as

英[æz , əz]美[æz , əz]

prep.作为，像，至于…，关于…，在…时；

adv.像；

conj.当，因为；

英语六级真题

White parents are more likely than others to read to their children daily, as are married parents.

They are not as serious in its online stores.

The reasoning behind this saying is that low oil prices discourage investment in new production capacity, eventually shifting the oil supply curve backward and bringing prices back up as existing oil fields—which can be tapped at relatively low marginal cost—are depleted.

The prices of coal are low as a result of over-supply and decreasing demand.

The consumer was ultimately to be mentioned as well, especially by the likes of Dorothy Shaver, who could point to the sales figures at Lord & Taylor.

The Russian, Greek and Polish storks flew as far as South Africa, while those from Spain, Tunisia and Germany flew only as far as the Sahel.

The Grand Tourist was typically a young man with a thorough grounding in Greek and Latin literature as well as some leisure time, some means, and some interest in art.

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.

Technological innovations have unleashed the power of renewables such as wind, hydro, solar, and geothermal ( ' , 地热).

Nearly all members of last year's winning U.S.IMO team took part in MathCounts as middle school students, as did Loh, the coach.

Much of the waste is discarded rotten meat, mixed in with other human debris such as plastic bags and old toys.

Most Grand Tourists, however, stayed for briefer periods and set out with less scholarly intentions, accompanied by a teacher or guardian, and expected to return home with souvenirs of their travels as well as an understanding of art and architecture formed by exposure to great masterpieces.

Most American parents say they are not concerned about their children's grades as long as they work hard.

More than a quarter of children live in single-parent households—a historic high, according to Pew—and these children are three times as likely to live in poverty as those who live with married parents.

Middle-class and higher-income parents see their children as projects in need of careful cultivation, says Annette Lareau, whose groundbreaking research on the topic was published in her book Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race and Family Life.

Many scientists believe that El Ni o events, caused by warming in the Pacific, are becoming more intense as a result of climate change.

Less-educated parents, and poorer and black and Latino parents are more likely to believe that there is no such thing as too much involvement in a child's education.

Last year, the Royal Society in London said in its report that scientists need to shift away from a research culture where data is viewed as a private preserve.

It also adds the element of artistic creativity to attract a new pool of students who may not see themselves as math people.

Interestingly, parents' attitudes toward education do not seem to reflect their own educational background as much as a belief in the importance of education for upward mobility.

In the past decade, even as income inequality has grown, some of the socioeconomic differences in parenting, like reading to children and going to libraries, have narrowed.

In England, where architecture was increasingly seen as an aristocratic pursuit, noblemen often applied what they learned from the villas of Palladio in the Veneto and the evocative ( ' , 唤起回忆的) ruins of Rome to their own country houses and gardens.

If you look at a lot of low-income communities in the United States, there are programs that are serving them, but they're primarily centered around ‘Let's get these kids' grades up,' and not around ‘Let's get these kids access to the same kinds of opportunities as more-affluent kids,' said Daniel Zaharopol, the founder and executive director of the program.

For example, the United Nations Children's Fund estimates that some 11 million children in Africa face hunger, disease, and water shortages as a result of the strongest El Ni o ( ' , 厄尔尼诺) weather phenomenon in decades.

Designer sportswear was not modeled on that of Europe, as modern art would later be; it was genuinely invented and developed in America.

Data on management expenses at the college system and in other state departments will be part of a business justification the state will use as officials deliberate the specifics of an outsourcing plan.

Could utility alone justify the new ideas of the American designers? Fashion is often regarded as a pursuit of beauty, and some cherished fashion's trivial relationship to the fine arts.

Closings were simple, practical, and accessible, as the modern woman depended on no personal maid to dress her.

Beginning in the late sixteenth century, it became fashionable for young aristocrats to visit Paris, Venice, Florence, and above all, Rome, as the culmination ( ' , 终极) of their classical education.

Andrea Flack of the Max Planck Institute found that birds following traditional migration routes were more likely to die than German storks that flew only as far as northern Morocco, and spent the winter there on rubbish dumps.

And it would raise the demand for technologies such as carbon capture and storage, spurring their further development.

A tax on upstream carbon sources is one easy way to put a price on carbon emissions, although some countries may wish to use other methods, such as emissions trading schemes.

You need to understand as a citizen and as a tax payer and as a voter what’s really behind the arguments.

In the past, health experts warned us that the day would come in which it would become very difficult to provide medical care for even common problems such as lung infection or severe sour throat.

In fact, you may have heard about the new superbugs, which are antibiotic-resistant bacteria that have developed as a result of overprescribed antibiotics.

And, apparently, that day has come because seemingly routine operations such as knee replacements are now much more hazardous due to the looming threat of these infections.

When this water is used for agricultural irrigation, farmers risk absorbing disease-causing bacteria, as do consumers who eat the produce raw and unwashed.

Today's teenagers admire their parents and welcome parental guidance about important matters such as career choice—though certainly not Mom and Dad's advice on matters of personal taste, such as music or fashion.

They include such measures as accountable care organizations to take charge of a patient's needs with an eye on both cost and quality, and chronic disease management to make sure the seriously ill, who are responsible for the bulk of all health care costs, are treated properly.

The one in the House bill would have to negotiate rates with providers, rather than using Medicare rates, as many reformers wanted.

The changes would have to be approved or rejected as a whole by Congress, making it hard for narrow-interest lobbies to bend lawmakers to their will.

The average Norwegian is better off than the average US citizen, but contributes about half as much to climate change.

That was as it should be: kitchens were for servants, and the aspiring middle classes wanted nothing to do with them.

That statement comes not, as you might imagine, from a stereotypical tree-hugging, save-the-world greenie ( ' , 环保主义者), but from Gordon Brown, a politician with a reputation for rigour, thoroughness and above all, caution.

Teenagers of today often turn to their parents for advice on such important matters as career choice.

Still, in my studies and others I have read, I find the same patterns as in USA WEEKEND's survey.

Southern states without strong teachers' unions have schools at least as awful as those in union states.

Right into the early 20th century, kitchens were smoky, noisy places, generally located underground, or to the back of the house, and as far from living space as possible.

Recently, we examined more than 400 essays on the laws of life that teens from two communities had written as part of an educational program initiated by the John Templeton Foundation in Radnor, Pa.

Measuring emissions is not a precise science, particularly when it comes to issues surrounding land use; not all nations have released up-to-date data, and in any case, emissions from some sectors such as aviation are not included in national statistics.

Marketers must qualify their claims on the product packaging and limit them to a specific benefit, such as how much of the product is recycled.

Manufacture as many green products as possible.

Just having a strong teacher for one elementary year left pupils a bit less likely to become mothers as teenagers, a bit more likely to go to college and earning more money at age 28.

It is regarded as the center of a modern home.

It gave a third party the authority to label its products as environmentally friendly.

In other words, structural unemployment is a fake problem, which mainly serves as an excuse for not pursuing real solutions.

Hunt through the reports prepared by UN agencies and development groups—many for conferences such as this year's Millennium Goals review—and you will find that the linkage between environmental protection and economic progress is a common thread.

How much is today's spirit of harmony a change from our more turbulent past? A mere generation ago, parentchild relations were described as the generation gap.

Get a teacher from the top 20%, and it's as if a child has gone to school for an extra month or two.

Get a bottom 1% teacher, and the effect is the same as if a child misses 40% of the school year.

Changes in policy would be approved or rejected as a whole so that lobbyists would find it hard to influence lawmakers.

By and large, these are very nice kids, and as the band The Who used to sing, The kids are alright.

But now, as then, powerful forces are ideologically opposed to the whole idea of government action on a sufficient scale to jump-start the economy.

But is this right? Do things get better or worse as we get richer? Here the Stockholm declaration is ambiguous.

But frequently untreated human waste harvested from lavatories is delivered to farms and spread as fertilizer.

But could Norway keep its standard of living and yet cut its emissions to Moroccan or even Ethiopian levels? That question, repeated across a dozen environmental issues and across our diverse planet, is what will ultimately determine whether the human race is living beyond its ecological means as it pursues economic revival.

But as the working classes prospered and the servant shortage set in, housekeeping became a matter of interest to the educated classes.

As countries become richer, they produce more greenhouse gases; and the impact of those gases will fall primarily in poor parts of the world.

As a result, the bills do not require, as they should, that the results of these studies be used to set payment rates in Medicare.

As a report in The New England Journal of Medicine concluded, Pretty much every proposed innovation found in the health policy literature these days is contained in these measures.

As a country's wealth grows, so do its greenhouse gas emissions.

As I said, structural unemployment isn't a real problem, it's an excuse—a reason not to act on America's problems at a time when action is desperately needed.

And the World Resources Institute ( ' , WRI) in its World Resources 2005 report, issued at the end of August, produced several such examples from Africa and Asia; it also demonstrated that environmental degradation affects the poor more than the rich, as poorer people derive a much higher proportion of their income directly from the natural resources around them.

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.

Asked what they would like to change in the world, the students mentioned only personal concerns such as slowing down the pace of life, gaining good friends, becoming more spiritual, becoming either more materially successful or less materially oriented ( ' , depending on the student's values), and being more respectful of the Earth, animals and other people.

You know, one of the first things I like to tell people when they ask me about the supplements, is that a lot of them are promoted as a cure for your memory, but your memory doesn’t need a cure.

Today, my guest is Dana Ivanovich, who has worked for the last twenty years as an interpreter.

The US has already lost more than a third of the native languages that existed before European colonisation, and the remaining 192 are classed by UNESCO as ranging between unsafe and extinct.

Still, there are good reasons to make positive changes in how we live and what we eat as we age.

He predicts high failure rates for smaller, regional banks in 2010 as commercial real estate loans come due.

Gregg Rosen lost his job as a sales  nearly three years ago and is still unemployed.

Cognitive decline is the loss of ability to learn new skills, or recall words, names, and faces that is most common as we age.

As U.S.banks recovered with the help of the American government and the American taxpayer, president Obama held meetings with top bank executives, telling them it’s time to return the favor.

After the failure of Lehman Brothers, many of the world’s largest banks feared the worst as the collapse of the housing bubble exposed investments in risky loans.

a basis for explaining human genetic diversityan aid to understanding different populationsan explanation for social and cultural differencesa term to describe individual human characteristicsmodern genetics research is likely to fuel racial conflictsrace is a poorly defined marker of human genetic diversityrace as a biological term can explain human genetic diversitygenetics research should consider social and cultural variablesit is absolutely necessary to put race aside in making diagnosisit is important to include social variables in genetics researchracial categories for genetic diversity could lead to wrong clinical predictionsdiscrimination against black people may cause negligence in clinical treatmentThey be more precise with the language they use.

Your job is literally killing you, as The Washington Post put it.

You can see that we're here to stay, said Vladimir Cheberdak, 57, chief of the Bellingshausen Station, as he sipped tea under a portrait of Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, a high-ranking officer in the Imperial Russian Navy who explored the Antarctic coast in 1820.

While we argue phasing out racial terminology ( ' , 术语 ) in the biological sciences, we also acknowledge that using race as a political or social category to study racism, although filled with lots of challenges, remains necessary given our need to understand how structural inequities and discrimination produce health disparities ( ' , 差异 ) between groups, Yudell said.

What happens to the centralized electric grid, which took decades and billions of dollars to build, as more and more people become prosumers, who produce and consume their own energy on-site?No one knows which – if any – battery technology will ultimately dominate, but one thing remains clear: The future of energy is in how we store it.

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.

This might not be right, but school-leavers who fail to acknowledge as much risk making the wrong decision about going to university.

They do not often demonstrate risky behaviors as their peers.

They are almost as liable to depression as the high-risk group.

The research stations on King George lsland offer a glimpse into the long game on this ice-blanketed continent as nations assert themselves, eroding the sway long held by countries like the United States, Britain, Australia and New Zealand.

The practice of clocking in for an eight-hour workday is a leftover from the days of the Industrial Revolution, as reflected in the then-popular saying, Eight hours labor, eight hours recreation, eight hours rest.

The newer players are stepping into what they view as a treasure house of resources.

The market demand for electronic devices is now either declining or not growing as fast as before.

The booths are still exciting, and the demos are still just as crazy.

The Paris agreement has been widely hailed as a positive step forward in addressing climate change for all, although the details on addressing climate justice can be best described as sketchy.

The researchers also acknowledged that there are a few areas where race as a construct might still be useful in scientific research: as a political and social, but not biological, variable.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

CONJ-SUBORD

（表示两件事情同时发生）当…的时候，在…的同时

If something happens as something else happens, it happens at the same time.

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PHR-CONJ-COORD

像…一样

You use the structure as...as when you are comparing things.

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PHR-CONJ-COORD

（强调数量）多达，只有

You use as...as to emphasize amounts of something.

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PREP

作为；当作

You use as when you are indicating what someone or something is or is thought to be, or what function they have.

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PREP

还是…的时候

If you do something as a child or as a teenager, for example, you do it when you are a child or a teenager.

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CONJ-SUBORD

同样地；一样地；像…一样

You use as to say how something happens or is done, or to indicate that something happens or is done in the same way as something else.

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PREP

因为;作为（结果）

You use as in expressions like as a result and as a consequence to indicate how two situations or events are related to each other.

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CONJ-SUBORD

（引导短从句）正如，就像

You use as to introduce short clauses which comment on the truth of what you are saying.

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CONJ-SUBORD

因为；由于

You can use as to mean 'because' when you are explaining the reason for something.

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PHRASE

可以说;在某种程度上

You say as it were in order to make what you are saying sound less definite.

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PHRASE

事实上，实际上（表示实际情况和可能情况的对比）

You use expressions such as as it is ,as it turns out, and as things stand when you are making a contrast between a possible situation and what actually happened or is the case.

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英汉词典释义

adv.

同样地, 一样地

prep.

(表示时间)当还是…的时候

(表示方式)以…的身份, 以…资格, 作为; 以…形式, 以作为; 以…角色, 扮演…角色; 如同, 像

(表示结果)成为, 看作, 看成

(表示目的)为了, 以…为目的

(表示举例)例如, 诸如…之类的

conj.

在…期间, 当…时候

尽管, 即使, 虽然

像…一样

由于, 因为

照…方式

正如；如同

英英词典释义

Adverb

1. to the same degree (often followed by `as');

行业词典

电力： 应用基；as-fired basis, as-received basis；炉前燃料；as-fired fuel；