| 释义 |
scheme /skēm/ noun- A systematic plan of action for achieving an end
- A plan for building operations of various kinds, or the buildings, etc, constructed, or the area covered (eg housing scheme, irrigation scheme)
- A plan pursued secretly, insidiously, by intrigue, or for private ends
- A project
- A programme of action
- A diagram of positions, esp (astrology) of planets
- A table
- A system
- An arrangement
- A rhetorical figure (obsolete)
- An escapade (obsolete)
transitive verb- To plan
- To reduce to a system
- To lay schemes for
intransitive verb- To form a plan
- To lay schemes, to plot or intrigue
- To indulge in an escapade (obsolete)
ORIGIN: schema schēˈmer noun schēˈmie noun (Scot sl) A working-class youth from a council estate schēˈming noun and adjective |