酷兔词典首页

discovery

美音:[dıs´kʌvərı ]点这儿播放单词美音发声
英音:[dıs´kʌvərı ]点这儿播放单词英音发声
n.发现,发明的东西

难易程度:

discovery为高中词汇   词频:2426

词形变化:

名词复数:discoveries

词根

cover=to cover(掩盖)

discovery


/dɪ'skʌvərɪ; dɪ`skʌvərɪ/
n
1 (a) [U] discovering or being discovered 发现; 发觉
*a voyage of discovery 探索未知世界的航行
* the discovery of Australia 澳洲的发现
* the discovery by Franklin that lightning is electricity 富兰克林对闪电即是电这一发现.
(b) [C] act of discovering 发现; 发觉
*Scientists have made many important discoveries. 科学家作出了许多重大发现.
* He buried the treasure to prevent its discovery. 他将财宝埋了起来以免被人发现.
2 [C] thing discovered 被发现的事物
*Like many discoveries, atomic power can be used for good or evil. 正如人类发现的许多事物一样, 原子能既可用来为善, 也可用以作恶.

discovery


npluraldiscoveries
[C]
a fact or thing that someone finds out about, when it was not known about before
 recent archaeological discoveries
discovery about
 The Hubble Telescope has allowed astronomers to make significant discoveries about our galaxy.
discovery that
 the discovery that bees can communicate with each other
[U]
when someone discovers something
discovery of
 the discovery of oil in Alaska
1. But for ten years, while he continued to experiment with penicillin, his discovery was largely ignored by the medical world.
    以后的十年里,他继续做盘尼西林试验,但他的发现根本没有引起医学界的重视。

2. But it was really a re-discovery.
    然而,这其实是一种重新发现。

3. Then a police inspector arrived with a constable and she told them of her discovery of the ransacked flat.
    这时一位巡官带着一名警察到了,她向他们诉说她发现住房被窃的过程。

4. This organic process, often leading to moments of extraordinary self-discovery, is of an indescribable fascination.
    这种有机的加工过程往往达到不寻常自我发现的境界,具有难以言表的构思魅力。

5. Then a police inspector arrived with a constable and she told them of her discovery of the ransacked flat.
    过了一会儿,一位巡官带着一名警察来了。她向他们讲述了发现公寓遭劫的经过。

6. There was great rejoicing in the country, and he was hailed as the hero who had made an epoch-making discovery.
    全国一片欢腾,人们把他誉为做出了划时代发现的英雄,

7. The discovery came about quite by accident.
    这一发现相当偶然。

8. The discovery started scientists in many parts of the world on the search for new and better sulfas, and a number of them were found and perfected.
    这一发现促使世界许多地方的科学家去寻求更新、更有效的磺胺药,他们也确实发现了若干种磺胺药,并做了改进。

9. Two centuries were to pass before the next important discovery was made.
    在下一个重要发现作出前,两个世纪又过去了。

10. This was an exceedingly important discovery.
    这是一个极其重要的发现。

更多句子>>>