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词汇 followed
释义 followed
past simple and past participle offollow
follow
verb
uk /ˈfɒl.əʊ/ us /ˈfɑː.loʊ/

followverb (GO)


A2[ I or T ]
to move behind someone or something and go where he, she, or it goes: 跟随;跟着
A dog followed us home.一条狗跟着我们回了家。
She followed me into the kitchen.她跟着我进了厨房。
He had the feeling he was being followed (= someone was going after him to catch him or see where he was going).他觉得自己被跟踪了。
I could feel them following me with their eyes (= watching my movements closely).我能感觉到他们密切注视着我的一举一动。
follow the crowdDo your own thing, don't just follow the crowd (= do what everyone else does).做你自己的事,不要只是随大溜。
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to follow someone or something
followFollow me - this way!
tag alongDo you mind if my little brother tags along?
chaseHe was running and the dog was chasing him.
pursueThe robber was pursued by several members of the public.
tailThe car was tailed by police for several hours.
shadowThe police think the robbers shadowed their victims for days before the crime.
[ T ]
to go in the same direction as a road, path, etc.: 沿着(路等)行进
Follow the road for two miles, then turn left.沿着这条路走两公里,然后向左转。
 follow suit
C2
to do the same thing as someone else: 仿效
When one airline reduces its prices, the rest soon follow suit.一家航空公司降价,其余的会很快纷纷仿效。
If one company tries to gain the competitive edge with a new product, other companies tend to follow suit.
One chain started offering vegan options and the others quickly followed suit.
France led the way, hoping that other countries would swiftly follow suit.
It's thought that other states may soon follow suit.
He made no answer but walked on, gesturing for me to follow.他没有回答而继续向前走,打了个手势让我跟上。
If you lead in the jeep, we'll follow behind on the horses.如果你开吉普车带路,我们就骑马跟在后面。
The dogs are specially trained to follow the trail left by the fox.
The path follows the river closely, occasionally deviating round a clump of trees.
In the silence that followed, a lone voice piped up from the back of the room.在随后的沉默中,从房间后面突然传来一个人的声音。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Pursuing
be hot on someone's track/trailidiom
be on someone's tailidiom
bear
bear down on someone/something
bring
bring up the rearidiom
convoy
flight
hound
humbug
in hot pursuitidiom
on the scentidiom
pester
pursue
run
stick
tailgate
targetable
track
track and trace

You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:


Occurring and happening
Direction of motion
Travelling
Repeating an action

followverb (HAPPEN)


B1[ I or T ]
to happen or come after something: 发生;在…后发生
We were not prepared for the events that followed (= happened next).我们没有料到后来发生的事。
The book was delivered yesterday with a note saying the bill for it would follow in a day or two.这本书昨天送到,附信说书的账单一两天后会寄到。
The meal consisted of spinach salad, followed by roast chicken (= with this as the next part).菜肴包括菠菜色拉,随后是烤鸡。
follow something (up) with somethingShe published a book of poems and followed it (up) with (= next produced) a novel.她出版了一部诗集,接着又出版了一本小说。
 as follows
B2
said to introduce a list of things: 如下
The winners are as follows - Woods, Smith, and Cassidy.获胜者如下:伍兹,史密斯和卡西迪。
The women's 200 metre event will be followed by the men's 100 metres.女子200米跑之后是男子100米跑项目。
I'd like a steak and fries with chocolate mousse to follow.
The initial earthquake was followed by a series of aftershocks.初震后又发生了一系列的余震。
This announcement follows months of inaction and delay.这个声明是在数月的不作为和延迟后发表的。
The war was followed by a long period of peace and prosperity.战争过后是长时间的和平与繁荣。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Occurring and happening
afoot
asynchronous
asynchronously
attend
attendant
be at workidiom
crop
ensue
ensuing
eventuate
fall into placeidiom
follow on
go off
gone
resynchronization
resynchronize
roll
roll around
shake out
succeed

followverb (OBEY)


B1[ T ]
to obey or to act as ordered by someone: 听从,遵循,遵从
follow instructionsFollow the instructions on the back of the packet carefully.要仔细地按照盒子背面的使用说明操作。
follow someone's adviceI decided to follow her advice and go to bed early.我决定听从她的建议,早早上床睡觉。
follow teachingsMuslims follow the teachings of the Koran.穆斯林们遵从《可兰经》的教义。
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to obey someone or something
obeyChildren must obey their parents.
followAll religions guide youths to follow the teachings of elders and parents.
complyThere are serious penalties for failure to comply with the regulations.
observePeople must observe the law.
adhere toThey failed to adhere to the terms of the agreement.
abide byPlayers must abide by the referee's decision.
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

according to the law, rules, etc.
according toIf we do not act according to the rules laid down for such cases, there will be chaos.
in line withWhat she did was not always completely in line with the law.
in accordance withThe council has not acted in accordance with its obligations.
obeyIf they don't obey the rules, they will be asked to leave.
followWe are obliged to follow the law in this matter.
I always follow the instructions on medicine bottles faithfully.
He follows the orders of his boss without question.
He followed the famous American dictum, 'Don't get mad, get even'.他信奉那条著名的美国格言:“光生气没用,拿出行动来。”
I followed the instructions to the letter and it still went wrong.
Baking a cake isn't difficult - it's just a matter of following the recipe.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Obeying & breaking the law
abide
abide by something
adhere
adhere to something
afoul
bac
buck
comply
contravene
derogation
disobey
enforcer
fall foul of somethingidiom
go by the book
guiltiness
guilty
infringement
shalt
venal
violation

followverb (HAVE INTEREST IN)


C1[ T ]
to have a great interest in something or watch something closely: 对…有浓厚兴趣;密切关注
He follows most sports avidly.他对大多数体育运动有浓厚的兴趣。
They followed her academic progress closely.他们密切关注她学业上的进展。
Which team do you follow?
She followed the trial with interest.
They were able to follow the day's events on their portable radio.
Analysts have been following the events with interest.
Have you been following recent political events?你关注最近发生的政治事件了吗?
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Excited, interested and enthusiastic
abubble
aflame
aflutter
agog
all of a flutteridiom
amped
entranced
evangelical
evangelistic
evangelistically
excited
fevered
go ahead
mood
nuts
omnivorous
omnivorously
on the edge of your seatidiom
zestful
zestfully

followverb (BE RESULT)


C2[ not continuous ]
to happen as a result, or to be a likely result: 产生…结果;是…的可能结果
[ + that ]Just because I agreed last time, it doesn't necessarily follow that I will again.仅仅是我上次同意并不一定说明我还会再次同意。
If we posit that wage rises cause inflation, it follows that we should try to minimize them.如果我们假设工资上涨会导致通货膨胀的话,那么我们应该尽可能地减小工资上涨幅度。
How can they claim to reduce taxes and increase spending? It doesn't follow.
Just because the last forecast was correct, it doesn't necessarily follow that the next one will be.
Just because one of the suspects has been eliminated from their enquiries, it doesn't follow that the remaining suspect is guilty.
Because ladybirds eat greenfly, it follows that a decrease in the numbers of ladybirds will lead to a rise in the population of greenfly.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Occurring and happening
afoot
asynchronous
asynchronously
attend
attendant
be at workidiom
crop
ensue
ensuing
eventuate
fall into placeidiom
follow on
go off
gone
resynchronization
resynchronize
roll
roll around
shake out
succeed

followverb (UNDERSTAND)


B1[ I or T ]
to understand something as it is being said or done: 理解,明白
I'm sorry, I don't quite follow (you).对不起,我不太明白(你的意思)。
His lecture was complicated and difficult to follow.他的讲座复杂又难懂。
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to understand something
understandI understand why he did that.
comprehendHe doesn't seem to comprehend the scale of the problem.
get the pictureOK. Don't say any more. I get the picture.
followIt was so complicated I couldn't follow what he was saying.
graspI think I grasped the main points of the lecture.
digestThis chapter is so difficult to digest. I'll have to read it again later.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Understanding and comprehending
appreciation for something
apprehend
apprehensible
apprehension
astutely
bear
colour
dot
handle
keenness
keep someone up
know a hawk from a handsawidiom
know the scoreidiom
know/see where someone is coming fromidiom
speak
tease something apart
to get a handle on somethingidiom
to have a handle on somethingidiom
tumble to something
tune in

followverb (READ)


[ T ]
to read the notes or words of a piece of music or writing at the same time as they are being played or said跟唱;跟读
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Writing, reading & studying music
anti-musical
bar
canon
canonical
compose
composition
compositional
musically
musicologist
musicology
non-musical
orchestrate
self-composed
sheet music
sight-read
sight-reading
sol-fa
transposition
uncanonical
unmusical

followverb (SOCIAL MEDIA)


[ T ]
If you follow a particular person on a social media website (= a website where people can publish their thoughts, photographs, information about themselves etc.), you choose to see everything that person posts(= publishes) on the website.(在社交媒体上)跟进;成为粉丝

Idioms


follow your nose
follow in someone's footsteps

Phrasal verbs


follow on
follow (something) through
follow through
follow something up

Examples of followed


followed

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


A second mig ration followed in 1939 and another was planned for 1940, but the war intervened.
Most of the agriculture practiced here is short-term rice and manioc followed by 4- 7 y of fallow.
If the nasal vowel was represented as monosegmental, one would expect it to be followed most often by the palatal approximant.
Figure 2 represents the parallel paths followed by the grammaticizing constructions.
First, in biological selection, the source of variability is well identified: it is the random mutation of the genetic material, followed by genetic mixing.
A 3-min period of dark adaptation was followed by a 1-min period of light adaptation to the two surrounds.
The sample comprised 354 first-episode psychosis patients followed up 12-months after remission/stabilization of their psychotic symptoms.
In both tables, the analysis has been restricted to pregnancies followed sufficiently long for any type of outcome to be identified.
This study reveals perceptual misbinding of color, thereby revealing separate neural representations of color and form followed by a subsequent binding process.
So far she followed traditional patterns of succession.
An initial warm-up conversation was followed by four narrative tasks in which the child was expected to produce at least one narrative.
It thus will not be followed up here.
This was followed by moves to loosen restrictions on certain types of international transactions in order to help modernise and internationalise the financial sector.
All questionnaire items were followed by a question and two possible answer options, and the subjects were asked to indicate their preferred interpretation.
The pronoun it might have been a bit awkward here followed by plus.
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