so
so
英[səʊ]美[soʊ]
adv.如此,这样,很,不如…,那么;
conj.因此,为了,(引出下文);
英语六级真题
The British traveler Charles Thompson spoke for many Grand Tourists when in 1744 he described himself as being impatiently desirous of viewing a country so famous in history, a country which once gave laws to the world, and which is at present the greatest school of music and painting, contains the noblest productions of sculpture and architecture, and is filled with cabinets of rarities, and collections of all kinds of historical relics.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文Children were not always raised so differently.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文By making the effort to organize and label files so others can understand them, scientists become more organized and better disciplined themselves, thus avoiding confusion later on.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文About 250 students so far have gone through the program, which receives funding from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文So recently, I’ve looked at young people’s drinking and it’s obviously a major concern to government at the moment.
出自-2017年6月听力原文Why, then, has this claim become so popular?Part of the answer is that this is what always happens during periods of high unemployment—in part because experts and analysts believe that declaring the problem deeply rooted, with no easy answers, makes them sound serious.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文Whether this is right, and if so where and when the ecological axe will fall, is hard to determine with any precision—which is why governments and financial institutions are only beginning to bring such risks into their economic calculations.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文We need to accept that fact across much of the planet, so waste with little or no treatment will be used in agriculture for good reason.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文Virtually all experts agree that the fee-for-service system—doctors are rewarded for the quantity of care rather than its quality of effectiveness—is a primary reason that the cost of care is so high.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文That's why school reform is so critical.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文Teaching is so important that it should be like other professions, with high pay and good working conditions but few job protections for bottom performers.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文So what you need to know is that there's no evidence whatsoever to back these claims.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文So the news that Cablevision, an American cable company, was rolling out interactive advertisements to all its customers on October 6th was greeted with some skepticism.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文So the evidence contradicts the claim that we're mainly suffering from structural unemployment.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文So it is saying that economic development should make for a cleaner world? Not necessarily; In the industrialised countries, environmental problems are generally related to industrialisation and technological development, it continues.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文Or so the industry hopes.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文It turns out today's teenagers aren't so scary after all.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文Interactive television advertising has been under debate for the last decade or so.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文In the last five years or so, there has been an explosion of green claims and environmental claims.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文In some cases, water is so scarce that farmers break open sewage pipes transporting waste to local rivers.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文In fact, other recent studies have found there has never been a time in American history when so small a proportion of young people have sought or accepted leadership roles in local civic organizations.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文Clickthrough rates have been high so far ( ' , around 3-4%, compared with less than 0.3% online), but that may be a result of the novelty.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文Changes in policy would be approved or rejected as a whole so that lobbyists would find it hard to influence lawmakers.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文But finding hard evidence to support the thesis is not so easy.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文As a country's wealth grows, so do its greenhouse gas emissions.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文And on reflection, this is not surprising; the single word environment has so many dimensions, and there are so many other factors affecting wealth—such as the oil deposits—that teasing out a simple economy-environment relationship would be almost impossible.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文The other thing that people do forget is that these are medicines, so they do have an impact.
出自-2016年6月听力原文So, how long have you been a Market Research Consultant? Hello.
出自-2016年6月听力原文So really, those supplements aren’t going to give you that perfect memory in the way that they promise.
出自-2016年6月听力原文So Mike, you managed the innovation project at CucinTech.
出自-2016年6月听力原文Today's battery breakthroughs come as the world looks to expand modern energy access to the billion or so people without it, while also cutting back on fuels that warm the planet.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文So, it is argued, stripping cartons of their branding will trigger no mass movement to quit.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文So why has it taken so long? The Department of Health declared its intention to consider the move in November 2010 and consulted through 2012.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文So what other variables could be used if the racial concept is thrown out? Yudell said scientists need to get more specific with their language, perhaps using terms like ancestry or population that might more precisely reflect the relationship between humans and their genes, on both the individual and population level.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文So much of what CES has been about is the cool.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文Perhaps the reason why so many universities offer their students so little is they know studying at a top university remains a brilliant investment even if you don't learn anything.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文Companies are pushing it hard but make it almost overwhelming even to dip a toe in the water for the average consumer, because there are so many compatibility issues to think about.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文But this third group was not only unexpected, it was so distinct and so large—nearly one third of our sample—that it became a key finding of the study.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文Bearded Russian priests offer regular services at the Orthodox church for the 16 or so Russian speakers who spend the winter at the base, largely polar scientists in fields like glaciology and meteorology.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文So what I’ve done is I’ve taken Sternberg’s three elements of love: intimacy, passion and commitment, and I’ve listed out the different kinds of relationships you would have if you had zero, one, two or three out of the three elements.
出自-2016年12月听力原文So if you have all three of these, intimacy, passion and commitment, in Sternberg’s theory you have love.
出自-2016年12月听力原文So I quickly designed a skirt on my computer, and I loaded the file on the printer.
出自-2016年12月听力原文Okay, so let’s get started.
出自-2016年12月听力原文Some analysts say that there's a role for doctors to play in cost analysis because not many others are doing so.
出自-2015年12月阅读原文So what factors, at the community level, do predict if poor children will move up the economic ladder as adults? What explains, for instance, why the Salt Lake City metro area is one of the 100 largest metropolitan areas most likely to lift the fortunes of the poor and the Atlanta metro area is one of the least likely?Harvard economist Raj Chetty has pointed to economic and racial segregation, community density, the size of a community's middle class, the quality of schools, community religiosity, and family structure, which he calls the single strongest correlate of upward mobility.
出自-2015年12月阅读原文So a heavy object, like a football player moving at a high speed, has a lot of momentum — that is, once be is moving, it is hard to change his state of motion.
出自-2015年12月阅读原文Many students are coming from a situation where no one around them has the experience of successfully completing higher education, so they are coming in questioning themselves and their college worthiness, Jarrat continued.
出自-2015年12月阅读原文And if we're not going to make rational decisions about the future, others may have to help us to do so.
出自-2015年12月阅读原文All the forecasts, plans, and anticipations cited above have failed so miserably because their authors and promoters thought the transitions they hoped to implement would proceed unlike all previous energy transitions, and that their progress could be accelerated in an unprecedented manner.
出自-2015年12月阅读原文5 percent of the second group thought so.
出自-2015年12月阅读原文American educates so manymore people at university that one can’t expect all those who go to be as intelligent as the much narrower band in British universities, says the professor Christopher Rakes at Boston university, I’m not against elitism, but I happen to like having people who are more eager to learn.
出自-2015年12月听力原文"I'm going to leave it to those who are in mathematics to work out the ways to make their subject interesting and exciting so students want to take it," Hacker says.
2018年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C"I'm going to leave it to those who are in mathematics to work out the ways to make their subject interesting and exciting so students want to take it," Hacker says. "All that I ask is that alternatives be offered instead of putting all of us on the road
2018年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C"Make mathematics more available," Draujlcova says. Redesign it so it's more accessible to more kinds of people: young children, adults who worry about it, adults who may have had bad experiences."
2018年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C"Many students are coming from a situation where no one around them has the experience of successfully completing higher education, so they are coming in questioning themselves and their college worthiness," Jarrat continued.
2015年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B"So here's the job opening, here's the job seeker, match them together under one roof," she says.
2016年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C"The yield is never going to be high," Farrant says, so these plants will be targeted not at Iowa farmers trying to squeeze more cash out of high-yield fields, but subsistence farmers who need help to survive a drought like the present one in South Africa
2018年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section BA bathing machine was rolled down to the sea shore, so women would not be seen in swimwear.
2018年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section BA lot of clever people are terrified about artificial intelligence, fearing that robots will one day become so smart that they'll murder all of us.
2018年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section AAccording to Harry Vallentine, a Canadian engineer who is researching modern steam technology, a special tank measuring 2 by 10 metres could store over 750 kilowatt hours of energy as high pressure steam, enough to pull a two-cart train for an hour or so.
2018年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section CAll the universities are owned by the government, so there is the ministry of Education in charge of creating the curriculum for the universities and so there's not much room for flexibility.
2016年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section AAnd about 200 to 215 million women don't have access to birth control they want, so that they can't control their own fertility.
2017年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section CAnd it goes some way towards explaining why books about swimming, in which people tackle icy lakes, and overcome oceans while reflecting on their lives have recently become so popular.
2018年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section BAnd on reflection, this is not surprising; the single word" environment" has so many dimensions, and there are so many other factors affecting wealth—such as the oil deposits—that teasing out a simple economy-environment relationship would be almost impos
2016年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section BAnd so there is nothing inherently wrong about stereotypes.
2017年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section CAnd so, at 11pm on the night of Georgia State University's GSU midnight deadline, I applied online.
2018年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section BAnd these big food corporations have so much money to spend on clever tactic design to make young children want to buy their products.
2018年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section AAnd we also need to plan ahead so that we're in a position to deal with the likely levels of climate change which are already inevitable and even more so too for the levels that are likely if we don't get those global agreements.
2016年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section AApparently, we look down on acquaintances more so than friends.
2019年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section CApple argues that it is fighting to preserve a principle that most of us who are addicted to our smartphones can defend: Weaken a single iPhone so that its contents can be viewed by the American government and you risk weakening all iPhones for any govern
2017年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section BAs a zoologist focusing on the studies of apes and monkeys, I've been studying why humans evolved to become the naked ape and why skin comes in so many different shades around the world.
2019年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section CAs for our customers, they are all animal lovers, so they would never try to hurt the rabbits.
2018年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section AAs it grew more popular, the company sold rights to bottle the soda, so it could travel easily.
2017年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section CAs it is, sleep is so undervalued that getting by on fewer hours has become a badge of honor.
2015年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section AAs she wrote in her description of the peacock flower," The Indians, who are not treated well by their Dutch masters, use the seeds to abort their children, so that they will not become slaves like themselves.
2018年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section BAs smartphones have multiplied, so have questions about their impact on how we live and how we work.
2018年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section CAs Vaclav Smil points out, "All the forecasts, plans, and anticipations cited above have failed so miserably because their authors and promoters thought the transitions they hoped to implement would proceed unlike all previous energy transitions, and that
2015年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section BAs wood was so plentiful, it was cheaper to use than the stone used in the buildings of other European cultures.
2019年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section CB2B commerce, for example, didn't move mainly online by 2005 as many had predicted in 2000, nor even by 2016, but that doesn't mean it won't do so over the next few decades.
2019年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section BBarrett wanted to find out if the absence of physical currency does indeed cause a person to spend more, so she decided to conduct an experiment a few months ago.
2017年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section CBecause they're so small and light, it costs much less to get a Cube Sat into Earth's orbit than a traditional communications or GPS satellite.
2019年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section BBria Dunham, a mother in Somerville, Massachusetts, was so excited to watch a moment of brotherly bonding while her first-grader and baby took a bath together that she snapped a few photos.
2018年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section BBut frequently my tech use was not so benign.
2017年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section BBut she was so nervous that she kept forgetting what to say, and she spoke almost in a whisper.
2017年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section ABut this does not apply to everyone, so it is essential to establish your own rhythm.
2017年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section CClick-through rates have been high so far around 3-4%, compared with less than 0.3% onlin, but that may be a result of the novelty.
2016年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section CCommon research has long held that talking themselves through a task helps children learn, although doing so when you'v apparently matured is not a great sign of brilliance.
2017年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section ACompanies are pushing it hard but make it almost overwhelming even to dip a toe in the water for the average consumer, because there are so many compatibility issues to think about.
2016年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section BDehl and her fellow researchers wanted to find out if that was true, so they embarked on a series of nine experiments in the lab and in the field testing people's enjoyment in the presence or absence of a camera.
2018年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section CEven people with the sharpest facial-recognition skills can only remember so much.
2018年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section CEven so, the levels in these countries are also rising.
2019年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section CEven so, they can rarely without subsidized support address serious personal needs.
2018年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section CExercise, diet, cognitive stimulation showed some positive effects, although the evidence was not so strong that we could actually consider these firmly established.
2016年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section CFlamingos have evolved very leathery skin on their legs so they can tolerate the salt water, says David Harper, a professor at the University of Leicester.
2017年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section CFood security and fortunes depend on sufficient rain, and nowhere more so than in Africa, where 96% of farmland depends on rain instead of the irrigation common in more developed places.
2018年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section BFor one thing, they are reliable and so far as they are based on unbiased samples.
2017年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section CGoogle and Apple have made it far too difficult to adjust these settings so it's up to us to take steps to ensure we set these triggers to suit our own needs, not the needs of the app makers.
2017年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section BHave young people never had it so good?
2019年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section BWhen a tree first starts growing in a certain area, it's likely that the 27 climatic envelope—the temperature, humidity, rainfall patterns and so on—suits it.
2016年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section AHere is the most malignant threat to our personal freedom, particularly as the balance of power in the workplace has been shifted so dramatically from worker to boss.
2019年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义
ADV
如此,这样(指已经提到的事)
You use so to refer back to something that has just been mentioned.
例句
'Do you think that made much of a difference to the family?' — 'I think so.'...“你认为那会给这个家庭带来很大的变化吗?”——“我认为是这样的。”If you can't play straight, then say so...要是你无法做到诚实坦率,就直说吧。ADV
同样,也一样(指后者跟前者一样)
You use so when you are saying that something which has just been said about one person or thing is also true of another one.
例句
I enjoy Ann's company and so does Martin...我喜欢和安在一起,马丁也一样。They had a wonderful time and so did I...他们玩得很开心,我也一样。CONJ-COORD
(表示两个事件或情况在某方面相似)正如…,也…
You use the structures as...so and just as...so when you want to indicate that two events or situations are similar in some way.
例句
As computer systems become even more sophisticated, so too do the methods of those who exploit the technology...正如计算机系统变得越来越先进,开发计算机技术的人所用的方法也日益先进了。Just as John has changed, so has his wife...约翰变了,他的妻子也变了。ADV
(指某一情况)就是这样,事实如此
If you say that a state of affairs is so, you mean that it is the way it has been described.
例句
Gold has been a poor investment over the past 20 years, and will continue to be so...*近 20 年来投资黄金的收益很差,今后仍会如此。In those days English dances as well as songs were taught at school, but that seems no longer to be so...那时学校里教授英国舞蹈和英语歌曲,可是现在的情形似乎不再是这样了。ADV
(向别人示范)这样,像这样;(用手势比划大小、高度或长度)这么,那么
You can use so with actions and gestures to show a person how to do something, or to indicate the size, height, or length of something.
例句
Clasp the chain like so.像这样扣上链子。...holding the champagne glass with long red nails positioned just so.手指指甲又长又红,就这样握着香槟酒杯CONJ-SUBORD
(用于引出结果)因此,所以
You use so and so that to introduce the result of the situation you have just mentioned.
例句
I am not an emotional type and so cannot bring myself to tell him I love him...我不是一个感情外露的人,因此不会主动告诉他我爱他。People are living longer than ever before, so even people who are 65 or 70 have a surprising amount of time left...人们的寿命比以前任何时候都长了,所以即便到了 65 岁或 70 岁,余下的光阴也还很长。CONJ-SUBORD
(用于引出原因)为了;以便
You use so ,so that, and so as to introduce the reason for doing the thing that you have just mentioned.
例句
Come to my suite so I can tell you all about this wonderful play I saw in Boston...到我的套房来吧,这样我就可以跟你好好讲讲我在波士顿看的这部非常棒的戏了。He took her arm and hurried her upstairs so that they wouldn't be overheard...他挽起她的手臂,带她匆匆上了楼,这样别人就听不见他们说的话了。ADV
(在叙述过程中引出一系列事件中的下一件或说明两件事情之间的联系)此后,于是
You can use so in stories and accounts to introduce the next event in a series of events or to suggest a connection between two events.
例句
The woman asked if he could perhaps mend her fences, and so he stayed...女人问他能否给她修一修篱笆,于是他留了下来。She was free for five whole days, from Christmas Eve. And so she would be going to Charles, to join her family...她从圣诞夜开始有整整 5 天的自由时间,于是她准备去查尔斯跟家人呆在一起。ADV
(表示开始新话题、引入新问题或对刚说过的问题进行评论)那么,这么
You can use so in conversations to introduce a new topic, or to introduce a question or comment about something that has been said.
例句
So how was your day?...那么,你今天过得怎么样?So you're a runner, huh?...这么说,你是个跑步爱好者喽?ADV
(谈话中表示接受别人的说法)的确,确实
You can use so in conversations to show that you are accepting what someone has just said.
例句
'It makes me feel, well, important.' — 'And so you are.'...“这使我觉得自己,嗯,很重要。”——“的确如此。”'You can't possibly use this word.' — 'So I won't.'...“你绝不会使用这样的字眼。”——“我的确不会。”CONVENTION
(表示某人说的话无关紧要)那又怎样呢?
You say 'So?' and 'So what?' to indicate that you think that something that someone has said is unimportant.
例句
'My name's Bruno.' — 'So?'...“我是布鲁诺。”——“那又怎样?”'You take a chance on the weather if you holiday in the UK.' — 'So what?'...“如果到英国度假,天气好不好得要碰运气。”——“那又如何?”ADV
(用于形容词和副词之前强调所描述的特性)如此,这么,多么,太
You can use so in front of adjectives and adverbs to emphasize the quality that they are describing.
例句
'I am so afraid,' Francis thought...弗朗西斯心想:“我害怕极了。”He was surprised they had married — they had seemed so different...他俩居然结婚了——这让他非常惊讶,因为他们实在是太不一样了。ADV
如此…(以致…);到…的程度(以致…)
You can use so...that and so...as to emphasize the degree of something by mentioning the result or consequence of it.
例句
The tears were streaming so fast she could not see...眼泪哗哗地流下来,她的视线一下子就模糊了。The deal seems so attractive it would be ridiculous to say no...这笔交易看上去太诱人了,要是拒绝它简直是笑话。PHRASE
及诸如此类;等等
You use and so on or and so forth at the end of a list to indicate that there are other items that you could also mention.
例句
...the Government's policies on such important issues as health, education, tax and so on...*府在卫生、教育、税收等等重大问题上的*策The patient can have apples, apple juice, apple sauce, and so forth.病人可以食用苹果、苹果汁、苹果酱等。PHRASE
(指某事有一定限度,但未言明具体限度)这么多,这么些,到这种程度
You use so much and so many when you are saying that there is a definite limit to something but you are not saying what this limit is.
例句
There is only so much time in the day for answering letters...白天回复信件的时间只有这么多。There is only so much fuel in the tank and if you burn it up too quickly you are in trouble...油箱里面的油只有这么多了,你要是太快把油耗光可就麻烦了。PHRASE
与其说是…不如说是…
You use the structures not...so much and not so much...as to say that something is one kind of thing rather than another kind.
例句
I did not really object to Will's behaviour so much as his personality...我与其说是反感威尔的行为,不如说是讨厌他的为人。A good birth depends not so much on who you are but where you are and how much you know.好的出身与其说是取决于你的身份,还不如说是取决于你的生活环境和知识水平。PHRASE
…左右;…上下
You use or so when you are giving an approximate amount.
例句
Though rates are heading down, they still offer real returns of 8% or so...尽管利率在下降,它们仍然能提供 8%左右的实际收益率。Matt got me a room there for a week or so when I first came here...我初次来到这里的时候,马特找了个房间让我住了大约一个星期。英汉词典释义
adv.
(表示程度)这么,这样,那么,那样,如此
Don't be so childish.别那么幼稚。这样, 那样
First, you turn the engine on so.首先, 你这样开动引擎。同样; 也
“He can play football.”“So can I.”“他会踢足球。”“我也会。”当然; 是的
“He will go to Hong Kong.”“So he will.”“他将要去香港。”“是的, 他将要去。”很, 极
I am so glad that you have come.对你的到来我感到很高兴。(指刚说过的事物)这样,如此
(表示大小或数量)这么,那么
(尤指感到惊讶时表示同意)的确如此
(儿童常用以反驳对方)偏偏,就 (口语)
(演示或描述事由)这样
conj.
(表示因果关系)因此,所以
The dog was hungry, so we fed it.狗饿了, 所以我们喂它。I gave you a map so you wouldn't get lost.我给你一张地图, 这样你就不会迷路了。(表示目的)为了,以便
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pron.
如此,这样
I'm well and will remain so.我的身体挺好的,以后还是这样。大约,左右
interj.
[表示同意、赞成等] 好啦,就这样吧!停下!(停住)别动!
[表示惊讶、冷淡等] 哦;真的吗
adj.
真的;事实如此的
如此的,这样的
整齐的,秩序井然的
英英词典释义
Noun
1. the syllable naming the fifth (dominant) note of any musical scale in solmization
Adjective
1. conforming to truth;
"I wouldn't have told you this if it weren't so""a truthful statement"2. marked by system; in good order;
"everything is in order""his books are always just so""things must be exactly so"Adverb
1. to a very great extent or degree;
"the idea is so obvious""never been so happy""I love you so""my head aches so!"2. in order that;
"he stooped down so he could pick up his hat"3. in such a condition or manner, especially as expressed or implied;
"They're happy and I hope they will remain so""so live your life that old age will bring no regrets"4. to a certain unspecified extent or degree;
"I can only go so far with this student""can do only so much in a day"5. in the same way; also;
"I was offended and so was he""worked hard and so did she"6. in the way indicated;
"hold the brush so""set up the pieces thus"; (`thusly' is a nonstandard variant)7. (usually followed by `that') to an extent or degree as expressed;
"he was so tired he could hardly stand""so dirty that it smells"8. subsequently or soon afterward (often used as sentence connectors);
"then he left""go left first, then right""first came lightning, then thunder""we watched the late movie and then went to bed""and so home and to bed"9. in truth (often tends to intensify);
"they said the car would break down and indeed it did""it is very cold indeed""was indeed grateful""indeed, the rain may still come""he did so do it!"