| 词汇 | example_english_loom |
| 释义 | Examples of loomThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Textile production was the dominant manufacturing sector, whether measured by employment at spindles and wheels and at looms, or by value of output. In the second quarter of the nineteenth century perhaps 200,000 weavers left their looms rather than work for so little. In the 1930s the cloth manufacturers made some attempts to increase the number of power looms per weaver above the standard four. The appraisers did not invariably specify what type of looms were present in cases where there were two or more. Most 'poor' weavers owned their own looms, but the few who did not were poor. From the prices noted for the looms, it appears that the great majority of the forty-two cases involved two broadlooms. The master weaver with two or more looms was both an independent artisan and an employer of labour. At the contest, both weavers set up their looms. However, the fear of busting the curve and causing the other student to fail the course now looms large. Because a significant portion of the labour force was becoming redundant, pauperization loomed large. Perspectives looms when we turn to courts rather than regulatory agencies for controls. However, the threat of oil-dependent nations discovering vast new reserves or developing energy policies that do not rely on fossil fuels looms on the horizon. What once loomed large has shrunk in significance. To add to his political troubles, financial bankruptcy loomed. Weaving families generally owned their own modest houses, their looms and their other tools, though frequently these served as security against debts to moneylenders. The more familiar colonial strategy of conquest and plunder always loomed in the background as perhaps an easier option. A performer in the wings is therefore confronted with both the looming immensity of possibility and the crushing necessity for immediate and particular action. There is a stronger disposition to position for dealing with national and international environmental problems looming ahead. When payoffs are in between thresholds, uncertainty looms large. As it turns out, the temple looms large as a semiotic linchpin for the stage traffic. In the little world that has become my universe, she looms very large. The shadow of the future was looming over the actors. During the porfiriato, the mills expected weavers to clean their looms without pay. The phenomenon of the weavers running away from their looms and villages was, therefore, increasingly becoming a grim reality. They too usually controlled their own looms and other tools. However, looms that broke down could result in damaged cloth, and thus could cost piece-rated workers dearly, both in fines levied and in time lost. Women primarily used vertical looms that produced cloths averaging 21 inches in width. With housing in short supply generally, the danger of property speculation loomed large. They seem to participate more in the "firmness" of machinery, of the wooden looms and locomotives, of the body as machine rather than organic being. To appreciate the challenger's epistemic stance in 7c, let us first consider what looms in the middle of this otherwise elegant parallel structure. The final chapter provides an effective wide-ranging discussion of groundwater resource and environmental management issues culminating with the looming threat of climate change. No vague abstraction legible only to a privileged few, the looming skeletons of extinct beasts were terrifyingly proximate to an increasingly fragile present. The number of looms assigned for the purpose in 1766 was 1,644 as against 1,761 in 1767. The issue of homogeneity also looms large, as an institutional, theoretical and methodological problem. Later, while tickling her infant, she loomed close to her face and bared her teeth. In particular, grazing management, and by implication land tenure, looms as the greatest limitation to adoption of the technology. A majority of these looms was engaged in the weaving of blankets. Often they found employment with weavercapitalists who had successfully saved small amounts of money and who had purchased extra looms. Initially the party leaders felt that if day-care expansion was to be given its final go-ahead the costs loomed high. In this context, the looming ' shadow of hierarchy' can be construed as an expedient instrument of control with limited control costs. One could come and go between communities as pleased without fear of formal authority looming. We do know, however, that power politics within the family- whatever its details-consistently loomed larger than other considerations when it came to negotiating institutional change. Later, however, its delight turned to horror as the rocky coast loomed large. There was no time to ref lect as in an editorial-there was no interpreter to impartially dissect the question-and the son's presence loomed large. Computation of different optical variables of looming objects in pigeon nucleus rotundus neurons. Although we made these structures, they also, more tangibly and immediately, make us, and their history looms large in our history. Now a rather daunting agenda looms ahead as the fourth wave swells and carries us into the future. He felt compelled to visit weavers' homes regularly to make sure his work was being done on their looms. Indeed, the phenomenon of externalities looms large in what has traditionally been called environmental economics. In other words, uncertainty looms large when sunk costs cannot be recouped. Along with sedentarization, commercialization and diversification, ' development ' looms large in relating pastoralists to agents representing government, civil society and the international community. An ecological crisis may be looming ' in the near future ' (p. 184). The potential for isolation loomed in a manner reminiscent of the early 1970s. When the shadow of the future looms over the players, they may be more inclined to co-operate in the present encounter. Inevitably, huge public debts, looming non-performing loans, and public pressures will constrain monetary policy. Of course, "the personal is the political" looms large, so identity politics and, especially, feminism were well represented. Note that the tectum has been implicated in recognition of both prey stimuli and looming stimuli. Again, individual responsibility loomed large also in a field completely unrelated to theology. Unfortunately, to date, much of the medical community is largely as ignorant and indifferent to this looming catastrophe as are the political circles. There were seven weaver villages in the neighbourhood accounting for around 300 looms. In some cases, a few big karkhanas with fifty or more looms emerged. In this sense, the ' ' index, ' ' manifesting ' ' internal machinery, ' ' looms as a reinflection of the ' ' hand of the mind. The question that looms large, then, relates to the nature of reading acquisition in the absence of such prerequisite skills. Therefore, in any consequentialist analysis there looms the risk of injury to actual present patients. The last two chapters look at the 16 plus public examinations - the spectre that looms over so much of secondary education. Not infrequently weavers, when the spirit moves them, quit their machines for the street, to sip a locally brewed cervecita, leaving their looms unattended. Controlled commodity marketing has since loomed large on the policy horizon. If this is true, then a much broader, symbolic issue still looms prominently: the way in which discursive hegemony inscribes effects on the body. Short-latency vergence eye movements elicited by looming step in monkeys. Despite this strong economic performance in the past, its future growth is less certain, due partly to the looming challenge of a rapidly aging population. In such reports, the fate of victimhood loomed larger than the act of protest. Although schools have long reflected workplace concerns, the formalization of skills training has never loomed quite so large in the curriculum, to supply workers with generic, transferable skills. Environmental policy has loomed as a major challenge for governments in recent decades, especially given the high levels of complexity and conflict surrounding the range of issues involved. In the background loomed a fire-breathing dragon. Moving and looming stimuli capture attention. Perhaps most importantly, poverty and lack of support and the ensuing frustrations loomed large in their stories in general, and also in terms of explaining violence. In the early 1620s the council was receiving reports of thousands being thrown out of work, of hundreds of looms unoccupied and of imminent threats to public order. Issues of cultural identity have therefore increasingly loomed large and such forms of cultural history have been enriched by perspectives drawn from anthropology and literary studies. Thus, the question of motives looms large, together with the precise nature of the objections. Problems at these early stages of production were magnified, often in the form of broken threads on the ring frames or damaged cloth on the looms. However, other, more fundamental problems were looming. The topic of free will along with the attendant problem of compatibilism looms large in the philosophy of religion, as it does in metaphysics in general. Such education will not be easy, but it is vital if we are to produce a generation of citizens capable of coping with the looming crisis of the human species. The need for such an institutional responsibility was increasingly felt during the later eighteenth century, when interprovincial deadlock loomed on a number of issues - including the field of water management. Moreover, demographics - especially the baby boomers - have loomed large in the ability and continued willingness of governments to continue funding retirement schemes for the general population. Speaking and writing indefatigably, he constructed an image of the businessman as weak and beset, yet valiantly persevering against the looming power of the unions and the welfare state. Of course, political considerations always loomed large. Instead, we may demand that in the midst of the looming postmodern regimentation, those seriously claiming to perform critical musicology underline the historicity of postmodern theory itself. According to the table, the total number of looms in the two aurungs was found to have been 3,223 not taking into account the broken and otherwise unuseable ones. There were also times when it loomed large, but open debate was avoided by a self-imposed communal consensus as a tactical imperative, for purposes of morale or public relations. In both the music evokes a stormy night, looming thoughts of crime and guilt, and above all the urgency of being half-finished with a perilous deed. The departments of spinning and weaving constituted the most important sections of jute factories because this is where jute was put into looms and was transformed into clothes for burlaps. The industrial revolution was considered to be the defining characteristic of this period, and industrialization accordingly loomed large in many early accounts of the history of popular culture. The consequences of this option for a country in economic crisis and with a complex political emergency looming are especially worrying - not least for the neighbouring countries. Here the question of tariffs looms as the central point. Cultural issues clearly loomed large. Indeed, militarism looms in many forms. Another threat is looming over the introduction of the euro. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English In my area this problem has not loomed large, but drugs have become a massive problem in society. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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