单词 | aim |
释义 | aim I. intransitive verb 1. a. < that gun is aiming straight at me — V.C.Aldrich > b. < officer-candidate schools toward which men … can aim — J.J.O'Donnell > < the monastic scholars did not aim high — R.W.Southern > 2. obsolete < aim at another man's speech > < aim at suspected enmity > 3. < he aims to encourage mutual understanding — Saturday Review > < this book aims to effect a partial remedy of this situation — E.A.Maziarz > < I aim to finish up this job — I.S.Cobb > transitive verb 1. obsolete 2. a. < on the lawn a small cannon was aimed into space > < a camera was aimed at the scene > < he aimed the rock at the dog > b. < the study was aimed at developing a comparative picture — New York Times > < the haphazard transcription inevitable in work aimed solely at vocabulary collecting — Stanley Newman > c. < a new printing press aimed at medium and small-sized newspapers — Wall Street Journal > < radio and TV shows aimed at juvenile audiences — Current Biography > II. 1. obsolete 2. < to take aim at the target > a. < his aim was deadly > b. < the aim is accurate up to 75 feet > 3. obsolete a. < a man may prophesy, with a near aim, of the main chance of things — Shakespeare > b. c. 4. < his aim being the translation of certain religious and devotional writings — Edward Clodd > < the aim of the Elizabethans was to attain complete realism — T.S.Eliot > < the only fault I find in the book is a certain lack of aim — Geoffrey Boumphrey > < such exaggeration is purely impressionistic in aim — R.M.Weaver > Synonyms: see intention |
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