courses

英 [ˈkɔːsɪz]

美 [ˈkɔːrsɪz]

n.  (有关某学科的系列)课程，讲座; (大学中要进行考试或取得资格的)课程; (船或飞机的)航向，航线
v.  快速地流动; 奔流
course的第三人称单数和复数

医学

柯林斯词典

• 当然(在英语口语中常用于代替 of course)
  Courseis often used in the expression 'of course', or instead of 'of course' in informal spoken English. See 见of course.
• N-UNCOUNT (尤指船或飞机的)航向，航线，路线
  Thecourseof a vehicle, especially a ship or aircraft, is the route along which it is travelling.
  1. Aircraft can avoid each other by going up and down, as well as by altering course to left or right...
     飞机可以通过上下升降和左右移动改变航线来避免相撞。
  2. The tug was seaward of the Hakai Passage on a course that diverged from the Calvert Island coastline.
     托船驶离卡尔弗特岛海岸朝哈凯航道驶去。
• N-COUNT 行为方式;处理方式
  Acourse ofaction is an action or a series of actions that you can do in a particular situation.
  1. My best course of action was to help Gill by being loyal, loving and endlessly sympathetic...
     我能给吉尔的最大帮助就是对他忠诚、关爱他并且永远满怀同情之心。
  2. He must fall on his sword. That's the only course left open to him...
     他必须面对失败，他唯有这一条路走。
  3. Vietnam is trying to decide on its course for the future.
     越南正在努力确定其未来发展的方向。
• N-SING 进程;发展的方向
  You can refer to the way that events develop as, for example,the course of historyorthe course of events.
  1. ...a series of decisive naval battles which altered the course of history...
     改变历史进程的一系列决定性的海战
  2. In the natural course of events cows would wish to be milked more than twice a day...
     按照事情发展的自然规律，母牛每天应该挤奶两次以上。
  3. His adult life mirrored the downward course of his father's life.
     他成年后的生活反映出了他父亲的生活在走下坡路。
• See also:...a course in business administration...I'm shortly to begin a course on the modern novel.access coursecorrespondence courserefresher coursesandwich course
• N-COUNT 疗程
  Acourse ofmedical treatment is a series of treatments that a doctor gives someone.
  1. Treatment is supplemented with a course of antibiotics to kill the bacterium...
     治疗期间辅以一个疗程的抗生素注射来杀灭细菌。
  2. She went to her doctor, who offered to put her on a course of tranquillizers.
     她去看医生，医生建议她服用一个疗程的镇静剂。
• N-COUNT 一道菜
  Acourseis one part of a meal.
  1. The lunch was excellent, especially the first course.
     午餐很棒，尤其是第一道菜。
  2. ...a three-course dinner.
     有3道菜的晚餐
• N-COUNT (体育)比赛场地;高尔夫球场
  In sport, acourseis an area of land where races are held or golf is played, or the land over which a race takes place.
  1. Only 12 seconds separated the first three riders on the Bickerstaffe course...
     比科斯达夫赛场上的前3名骑手之间只差12秒。
  2. In July comes the Tour de France, when 200 cyclists cover a course of 2,000 miles.
     7月份迎来了环法自行车赛，200名自行车选手要骑行2,000英里的赛程。
• N-COUNT 河道
  Thecourseof a river is the channel along which it flows.
  1. Romantic chateaux and castles overlook the river's twisting course.
     富有浪漫气息的庄园和城堡俯瞰着蜿蜒的河道。
• VERB 快速地流动;奔流
  If a liquidcoursessomewhere, it flows quickly.
  1. The tears coursed down his cheeks...
     他泪如雨下。
  2. When you're sitting still, you need less blood coursing through your arteries.
     静坐时动脉血液流动较缓。
• PREP-PHRASE 在…过程中
  If something happensin the course ofa particular period of time, it happens during that period of time.
  1. In the course of the 1930s steel production in Britain approximately doubled...
     在20世纪30年代，英国的钢铁产量几乎翻了一番。
  2. We struck up a conversation, in the course of which it emerged that he was a sailing man.
     我们聊了起来，在谈话过程中得知他是一名水手。
• PHRASE 照例;自然;理所当然
  If you do somethingas a matter of course, you do it as part of your normal work or way of life.
  1. If police are carrying arms as a matter of course then doesn't it encourage criminals to carry them?
     如果警察每天理所当然地携带武器，这难道不会促使罪犯也持械吗？
• PHRASE 在正确航道(或航线)上/偏离航道(或航线)
  If a ship or aircraft ison course, it is travelling along the correct route. If it isoff course, it is no longer travelling along the correct route.
  1. The ill fated ship was sent off course into shallow waters and rammed by another vessel.
     这艘倒霉的船偏离航道误入浅水区，被另外一艘船撞上了。
• PREP-PHRASE 很可能做成;可能获得
  If you areon course forsomething, you are likely to achieve it.
  1. England are well on course for a place at the World Cup Finals...
     英格兰队很有可能打进世界杯决赛。
  2. The company is on course for profits of £20m in the next financial year.
     该公司有望在下一个财年实现2,000万英镑的盈利。
• PHRASE 任其发展;听其自然
  If somethingruns its courseortakes its course, it develops naturally and comes to a natural end.
  1. They estimated that between 17,000 and 20,000 cows would die before the epidemic had run its course...
     他们估计在流行病结束之前会有17,000到20,000头牛死去。
  2. As for the imprisoned leaders, he asserted that justice would have to take its course.
     他坚称必须对监禁的领导人依法审判。
• PHRASE 坚持到底
  If youstay the course, you finish something that you have started, even though it has become very difficult.
  1. The oldest president in American history had stayed the course for two terms.
     美国历史上的第一位总统连任两届。
• PHRASE 总有一天;最后;终于
  If something changes or becomes truein the course of time, it changes or becomes true over a long period of time.
  1. In the course of time, many of their myths become entangled.
     最后，他们很多荒诞的说法都变得错综复杂了。
• in due course→ see:due

双语例句

• We've put down on our staff development plan for this year that we would like some technology courses
  我们已经在今年的员工发展计划中写到我们希望有一些技术培训课程。
• The topic is not taught in degree courses
  学位课程不讲授这个课题。
• Most adult education centres offer computing courses.
  大多数成教中心都设有计算机课程。
• We had this understanding that courses were roughly the same weight.
  我们已经了解到各门功课差不多一样重要。
• At least three British golf courses are now owned by the Japanese.
  现在英国至少有3家高尔夫球场为日本人所有。
• An A to Z of careers gives helpful information about courses.
  按字母顺序排列的职业大全提供了有助于课程选择的信息。
• The school runs cookery courses throughout the year.
  这个学校常年开设烹饪学习班。
• Vocational courses are often given more respect and funding than arts or philosophy.
  职业技术类课程通常能够获得比艺术或哲学类课程更多的重视和资助。
• In retrospect, I wish that I had thought about alternative courses of action
  回想起来，我真希望自己当时考虑过其他做法。
• A key issue for higher education in the 1990's is the need for greater diversity of courses
  20世纪90年代，高等教育的一个重要议题是要使课程更加多样化。