gravitate
['græviteit]
v.受吸引, 下沉,重力吸引
例句与用法:
The conversation gravitated to sport.
谈话的内容转到了运动方面。
When this beautiful girl arrived, all the men in the room gravitated towards her.
这美貌的姑娘一到,全屋的男人都让她吸引住了。
词形变化:
名词: gravitater | 动词过去式: gravitated | 动词过去分词: gravitated | 动词现在分词: gravitating | 动词第三人称单数: gravitates |
vi.
1. 受引力作用而运动
2. 被吸引
3. 下沉; 下降
gravitate
过去式:gravitated
过去分词:gravitated
现在进行时:gravitating
词形变化:
名词: gravitater | 动词过去式: gravitated | 动词过去分词: gravitated | 动词现在分词: gravitating | 动词第三人称单数: gravitates |
词义辨析:
同义:
vi.倾向
incline
lean
tend
move toward
同义参见:
head
gravitate['ɡræviteit]vi.1.■受重力作用;受引力作用:The earth gravitates towards the sun.地球受太阳吸引。2.■自然地移向,倾向;(受引力吸引而)移动,移向(常与 toward 连用):If you all gravitate to one side, you'll upset the boat.如果你们都移向一边,船就要翻了。Artists gravitate toward one another.艺术家常彼此互相吸引。3.■下沉,沉没,沉陷;下降:The sand in the water gravitated to the bottom of the bottle.水中的沙子沉淀到瓶底。vt.1.■使受重力(或引力)作用,使受引力吸引而移动;使吸引变形vi.gravitatedgravitating
gravitategravitate[ˈɡræviteit]vi.1.■【物】受重力[引力]作用2.■沉降[淀]3.■趋[倾]向; 被吸引(to, towards)The earth gravitates towards the sun.地球受太阳吸引。In summer people gravitate to the seaside.夏天的海边吸引人们。
词性变化gravitate[ˈɡræviteit]vt.1.■吸引, 受重力作用
[ˈgravɪteɪt]
verb
[no obj., with adverbial]
- move towards or be attracted to a place, person, or thing
向…移动;被吸引到…
young western Europeans will gravitate to Berlin.
西欧的年轻人将被吸引到柏林。
■(Physics)move, or tend to move, towards a centre of gravity or other attractive force
(物理)受重力(或其他引力)作用而运动(或倾向于运动)
■(archaic)descend or sink by the force of gravity
(古)(受重力作用而)下降;下沉
- mid 17th cent.: from modern Latin gravitat-, from the verb gravitare, from Latin gravitas 'weight'
gravitate
动词 gravitate:
move toward
be attracted to
move due to the pull of gravitation
gravitate
■Grace, it's no accident that you gravitate toward food, working out, and reading.
Grace,你喜欢食物、锻炼和阅读这不是巧合。
■'Reaching somebody in the bathroom, that's not the image that most search professionals would gravitate toward,' he says.
“在盥洗室内跟人接近,大多数职业猎头人员都不会对这种工作形象有好感。”
■"My excuse must be that all Celts gravitate towards each other" (Oscar Wilde)
“我的藉口一定是所有的凯尔特人都相互吸引”(奥斯卡·怀尔德)
■46064. He also began to gravitate to an issue that would come to define his postpresidency work.
不知是天生如此还是受到不幸孩提时代的影响,他无法忍受独自一人。
■However often you mix it up in the water, the mud will gravitate towards the bottom again.
不论你怎样搅水里的泥土,它还会再沉到水底的。
■In order to make your opinions known to a wider audience, you may gravitate toward journalism, teaching or politics.
为了令你的意见能让更多的听众知道,你或许会被吸引到新闻工作,教育工作,或是政治方面。
■’ ” And in order to know the right people artists and designers inevitably gravitate to New York, because it’s where previous generations of artists and designers, now powerful, gravitated to.
为了认识正确的人,艺术家和设计师不可避免地涌向纽约,因为这里是上一代艺术家和设计师的聚居地,现在他们都已经是有头有脸的人物。
■Teach everyone to play facing the basket, or back to the basket.Teach them how to be basketball players, and then let them gravitate to what they are best suited to do.
也许我们可以不分身材的差异,教所有人运球、传球和投篮,教他们面对和背对篮框的技巧,教他们如何成为真正的篮球运动员,然后让他们趋向自己最适合的位置。
■Young people in the country districts seem to gravitate towards the cities
乡村的青年有向都市移动的趋势。
■Let your soul gravitate to the love ya'll.
人人都需要爱,爱会指引我们回到正途.
■People naturally gravitate toward that quality like moths to a flame.
人天生就被热情(的人)所吸引,就像飞蛾总是被火焰吸引一样。
■We analyzed the Germen Duff Mitchell in the sights of organization construction, gravitate mechanism, financing model and person cultivation in this paper.
从组织结构、运行机制、资金支持和人才培养四个方面对德国产学研联合的弗朗霍夫模式进行了分析。
■He believes that investment and water will continue to gravitate towards the bigger, more professionally managed farms.
他相信,水和投资将会继续被规模更大、管理更专业化的农场吸引走。
■'Really understanding why consumers gravitate towards one product category or another will be important in 2009,' he adds.
他补充说,切实理解消费者为什么偏好这样或那样的产品,这一点在2009年尤其重要。
■" Some SAD sufferers, he says, simply gravitate toward a lifestyle that accommodates the disease.
他说,有些周期性情感失调症患者倾向于一种易于滋生这种病的生活方式。
■He also urged graduates not to lay out a rigid path for themselves. Rewards will gravitate to those who make mistakes and learn from them, Schmidt said.
他还呼吁毕业生不要对自己的未来道路太苛求。他说,犯错误后能从错误中吸取经验的人必将获得回报。
■Anyone looking for a dynamic doer who likes to run the show will gravitate to your side.
任何寻找积极实干家的人都会投你一票。
■Naturally artistic, these folks also gravitate toward jobs involving design, music, or dance.
优雅世艺术的气质使他们很适合从事设计、音乐和舞蹈方面的工作。
■But they used the same joint research service to gravitate positions that were based on better evidence and more objective analysis.
但是这些议员使用同样的研究服务,并根据更有说服力的证据和更加客观的分析改变立场。
■You are not an iconoclast but you do become bored with dry, repetitive studies and you gravitate to areas that are stimulating and require fast responsiveness to changing circumstances.
你会被吸引到那种需要快速反应能力来应对不断变化的环境的刺激性工作领域中。
■From now on, the rewards will gravitate to those who make mistakes and learn from them, as the president said.
你可以真真切切地看到,父母也以送孩子上这所大学为荣。
■You become increasingly sensitive to the ways in which you miss the true reality, and you gravitate towards the simple objective perspective which does not add to or subtract from what is.
你对于自己是如何错过真实变得越来越敏感,你开始迈向那个简单的认知目标,以本来面目认知,既不增加也不减少。
■gravitate toward
倾向于
■Don't gravitate to one side, or the boat will upset.
别都移向一边,否则船会翻的。
■Even then, they still tend to view themselves as doubtlessly superior to their associates, and gravitate towards positions of authority.
即使这样,他们仍然倾向于把自己视为远远高出于其合作者的优越种族,并且是自贬身份来领导这群废物的。
■Teach them how to be basketball players, and then let them gravitate to what they are best suited to do.
去教他们如何作为一名篮球运动员,然后让他们找到适合自己的最佳位置。
■Developers, on the other hand, gravitate towards agile techniques such as XP and AM due to their perceived focus on what is important to developers: building software.
另一方面,开发人员却喜欢敏捷技术,比如,XP和AM,因为它们强调对开发人员的重要的事情:构建软件。
■Some people overindulge in an attempt to nurture themselves, while others become the caretaker they never had, and may gravitate to careers in which they help others, like social work or nursing.
另些人成为了自己过去没有获得的”照顾者",也许会对例如:社会工作、护理等帮助别人成为了具有吸引力的职业。
■The regional groundwater flow in Taibei depression of Tu-Ha basin is the gravit y-induced cross-formational groundwater flow.
吐哈盆地台北凹陷现今为重力水流盆地。
■Zhang HM, Fan XL, Zhou JB, et al. Effects of simulated microgravity on immunoreactivity of conjugatedubiquitin of muscle spindles of soleus in rats [J]. J Gravit Physiol, 2000, 7(2):119120.
吴苏娣,樊小力,唐斌,等.模拟失重对大鼠比目鱼肌肌梭超微结构的影响[J].航天医学与医学工程,2002,15(1):3235.
■In the area of health and healing, most 1s gravitate toward dense foods that include concentrated protein and even fats.
在健康和保健的领域,大多数1偏向于浓/重的食品,其中包括浓缩蛋白质和甚至是脂肪。
■At almost every British university, there is an ISOC to which practising Muslim students, seeking soulmates, soon gravitate.
在几乎每座英国的大学都有ISOC,穆斯林学生在其中寻求精神伴侣,并很快为其吸引。
■As such, while military conquest is certainly an option, it's certainly understandable if you gravitate toward the other two victory conditions.
在这样的前提下,军事胜利法虽然是个选项,但是如果玩家被其它两个胜利条件所吸引,这也是很可以理解的。
■In summer people gravitate toward the seaside.
夏天,人们纷纷涌向海边。
■In summer people gravitate to the seaside.
夏天的海边吸引人们。
■Most visitors to New York gravitate to Times Square.
大多数来纽约的游客都被吸引到时代广场。
■If you all gravitate to one side, you'll upset the boat.
如果你们都移向一边,船就要翻了。
■If you all gravitate to one side, you will upset the boat
如果大家都移向一边,船就要翻了。
■"Two things happen when authoritarian governments fall in Muslim countries," says the Western diplomat. "People gravitate toward Islamic fundamentalism, and Islamic extremists gravitate toward the country."
如果强权政府倒台了,只有两种后果,一是人们会向伊斯兰教原教旨主义堕落,以及伊斯兰教极端分子使国家堕落。
■Their hatchlings, which gravitate toward the brighter, more reflective sea horizon, find themselves confused by artificial lighting behind the beach.
它们孵化时本应朝着光亮的方向,因为那正反映了海平线的方向,但是它们却被沙滩后面的人造灯光搞得晕头转向。
■It is separating those who will go into the Fifth Dimension from those who would gravitate to other worlds in the Third.
它是从受三维其它世界吸引那些人中分离出将进入第五维那些人。
■" Guys would say, ' I work for this company, this is how much money I'm making, this is what I'm driving' and that's what the girls would gravitate to.
小伙们会说,“我为这家公司工作,我赚这么多钱,我开这样的车--这就是吸引姑娘们的东西”。
■Many beginner poker players naturally gravitate toward a level of game where they feel most comfortable.
很多初学扑克的玩家自然被他们感到最舒服的一个级别的游戏所吸引。
■A fearful public has a tendency to gravitate towards gold.
心存恐惧的公众将会有转向黄金的趋势。
■It’s interesting to think about the way certain categories gravitate to various emotions.
想想各种行业如何归入不同的情感也是件有趣的事情。
■Gravitate gradually towards the people you find most interesting.
慢慢的接近那些你最感兴趣的人。
■Our main competitors already have their own Asian distribution centers, and some of our customers may gravitate to them if we don't act quickly.
我们的主要竞争对手都已经在亚洲建立起了物流中心。再不及时反应的话,我们的一部分客户就会被他们吸引走。
■My excuse must be that all Celts gravitate towards each other(Oscar Wilde)
我的藉口一定是所有的凯尔特人都相互吸引(奥斯卡·怀尔德)
■I won't accept a blanket demonization of either the left or the right that both sides tend to gravitate towards.
我看到了它到底有多棒,所有我认识的最好的演员,所有我在纽约认识好几年的戏剧界的朋友都赶来了。
■“The best of our young gravitate toward Wall Street, instead of Washington, our statehouses or our courthouses.
或者,可能更准确地说,他们中很多人最后还是去了华盛顿,去搞游说或者去代表客户”。