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n.<美>[教]主修课,[律]成年人,[乐]大调 adj.主修的,成年的,大调的 vi.主修

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major为高中词汇   词频:426

词形变化:

动词过去式:majored 过去分词:majored 现在分词:majoring 第三人称单数:majors

词根

magn,maj,max=great(伟大的;壮大的)

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greater  higher  larger  senior  superior  minor    

major


/'meɪdʒə(r); `medʒɚ/
adj
1 [usu attrib 通常作定语] (more) important; great(er) (较)重要的; (较)大的; 主要的
*a major road 干路
* the major portion 较大的部分
* a major operation, ie a surgical operation that could be dangerous to a person's life 大手术(可能危及生命者)
* a major suit, ie (in cards, esp bridge) either spades or hearts (纸牌, 尤指桥牌的)高花色牌(黑桃或红桃)
* We have encountered major problems. 我们遇到大问题了.
* She has written a major novel, ie one of high quality and great importance. 她写了一部高质量的小说. Cf 参看 minor.
2 (Brit dated or joc 旧或谑) (in private schools) first or older of two brothers or boys with the same surname (esp in the same school) (私立学校中)(兄弟俩或同姓男生中)年长的, 大的
*Smith major 大史密斯. Cf 参看 minor, senior.
3 (music 音) (of a key or scale) having two full tones between the first and third notes (指调或音阶)大调的, 大音阶的
*the major key 大调
* a major scale 大音阶
* the key of C major, E flat major, etc C大调、降E大调. Cf 参看 minor.

v [Ipr] ~ in sth (US) specialize in a certain subject (at college or university) 主修(大专院校的)科目
*She majored in maths and physics (at university). 她(在大学)主修数学和物理.

n
1 [sing] (music 音) major key 大调
*shift from major to minor 由大调转到小调.
2 [C] (US)
(a) principal subject or course of a student at college or university (大专院校学生的)主修科目, 主修课程, 专业
*Her major is French. 她的主修科目是法语.
(b) student studying such a subject 某专业的学生
*She's a French major. 她是法语专业的学生.
3 majors [pl] (also major `leagues) (US sport 体) senior and most important leagues, esp in baseball and ice hockey 高级联赛协会(尤指棒球及冰上曲棍球的)
*[attrib 作定语] major league baseball 高级联赛协会棒球赛.

/'meɪdʒə(r); `medʒɚ/
n army officer ranking between a captain and a lieutenant-colonel 陆军少校. =>App
9 见附录9.
1. Education concerning how to survive an earthquake should be a major emphasis for all government programs and earthquake-related research projects.
    教育人们如何在地震中幸存下来,应该是所有政府规划和地震研究项目的重点所在。

2. But when I went into his room, a carton of cigarettes in my hand, I discovered the "head waiter" in the uniform of a Major General.
    但是当我手里拿着一盒香烟走进他房间时,我发现那位“侍者领班”穿上了少将的制服。

3. What is the major cause of the labour-management strife?
    劳资冲突的主要原因是什么?

4. Women of child-bearing age are at greatest risk, since their monthly bleeding is a major source of iron loss.
    育龄女性危险最大,因为月经是铁流失的重要原因之一。

5. The film would require some major structural changes.
    这部电影的结构将需要作一些重大的修改。

6. Twenty or thirty pages of information handed to any of the major world powers around the year 1925 would have been sufficient to change the course of world history.
    如果把二三十页的情报交给1952年前后的任何一个世界强国,就足以改变世界历史的进程。二三十页材料中的思想和情报会便当今的世界翻天覆地,甚至毁灭这个世界。

7. This is a major achievement because, in relative terms, planets are very small and do not emit light.
    这是一个重要的成就,因为相对来说,行星很小,而且也不发光。

8. To celebrate the tenth anniversary of the People´s Republic (1959), the government determined in 1958 that Beijing should undertake ten major building projects and complete them in ten months.
    为了庆祝中华人民共和国建国十周年(一九五九年),一九五八年,中国政府决定十个月内在北京完成十项主要建筑工程。

9. There were occasions when Churchill would speak for five, six, or seven minutes, while poor Major Birse dashed his pencil desperately over the paper, trying to capture enough words to convey the eloquence into Russian.
    有很多次丘吉尔会一连说上五、六或七分钟,这时可怜的伯尔斯少校手里的铅笔在纸上飞速运转,拼命地捕捉词句,想把这滔滔不绝的发言用俄语表达出来。

10. The anger and frustration displayed by people who do not understand what is happening to them will be a terrible and dangerous force in all the major industrial economies.
    那些不理解正在他们的身上发生着的事情的人们所表现出来的愤怒和失望将成为所有主要工业国家中的一股可怕和危险的力量。

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