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单词 identity
释义
identity
(aɪdentɪti )
Word forms: identities
1. countable noun [with poss] B2
Your identity is who you are.
Abu is not his real name, but it's one he uses to disguise his identity.
The police soon established his true identity and he was quickly found.
Synonyms: name, details, specification  
2. variable noun [oft with poss, adjective NOUN] B2
The identity of a person or place is the characteristics they have that distinguish them from others.
I wanted a sense of my own identity.
...the distinct cultural, religious and national identity of many Italians.
Synonyms: individuality, self, character, personality  
Collocations:
adopt an identity
In British law, simply disappearing and adopting a new identity is not a crime.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
If that were the case then terrorists and criminals would find it nearly impossible to adopt multiple identities.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
It is the powerful true story of a transgender teenager who gradually adopted a female identity.
The Sun (2009)
collective identity
By joining in with others, you forge this collective identity.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Without shared values and a sense of collective identity, no society can sustain itself for long.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
This is why summer camps live on in the part of the American imagination that helps to form its collective identity.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
conceal the identity of
The consultancy was not set up to conceal the identity of clients.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Tax laws allowed them to conceal the identity of their donors.
Time Magazine (2014)
The lengths to which they went to conceal the identity of the person or persons make the contacts look suspicious.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
confirm the identity of
Police were also trying to confirm the identity of the 40-year-old victim.
The Sun (2012)
A spokeswoman for the Lotto refused to confirm the identity of the jackpot winner.
The Sun (2015)
After his identity was confirmed, he was arrested.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
cultural identity
The wealth of marine life contributes significantly to the country's economy and cultural identity.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Much of her photography is concerned with issues of migration and cultural identity.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
It has become an integral part of our cultural identities.
The Times Literary Supplement (2014)
disclose the identity of
The BBC has not disclosed the identities of the individuals nor details of their positions.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Should football clubs be forced to disclose the identity of their owners?
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Their identities were not disclosed and it was unclear last night whether they were still in custody.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
discover the identity of
They both attempted to discover the identity of the man in the photograph.
The Sun (2006)
Your love life will be full of surprises, especially when you discover the identity of a secret admirer.
The Sun (2012)
The model was looking forward last night to discovering the identity of the alleged acquaintance who insulted her.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
distinct identity
They have long had a distinct identity of their own.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Partnership is also obscured when the two people have distinct public identities.
Christianity Today (2000)
The members of the little church feared they were losing their distinct identity.
America Past and Present (1995)
distinctive identity
Graffiti often has a distinctive local identity.
The Times Literary Supplement (2014)
They are therefore free to chisel out a distinctive political identity for themselves.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Although it sounds strange to attribute human qualities to organizations, they do have distinctive identities.
Personnel Management: A New Approach (1991)
establish an identity
For years I put all my efforts into establishing an identity apart from my mom.
Christianity Today (2000)
So how do you go about establishing a local identity?
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Social media has made establishing a trustworthy identity easy, enabling countless frauds.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
ethnic identity
When were you first made aware of your racial and ethnic identity?
Christianity Today (2000)
Perhaps no football club in the 20th century had a more distinct ethnic identity.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
There are different countries of origin, languages and ethnic identities.
Christianity Today (2000)
fake identity
The isolation of making it under a fake identity is just too lonely.
The Sun (2010)
I won't name names but they usually hide behind fake identities online while they snipe at their rivals.
The Sun (2013)
Tough security measures after the September 11 terrorist attacks meant that his fake identity was detected.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
false identity
His false identity was very convincing.
The Sun (2008)
Using a false identity he claimed he was virtually paralysed and needed 24- hour care.
The Sun (2011)
She made three unsuccessful claims for asylum, one in her own identity and two in false identities.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
forge an identity
As a band, they have forged an instantly recognisable identity.
The Sun (2012)
By joining in with others, you forge this collective identity.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
In their teenage years they are forging identities out of understanding what makes them look, act, and feel the same as and different from other people.
The Guide to Lesbian and Gay Parenting (1993)
identity thief
Both of these answers are misleading as an identity thief could easily recover deleted or uninstalled files.
The Sun
The identity thief retains his own name and place in society while making unlawful use of someone else's more advantageous financial status.
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Identity thieves and salespeople will have a field day.
The Sun
Equipped with such detail, identity thieves could plunder bank accounts, obtain credit cards and take out fraudulent loans.
Times, Sunday Times
Use different passwords for different sites to make it harder for identity thieves.
Times, Sunday Times
indigenous identity
A side effect of the missionary strategy was the development of a new and autonomous form of indigenous identity.
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His research interests reflect an interdisciplinary orientation that includes ethno-philosophy, ethnicity, and indigenous identities.
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Much of the state still maintains a number of strong indigenous identities.
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individual identity
But we live in a very different world, in which individual identity looms larger than collective membership.
Times, Sunday Times
More like a living jukebox, the performer's individual identity seldom takes first place.
The Times Literary Supplement
They capture a spirit of individual identity that survives the passing centuries, impelling the spectator to ponder the secrets that are only now being unlocked.
Times, Sunday Times
This can result, she maintains, in a failure to build highly personalised individual conceptual frameworks - the whole point of education and the basis of individual identity.
Times, Sunday Times
Thinking personalises your brain, she concludes, giving you a sense of individual identity that will make you 'truly creative'.
Times, Sunday Times
maintain an identity
Yet he relished the challenge of trying to maintain his identity in a constricting format.
Times, Sunday Times
I had to work hard to maintain my identity so as not to isolate myself.
The Sun
Together, these pathways provide the initial specification of the paraxial mesoderm and maintain this identity.
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It has been designed with very small tanks to maintain the identity of each soil parcel.
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The mathematical theory explains why dislocations behave as stable particles: they can be moved around, but they maintain their identity as they move.
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multiple identities
Everybody has multiple identities, she points out.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
The virtue of democratic politics remains the way it binds a nation of multiple identities.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
After all, the joy of Christmas lies in its multiple identities.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
national identity
National identity is more important than power.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
National identities that count for something cannot be dreamt up by committees.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
National identity is, at the same time, both a benign way of binding a nation together and a malign means of excluding others.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
own identity
You need to find your own identity.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
California in particular has been slow to establish its own identity.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Both women stress that it is important to keep your own identity and interests in a relationship and not be subsumed by the other person.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
personal identity
Role expectations are extremely important sources of personal identity.
Sociology (1995)
In a church our size, we lose a measure of that personal identity.
Christianity Today (2000)
We don't need to appeal to personal identity to do the job.
The Times Literary Supplement (2012)
preserve the identity
Green belts around urban connurbations have been designated since the 1950s to preserve the identity of communities and give them access to countryside.
Times, Sunday Times
Can they condition approval on the existence of effective marketplace mechanisms to preserve the identity of lots and channel commodities to specific uses?
The Scientist
To preserve their identity and mutual aid they created several organizations.
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Wrestlers whose masks are removed or damaged in the ring will often allow themselves to be pinned in the scripted context of the match's storyline, to preserve their identity.
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His plan preserved the identity of all existing clubs.
Times, Sunday Times
protect the identity of
The women's names have been kept secret to protect the identities of their children.
The Sun (2013)
She is fiercely keen to protect the identity of all concerned - and not surprisingly.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
He would not say any more to protect the identity of the winner.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
regional identity
Bring back gritty realism, an economy based on tangible production, trains, a sense of community and proud regional identity, in place of fatuous optimism, services, aeroplanes, individualism and globalisation.
Times, Sunday Times
Regional identity must also be honoured.
Times,Sunday Times
A sense of place grew with the population, a regional identity that invariably modified the landscape and left traces for the archaeologist.
The Times Literary Supplement
Forget regional identity and promote the grape?
Times, Sunday Times
Despite the difficulties, the priority was to focus on the regional identity of the network, with coverage of local and regional events.
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retain an identity
Some may be 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) in diameter and retain their identity for more than three years.
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Meridian for a while managed to still retain some identity, by featuring their (sun/moon face) logo on the local weather forecast.
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Despite this, the two populations remain identifiably different, conforming to an alternative definition of species as taxa that retain their identity despite gene flow.
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Yet some chongas chose to retain the identity into their twenties.
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We begin with contradictions in our ideas of bodies: between seeing bodies as ever-changing bundles of distinct qualities, and seeing bodies as simple unities that retain their identity across time.
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reveal the identity of
The head coach added that he would reveal the identity of his captain today.
Times, Sunday Times
The branding specialists did not reveal the identity of the interested parties, otherwise we could just have approached the companies direct.
The Sun
Rovers had hoped to reveal the identity of their new boss yesterday.
The Sun
The club have less than two weeks to reveal the identity of their owners.
The Sun
This could end doubts about a relationship or reveal the identity of your secret admirer.
The Sun
secret identity
He's also the rightful king by birth, having recently learnt of his secret identity.
Times, Sunday Times
He has a secret identity and sticky stuff comes out of his wrists.
The Sun
He has a secret identity, he's hellbent on vengeance.
The Sun
A reallife secret identity responsible for a book full of them!
Times, Sunday Times
He's got it all - tragic beginnings, a secret identity, arch enemies ...
Times, Sunday Times
sense of identity
So doesn't it follow that it should be closely entwined with our sense of identity?
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Its substantial range of interviewees includes speakers who give particular insights into the reggae star's background and its effect on his sense of identity.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
It is a great part of happiness, but our own sense of identity and self-worth is equally as important.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
separate identity
That 'someone else' becomes a separate identity - and thus the disorder develops.
The Sun
The more people are encouraged to see themselves as separate from others, the more they will form separate identity groups, with separate interests.
Times, Sunday Times
It boasts a separate identity, characterized by adventure and experiment.
The Times Literary Supplement
As a result, this new series initially struggles to establish a separate identity.
Times, Sunday Times
For those wanting to pretend they are someone else on a night out, its custom profiles allow users to provide an entirely separate identity from their personal or professional profile.
The Sun
shape the identity
She talks about sleepless nights and the people looking to shape her identity.
Times, Sunday Times
He has really helped shape the identity of this band.
The Sun
It sees the restored waterway as one of five defining projects which will help improve and shape the identity of the town for the future.
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For decades major industries shaped the identity of the city.
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Often her characters are striving to find the answers to big questions that will help shape their identities.
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shared identity
This unifying function has particular significance in young nations still making inroads into the concept of a shared identity.
Times, Sunday Times
He uses a classical dilemma in exploring how a demos, the shared identity of a people, might be acquired.
The Times Literary Supplement
It's in the culture, part of our shared identity.
Christianity Today
The shared identity has an air of the degenerate and the pathological.
The Times Literary Supplement
This includes clauses about staff being 'student-centred', aiming to 'go the extra mile' and having a 'shared identity'.
Times, Sunday Times
steal the identity of
In each case he had stolen the identity of a real eBay user.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Crooks are stealing the identities of real legal practices to con you and your solicitor.
The Sun (2013)
He also used a stolen identity and acted as a translator for gang members during their interviews with benefits officials.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
strong identity
He's also got a strong identity, that's part of his charm.
The Sun
That's why we need a really strong identity.
The Sun
She knew she wanted a strong identity, one that wasn't quite like any other on the high street.
Times, Sunday Times
Three perfumes, each very different, each possessed of a strong identity.
Times, Sunday Times
A strong identity for the main retail area can also vastly improve experience and sustainability.
Times, Sunday Times
true identity
I discovered the true identity of the woman and traced her in the UK.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Doubts grew in the chamber about her true identity.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Finding out her true identity has made sense of many aspects of her life.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
unique identity
Turkey is an intriguing country with a unique identity straddling both Europe and Asia.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Making changes to dolls gives them a unique identity.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
The great irony of this story is that America's unique identity grew out of an attempt to reproduce England.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
verify the identity of
France and Germany said they were unable to verify the identities of the French and German passport holders named in Dubai.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The group aims to establish an industry standard to verify the identity of property owners advertising on rental websites.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Men were called forward for a screening process and their identity was verified against photographs on a computer database.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Translations:
Chinese: 身份
Japanese: 身元
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