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英[səm , sʌm]美[səm , sʌm]

det.一些，某个，部分，相当多的；

pron.一些，若干，（数量不确切时用）有些人；

adv.大约，有点，稍微；

英语六级真题

cut the salary of senior executivesrelocate some of its chain storesadjust its promotion strategiesreduce the size of its staffTo experiment on its new business concept.

Workers' advocates have criticized Haslam's plan, saying it would mean some campus workers would lose their jobs or benefits.

They made some improvements on the traditional Parisian design.

They have led some birds to give up on migration.

They have accelerated the reproduction of some harmful insects.

They gained some knowledge of classical art and architecture.

The company pledged to cut 600 back-office positions, though some 150 workers in those roles would be reassigned to other jobs.

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.

Some socioeconomic differences in child rearing have shrunk in the past ten years.

Some math training programs primarily focus on raising students' math scores.

Some intensive summer programs are very expensive but most of them provide scholarships.

Some communities have agreed to share online—geneticists, for example, post DNA sequences at the GenBank repository ( ' , 库), and astronomers are accustomed to accessing images of galaxies and stars from, say, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, a telescope that has observed some 500 million objects—but these remain the exception, not the rule.

Some climate impacts may already be discernible.

Some are pricey—a three-week intensive program can cost $4,500 or more—but most offer scholarships.

London was a frequent starting point for Grand Tourists, and Paris a compulsory destination; many traveled to the Netherlands, some to Switzerland and Germany, and a very few adventurers to Spain, Greece, or Turkey.

It will slash staffing at its fleet of 770 stores, a move affecting some 3,000 employees.

It produced some famous European artists.

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 addition, other factors are putting downward pressure on oil prices: change in the strategic behavior of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, the projected increase in Iranian exports, the scaling-down of global demand ( ' , especially from emerging markets), the long-term drop in petroleum consumption in the United States, and some displacement of oil by substitutes.

If Paris was cast aside, the tradition of beauty was also to some degree slighted.

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.

Do some strategies give children more advantages than others in institutions? Probably they do.

Direct subsidies to research and development have been adopted by some governments but are a poor substitute for a carbon price: they do only part of the job, leaving in place market incentives to over-use fossil fuels and thereby add to the stock of atmospheric greenhouse gases without regard to the collateral ( ' , 附带的) costs.

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.

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.

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

However, today is a new era in which taking antibiotics can cause some very dangerous and potentially life threatening situations.

Can you tell us how you first became interested in this subject matter?( ' , 9 ) Wh e n f a c i n g a n e w situation, some people tend to rehearse their defeat by spending too much time anticipating the worst.

With fertilizer prices jumping nearly 50% per metric ton over the last year in some places, human waste is an attractive, and often necessary, alternative.

Thoughts turn first to some sort of global statistic, some indicator which would rate the wealth of nations in both economic and environmental terms and show a relationship between the two.

There're steps we can take that would make some difference, and Mayor Rahm Emanuel is trying some of them—yet the union is resisting.

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

Some authoritative analysts doubt that the secretary would get better deals than private insurers already get.

Some are turning to the Internet, which is cheaper and offers concrete measurements like click-through rates— especially important at a time when marketing budgets are tight.

Some Chicago teachers seem to think that they shouldn't be held accountable until poverty is solved.

So the news that Cablevision, an American cable company, was rolling out interactive advertisements to all its customers on October 6th was greeted with some skepticism.

One recent study attempted to calculate the extent of this ecological overshoot of the human economy, and found that we are using 1.2 Earth's-worth of environmental goods and services—the implication being that at some point the debt will be called in, and all those services—the things which the planet does for us for free—will grind to a halt.

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.

Malpractice awards do drive up insurance premiums for doctors in high-risk specialties, and there is some evidence that doctors engage in defensive medicine by performing tests and treatments primarily to prove they are not negligent should they get sued.

It is also the reason why development agencies are not united in their view of environmental issues; while some, like the WRI, maintain that environmental progress needs to go hand-inhand with economic development, others argue that the priority is to build a thriving economy, and then use the wealth created to tackle environmental degradation.

In some cases, water is so scarce that farmers break open sewage pipes transporting waste to local rivers.

Here are some of the important proposals in the House and Senate bills to try to address those problems, and why it is hard to know how well they will work.

Contrary to some stereotypes, most adolescents believe they must be tolerant of differences among individuals ( ' , though they do not always find this easy in the cliquish ( ' , 拉帮结派的) environment of high school).

What you must understand is that those supplements, especially in some eastern cultures, are part of a medical practice tradition.

They’re not really well-regulated unless they adhere to some industry standard.

Some of their earliest observations have to do with the level of selfcontrol the youngsters displayed.

From a very early age, some children exhibit better self-control than others.

Then there is Antarctic's remoteness, with some mineral deposits found in windswept locations on a continent that is larger than Europe and where winter temperatures hover around minus 55 degrees Celsius.

Stress is also starting earlier in life, with some data suggesting that today's teens are even more stressed than adults.

Some scientists are examining the potential for harvesting icebergs form Antarctica, which is estimated to have the biggest reserves of fresh water on the planet.

Some research does suggest that these programs hold promise.

Some of the ventures focus on the Antarctic resources that are already up for grabs, like abundant sea life.

Some countries have had a hard time here.

Some 13% scored high on all nine of the risk behaviors.

Instead, some in Africa and Asia are seeing their first lightbulbs illuminated by the power of sunlight stored in batteries.

In some ways they're at greater risk of falling through the cracks, says researcher Vladimir Carli.

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.

But now these segments are looking at slower growth curves – or shrinking markets in some cases – as consumers are not as eager to spend money on new gadgets.

As some countries expand operations in Antarctica, the United States maintains three year-round stations on the continent with more than 1,000 people during the southern hemisphere's summer, including those at the Amundsen-Scott station, built in 1956 at an elevation of 9,301 feet on a plateau at the South Pole.

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

You say your shop has been doing well, could you give me some idea of what doing well means in facts and figures?Birds are famous for carrying things around.

The third element of love in Sternberg’s theory is what he calls decision commitment, the decision that one is in a love relationship, the willingness to label it as such and the commitment to maintain that relationship at least for some period of time.

The fulmars travel some 400 kilometers over the sea to find food.

Sternberg would argue it’s not love if you don’t call it love and if you don’t have some desire to maintain the relationship.

Some, like homing pigeons can be trained to deliver messages and packages.

Some 10,000 pairs of the birds, called fulmars, a kind of Arctic seabird, make their nests on Devon Island, north at the Arctic circle.

There are some very commendable characteristics of the CFL [compact fluorescent ( ' , 荧光的 ) light bulb], yet the selection of any light source remains inseparable from the luminaire ( ' , 照明装置 ) that houses it, along with the space in which both arc installed, and lighting requirements that need to be satisfied.

The Black group, on the other hand, put his salary at about ＄29,000, and guessed that he had only some college experience.

That is because the engineers, designers, regulators, operators, and all of the other skilled people needed for the new energy industry are specialists who have to be trained first ( ' , or retrained, if they are the ones being laid off in some related industry), and education, like any other complicated endeavor, takes times.

That helps explain why, as I'm First's Rubinoff indicated, the schools to which these students end up resorting can end up being some of the poorest matches for them.

Some top institutions like Yale seem to provide first-generation students with more support than they actually need.

Some of the messages mentioned the environment, some financial savings, others social responsibility.

Some elite universities attach great importance to building up the first-generation student's self-confidence.

Some doctors see a potential conflict in trying to be both providers of patient care and financial overseers.

Some coal power plants in the United States have operated for more than 70 years! The oldest continuously operated commercial hydro-electric plant in the United States is on New York's Hudson River, and it went into commercial service in 1898.

Some analysts say that there's a role for doctors to play in cost analysis because not many others are doing so.

Saying they can no longer ignore the rising prices of health care, some of the most influential medical groups in the nation are recommending that doctors weigh the costs, not just the effectiveness of treatments, as they make decisions about patient care.

Like many first-generation students, he enrolled in a medium-sized state university many of his high school peers were also attending, received a Pell Grant, and took out some small federal loans to cover other costs.

In the extreme, some critics have said that making treatment decisions based on cost is a form of rationing.

In some ways, said Dr.Daniel Sulmasy, it represents a failure of wider society to take up the issue.

In some cases, colleges and universities might have to change their training programs, adding another layer of difficulty.

If you want to change his course, you have only a few choices: you can stop him, transferring ( ' , possibly painfully) some of his kinetic energy ( ' , 动能 ) to your own body, or you can approach alongside and slowly apply pressure to gradually alter his course.

How do we convince our inner caveman to be greener? We ask some outstanding social scientists.

Doctors can face some grim trade-offs.

Cialdini recommends some careful framing of the message.

But in practice, our brain discounts the risks — and benefits — associated with issues that lie some way ahead.

While fully 64% of all U.S. high school graduates attend college of some point in their life, just 30% of the comparable German population, 28% of the French, 20% of the British, and 37%of the Japanese proceed beyond high school.

Some of the heat is used directly or produces useful work; the rest is lost or rejected, radiated into the atmosphere from the engines, motors, boilers and all the energy-consuming machinery that makes American’s wheel go around.

Some U.S. schoolsacknowledge the rigor of European secondary training, and will give up a year’s credit to foreigners who have passed their high school exams.

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

"Nearly everyone I know is addicted in some measure to the Internet," wrote Tony Schwartz in New York times.

A billion people are living in slums, not the same billion people, but there is some overlap.

A bystander named John Roulstone wrote a poem about the event, then, at some point, Hale herself seems to have helped write it.

According to a report from the Harvard School of Public Health, many everyday products, including some bug sprays and cleaning fluids, could lead to an increased risk of brain and behavioral disorders in children.

Although many people say the new Barbies are a step in the right direction, some people say they don't go far enough.

And errors are common among some of history's most-celebrated scientific minds, too.

And it goes some way towards explaining why books about swimming, in which people tackle icy lakes, and overcome oceans while reflecting on their lives have recently become so popular.

And one of the most popular explanations, among some experts and the popular media, is that excessive "screen time,, is to blame.

and some parents say they can manage the cost of a school trip abroad more easily than a family holiday.

And then they put some bacon in the fat, broke an egg over the top, and put the whole lot in the oven for about ten minutes.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

DET

一些，有些(表示不确切的数量或数目)

You use some to refer to a quantity of something or to a number of people or things, when you are not stating the quantity or number precisely.

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DET

(表示数量或数目相当大)好些，大量

You use some to emphasize that a quantity or number is fairly large. For example, if an activity takes some time, it takes quite a lot of time.

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DET

(表示数量或数目相当小)有几分，有点儿

You use some to emphasize that a quantity or number is fairly small. For example, if something happens to some extent, it happens a little.

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QUANT

(指整个群体中的)一些，部分

If you refer to some of the people or things in a group, you mean a few of them but not all of them. If you refer to some of a particular thing, you mean a part of it but not all of it.

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DET

某;某个

If you refer to some person or thing, you are referring to that person or thing but in a vague way, without stating precisely which person or thing you mean.

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ADV

(用于数目前)大约

You can use some in front of a number to indicate that it is approximate.

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ADV

有点;有几分;稍微

Some is used to mean to a small extent or degree.

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DET

(表示赞同或不赞同)也叫，也算；了不起的，好极的

You can use some in front of a noun in order to express your approval or disapproval of the person or thing you are mentioning.

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英汉词典释义

adj.

一些, 若干

部分, 有些

相当多的, 不少的

某个, 某一

pron.

一些, 若干

其中的一部分

（数量不确切时用）有些人，有些事物

adv.

大约

〈美〉稍微

英英词典释义

Adjective

1. quantifier; used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity;

2. unknown or unspecified;

3. relatively many but unspecified in number;

4. remarkable;

5. relatively much but unspecified in amount or extent;

Adverb

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