单词	sectional
释义	sectionalsec‧tion‧al /ˈsekʃənəl/ adjective Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Members of the church's administration were divided among sectional lines. the sectional tennis tournament EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Instead, the parties are more regional and the sectional bitterness worse than ever. Perfect copies must have the competition form and the fold-out sectional view of 44 Downing Street. The speaker's sectional interests, as a businessman, are seen to coincide with the wider interests of everybody else. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY► sectional interests  community groups seeking to protect sectional interests COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► interest · It does not require it to take care of particular individual or sectional interests, since these will often conflict.· This gave them potential political leverage were their sectional interests to be threatened.· The speaker's sectional interests, as a businessman, are seen to coincide with the wider interests of everybody else.· They can not simply allow one sectional interest in the community to override others.· Power requires a wider appeal than that to mere sectional interest.· Each one recognises sectional interests within the profession but has little or no regard to the public at large or the potential client.· A public corporation managing a monopoly might do so in a sectional interest.· All this to modern eyes looks like, and indeed very often was, mere selfish defence of local and sectional interests. Word family WORD FAMILYnounsectionadjectivesectionalverbsection 1concerned only with your own small group in society or in an organization, as opposed to being concerned about society or the institution as a whole:  community groups seeking to protect sectional interests2a sectional drawing or view of something shows what it would look like if it were cut from top to bottom, or from side to side:  a sectional view of the building3made up of sections that can be put together or taken apart:  a sectional sofa
随便看	reliably reliance reliant Reliant Robin relic relief relief map relief road relieve relieved religion religiosity religious religiously religious right relinquish reliquary relish relive reload relocate relocation reluctance reluctant reluctantly

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