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當然(在英語口語中常用于代替 of course)
Course is often used in the expression 'of course', or instead of 'of course' in informal spoken English. See 見 of course .
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N-UNCOUNT
(尤指船或飛機的)航向，航線，路線
The course of a vehicle, especially a ship or aircraft, is the route along which it is travelling.
例句
Aircraft can avoid each other by going up and down, as well as by altering course to left or right...
飛機可以通過上下升降和左右移動改變航線來避免相撞。
The tug was seaward of the Hakai Passage on a course that diverged from the Calvert Island coastline.
托船駛離卡爾弗特島海岸朝哈凱航道駛去。
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N-COUNT
行為方式;處理方式
A course of action is an action or a series of actions that you can do in a particular situation.
例句
My best course of action was to help Gill by being loyal, loving and endlessly sympathetic...
我能給吉爾的最大幫助就是對他忠誠、關愛他并且永遠滿懷同情之心。
He must fall on his sword. That's the only course left open to him...
他必須面對失敗，他唯有這一條路走。
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N-SING
進程;發(fā)展的方向
You can refer to the way that events develop as, for example, the course of history or the course of events .
例句
...a series of decisive naval battles which altered the course of history...
改變歷史進程的一系列決定性的海戰(zhàn)
In the natural course of events cows would wish to be milked more than twice a day...
按照事情發(fā)展的自然規(guī)律，母牛每天應該擠奶兩次以上。
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(某科目的)課程，講座
A course is a series of lessons or lectures on a particular subject.
例句
...a course in business administration...
企業(yè)管理課程
I'm shortly to begin a course on the modern novel.
我不久將要選修一門現代小說課程。
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N-COUNT
療程
A course of medical treatment is a series of treatments that a doctor gives someone.
例句
Treatment is supplemented with a course of antibiotics to kill the bacterium...
治療期間輔以一個療程的抗生素注射來殺滅細菌。
She went to her doctor, who offered to put her on a course of tranquillizers.
她去看醫(yī)生，醫(yī)生建議她服用一個療程的鎮(zhèn)靜劑。
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N-COUNT
一道菜
A course is one part of a meal.
例句
The lunch was excellent, especially the first course.
午餐很棒，尤其是第一道菜。
...a three-course dinner.
有3道菜的晚餐
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N-COUNT
(體育)比賽場地;高爾夫球場
In sport, a course is an area of land where races are held or golf is played, or the land over which a race takes place.
例句
Only 12 seconds separated the first three riders on the Bickerstaffe course...
比科斯達夫賽場上的前3名騎手之間只差12秒。
In July comes the Tour de France, when 200 cyclists cover a course of 2,000 miles.
7月份迎來了環(huán)法自行車賽，200名自行車選手要騎行2,000英里的賽程。
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河道
The course of a river is the channel along which it flows.
例句
Romantic chateaux and castles overlook the river's twisting course.
富有浪漫氣息的莊園和城堡俯瞰著蜿蜒的河道。
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VERB
快速地流動;奔流
If a liquid courses somewhere, it flows quickly.
例句
The tears coursed down his cheeks...
他淚如雨下。
When you're sitting still, you need less blood coursing through your arteries.
靜坐時動脈血液流動較緩。
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PREP-PHRASE
在…過程中
If something happens in the course of a particular period of time, it happens during that period of time.
例句
In the course of the 1930s steel production in Britain approximately doubled...
在20世紀30年代，英國的鋼鐵產量幾乎翻了一番。
We struck up a conversation, in the course of which it emerged that he was a sailing man.
我們聊了起來，在談話過程中得知他是一名水手。
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PHRASE
照例;自然;理所當然
If you do something as a matter of course, you do it as part of your normal work or way of life.
例句
If police are carrying arms as a matter of course then doesn't it encourage criminals to carry them?
如果警察每天理所當然地攜帶武器，這難道不會促使罪犯也持械嗎？
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PHRASE
在正確航道(或航線)上/偏離航道(或航線)
If a ship or aircraft is on course, it is travelling along the correct route. If it is off course, it is no longer travelling along the correct route.
例句
The ill fated ship was sent off course into shallow waters and rammed by another vessel.
這艘倒霉的船偏離航道誤入淺水區(qū)，被另外一艘船撞上了。
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PREP-PHRASE
很可能做成;可能獲得
If you are on course for something, you are likely to achieve it.
例句
England are well on course for a place at the World Cup Finals...
英格蘭隊很有可能打進世界杯決賽。
The company is on course for profits of ￡20m in the next financial year.
該公司有望在下一個財年實現2,000萬英鎊的盈利。
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PHRASE
任其發(fā)展;聽其自然
If something runs its course or takes its course, it develops naturally and comes to a natural end.
例句
They estimated that between 17,000 and 20,000 cows would die before the epidemic had run its course...
他們估計在流行病結束之前會有17,000到20,000頭牛死去。
As for the imprisoned leaders, he asserted that justice would have to take its course.
他堅稱必須對監(jiān)禁的領導人依法審判。
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PHRASE
堅持到底
If you stay the course, you finish something that you have started, even though it has become very difficult.
例句
The oldest president in American history had stayed the course for two terms.
美國歷史上的第一位總統(tǒng)連任兩屆。
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PHRASE
總有一天;最后;終于
If something changes or becomes true in the course of time, it changes or becomes true over a long period of time.
例句
In the course of time, many of their myths become entangled.
最后，他們很多荒誕的說法都變得錯綜復雜了。