单词 | meaningful |
释义 | meaningful (miːnɪŋfʊl ) 1. adjective B2 If you describe something as meaningful, you mean that it is serious, important, or useful in some way. She believes these talks will be the start of a constructive and meaningful dialogue. He asked people to tell him about a meaningful event or period in their lives. meaningfully graded adverb [ADVERB with verb] B2 This in effect denied them their right to participate meaningfully in elections. 2. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] A meaningful look or gesture is one that is intended to express something, usually to a particular person, without anything being said. Upon the utterance of this word, Dan and Harry exchanged a quick, meaningful look. meaningfully adverb [usually ADVERB after verb, oft ADV -ed] He glanced meaningfully at the other police officer, then he went up the stairs. 'Who's your publisher?'—'Lockett Press,' she said, and she raised an eyebrow meaningfully. 3. See also meaningfully Collocations: meaningful communication In the absence of meaningful communication between brain and left foot about where to aim, it was probably no surprise that he missed completely. Times, Sunday Times Even worse, their 'language of love' was identified as an impediment to meaningful communication. Times, Sunday Times If we don't protect that right, the end result will be no kind of meaningful communication whatsoever. Times, Sunday Times That's denial; meaningful communication has ceased. Christianity Today The explicit aim of the conferences was to promote meaningful communication across scientific disciplines, and restore unity to science. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 But ministers should also hold a meaningful debate about nurturing a new high street in the digital age. The Sun Socially conservative voices were excluded from meaningful debate, they warned. Times,Sunday Times The police, partner agencies and politicians help nobody by shying away from open and meaningful debate. Times, Sunday Times But this endorsement comes with the caveat that there needs to be a meaningful debate as to what constitutes enhanced performance before correspondingly enhanced salaries are dished out. Times, Sunday Times It attracts far too few people who believe in experiment or nuance or meaningful debate. Times, Sunday Times He added that the height of such buildings and lack of access to the roof will have 'severely hampered ability to make meaningful progress fighting the fire from inside'. Times, Sunday Times It's a solid basis for meaningful progress. The Sun There was a cooling-off period while waiting for negotiations to occur, but protesters returned to the site because in their opinion, there had been no meaningful progress. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Crucially, this extra lending could be made without a meaningful reduction in the profits earned. Times, Sunday Times Seven years of so-called austerity has resulted in no meaningful reduction in aggregate government spending and a deficit still running into tens of billions of pounds. Times, Sunday Times Meaningful reductions in emissions from air travel and motor transport can only be achieved when industrialised western countries make the necessary lifestyle changes. Times, Sunday Times We're unlikely to foster the global co-operation we need if some countries are able to buy their way out of meaningful reductions in their own energy use. Times, Sunday Times Nobles who committed crimes often received simple rebukes, while there were no meaningful reductions in penalties for commoners. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Their faith just wasn't personally meaningful to them. Christianity Today Or else we take risks only in areas that are personally meaningful. Globe and Mail Become vigilant to ensure you are investing in activities that are personally meaningful. Globe and Mail Participatory cultures empower humans to be active contributors in personally meaningful activities. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 To be a truly meaningful body, it should be able wholly to redesign its entire taxation system, not merely fiddle with modest levies on income. Times, Sunday Times Some formalities such as toasts to absent friends can be truly meaningful and will remind the widow that you are all sharing her loss. Times, Sunday Times Only a system of punitive fines can make adherence to a takeover code about business conduct - rather than simply the bid process - truly meaningful. Times, Sunday Times We've actually taken the time to write something that's truly meaningful to us. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A player consumes these outs to create runs, and at the simplest level, runs and outs are the only truly meaningful stats in baseball. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 严肃的 Japanese: 有意義な |
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