answer

英[ˈɑːnsə(r)]美[ˈænsər]

v.回答，答复，作出回应，符合，相配；

n.回答，回信，解决办法，答案，回应，不相上下的事物；

第三人称单数：answers;

过去式：answered;

过去分词：answered;

现在分词：answering;

例句

He pushed me for an answer.他催我作出答复。

He came back to work in the country in answer to the call.他响应号召回到自己的国家去工作。

Mary laughed in answer to the teacher's question.玛丽以笑声作为对老师问题的回答。

A funny answer might dry her up for a short time.一个滑稽可笑的回答会使她短时间内说不下去。

This box will answer for a chair.这个箱子可以当椅子用。

This tool will answer for our needs.这工具将满足我们的需要。

You will have to answer me for your conduct.你为你的行为要向我负责。

I can't answer for his honesty.我不能保证他诚实。

You must answer for her.你必须对她负责。

Imes knew the answer to the problem, but he kept it to himself.艾姆斯知道问题的答案, 但他却不说。

英语六级真题

What the designers of American sportswear proved was that fashion is a genuine design art, answering to the demanding needs of service.

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.

When I was in high school, dozens in my class alone would have answered differently.

What can be done about mass unemployment? All the wise heads agree: there're no quick or easy answers.

The answer is that no one has an easy fix for rising medical costs.

Saying that there're no easy answers sounds wise, but it's actually foolish: our unemployment crisis could be cured very quickly if we had the intellectual clarity and political will to act.

Those simultaneous challenges appear less overwhelming with increasingly better answers to a centuries-old question: how to make power portable.

And it is hard not to think: Are we in an innovation lull ( ' , 间歇期 )?In some ways, the answer is yes.

We found that when we taught participants to ask What if? and How can? questions that nobody present would know the answer to and that would spark exploration, they engaged in better inquiry at the next exhibit − asking more questions, performing more experiments and making better inter pretations of their results.

It helps students realize not every question has an answer.

For some people, mass transit might answer all transportation needs.

Fathers answered differently:75 percent preferred full-time work.

With the teacher's help, these pupils were able to find the answers to their set of problems.

Smith's essays raise as many questions as they answer.

We're trying to get answers from the students.

We learn from the answer that a student who gets a 100 should still work hard and keep improving.

The writers of Generation O (short for Obama), a new Newsweek blog that seeks to chronicle the lives of a group of young Obama supporters, want to answer that question

He answered Dona's questions very well.

When these people ran up against a technical problem, to which they'd have to turn to someone else for an answer, they'd e-mail and get an answer right away, because they built up a network of people before they needed them

The other people would e-mail and wait up to two weeks for an answer

Why he refused to answer her call.

After outlining the main points she would cover, she assured the audience that she would be happy to answer questions at the end of her presentation.

Delia had anticipated this question and had an answer ready

She answered in a matter-of-fact way.

Oh, I will," he answered politely

Based on answers to questions regarding their job hunting strategies and career decisions, he divided the students into two groups: maximizers, who consider every possible option, and satisficers, who look until they find an option that is good enough.

If you've ever started a sentence with, "If I were you…" or found yourself scratching your head at a colleague's agony over a decision when the answer is crystal-clear, there's a scientific reason behind it.

In some ways, the answer is yes.

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.

Thanks for taking the time to answer my questions, professor.

The answer depends on the robot.

The answer depends on which component happens to be stronger.

Those are the questions we need to ask ourselves, and everyone can have a different answer.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

VERB

回答;答复

When you answer someone who has asked you something, you say something back to them.

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N-COUNT

回答；答复

An answer is something that you say when you answer someone.

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PHRASE

接受反对意见;接受拒绝

If you say that someone will not take no for an answer, you mean that they go on trying to make you agree to something even after you have refused.

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VERB

回（信）；回复（广告）

If you answer a letter or advertisement, you write to the person who wrote it.

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N-COUNT

回信;复函

An answer is a letter that you write to someone who has written to you.

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VERB

接（电话）；应（门）；应答

When you answer the telephone, you pick it up when it rings. When you answer the door, you open it when you hear a knock or the bell.

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N-COUNT

解决办法

An answer to a problem is a solution to it.

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答案

Someone's answer to a question in a test or quiz is what they write or say in an attempt to give the facts that are asked for. The answer to a question is the fact that was asked for.

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VERB

解答;答（题）

When you answer a question in a test or quiz, you write or say something in an attempt to give the facts that are asked for.

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N-COUNT

反应；回报；回应；反击

Your answer to something that someone has said or done is what you say or do in response to it or in defence of yourself.

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VERB

反应;回报;回应;反击

If you answer something that someone has said or done, you respond to it.

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N-SING

（某地）与…相似的东西，相当于…的东西

If you say that something is a place's answer to a famous thing, you mean that the first thing is the equivalent of the second in that place.

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VERB

满足，适合，符合（需要、目的）

If something answers a need or purpose, it satisfies it, because it has the right qualities.

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VERB

与…相符；符合

If someone or something answers a particular description or answers to it, they have the characteristics described.

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英汉词典释义

vt. & vi.

答复; 解答; 答辩

适应, 符合, 满足

回应, 响应

n.

回答; 回音

答案

反应

足以媲美的人；堪称相当的事物

英英词典释义

Noun

1. a statement (either spoken or written) that is made in reply to a question or request or criticism or accusation;

2. a statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem;

3. the speech act of replying to a question

4. the principle pleading by the defendant in response to plaintiff's complaint; in criminal law it consists of the defendant's plea of `guilty' or `not guilty' (or nolo contendere); in civil law it must contain denials of all allegations in the plaintiff'

5. a nonverbal reaction;

Verb

1. reply or respond to;

2. give the correct answer or solution to;

3. respond to a signal;

4. understand the meaning of;

5. give a defence or refutation of (a charge) or in (an argument);

6. be liable or accountable;

7. be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity;

8. match or correspond;

9. be satisfactory for; meet the requirements of or serve the purpose of;

10. react to a stimulus or command;

行业词典

法律： 答辩书；被告的答辩；