gap

英[ɡæp]美[ɡæp]

n.缺口，间隔，差距；

复数：gaps;

例句

He helped us to fill in a big gap in our knowledge.他帮我们填满知识上的空白。

There's a yawning gap between rich and poor.贫富之间有一条鸿沟.

The gap has narrowed considerably.分歧大大缩小了。

As generation gap exists, we must bear in mind that the younger people might not like that idea.因为有代沟的存在, 所以我们必须记住, 年轻人可能不喜欢这个想法。

The sheep got into the field through a gap in the hedge.羊群从树篱的缺口跑向田野。

He flashed his headlights and jumped lanes whenever a gap opened up.只要前面出现一点空隙他就会亮起前车灯并超车。

We must see that there is no gap in our defence.我们必须确保我们的防御没有漏洞。

There is a gap of five miles between towns.镇与镇之间相隔五英里。

The gate was locked but we went through a gap in the fence.门锁了, 我们便从篱笆的一处缺口钻了进去。

Not surprisingly, opinions vary on the value of taking a gap year.高中毕业后是否要休学一段时期, 不同的人有不同的观点.

英语六级真题

Yet there are recent signs that the gap could be starting to shrink.

The achievement gap between children from high- and lowincome families is 30-40% larger among children born in 2001 than those born 25 years earlier, according to Mr.

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.

have placed religious beliefs above party politicshave bridged the gap between the rich and the pooroffer poor children more chances to climb the social laddersuffer from higher levels of racial and economic segregationFamily structure.

Tennessee State's overall graduation rate is a tiny 39 percent, but at least it has a smaller gap between the outcomes for first-generation students and those of their peers.

Inequality is dangerous, he argued, not merely because it doesn't look good to have a large gap between the rich and the poor, but because inequality itself destroys upward mobility, making it harder for the poor to escape from poverty.

For all the new attention devoted to the 1 percent, a new dataset from the Equality of Opportunity Project at Harvard and Berkeley suggests that, if we care about upward mobility overall, we're vastly exaggerating the dangers of the rich-poor gap.

But if it was known that Black people were viewed differently from African Americans, researchers, until now, hadn't identified what that gap in perception was derived from.

in a 2012 report,the World Economic Forum found that when it comes to closing the gender gap in"economic participation and opportunity,"the United States is ahead of not only Sweden but also Finland,Denmark,the Netherlands,Iceland,Germany,and the United Kingdom.

It is a society well worth studying,and its efforts to conquer the gender gap impart a vital lesson—though not the lesson the Swedes had in mind。

Sweden has done more than other nations to close the gender gap.

Still, there's a huge disconnect between the way we currently train scientists and the actual employment opportunities available for them, and an urgent need for dramatic improvements in training programs to help close the gap.

Middlebury College in Vermont, another top school, had a 19-point gap in 2007 and a 22-point gap in 2006.

The most selective private schools – Harvard, Yale, and Princeton – show almost no gap between black and white graduation rates.

But such a Darwinian spirit is beginning to give way as at least a few colleges face up to the graduation gap

At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the gap has been roughly halved over the last three years.

With effort and money, the graduation gap can be closed

Harvard, Yale, and Princeton show almost no gap between black and white graduation rates mainly because they recruit the best students.

Washington and Lee University is cited as an example to show that the gap of graduation rates between whites and minorities can be closed

The generation gap is bound to narrow.

In many countries immigrants have been filling such gaps in the labour force as have already emerged (and remember that the real shortage is still around ten years off).

A mere generation ago, parent-child relations were described as "the generation gap".

Because of these differences, comparing France's consumption with the U.S.'s overstates the gap in economic welfare.

If we want to fix the problem of the income gap, first we have to understand it.

What has become obvious to me when it comes to the income gap is that there needs to be an opportunity for the people at the bottom to push them back up and push them into the middle class to give them hope in their lives.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

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缝隙；缺口；豁口；裂口

A gap is a space between two things or a hole in the middle of something solid.

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（时间上的）间断，间隔，间隙

A gap is a period of time when you are not busy or when you stop doing something that you normally do.

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漏洞；空白；缺口

If there is something missing from a situation that prevents it being complete or satisfactory, you can say that there is a gap .

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分歧；差距；隔阂

A gap between two groups of people, things, or sets of ideas is a big difference between them.

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英汉词典释义

n.

缺口, 裂口，开口，豁口

间隔, 间隙，间断

差距，分歧，隔阂

不足, 缺陷

缺口，空白，漏洞

峡谷，深谷；山口，隘口

(空间、时间的)中断，间歇，间断；(文章、稿件等的)脱字，漏字，脱漏；(知识面等的)空白

不同，不一致；悬殊；

【航空学】(双翼飞机的)翼隔

【植物学】裂，(缺)隙

vt.

造成缝隙，使成缺口，使豁裂

vi.

豁开，张开，裂开；有缺口；露出裂口

英英词典释义

Noun

1. a conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures;

2. an open or empty space in or between things;

3. a narrow opening;

4. a pass between mountain peaks

5. an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity;

Verb

1. make an opening or gap in

行业词典

体育： 山凹；

医学： 裂，隙，裂孔：时间上的间歇；开口或裂孔；

数学： 间隙；

林学： 离缝；又称 :离缝(open joint )；

药学： 裂隙；

遗传学： 缺口；DNA测序中位于同一染色体的两个叠连群之间中断空缺的部分。；空位；序列比对分析时为了获得较好的比对结果而插入的空缺部分。；