N-COUNT 疗程 A course of medical treatment is a series of treatments that a doctor gives someone.
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。
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 A course is one part of a meal.
The lunch was excellent, especially the first course. 午餐很棒,尤其是第一道菜。
...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, a course is an area of land where races are held or golf is played, or the land over which a race takes place.
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。
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 The course of a river is the channel along which it flows.
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 liquid courses somewhere, it flows quickly.
The tears coursed down his cheeks... 他泪如雨下。
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 happens in the course of a particular period of time, it happens during that period of time.
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。
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 something as a matter of course, you do it as part of your normal work or way of life.
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 is on course, it is travelling along the correct route. If it is off course, it is no longer travelling along the correct route.
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 are on course for something, you are likely to achieve it.
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。
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 something runs its course or takes its course, it develops naturally and comes to a natural end.
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。
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 you stay the course, you finish something that you have started, even though it has become very difficult.
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 true in the course of time, it changes or becomes true over a long period of time.
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。