Although the application essay causes lots of anxiety, it does not play so important a role in the college's decision-making process.
出自-2013年12月閱讀原文
Kapur points out that while the model adopted by many teachers when introducing students to new knowledge―providing lots of structure and guidance early on, until the students show that they can do it on their own―makes intuitive sense, it may not be the best way to promote learning
出自-2013年12月閱讀原文
Lots of lost works written by African-American women.
出自-2013年12月聽力原文
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QUANT
許多；很多；大量
A lot of something or lots of it is a large amount of it. A lot of people or things, or lots of them, is a large number of them.
例句
A lot of our land is used to grow crops for export...
我們有很多土地被用來種植出口作物。
I remember a lot of things...
我記得很多事情。
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ADV
很；非常
A lot means to a great extent or degree.
例句
Matthew's out quite a lot doing his research...
馬修經常外出做研究。
I like you, a lot...
我很喜歡你。
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ADV
常常；往往；長久地
If you do something a lot, you do it often or for a long time.
例句
They went out a lot, to the Cafe Royal or the The Ivy...
他們常常出去玩，一般是到皇家咖啡館或者常春藤那里。
He talks a lot about his own children.
他經常談到自己的孩子。
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N-COUNT
（一）組；（一）批；（一）群
You can use lot to refer to a set or group of things or people.
例句
He bought two lots of 1,000 shares in the company during August and September...
他在8月和9月買進了兩批這家公司的股票，每次1,000股。
We've just sacked one lot of builders.
我們剛炒掉一批建筑工人。
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N-SING
（特定的）（一）類（人）
You can refer to a specific group of people as a particular lot.
例句
Future generations are going to think that we were a pretty boring lot.
未來幾代人會覺得我們無趣乏味得很。
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N-SING
（指剛提到的數量的）全部，整個兒
You can use the lot to refer to the whole of an amount that you have just mentioned.
例句
Instead of using the money to pay his rent, he went to a betting shop and lost the lot in half an hour.
他沒有拿錢去交房租，而是去了投注站，半小時內就把這筆錢全輸光了。
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N-SING
際遇；境況；命運
Your lot is the kind of life you have or the things that you have or experience.
例句
She tried to accept her marriage as her lot in life but could not...
她想認命接受這段婚姻，但卻做不到。
Young people are usually less contented with their lot.
年輕人往往對自己的際遇不甚滿意。
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N-COUNT
（一小塊）土地
A lot is a small area of land that belongs to a person or company.
例句
If oil or gold are discovered under your lot, you can sell the mineral rights.
如果在你這塊地底下發現了石油或金子，你可以把采礦權賣掉。
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N-COUNT
一件（或成組的一批）拍賣品
A lot in an auction is one of the objects or groups of objects that are being sold.
例句
The receivers are keen to sell the stores as one lot...
破產事務官想要將這些店鋪打包整體出售。
The two lots have made just over ￡3 million.
這兩件拍賣品拍出了300多萬英鎊的價錢。
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PHRASE
抽簽；抓鬮
If people draw lots to decide who will do something, they each take a piece of paper from a container. One or more pieces of paper is marked, and the people who take marked pieces are chosen.
例句
Two names were selected by drawing lots...
抽簽選出了兩個名字。
For the first time in a World Cup finals, lots had to be drawn to decide who would finish second and third.
這是世界杯決賽首次用抽簽的方法來決定亞軍和季軍。
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PHRASE
決心與…共命運；決定與…站在一起
If you throw in your lot with a particular person or group, you decide to work with them and support them from then on, whatever happens.
例句
He has decided to throw in his lot with the far-right groups in parliament.
他已決定與議會中的極右團體共進退。