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单词 emphasis
释义
emphasisem‧pha‧sis /ˈemfəsɪs/ ●●○ W2 AWL noun (plural emphases /-siːz/) [countable, uncountable] Word Origin
WORD ORIGINemphasis
Origin:
1500-1600 Latin, Greek, from emphainein ‘to show’
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • The emphasis should be on the first syllable.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Bills completed by 1980 laid special emphasis on recycling and energy conversion.
  • Claire ranges back and forth at the foot of the bed, throwing her arms around for emphasis.
  • It is worth examining briefly some of the possible explanations for this emphasis on remedial law.
  • The emphasis was on what the student had to do that day and what might be accomplished.
  • The emphasis was to be mainly on placements in inner city areas.
  • The emphasis will be on real situations, real problems and real solutions.
  • There has been an emphasis on, and lauding of, the continuity and stability.
  • This emphasis on worship is at the heart of the gospel itself.
Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatorwhen something is particularly emphasized
special attention that is given to a particular activity, subject etc, because it is believed to be more important than other things: emphasis/stress on: · There is a greater emphasis on environmental issues nowadays.put emphasis on something: · The school puts a lot of emphasis on discipline and respect for authority.with the emphasis on something: · an exciting new French course for beginners, with the emphasis on fun
if something is done with the accent on a particular quality or feature, that quality or feature is emphasized - used especially in written descriptions of products and services: · Toptours Travel is now offering numerous special vacation packages with the accent on choice.· a new range of children's toys with the accent on creativity
WORD SETS
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Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRYverbs
· We need to put greater emphasis on planning.· The airline is accused of placing more emphasis on profit than on safety.
formal· The coach has placed the emphasis firmly on youth by including three teenagers in the team.
· Since league tables were introduced, schools have given even greater emphasis to exam results.
(=change the emphasis to something else)· With drug addicts, we need to shift the emphasis from punishment to treatment.
(=make an opinion or fact seem more important)· Put bullet points before each statement to add emphasis.
(=changes)· The emphasis is now shifting away from oil towards renewable sources of energy.
adjectives
· The company places great emphasis on customer care.
· There is a strong emphasis on research in the university.
· The main emphasis must be on quality, not quantity.
· The new legislation places particular emphasis on energy conservation.
· Recently, there has been an increasing emphasis on creating more jobs.
· Most religions put considerable emphasis on the importance of marriage.
phrases
(also a shift in emphasis)· There has been a change of emphasis in the government’s foreign policy.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
 In this stage of a rape case, the focus often shifts onto the victim and her conduct.
· The emphasis has switched to defence.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
· This is that they have a different emphasis according to whether they are being applied to consumer markets or industrial markets.· The factory, an interactive site celebrating color and artistry, has two floors, with a different emphasis on each.· Blaug presented his argument with a rather different emphasis.· They may play in a different key and with a somewhat different emphasis but the tune can often be heard all the same.· Subsequently these variations will be translated into different degrees of emphasis in ordering.· The mix of skills should also be very different with an emphasis on analytical and contracting expertise.· For industrial markets, the variables have a different emphasis.
· It was written by individuals who believed the company should place a greater emphasis on customer service.· Its proponents saw it as a way of mobilizing national attention to greater emphasis on quality.· The committee called for greater emphasis on language at all educational levels, with increased spending on staffing, accommodation and other resources.· There are several reasons why it received greater emphasis as the years went by.· However, after 1984 a greater emphasis was placed on schemes designed to boost the physical regeneration of the inner cities.· But is Kant right to place such great emphasis on the powers of the mind?· The new rules laid greater emphasis on economic factors such as professional qualifications and work skills.· Towards the end of the decade, with elections looming, land distribution decreased in favour of greater emphasis on raising agricultural yields.
· A heavy emphasis will be placed on evaluating the benefits to local people.· A record-player shuffled a few simple chords violently together, then dealt them out with heavy emphasis.· File management Introduction All quality standards place heavy emphasis on file management.· Active enquiry is a feature of the course which places a heavy emphasis on the use of primary and secondary sources.· Ordinary people, she said with heavy emphasis, who you despise.· Lenin's heavy emphasis on discipline and centralized control within the Party was particularly unattractive to activists drawn from the minority nationalities.· Under Ford's influence, Jaguar is placing heavy emphasis on building the car efficiently, speedily and at low cost.· The tribalism of the town's Ga majority was given heavy emphasis.
· In spite of the increased emphasis on planning and focused decision-making, admission to local authority care was often hasty and ill-planned.· This mirrored the increased emphasis on confession evidence within the police forces around the country.· The report, Policy Implications of Global Warming, calls for increased emphasis on energy efficiency and conservation.· Lang has also pledged himself to an increased emphasis on the teaching of art history at secondary school and college level.· Repeated attempts to cut back the global total of public spending have placed an increased emphasis on control of public spending.· Longer term consequences of this trend could include an increased counterproductive emphasis on first author publication.· There would be increased emphasis on nuclear propulsion for maritime purposes.· This awareness, and the increased emphasis on the development of this asset is epitomised in the term human resource management.
· The programmes of regional type are research-oriented; an increasing emphasis is being placed on environmental protection.· Sociological explanations include the increasing emphasis on individualism in our society and the breakdown of family and community ties.· Recent years have seen an increasing emphasis on the importance of inspection as a means of securing quality performance.· However, like other reds, it has been exported successfully, especially with the increasing emphasis on the polled type.· Throughout this period, an increasing emphasis was placed on tight monetary policy in an attempt to eradicate inflation.· The third and fourth years are devoted to geology alone, with an increasing emphasis on independent project work.· The reason is the increasing emphasis on individualism that industrial capitalist society imposes.· The corollary of this is the increasing emphasis that has been placed on urban policies, such as Inner-City Partnerships and Enterprise Zones.
· The direct analysis approach is only mentioned briefly, with the main emphasis on overcoming heterogeneity effects.· Despite these reservations, the main emphasis is right.· I issue a monthly list, with the main emphasis on Roman coins.· The main emphasis of Hume's book is the inter-relationships between nutrition, reproductive performance and life histories of marsupials.· Rich pinks are the main emphasis in early August, but earlier in the year blue delphiniums predominate.· The debate has continued ever since on whether the main emphasis should be on their economic or their social role.· Short-term monitoring rather than forecasting is still the main emphasis.
· The new emphasis is on management skills and giving value for money.· There is a new emphasis on asking households to pay for water.· With a new emphasis on the importance of the Word, the trend has been away from hymns, anthems and settings.· With boundary-to-boundary skiing, says Carey, comes a new emphasis on educating skiers about the potential dangers.· In came renewed assaults on Militant, luncheons in the City and the new emphasis on competition and even markets.· The new emphasis was to be on dining rather than drinking, and the design was as sensitive as it could have been.· The new emphasis is on helping the economic Upturn which will bring down Unemployment, currently heading towards 3 million.· Running and sport took on a new emphasis as it was the only way to keep warm.
· Olson's early work laid particular emphasis on individual behaviour and motivation.· The School places particular emphasis on its research activities in accounting and finance.· As the previous section indicated, interactionism adopts a similar approach with particular emphasis on the process of interaction.· By 1950 it was devoting over a third of its space to sport with particular emphasis on football.· However, there are also two general principles which seem to signal a particular emphasis in the public sector.· Plans are made as a whole and the analysis of failed innovations places particular emphasis on wholeness.· Fifth, identify the characteristics of successful firms with particular emphasis on marketing factors.· Methodology places particular emphasis on the language of persuasion.
· This is where the special evangelical emphasis in the Party becomes interesting.· But there should be special emphasis placed on the very latest research and literature.· Algebra is given a special emphasis as well as the application of Mathematics in the form of problem-solving and investigative work.· When your life is on the line that takes on special emphasis.· Concentrates on the language of letter-writing itself, with special emphasis on the build-up of vocabulary.· Bills completed by 1980 laid special emphasis on recycling and energy conversion.· These prices exclude Christmas and Easter. Special emphasis on good food and comfort.· Prince's Garden Centre will stock a wide range of horticultural goods, with special emphasis on top-quality indoor plants.
· Behaviour was subject to the decrees of custom and this led to a strong emphasis on pragmatism and the averting of any confrontation.· Many school-to-work programs place a strong emphasis on SCANS-type competencies.· Level Most public library authorities place a strong emphasis on introductory materials and standard works, rather than on advanced material.· Consequently, there follows a strong emphasis on the lack of any priority between the two.· The cards show a strong emphasis on quality with many products still being finished by hand, giving them special appeal.· The company invests in industrial, commercial and service ventures with a strong emphasis in textiles.· But woman-centred feminists outside psychology place strong emphasis on method.· They were raised in Hancock Park by parents who placed a strong emphasis on education.
VERB
· For example, the attempt in the past thirty years to incorporate more divergent factors changes the emphasis towards inductive and creative abilities.· This would change the emphasis from quantity to quality, encouraging people to write more genuinely important works.· Perhaps the time had now come to change the emphasis to more efficient production.· During my time, I changed the emphasis because I thought child abuse was far more serious.· Peace-keeping operations have also significantly changed in emphasis.
· The author gives much emphasis to those aspects of his character which support this view; but is it a fair one?· All points seemed to be given equal emphasis.· She had no need to give it further emphasis, it could not have been clearer.· Algebra is given a special emphasis as well as the application of Mathematics in the form of problem-solving and investigative work.· He gives it no emphasis, doesn't try to persuade.· It gives greater rhematic emphasis to the previous chunk of information: was being a little hard to take.· However, in drawing this conclusion, Piaget is giving undue emphasis to the more negative aspects of his results.· Here the aims were three-fold: curbing expenditure, raising standards and giving greater emphasis to health promotion and illness prevention.
· As the rewards to be gained from sporting success have increased, so the emphasis placed on winning has also increased.· The increasing emphasis on meatless meals in restaurants and in cookbooks also provides inspiration to home cooks minding a budget.· There is increasing emphasis in the development of innovative methodologies in order to secure funding for research.· Value for money does not remove political judgment - it may well increase the emphasis on it.· It may also have been encouraged by the increasing emphasis given to one-person exhibitions by living artists in commercial galleries and museums.· We will increase emphasis on cost consciousness throughout the Group and continue to reduce overheads throughout 1993.· The current volume continues the trend in previous editions of increasing the emphasis on clinical information.
· The Labour government laid its emphasis upon local authority housing rather than on private building for sale.· They laid little emphasis on the message of the prophets.· They laid great emphasis on the value of a high level of participation by members of the lesbian and gay communities.· Also, different kinds of organizations lay the emphasis on different views.· Dobry laid great emphasis on consultations and meetings between applicants and the local planning authority, particularly in relation to Class B applications.· Lord Watson laid the same emphasis in his speech, at p. 212.· This view was so widely attractive that Themistokles himself was constrained to lay more emphasis on a nearer enemy, Aigina.
· It was written by individuals who believed the company should place a greater emphasis on customer service.· Many school-to-work programs place a strong emphasis on SCANS-type competencies.· A mixed group of students would be catered for by placing greater emphasis on electives.· Some firewalls place a greater emphasis on blocking traffic, and others emphasize permitting traffic.· They placed great emphasis on the individual's freedom to enter into personal relationships independent of church or state.· Research has found that nationwide, many academies have not placed much emphasis on integrating academic and occupational courses.· I place equal emphasis on both aspects.· He placed the emphasis on high street fashion.
· The management prides itself on offering comfortable accommodation in elegant surroundings, and puts an emphasis on providing excellent service.· Managed-care advocates say that puts the emphasis on keeping patients healthy.· Nor will managers succeed by putting greater emphasis on planning or simply overlapping various stages in the development process.· Carter preferred to put the emphasis on the word separately rather than Defense.· All this put the emphasis on the content and was consequently responsible for the heterogeneous nature of literary studies.· You learn the essence of team, and the parents take great pride in it and put such an emphasis on winning.· Unveiled last year, Pastrana's plan addresses drug issues, but puts greater emphasis on economic development.· Too bad this disc puts so much emphasis on traditional folk tunes in its lessons.
· This points to shifting the emphasis away from direct tax on people's incomes and on to taxes on wealth or on spending.· He was asking her to shift her emphasis, that was all.· Unlike Hart's, Friedman's explanation shifts the emphasis from the subjects' deliberations to their action.· By shifting the emphasis to treatment, the wrong message is broadcast: that drugs are the solution to this terrible problem.· There were also shifts in emphasis on factors influencing decisions on where to place contracts.· With the continuation of the disorders into 1968, the administration shifted its emphasis - to that of riot control.
· Brandt switched the emphasis from geographical variation to the study of the annual cycle of plankton growth found in the northern oceans.· I will switch emphasis from attending Branch meetings to meeting on a one to one basis with these people in each branch.
Phrases
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
  • In addition to the need for humility, discipline and singleminded devotion in the quest for Truth Gandhi lays stress on prayer.
  • In the matter of ultimate aesthetic evaluation it laid stress on the intuitive response of the general public.
  • She said that her interview had laid stress on personal circumstances rather than experience and qualifications.
  • A government department may place emphasis on careful administration and attention to detail, to research and to political manoeuvring.
  • In fact, these words break the sentence rhythm, placing emphasis on the words that follow.
  • It places emphasis on external evaluation and it undervalues the individual young reader's assessment.
  • Some place emphasis on biotic, others on environmental factors.
Word family
WORD FAMILYnounemphasisadjectiveemphaticverbemphasizeadverbemphatically
1special attention or importanceemphasis on In Japan there is a lot of emphasis on politeness.put/place emphasis on something The course places emphasis on practical work. a change of emphasis in government policy2special importance that is given to a word or phrase by saying it louder or higher, or by printing it in a special waystressemphasis on The emphasis should be on the first syllable. ‘And I can assure you,’ she said with emphasis, ‘that he is innocent.’COLLOCATIONSverbsput emphasis on something· We need to put greater emphasis on planning.· The airline is accused of placing more emphasis on profit than on safety.place/lay emphasis on something formal· The coach has placed the emphasis firmly on youth by including three teenagers in the team.give emphasis to something· Since league tables were introduced, schools have given even greater emphasis to exam results.shift the emphasis (=change the emphasis to something else)· With drug addicts, we need to shift the emphasis from punishment to treatment.add emphasis (=make an opinion or fact seem more important)· Put bullet points before each statement to add emphasis.the emphasis shifts/moves (=changes)· The emphasis is now shifting away from oil towards renewable sources of energy.adjectivesgreat emphasis· The company places great emphasis on customer care.a strong/heavy emphasis· There is a strong emphasis on research in the university.the main emphasis· The main emphasis must be on quality, not quantity.particular/special emphasis· The new legislation places particular emphasis on energy conservation.increased/increasing emphasis· Recently, there has been an increasing emphasis on creating more jobs.considerable emphasis· Most religions put considerable emphasis on the importance of marriage.phrasesa change of emphasis (also a shift in emphasis)· There has been a change of emphasis in the government’s foreign policy.
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