英语词汇“development”的音标、意思、用法及中文翻译-反思网

developmental

development | American Dictionary

development
noun[ C/U ]
us/dɪˈvel·əp·mənt/

developmentnoun[C/U] (GROWTH)

the process of growing or changing and becoming more advanced:
[ U ]A good diet and lots of exercise are essential for a child’s healthy growth and development.
[ U ]I took a history course that dealt with the development of popular culture.
literature
In a literary work, development is the movement from one event to another or the changes in the characters’ understanding.
A development is a recent important event that is the latest in a series of related events:
[ C ]There is a new development in the plans to reorganize the fire department.
Development is also the organized increase of a country’s industry and wealth.

developmentnoun[C/U] (CREATION)

the process of coming into existence or of creating something new or more advanced:
[ U ]We were waiting for the development of new plans for the city’s convention center.
[ U ]I’m in charge of product development (= the creation and design of new products) for the company.
[ C ]Cotton fields were replaced by housing developments (= groups of similar houses built at the same time) as the city experienced rapid growth.
Development is also the building of houses, stores, or offices, esp. by a company to make a profit, on an area of land where there were none before.

development | Business English

development
noun
uk /dɪˈveləpmənt/us
[ U ]
growth or changes that make something become more advanced:
The first year of the plan is primarily focused on organizational development.
He was recruited to oversee international business development.
[ U ]
the process of creating something such as a new product or service:
software development
The next stage in the development of this product line is a retail version.
[ U ]
the process of producing a plan, idea, etc.:
Motorola said it did not expect its policy, which has been in development since June, to affect its bottom line.
[ C ]
a recent event which is the latest in a series of related events:
Keeping up with new developments on the web is not easy.
These beneficial economic developments have followed trade and investment liberalization.
[ U ] ECONOMICS
the planned increase of a country’s industry and wealth:
The EU has exercised leadership and argued for policies that support the expansion of trade, growth, and development.
development projects
[ U ] HR
improvement of a skill, ability, quality, etc.:
An industry convention is a terrific venue for business skills training and professional development.
They invested resources into employee training and development.
individual/career/staff development
[ C ] PROPERTY (also UKhousing development); (also USreal estate development)
a group of similar buildings built in an area by a particular developer:
They recently bought a house in one of the town's new developments.
[ U ] PROPERTY
the building of houses, stores, offices, etc. usually by a company to make a profit, usually on an area of land where there were none before:
The land will be used for private development.
He began his career at Goldman Sachs and moved on to real-estate development in the New York City area.
commercial/industrial development
[ C or U ] NATURAL RESOURCES
an area of land that is used for its natural resources, or the use of an area of land for its natural resources:
Oil producers have focused their efforts on optimizing production from existing fields and investing more aggressively in new developments.

Examples of development

development
I think there are encouraging developments in technology that are permitting developed countries to 'do more with less', and increasing incentives to do so.
The development of large-scale data collection, for example, has also permitted the development of an 'early warning system' in relation to low-incidence medical complications.
In theory, village development plans flow up through district and regional development committees to the central government.
The government needed professional and politically-minded staff to take on the planned political development of the country over the long haul.
In addition, there were other papers on designing economic plans, capital accumulation, and foreign examples of economic development plans, translated by the bank.
Rigorous validation and quality control procedures have been imposed throughout the development course.
It is quite clear then that an artificial frame of some kind does not exclude the possibility of an organic development.
Research to support the development of organic food and farming.
The sources do not each contain a distinct stage in an organic process of growth, development, and decline.
Future research needs to consider the role of fathers or male caregivers in the emotional development of physically maltreated children.
Research should also examine the way that child gender may influence the development and use of emotion regulation strategies in physically maltreated children.
The relevance of the findings for cross-linguistic interaction in bilingual phonetic/phonological development is discussed.
But the idea of an ageless self is also supported by developmental psychological theories, where the development after adolescence is seldom considered.
In conjunction, these properties of social-psychological research have impeded the development of theories with explanatory power and the ability to generate novel and nontrivial hypotheses.
Pathbreaking verbs in syntactic development and the question of prototypical transitivity.
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Collocations withdevelopment

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These are words often used in combination with development.

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adolescent development
Some ways in which neighborhoods, nuclear families, friendship groups, and schools jointly affect changes in early adolescent development.
agricultural development
But such adjustments did not necessarily overturn the broad, theoretical assumptions with which experts and officials conceptualized the problems of agricultural development.
arrested development
Arrested development in human hookworm infections : an adaptation to a seasonal unfavourable external environment.
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developmentnoun (GROWTH)

developmentnoun (THING THAT HAPPENS)

developmentnoun (START)

developmentnoun (BUILDINGS)

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