单词 | supplementation | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
释义 | supplementsup‧ple‧ment2 /ˈsʌpləment/ ●○○ AWL verb [transitive] Verb Table VERB TABLE supplement
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatorto add more to an amount or cost► add Collocations · They seem to have added a 10% service charge.add something to something · New fire-safety equipment had to be installed, adding thousands of dollars to the cost of the repairs.add to something · Catherine won't mind if you add to her workload (=give her more work) -- she needs the extra money. ► put something on British to add an amount of money, especially a tax, to the cost of something: · There are rumours that the government plans to put 20p on the cost of a packet of cigarettes.· The new tax could put another ten cents on the price of gas. ► supplement to add more to something so that you have enough -- used especially about someone adding to an amount of money, or someone eating more of a particular type of food to make them healthy: · Tracy gives her children vitamin pills to supplement their diet.· Mary found it necessary to supplement her earnings by writing articles for magazines. COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► supplement/add to your income Phrases (=increase your income, for example by doing an extra job)· Ted supplemented his income by doing part-time work in the evenings. COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► diet· He was still supplementing his diet with various pills from his health shop.· More aggressive than their cousins, Caspians may supplement their fish diet with other birds' eggs and nestlings.· Algae should be provided to supplement the diet of Tangs and Angelfish.· A.. Results are available from four large trials examining the health effects of supplementing the diet with beta-carotene.· The police post is very remote and they often supplement their diet of maize and beans with game meat. ► income· His income was supplemented from the sale of musical instruments and small antiques.· Increasingly, within this context of immiseration, their market incomes needed to be supplemented by additional family resources.· The result is that they hang around the city and most family incomes are supplemented by crime of one sort or another.· The lowest incomes were generally supplemented by charity and in many households women and children were also wage-earners.· If you need savings or investment income to supplement your earnings or pension, finding decent yields is growing steadily more difficult. ► information· Specific, narrow-targeted services should be developed either to replace or supplement general-purpose business information services.· These factors are taken into account by supplementing the results with information provided by parents in questionnaires and interviews.· To supplement subject information found from other sources; 2.· Often this is supplemented by other information.· To supplement the above information, personal interviews are being conducted in a representative sample of 250 companies. ► interview· More coverage of more sports is supplemented by endless interviews and chat-show appearances.· The information was supplemented in interviews with principals or other officials at more than a dozen schools.· More detailed information will be sought from national surveys of higher education, employing organisations and former students, supplemented by interviews.· They also supplemented the personal interviews with over 500 postal questionnaires making a total of just over 600. ► study· Arrangements were made for a voluntary tutor to visit his home to supplement his studies. ► work· A consequence is that the salary often needs to be supplemented by other work, usually teaching. VERB► need· Eating less meat, which has a high salt content, meant that they needed to supplement their salt intake.· Picture: The purpose needs to be supplemented with a picture of the outcome that you are seeking.· But a full account will need to supplement the Woolf diagnosis, as we shall see.· Increasingly, within this context of immiseration, their market incomes needed to be supplemented by additional family resources.· As with the development of all skills, the theoretical approach described in this chapter needs to be supplemented by practical experience.· At the same time, our individual efforts will need to be supplemented by collective ones.· Occasional visits from medical and pharmaceutical advisers need to be supplemented by a readily available and local source of advice and information.· Skip Away is not nominated to the Breeders' Cup and would need to be supplemented for $ 480, 000. ► use· It may be used to supplement the action of the indicated remedy in such anaemic or malnourished people.· Fainstein says that 75 commonly used forms supplement Form 1040.· What other information should be used to supplement such forecasts?· She uses sail to supplement the engine, making a fine sight against an azure sky.· A sports stadium is being used to supplement overflowing police cells.· In addition to developing aspects of speech and comprehension, may be used to supplement other courses, and is suitable for independent study.· Elsewhere in this book, empirical evidence for commodity futures has been used to supplement that for index futures.· The various methods and media should be used to supplement each other in any given programme of education. PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► performance-enhancing drug/product/supplement etc Word family
WORD FAMILYnounsupplementsupplementationadjectivesupplementaryverbsupplement to add something, especially to what you earn or eat, in order to increase it to an acceptable levelsupplement something by/with something Kia supplements her regular salary by tutoring in the evenings.—supplementation /ˌsʌpləmenˈteɪʃən/ noun [uncountable] |
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