英语词汇“exert”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

WORD ORIGINexert

Origin:

1600-1700 Latin exsertus, past participle of exserere ‘to push out’

VERB TABLE

exert

Simple Form
Present	I, you, we, they	exert
	he, she, it	exerts
Past	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	exerted
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have exerted
	he, she, it	has exerted
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had exerted
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will exert
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have exerted

Continuous Form
Present	I	am exerting
	he, she, it	is exerting
	you, we, they	are exerting
Past	I, he, she, it	was exerting
	you, we, they	were exerting
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have been exerting
	he, she, it	has been exerting
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had been exerting
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will be exerting
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have been exerting

EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS

But it was not long before the harsh facts of economic and social life exerted their pressure.
Dayton is a young Gentleman of talents, with an ambition to exert them.
Does a team that has to exert itself to get to 38-44 deserve a place at the big table?
In later poems she is usually shown as treacherous and malicious, exerting a deadly and destructive power over men.
Much of this was spontaneous, although a number of small syndicalist and Marxist parties were able to exert some influence.
This time around no great pressure was exerted by the home team.

COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRYnouns► exert pressure

· Did Democratic leaders exert pressure on their colleagues to vote for the new law?

► exert influence

· These large companies exert considerable influence over the government.

► exert control

· The state should not exert control over the media.

► exert power

· He exerts considerable power within the family.

► exert authority

· It is every parent's responsibility to exert their authority by laying down some firm rules.

► exert discipline

· Exerting discipline is essential, especially when there are problem students in the class.

► exert effort

· We exerted every effort to get there on time.

► exert your will

(=make something happen in the way that you want)· The army exerted its will by arresting anti-government supporters.

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► exercise/exert your authority

(also wield authority formal) (=use your authority)· In practice it’s very difficult for the president to exercise his authority.· He was one of those people who want to wield authority over others.

► exert an influence

formal (=have an influence)· Technology exerts a powerful influence over our lives.

► exert pressure on somebody

formal (=put pressure on them)· They exerted pressure on their colleagues to vote for the change.

COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB► also

· Many genotoxic cancer treatments may also exert their effect through the enhanced induction of apoptosis.· Major interest groups can also exert influence through their compliance or noncompliance with the government policy process.· Similarly, high electrical charges should also exert a gravitational effect towards neutral matter.· East Anglian volunteers have also exerted international influence in recent years.· The closely packed neutrons form a degenerate gas and, being fermions, they can also exert a degeneracy pressure.

► over

· The power exerted over black and women patients is inevitably a manifestation of larger race, class and gender relations.

NOUN► action

· The L-arginine-NO system exerts various biological actions including vascular smooth muscle relaxation and inhibition of platelet aggregation.· This mechanism apparently exerts a lesser action on transcripts of the deleted genes possibly because they are present in lower concentrations.· Exactly how sodium restriction exerts its hypotensive action and why in only certain people remains unknown.

► authority

· Philip stood helplessly while she talked to the ward sister and exerted her considerable authority to get the doctor called immediately.· Paquita thought I should exert my authority over her, but I found that difficult.· He may have to put up with being ordered about by a big brother or sister anxious to exert their authority.· But they worry that more reforms could be thwarted by a few workers who seem preoccupied with exerting their authority over patients.

► control

· Internal control is presumably exerted not only by but for autonomous man.· His behavior depends upon the control exerted by the social environment.· Intelligent control exerts influence without appearing to do so.· His apparatus exerts a conspicuous control on the pigeon, but we must not overlook the control exerted by the pigeon.· Moreover, were things quite so dreadful that such control needed to be exerted?· The emphatic assertion of individual control over health exerted in some of these accounts can be looked at in a wider context.· Guidance is effective, however, only to the extent that control is exerted.

► effect

· What is not known is how the genes exert these effects during development.· They have exerted a definite deterrent effect on the previous job discrimination experienced by epileptics and other people with medical handicaps.· Geneticists normally don't know how genes exert their effects on embryos.· The two hormones exert opposite effects.· Overall the characteristics of the remuneration scheme were shown to exert more consistent effects than were individuals' personal characteristics.· But none of the variations exerted a marked effect.· Many genotoxic cancer treatments may also exert their effect through the enhanced induction of apoptosis.· Lithium exerts many effects in the body.

► effort

· We seem to exert every effort to make the least of the most.· Total Quality Management can make a significant difference, but all of us need to exert the effort to understand it.· But we can be sure that Brezhnev will exert every effort to regain the award when he visits Nixon.

► force

· This increases the sideways force each person exerts on the bridge as they walk, he says.· Quite strong forces are exerted on the side of a tall building.· This closes the positive feedback loop, because the more the bridge sways, the more force people exert to keeping standing.· Not only do they command force, but they exert a moral appeal as well.· Weight is the force of gravity exerted on an object.· Whatever the species, the mechanism by which the force was exerted is likely to be the same, namely hydraulic pressure.· As the spring compresses so the force which it exerts upwards on the astronaut increases.

► government

· A series of uniform regulations would be promulgated to allow the central government to exert overall budget control.· Gaitskell now knew that there were practical limits to the extent to which the Government could exert control over the industry.

► impact

· The unique ideas and images of this book have exerted lasting impact.

► influence

· Great disorders had occurred among the children which would not have taken place had proper influence been exerted by the master.· They were concerned about the implications of what influences were being exerted in their island society.

► power

· His lovemaking was different this time, more intense, more assertive as if he was trying to exert some power over her.· But he exerted all his powers to bring Thomas to submit to Canterbury's primatial authority.· Even her father couldn't exert that kind of power over her.· And at least some of the replicators should exert power over their own future.· It was then a forcing ground for the new classes establishing themselves and exerting their power against the existing feudal order.· In September, government forces moved into Latakia, a port city where Rifaat exerts power, to confiscate a fortified compound.· In some unions, officials may then exert position power and give instructions to members or junior officials.

► pressure

· These collisions exert forces on the walls which translate into the pressure the gas exerts.· The economic pressure they could exert on the regimes that resist the masses' demand for democracy is enormous!· Otherwise, the pressure exerted by the security services, aided by the police, caused much concern.· This time around no great pressure was exerted by the home team.· Cervical reintegration is a faster method whereby pressure is exerted on muscles in tension, thus causing them to relax.· Consequently the effective osmotic pressure that it exerts on biological membranes is far less than its osmotic pressure measured by an osmometer.· The technique can continually measure how much pressure is being exerted.

VERB► continue

· This wage is used to support workers in order that they can continue to exert labour-power week in week out.· Family stories such as this continue to exert a force on the way we live now.· They were also effectively administered, since Henry continued to exert the tight control established by his Yorkist predecessors.

PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► exert yourself

It's important not to exert yourself - it'll take a few weeks to recover.
A nation in its rowdy, energetic and inspiring youth wants freedom and is willing to exert itself to win it.
All the surgeons present were exerting themselves to their utmost; the few nurses all busy.
As soon as we stop exerting ourselves the blood pressure returns to normal again.
Because shareholders can not tell how hard managers are exerting themselves on their behalf, managers have an incentive to shirk.
Does a team that has to exert itself to get to 38-44 deserve a place at the big table?
He kept close behind, not exerting himself.
Red tell-tales blinked as he exerted himself.
This is the best measure of fitness, since it expresses the greatest rate at which an individual can exert himself.