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词汇 discovery
释义 discovery
noun
uk /dɪˈskʌv.ər.i/ us /dɪˈskʌv.ɚ.i/

discoverynoun (FINDING)


B2[ C or U ]
the process of finding information, a place, or an object, especially for the first time, or the thing that is found: (尤指首次)发现(的过程);被发现的事物
discovery ofWho is credited with the discovery of electricity?
make a discoveryLeonardo made many scientific discoveries.莱昂纳多有许多科学发现。
a journey/voyage of discovery发现之旅
discovery ofThe discovery of a body in the undergrowth started a murder enquiry.在灌木丛中发现的尸体引发了一场凶杀案调查。
Scientists are on the brink of a major new discovery.
The discovery of oil brought many benefits to the town.石油的发现给该镇带来很多利益。
Various ecological issues have come to the fore since the discovery of the hole in the ozone layer.
The two scientists both made the same discovery independently, at roughly the same time.这两位科学家几乎同时独立地做出了相同的发现。
Word of the discovery caused a stir among astronomers.关于这项新发现的消息在天文学家当中引起了轰动。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Finding and discovering
ascertain
break (fresh/new) groundidiom
breakthrough
bring something to lightidiom
catch someone red-handedidiom
fossick
found
geocache
geocaching
get hold ofidiom
homing
pinpoint
plumb
red-handed
rediscover
rediscovery
refind
refound
sniff
suss

discoverynoun (IN LAW)


law specialized
part of a legal process in which the lawyers from one side in a case give documents relating to their case to the other side, before the trial begins: 双方律师开庭前交换证据,庭前证据交换
in discoveryAmong the thousands of documents Litt was able to obtain in discovery from the city was a memo written by a councilman's aide in response to one resident's complaint. 在市政府提供的几千份庭前交换证据文本中,利特律师找到了一份出自一位市议员助理的备忘,是为回应一位居民的投诉而写的。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Court cases, orders & decisions
actionable
actionably
administer
admissibility
admissible
extrajudicial
extrajudicially
fatal accident inquiry
federal case
finding
pettifogging
plea bargain
plea bargaining
pleading
post bail
the Webster ruling
walk
walk freeidiom
wardship
witness to something

discovery | American Dictionary


discovery
noun[ C/U ]
us/dɪˈskʌv·ə·ri/
the act of finding something that had not been known before:
[ C ]Many scientific discoveries have been made by accident.
[ U ]The discovery of gold in California opened up the west.
A discovery is also something that you did not know about before:
[ C ]It was quite a discovery when I came upon this beautiful mountain stream.

Examples of discovery


discovery
The discovery of vortex structures in the turbulent mixing layer raises serious doubts about the validity of self-preservation arguments.
Yet, as stated above, its discovery happened at a time when it was still not visible.
Perhaps the results of future excavations will shed some light on our discovery and these questions.
After the initial discovery, a large literature was published extending the result in various directions.
In the present study, both discovery and parasitism efficiency decreased with increasing egg batch density.
When one makes a "discovery," is it the scientific investigator or the dreamer who discovers?
One cannot carry out a process of discovery without some understanding about the goal for that discovery and what counts as having discovered something.
Proofs are not meant to act merely as justification for the discovery of "facts"; they are themselves the "facts" to be discovered.
Real discoveries have been made, and many more can be expected from this very promising research avenue.
The discovery of the variability of vaccine strains and the ageing of vaccines changed the economy of vaccines and of their standards.
Since its description, the lifecycle of this protozoan parasite has eluded discovery.
Pupils enjoyed exploring the sounds within a pedagogical framework of exploration and discovery rather than in the context of right or wrong compositional choices.
Instead, he elected to demonstrate the legitimacy and importance of his discovery through the interest it provoked among powerful state officials.
A related rt-plasma discovery requiring the presence of a catalyst is a new low-electric field plasma source.
It is the discovery that a sudden change has taken place in the extent of globalisation which tends to affect support.
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Collocations withdiscovery


discovery

These are words often used in combination with discovery.

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accidental discovery
They may have imitated the action, or seen the product and attempted to reproduce it, or have repeated their accidental discovery.
discovery of insulin
One said it was the greatest advance in diabetes treatment since the discovery of insulin.
discovery of penicillin
Today we are potentially faced with one of those great changes in the story of human kind, comparable to the discovery of penicillin or vaccines.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
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