be back. Times, Sunday Times This experiment suggests that the hypoactivity might represent a failure to match the actual and predicted sensory feedback, resulting in an inhibition of the movement. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 You almost want to weep for its vanished glory and its failed experiment. Times, Sunday Times It was a failed experiment and the language barrier has made socialising difficult. Times, Sunday Times It's the result of the failed experiment of multi-culturalism. The Sun We will have to wait to find out whether these changes prove successful and durable or are just yet another failed experiment. Times,Sunday Times After last season's 'failed experiment', he expects the change to be better than a rest. Times, Sunday Times In one famous experiment a large cohort of people was given personalised astrological profiles and asked if they were accurate. Times, Sunday Times One famous experiment pitted two groups of business students against one another in an exercise in playing the stock market. Times, Sunday Times In one famous experiment, a group of schoolgirls were given a test. Times, Sunday Times I am reminded of a famous experiment into how different nationalities regard touch. Times, Sunday Times The modern era of origins-of-life research began in 1953 with what remains to this day as the most famous experiment in biogenesis. Times, Sunday Times Seed removal by granivores beneath and outside the dragon tree canopies was assessed through a field experiment. 2019, 'Unraveling the Seed Dispersal System of an Insular “Ghost” Dragon Tree (Dracaena draco) in the Wild', Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution A field experiment was carried out in the years 2008-2010 on rendzina soil. 2012, 'Weed infestation of crops of winter spelt wheat (Triticum aestivum ssp. spelta) cultivars grown under different conditions of mineral fertilization and chemical plant protection', Acta Agrobotanica The soil used to prepare the solutions came from a field experiment established on medium heavy mixed rendzina soil. 2012, 'The effect of soil extracts from a monoculture of spring wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) grown under different tillage systems on the germination of its seeds', Acta Agrobotanica Although the doublers know almost nothing of nuclear science, they once conducted a massive genetic experiment to enhance the species. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 There are tanks on the streets and wild rumours about secret genetic experiments that have gone horribly wrong. Times, Sunday Times The genetic experiments endow them with wings and the ability to survive in space without oxygen or protection from the rigours of space. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Further, the selfing nature of this plant assists genetic experiments. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He created numerous genetic experiments each with unique abilities and characteristics. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The details of this grand experiment only heightened these concerns. The Times Literary Supplement A sad parade of the bereaved will find themselves part of a grand experiment in emotional theatre. Times, Sunday Times I remember thinking it was quite appropriate that they were the figureheads for this grand experiment in anonymous transactions, given that it was so difficult to tell which was which. Times, Sunday Times My grand experiment would last 14 days. Times, Sunday Times He must also agree to have their conversations taped to provide evidence for her grand experiment. Times, Sunday Times Roll up your sleeves and join the workshop's scientists for some messy hands-on experiments. Times, Sunday Times Get involved with hands-on experiments, including making volcanos, building skeletons and designing helicopters at this event to celebrate science week. Times, Sunday Times Its core premises include the requirement that learning should be based on doing some hands-on experiments and activities. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Classes involve hands-on experiments in order to encourage interactive learning. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This has three small laboratories where schoolchildren can try out various hands-on experiments, using physics equipment not usually available in the average school laboratory. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It's an interesting experiment to take away the one thing that people would use to describe you. Times, Sunday Times If you're not a fan of the traditional sitcom, here's an interesting experiment. Times, Sunday Times Interesting experiment, putting your mobile in the wash. Times, Sunday Times At the very least, it would be an interesting experiment. Times, Sunday Times There was an interesting experiment a few years back when they tested what effect choice had on supermarket shopping. Times, Sunday Times Sounds like great lab experiment in political science, doesn't it? Globe and Mail The answers delivered are, however, usually qualitatively different since dynamical and geometric similitude are difficult to enforce simultaneously between the lab experiment and the prototype. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The story proper begins when a lab experiment involving bacteriophages backfires spectacularly. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Examples of this include the common undergraduate organic lab experiment involving the acetylation of salicylic acid to yield aspirin. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In lab experiments it lost one second in nine million years. Times, Sunday Times In a laboratory experiment, researchers found that the cassiosomes are capable of incapacitating brine shrimp, providing evidence that the jellyfish release cassiosomes to stun prey before eating them. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Watching this mostly young team, one had the sense of watching an ambitious laboratory experiment. Times, Sunday Times More specifically, from a laboratory experiment of fish watching other fish. The Scientist When pursuing a laboratory experiment, the experimenter can not account for every possible factor that would normally occur in the original environment. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 For example, in a laboratory experiment, soybean aphids that fed on potassium-deficient soybean experienced increased fecundity and survivorship. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 And, in the first ever large-scale experiment of its kind, we used people power to try to bring about a quantifiable improvement in air quality for a single day. Times, Sunday Times Large-scale experiments were done in the 1970s, including team teaching and open classrooms. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Models enable researchers to simulate large-scale experiments that would be too costly or unethical to perform on a real ecosystem. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Bell directed large-scale experiments at a cost of up to 50,000, resulting in a basic steel process which produced steel rails containing no more than 0.07% phosphorus. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A search was under way last night for a nurse who has malaria, which was injected into him at the start of a medical experiment. Times, Sunday Times Little did they realise that they were witnessing the start of a medical experiment. Times, Sunday Times He owns a shark which was being used in a medical experiment and injures one of the scientists in one episode. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Microgravity also affects proteins and bacteria, creating an opportunity for medical experiments. Times, Sunday Times Naturally, the medical experiments in this indie horror get nastier and three hours afterwards my own legs were still wobbly. Times, Sunday Times A noble experiment thus ended up feeling gimmicky and half-baked. Times, Sunday Times By the end of the “noble experiment” distilled spirits made up more than 75 percent of alcohol sales. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In them we carry our values, our lessons for living, our hopes and dreams, our felt remembrance of humanity as a noble experiment. Times, Sunday Times The production resulted in 22 milligrams of berkelium, enough to perform the experiment. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This time, he immediately went to his lab to perform the experiment. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Nobody needed to perform the experiment, because singles rates with all detectors in the 1970s were at least ten times all the coincidence rates. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He eventually had the same dream on another night, and decided to run to the laboratory to perform the experiment in the middle of the night. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The programme, which was made in 1985, includes footage from the second time she performed the experiment in 1970 and revisits the pupils to ask how it affected them. Times,Sunday Times A few years ago an alarming story about a physics experiment ran prominently in another newspaper. Times, Sunday Times This was the sport's equivalent of a physics experiment: what happens when a large object moving downwards collides with a smaller vessel climbing rapidly? Times, Sunday Times Not only were these the first computerized weather forecasts, but it was the first time scientists had ever succeeded in using a computer to conduct a physics experiment. Smithsonian Mag He was involved with biological, microbiological, genetic and physics experiments. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This invention allowed particle physics experiments at much higher energies than had previously been possible. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It was all an elaborate art project and psychological experiment. Times, Sunday Times A popular dating website deliberately mismatched its unsuspecting members as part of a psychological experiment that has angered ethics experts. Times, Sunday Times The research, which draws on the findings of more than 20 international academic studies, describes the government programme in secondary schools as a 'large-scale psychological experiment'. Times, Sunday Times Psychological experiments that proffer statistical evidence for readers' reactions are blended with philosophical arguments about aesthetic engagement and personal anecdote. The Times Literary Supplement Psychological experiments show how the same facts are interpreted differently by people according to their prior narratives. Times, Sunday Times Classic psychology experiments in the 1970s revealed that certain expres-sions of emotion, including happiness, anger, fear and disgust, are universal across cultures. Times, Sunday Times A 2015 study found that out of 100 well-known psychology experiments, only 39 were successfully reproduced. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In psychology experiments, participants put first into enforced boredom are more likely to be cruel and to leap to judgment. Times, Sunday Times The listeners were examined on their perseverance, visual attention, verbal memory and logical and creative thinking through several games borrowed from previous psychology experiments. Times, Sunday Times For this reason, many social psychology experiments utilize deception to conceal or distort certain aspects of the study. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 What surprised you the most about this radical experiment? Christianity Today What sane democracy imposes such a radical experiment about the future on the very people who have to inhabit it against their will? Times, Sunday Times Alarmingly, the most radical experiment, allowing handling in the ruck, has never been trialled in a serious professional competition. Times, Sunday Times The great innovations in science have usually stemmed from daring and radical experiments rather than the tried and the trusted. Times, Sunday Times An emphatic focus on communication with a new mass audience framed their most radical experiments. The Times Literary Supplement Still, we should salute his indefatigability: so abject was his abasement that no politician will repeat his experiment too quickly. Times, Sunday Times He fell short of saying the team were eager to repeat the experiment next year. Times, Sunday Times The scientists plan to repeat the experiment with human stem cells. Times, Sunday Times They were then asked to repeat the experiment, this time using neutral words, such as 'table'. Times, Sunday Times So why can't we repeat the experiment with academic education? Times, Sunday Times However, many scientists tried to replicate the experiment without success; flaws and sources of error were discovered in the original experiment. Times, Sunday Times Note the fundamental requirement to be able to replicate the experiment. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Over the next several months others tried to replicate the experiment, but were unsuccessful. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Despite being endorsed by venerable institutions, they share a basic flaw: when other scientists tried to replicate the experiments, they came up with completely different results. Times, Sunday Times Many other scientists tried to replicate his experiments. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 No longer does he look like a science experiment gone awry. Times, Sunday Times (2012) The pain clinic scenes start to feel as if we are zipping in and out of some sort of theatrical science experiment. Times, Sunday Times (2017) It was not your routine scientific experiment. Times, Sunday Times (2014) Meanwhile, he took part in more than 250 scientific experiments. Times, Sunday Times (2016) I get to do research at CERN, the world's largest scientific experiment. The Sun (2010) If we look at the past three decades as a social experiment, the results are not in the least comforting. Times, Sunday Times (2007) Numerous social experiments show that making public commitments has a very strong effect on those signing up to them. Times, Sunday Times (2007) He is fighting a large number of critics who argue that social experiments involving drugs and alcohol are dangerous and rarely succeed - as happened with prohibition in the 1920s. Times, Sunday Times (2014) Tax credits for specific industries are also under consideration, mirroring a successful experiment for video game developers. Times,Sunday Times So, a highly successful experiment all round. Times, Sunday Times Starting in the 1930s, the university conducted a more successful experiment on the college. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Construction of the town, which was for over thirty years a successful experiment in communal living, began in 1844. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In a partially successful experiment, he used wooden formwork to imprint a texture onto the concrete (but he chose to cover it up). Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 实验 Japanese: 実験 |
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