about

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prep.关于，对于，为了，忙于，在…地方，在各处，围绕；

adv.大约，左右，几乎，到处，闲着，附近，掉头；

adj.现成的，即将发生的；

英语六级真题

While rich parents are more concerned with their children's psychological well-being, poor parents are more worried about their children's safety.

Wealthy parents are concerned about their children's mental health and busy schedules.

They are more worried about their children being depressed or anxious.

They are more likely to grow up in neighborhoods that their parents say aren't great for raising children, and their parents worry about them getting shot, beaten up or in trouble with the law.

These math circles cost nothing, or they're very cheap for students to get involved in, but you have to know about them, said Rusczyk.

There are usually two parents, who spend a lot of time reading to children and worrying about their anxiety levels and hectic schedules.

The state officials are confident about the outsourcing plan.

The advent of new technologies has added about 4.

Teachers in low-income urban and rural areas with no history of participating in math competitions may not know about advanced-math opportunities like MathCounts—and those who do may not have support or feel trained to lead them.

Only about 50 students are invited based on their performance on written tests and at the USA Math Olympiad.

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

For example, one of the most popular data sets on multidisciplinary repository Dryad is about wood density around the world; it has been downloaded 5,700 times.

Another influential feeder for advanced-math students is an online school called Art of Problem Solving, which began about 13 years ago and now has 15,000 users.

And we don't know about the long-term consequences.

About 80% of our company's year-over-year declines in comparable sales can be attributed to shortfalls ( ' , 短缺) in cold-weather goods, said chief executive Terry Lundgren in a press release.

About 250 students so far have gone through the program, which receives funding from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation.

About 100,000 students around the country participate in the program's competition series, which culminates in a national game-show-style contest held each May.

You will hear more and more about migration between countries and between rural areas and cities.

With us to talk about the findings in this study is Washington Post columnist Kevin Blackistone.

Well, my current research is really about consumer behaviour.

Retailers make the most money this time of a year, about 20 to 30 percent of annual revenue.

John, tell us about the first survey.

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

I think about some of the students who took advantages of their opportunities in a university.

I remember talking with a young lawyer who was about to begin her first jury trial.

Hello, today I’m going to talk about poverty.

About 183.8 million people will shop on Cyber Monday, the first Monday after Thanksgiving.

About 136 million people will shop during the Thanksgiving Holiday weekend.

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

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.

This is really about trying to cut through the confusion that consumers have when they are buying a product and that businesses have when they are selling a product, said Jon Leibowitz, chairman of the commission.

They have doubt about current green certification.

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

Some young people like to keep something to themselves and don't want their parents to know about it.

Perhaps there is less to fight about, with the country in a period of tranquility and the dangers of drug abuse and other unwholesome behavior well known.

One prevalent quality we have found in teens' statements about themselves, their friends and their families is a strikingly positive emotional tone.

One of the pioneers of a radical new way of thinking about the kitchen was Catharine Esther Beecher, sister of Harriet Beecher Stowe.

Many contemporary ideas about kitchen design can be traced back to another American, Christine Frederick, who set about enhancing the efficiency of the housewife.

Magna, an advertising agency, reckons it will be worth about $138 million this year.

It's not just about education, but about poverty and justice.

It had, apparently, been fished out of existence; and the once mighty Newfoundland fleet now gropes about frantically for crab on the sea floor.

Interviews with students find many of them are only concerned about personal matters.

I've been looking at what self-proclaimed experts were saying about unemployment during the Great Depression; it was almost identical to what Very Serious People are saying now.

For almost five centuries a very large supply of cod ( ' , 鳕 鱼) provided abundant raw material for an industry which at its peak employed about 40,000 people, sustaining entire communities in Newfoundland.

Enrollees would have to pay more money for many services out of their own pockets, and that would encourage them to think twice about whether an expensive or redundant test was worth it.

But missing from all these data is the sense that today's young care very much about their country, about the broader civic and political environment, or about the future of their society.

And that, fundamentally, is why claims that we face huge structural problems have been multiplying: they offer a reason to do nothing about the mass unemployment that is crippling our economy and our society.

Americans are deeply concerned about the relentless rise in health care costs and health insurance premiums.

About once a week, I have a client that will bring up a new certification I've never even heard of and I'm in this industry, said Kevin Wilhelm, chief executive officer of Sustainable Business Consulting.

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.

Now, a new study that began with about 1,000 children in New Zealand has tracked how a child’s low self-control can predict poor health, money troubles and even a criminal record in their adult years.

Earlier this year, British explorer  Hadow and his team trekked for three months across the frozen Arctic Ocean, taking measurements and recording observations about the ice.

it is unfair to those climate-vulnerable nationsit aims to keep temperature rise below 2 ℃ onlyit is beneficial to only fewer than 4% of countriesit burdens developed countries with the sole responsibilityThey needn't worry about the food and water they consume.

We have to understand and think about the implications, and balance these great innovations with the potential downsides they naturally carry with them.

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

There's a lot for students to complain about: the repayment threshold for paying back loans will be frozen for five years, meaning that lower-paid graduates have to start repaying their loans; and maintenance grants have been replaced by loans, meaning that students from poorer backgrounds face higher debt than those with wealthier parents.

Their number climbs to about 40 in the warmer summer months.

The 83% of American employees who are stressed about their jobs – up from 73% just a year before – say that poor compensation and an unreasonable workload are their number-one sources of stress.

So much of what CES has been about is the cool.

Secretary Anthony Foxx, to talk about smart cities, and Federal Aviation Administration Administrator Michael Huerta, to talk about drones.

Part of the work-life issue has to talk about uncertainty about the future.

Many consumers wonder about the necessity of having their fitness monitored.

It's a dramatic endorsement for a technology most people think about only when their smartphone goes dark.

It is natural for students to make complaints about university education.

It is about the flashiness and the gadgets, said John Curran, managing director of research at Accenture.

In a study published last year, psychologists coined the term workplace telepressure to describe an employee's urge to immediately respond to emails and engage in obsessive thoughts about returning an email to one's boss, colleagues or clients.

Having already enabled a communications revolution, the battery is now poised to transform just about everything else.

Even among people who have bought connected devices of some kind, 37 percent said that they are going to be more cautious about using these devices and services in the future.

Consumers are becoming increasingly bored with what companies have to offer: A survey of 28,000 consumers in 28 countries released by Accenture found consumers are not as excited about technology as they once were.

Consumers are often hesitant to try smart-home devices because they are worried about compatibility problems.

Consumers are becoming more worried about giving personal information to tech companies to get customized products and services.

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.

Chinese officials say the expansion in Antarctica prioritises scientific research, but they also acknowledge that concerns about resource security influence their moves.

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.

But US researchers quietly complain about budget restraints and having far fewer icebreakers than Russia, limiting the reach of the United States in Antarctica.

Assumptions about genetic differences between people of different races could be particularly dangerous in a medical setting.

And when it comes to the hyper-connected super-smart world that technology firms are painting for us, it seems that consumers are growing more uneasy about handing over the massive amounts of consumer data needed to provide the personalized, customized solutions that companies need to improve their services.

American scientists complain about lack of sufficient money and equipment for their expansion in Antarctica.

According to the survey, that lack of enthusiasm could stem from concerns about privacy and security.

About 58% of the students demonstrated none or few of the risk behaviors.

83% of workers say they're stressed about their jobs, nearly 50% say work-related stress is interfering with their sleep, and 60% use their smartphones to check in with work outside of normal working hours.

When I teach in classroom, we often end up talking about things like success and what leads to success.

We hope you enjoy the series about how you can make a difference by becoming a social worker.

Today, I’d like to talk about what happens when celebrity role models get behind healthyhabits, but at the same time promote junk food.

Today we are going to be talking about becoming a social worker.

Throughout these series, you will learn more about the profession, the necessary steps to get a social work degree, the rich history of social work and many ways that social workers help others.

Stacy is going to walk you through the step-by-step process of becoming a social worker and Mill will tell you about the range of options you have once you get your social work degree, as well as the high standards of responsibility the social workers must adhere to.

Now what’s interesting about the theory is what do you have if you only have one out of three or two out of three? What do you have and how is it different if you have a different two out of three? What’s interesting about this kind of theorizing is it gives rise to many different combinations that can be quite interesting when you break them down and start to look at them carefully.

No one should have to live with what a Texas mother described as constant stress, tension, even fear about money.

Next, we are going to talk about choosing social work.

I’m going to define what love is, but then most of the experiments I’m going to talk about are really focused more on attraction than love.

However, they also deserve a home of their own, a secure retirement and freedom from worrying about unpaid bills.

At worst, they’ll think the messages about soda are the same as the messages about water.

What Nijay didn't realize about his school—Tennessee State University — was its frighteningly low graduation rate: a mere 29 percent for its first-generation students.

We worry most about now because if we don't survive for the next minute, we're not going to be around in ten years' time, says Professor Elke Weber of the Centre for Research on Environmental Decisions at Columbia University in New York.

We break our promise not to fly after hearing about a neighbour's trip to India.

Train students to think about global issues.

They asked both groups to generate questions about important issues needed to create recovery plans.

They are curious about specific features.

They are concerned about social issues.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

PREP

关于;对于;涉及;在…方面

You use about to introduce who or what something relates to or concerns.

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PREP

包含;目的是;为了

When you mention the things that an activity or institution is about, you are saying what it involves or what its aims are.

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PREP

对…表示（情绪或心态）

You use about after some adjectives to indicate the person or thing that a feeling or state of mind relates to.

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PREP

针对（问题）

If you do something about a problem, you take action in order to solve it.

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PREP

（某人或某事物）具有（某种特性）

When you say that there is a particular quality about someone or something, you mean that they have this quality.

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ADV

大约;左右

About is used in front of a number to show that the number is not exact.

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ADV

四下；到处

If someone or something moves about, they keep moving in different directions.

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PREP

围绕；环绕

If you put something about a person or thing, you put it around them.

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ADJ

在手头的;现成的;能得到的

If someone or something is about, they are present or available.

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ADJ

即将（做…）的；快要（发生…）的

If you are about to do something, you are going to do it very soon. If something is about to happen, it will happen very soon.

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PHRASE

（尤指一段时间无法自由行动后）四处走动，外出活动

If someone is out and about, they are going out and doing things, especially after they have been unable to for a while.

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PHRASE

（常因工作）奔波

If someone is out and about, they are going to a lot of different places, often as part of their job.

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英汉词典释义

prep.

(表示位置)在…周围; 在…的各处; 在…的附近

(表示对象)对, 对于, 关于

(表示原因)由于, 因为

(表示论及)关于; 涉及; 在…方面

(表示所属)属于, 体现在…身上

(表示过程)忙于, 从事

(表示伴随)在身边

目的是；为了

围绕

adv.

大约, 差不多

在四周, 处处

在附近; 在某地; 附近; 周围

几乎，将近

向后转；掉转方向；掉头

英英词典释义

Adjective

1. on the move;

Adverb

1. (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct;

2. all around or on all sides;

3. in the area or vicinity;

4. to or among many different places or in no particular direction;

5. in or to a reversed position or direction;

6. in rotation or succession;

7. (of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished; `near' is sometimes used informally for `nearly' and `most' is sometimes used informally for `almost';

行业词典

计算机： 关于，大约，附近；