| 词汇 | example_english_sheer |
| 释义 | Examples of sheerThese 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. Destroyer wished him good luck and sheered off. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Such fighter aircraft as were encountered sheered off when fired upon. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Such fighter aircraft as were encountered sheered off on meeting our fire. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He always comes up to this point and sheers away from the logic of what he is saying. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 From that he sheered off into his familiar statement of the case about our insular and naval position, and so on. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They may have sheered off afterwards, but they had at one time intended it, otherwise they would not have passed legislation empowering them to do so. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In 1912, a relatively insignificant incident illustrates the sheer peculiarity of the colonial regimes drive to raise revenue at all costs. In addition, the sheer breadth of its material will make this an invaluable resource for students and researchers alike across a range of disciplines. The sheer volume of the collections of specimens secured was impressive. The hard work, ingenuity and sheer intellect that went into many of these studies is indeed impressive, and well demonstrated by such extended illustration. The politics of full presence is rendered impossible by problems of sheer size and immoderate diversity. Part of the explanation is, of course, the sheer weight of poetic simplexes appearing in this poem, which are due to the poem's heroic content. What claim can the nation make on the loyalties of people who shuttle across borders for the sake of family, work, liberty, or sheer survival ? Whatever the strengths or weaknesses of the new arguments they began to impose themselves by sheer weight of repetition. While these devices are increasingly network-enabled, due to their sheer number it's hardly feasible to consolidate the information generated by them in a central repository. However, from another angle, the sheer breadth and ambition of the book necessarily limits its depth. The sheer number and variety of food products, and complex combinations of ingredients in many processed foods, seem a major obstacle to any would-be regulator. Their replies to a questionnaire will thus be elaborations and interpretations of their attitudes (previously subconscious attitudes), rather than sheer recollections. While sheer existence may be of questionable value for some people, participation in divinity is surely not. Evidently, the sheer quantity of linguistic forms modelled by the adult is less critical than the context in which they are modelled. Sheers comprise two upright spars, lashed together at their heads and their feet splayed apart. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Resolving other mundane issues is currently a matter of sheer tedium. Only anthropomorphism can admit the second term of the dilemma and therefore, from sheer necessity, we must keep to the first. The reason is the sheer complexity of the problem of modality choice. Neither of these choices offers an attractive life strategy, but, out of sheer informational desperation, more and more people are opting for the second alternative. We are certainly in a precarious situation with the sheer quantity of material that requires attention. However, sheer amount of exposure has been called into question as a determiner of rate of vocabulary learning. He is the most prolific child in the study as far as sheer number of utterances is concerned (30% of the corpus). Consider the sheer diculty of developing an industry acceptable ontology for knowledge-level commerce for even a product as simple as cars! By sheer accident, an empty trolley, nobody aboard, is starting to roll down a certain track. The reader becomes a bit desperate because of the sheer volume of the book (almost 500 pages). The sheer fact that most are hourly-paid militates against them carrying out any research at all. Eventually, it seems that sheer exhaustion contributed to the papacy's decision to back down, but even here the peace that was forged was not straightforward. The case study in this chapter deals with the adjective sheer and some of its near-synonyms as given by dictionaries: pure, complete, and absolute. Many older people are unhappy about the sheer quantity of medicines they are required to take daily. The last movement is sheer ecstatic joy: the double subject treatment shows the hand of a master craftsman. He was sheer violence itself; he was conscious of nothing else. The sheer incongruity and absurdity of the comparison is the obvious source of comedy here. While in terms of sheer numbers they could not compete with the miners, they did provide some of the party's leading figures. The sheer limitless number of publications on this topic testifies to the importance that has been attributed to this change to this day. Firstly, there was the sheer scope of the reform programme undertaken in this country. All those involved in its making must bear culpability for the sheer human cost of their astounding negligence. The community became a very good place to gather sheep in the spring for sheering. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The presentation also gives a sobering sense of the sheer magnitude of the suppor t infrastructure needed to realize process and tool integration. The most overwhelming aspect of the evening, however, was the sheer quality of the music. The sheer quantity of dung might be staggering in urban areas in an era dominated by horse transport, cowsheds, minor piggeries, middens and cesspits. One's first impression when confronted with this material is of its sheer volume. The visual is a componential semiotics that must make do with sheer contiguity. Perhaps its most impressive aspect is less the inventions themselves - after all, there have always been brilliant individuals - than its sheer momentum. In addition, public pension plans will collapse under the sheer weight of the numbers of older people. Any attempt to go to town, even out of sheer hunger or to visit relatives, could be classified as treason. Over and above lobbying by the police and liquor producers, the sheer scale of the illicit industry pushed the prohibition debate into the public domain. The voice may be fainter now, the call obscured by the bureaucracy, power politics, the sheer frustration which has intervened since that time. The resulting ' liberal authoritarianism ' persisted until the s without substantial changes other than growth in the sheer magnitude of repression. However, given the sheer volume of his publications repetitions are inevitable. The town lies immediately to the south of a sheer, rocky hill. Sheers is an old name for a fixed crane formed by one or two wooden beams, fixed at the base and supported by ropes. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Both also, through their sheer physical tenacity, outlived most of their favourites and advisers and in a sense outlived their own times. Note, however, that sheer idiomaticity is not a criterion to distinguish compounds from phrases, since compounds can also be compositional and productive. The sheer size of the project brought with it enormous organisational complexity and great excitement. The sheer amount of environmental variance in a trait does not affect the rate of the trait's evolution. Due to technical and time limitations, and the sheer number of live players involved, this insertion of samples was minimal and subtle. The sheer success of such an approach in many cases makes it an absurdity to argue that this approach is always mistaken. The term is not easy to translate but conveys the idea of accepting the outer manifestations of belief in good faith on sheer authority. They control shopping by controlling its sheer volume or where shopping can go in the city. Through the sheer, vibrant force of its sound techno creates that kind of expectation, of something 'big and exciting going down'. Still, merely being reminded of the sheer fact of diversity can have salutary effects on the behaviour of such representatives as are assembled. First, there was a growth in sheer number of different roles and reference groups. First, the sheer size of the investment in psychiatric hospitals required a large bureaucracy to support them. The sheer range of different brain areas, sometimes quite small, necessitates much experimentation in finding the optimal stimulus location. To that effect, it has sheered off some brigades from existing divisions as well as establishing new brigades alongside of them. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The sheer pressure for efficiency calls for this. The amount of technical expertise and sheer stubborn patience required to comprehend analyses of the internal structures of classical music is formidable. Does it stem from declining prices, exhaustion of the mines, or sheer mismanagement ? In sheer numbers of projects and building works, this represents a tremendous outpouring of effort on the part of the people. The problem with the null set is that it contains sheer nothingness ; its contents haven't the slightest grip on reality. We shall probably never know, and must ascribe the matter to sheer synchronicity: a trivial, if not unintriguing, footnote to musical history. The sheer scale of investment for the health of souls (largely inspired by selfish concerns) placed a growing burden on succeeding generations. In essence, the sheer volume of code for each pass can cause the students to miss the forest for the trees. The underlying reason for the mixed messages on mentoring is the sheer complexity of evaluative questions that need to be addressed. The violence of the cut is conveyed through the soundtrack, sheer noise that suddenly damages the expected flow of events. What clearly emerges, nevertheless, is the sheer hard work that the rank-and-file musicians and dancers put in. The sheer number of other countries privatising appears to be a powerful explanation of governments' decisions to privatise. In this process the student will come to understand at least the following ideas: vector and matrix transformation, translation, rotation, scaling, sheering, contraction mapping and recursion. As a result of collisions with the ice, a bow plate had buckled and numerous rivets had sheered or loosened, and she was taking water at an alarming rate. The uniformity and sheer mass of these utterances would defuse the ostensibly delicate and powerful virtue of the trope. The parenthesis" or butler" was sheer image building. In the end, the poems must be read as expressions of sheer delight in friendship. A portion can be attributed to the sheer scale of spending and effort. In larger enterprises the sheer size was a barrier for a raider, even if shares were widely held. Within the medieval section the themes become blurred because of the sheer amount of information. The sheer weight of textual reference in the word enté makes it a necessary, and not merely a relevant context for musical practice. Moreover, the sheer size of rich country subsidies is testament to the difficulties of removing subsidies. The sheer scale of a completely new edition led to the decision to exclude everything which was not correspondence in the narrow sense. His aim is simply to engage in some exercise and sheer fun by cutting down these hemlocks that he owns. Much of the sheer quantity of these expressions can be understood in terms of a basic contrast between equilibrium and disequilibrium. Ultimately, it was simply a sign of sheer decay and of impending death - though it could herald eternal glory. 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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