sign

英[saɪn]美[saɪn]

n.迹象，招牌，手势，符号；

v.签字，和…签约，打手势；

复数：signs;

第三人称单数：signs;

过去式：signed;

过去分词：signed;

现在分词：signing;

例句

Looking around, I could see no sign of life.四处环顾后, 我看不出有生命的迹象。

I don't expect him to sign anyone on.我希望他不雇用任何人。

Can you find someone to sign me in?你能找个人签字放我进去吗?

They shot off their weapons as a sign of victory.他们朝天鸣*以示胜利。

He painted a sign advertising the pups.他画了个（卖）小狗的广告牌。

Hungary has indicated its readiness to sign the treaty.匈牙利已表示愿意签订该条约。

She passed close by me without a sign of recognition.她与我擦肩而过, 却没认出我。

a portentous dream/ sign不祥的梦/征兆

In order to validate the agreement, both parties sign it.为使协议有效, 双方在上面签了字。

The sign outside the motel said “No Vacancies”.汽车旅馆外的招牌显示“客满”。

英语六级真题

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

Schools or teachers who sign up for the National Math Club receive a kit full of activities and resources, but there's no special teacher training and no competition attached.

More than a decade later, there was no sign of the ecosystem re-building itself.

Teenagers at risk of depression, anxiety and suicide often wear their troubles like a neon ( ' , 霓虹灯 ) sign.

Studying at university will only become less attractive if employers shift their focus away from where someone went to university--and there is no sign of that happening anytime soon.

Carli says that one of the most significant things about his study is that it provides new early-warning signs for parents, teachers and mental health-care providers.

Currently, there’s mounting criticism of Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move campaign, which fights childhood obesity by encouraging youngsters to become more physically active, and it signed on singer Beyonce and basketball player Shaquille O’Neal, both of whom also endorse sodas which are a major contributor to the obesity epidemic.

The 2004 Commercial Space Launch Amendments Act, intended to encourage private space vehicles and services, prohibits the transportation secretary ( ' , and thereby the FAA) from regulating the de sign or operation of private spacecraft, unless they have resulted in a serious or fatal injury to crew or passengers.

Despite clear signs of global warming it is not easy for most people to believe climate change will affect their own lives.

It is a trend that shows no sign of slowing.

But there is also time for brief diversions onto bizarre ground, such as a discussion of the skyscraper index (which holds that a boom in skyscraper construction is a foolproof sign of an imminent recession)

Skyscrapers are a sure sign of a city's prosperity.

is a sign of age discrimination

Yet, there are signs of peril (危险)within American higher education.

Nor is there any sign of the intergenerational warfare predicted in the 1990s.

These "thought experiments" were pages of calculations signed and submitted to the prestigious journal Annalen der Physik by a virtual unknown.

And that box there to confirm you have known driving convictions, thank you, and then sign there.

That sign says they are against importing luxury goods from Europe.

Being funny isn't necessarily an indicator of good social skills and well-being," his research has shown, "it may just exactly be a sign of personality flaws

It is a sign of happiness and confidence.

They want to know if the economic crisis would affect our ability to carry out the deal we signed last November.

A package deal to be signed in November

Her poems on various subjects,religious and moral were printed in Boston in 1773, three years before the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

I can't believe so many people want to sign up for the Korea Development Conference.

In some countries, whistling by listeners is a sign of approval while in other courtiers it is a form of insult.

Since you're psychology major, you should sign up for it.

The man is still trying to sign up for the course he is interested in

And, by contrast, the loss of hope, is turning out to be a stronger sign that a person may commit suicide than other factors long thought to be more likely risks.

He wants to sign a long-term contract.

Although, over the years, Barbies had more than 180 different careers, including football coach, sign language teacher, ambassador, president and astronaut, her body shape hasn't changed much.

Common 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.

From a political perspective, we need to understand the terms on which major countries like China and the USA might sign up to a global agreement because at the moment we don't have that consensus.

Studying at university will only become less attractive if employers shift their focus away from where someone went to university—and there is no sign of that happening anytime soon.

Teenagers at risk of depression, anxiety and suicide often wear their troubles like a neon sign.

The first major sign of problems came in summer 2010, when the construction corporation pushed the opening from October 2011 to June 2012.

This is a sign of the continued allure of creating scientific correlations across borders.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

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符号;记号

A sign is a mark or shape that always has a particular meaning, for example in mathematics or music.

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(示意的)动作，姿势，手势

A sign is a movement of your arms, hands, or head which is intended to have a particular meaning.

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VERB

打手势语;为(节目或表演)配手语

If you sign, you communicate with someone using sign language. If a programme or performance is signed, someone uses sign language so that deaf people can understand it.

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招牌;标牌;指示牌;告示牌;标志

A sign is a piece of wood, metal, or plastic with words or pictures on it. Signs give you information about something, or give you a warning or an instruction.

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N-VAR

迹象;征兆;表象;痕迹

If there is a sign of something, there is something which shows that it exists or is happening.

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VERB

在…上签名;在…上签字;签署

When you sign a document, you write your name on it, usually at the end or in a special space. You do this to indicate that you have written the document, that you agree with what is written, or that you were present as a witness.

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V-ERG

(和…)签约

If an organization signs someone or if someone signs for an organization, they sign a contract agreeing to work for that organization for a specified period of time.

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(黄道十二宫的)宫，星座

In astrology, a sign or a sign of the zodiac is one of the twelve areas into which the heavens are divided.

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PHRASE

不见…的踪影

If you say that there is no sign of someone, you mean that they have not yet arrived, although you are expecting them to come.

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PHRASE

已签字盖章的;已成定*的

If you say that an agreement is signed and sealed, or signed, sealed and delivered, you mean that it is absolutely definite because everyone involved has signed all the legal documents.

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英汉词典释义

n.

标记, 符号

手势, 姿势, 信号

征兆, 迹象

示意的动作（或声音）；手势

招牌；标牌；指示牌；标志

【语音学】语言符号(指首字母缩写词、一个字母表示一个概念等)

形迹，痕迹；足迹，踪迹，臭迹

【医学】征，体征；症状

【**】(《圣经》中表示神的意志或力量的)神迹

【天文学】宫

vt. & vi.

签名, 签字

发信号, 做手势

vt.

和…签约（或应聘）

示意；打手势

[sign oneself] 在署名中把(自己)称作

写下，记下

预示；表示

英英词典释义

Noun

1. a perceptible indication of something not immediately apparent (as a visible clue that something has happened);

2. a public display of a (usually written) message;

3. any communication that encodes a message;

4. structure displaying a board on which advertisements can be posted;

5. (astrology) one of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided

6. (medicine) any objective evidence of the presence of a disorder or disease;

7. having an indicated pole (as the distinction between positive and negative electric charges);

8. an event that is experienced as indicating important things to come;

9. a gesture that is part of a sign language

10. a fundamental linguistic unit linking a signifier to that which is signified;

11. a character indicating a relation between quantities;

Verb

1. mark with one's signature; write one's name (on);

2. approve and express assent, responsibility, or obligation;

3. be engaged by a written agreement;

4. engage by written agreement;

5. communicate silently and non-verbally by signals or signs;

6. place signs, as along a road;

7. communicate in sign language;

8. make the sign of the cross over someone in order to call on God for protection; consecrate

Adjective

1. used of the language of the deaf

行业词典

体育： 签名；

公路科技： 标志；

农学： 病征；

医学： 朕兆：提示某事物的存在；体征：疾病的客观证据，例如医生检查时发现与病人主观感觉(症状)相反的证据；

建筑： 标志；又称 :标志(landmark)；

法律： 署名；签订；签字；签名；签署；

铁道： 标志；又称 :标志(marker)；