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why

英[waɪ]
美[waɪ]

基本释义

  • adv.为什么; 何必; …的原因
  • conj.(用于从句句首)为什么
  • int.哎呀,哟

实用例句

Why were you late?

你为什么迟到?

牛津词典

Tell me why you did it.

告诉我你为什么这样做。

牛津词典

‘I would like you to go. ’ ‘ Why me? ’

“我希望你去。”“为什么要我去呢?”

牛津词典

(informal) Why oh why do people keep leaving the door open?

人们到底为什么总敞着门呢?

牛津词典

Why get upset just because you got one bad grade?

何必因为一次成绩不好就想不开呢?

牛津词典

Why bother to write? We'll see him tomorrow.

还费事写信干什么?我们明天就见到他了。

牛津词典

That's why I left so early.

这就是我早早离去的原因。

牛津词典

I know you did it─I just want to know why.

我知道这是你干的,我只是想知道为什么。

牛津词典

The reason why the injection needs repeating every year is that the virus changes.

每年需要重新注射的原因是这病毒经常变化。

牛津词典

Why ever didn't you tell us before?

你为什么不早告诉我们呢?

牛津词典

Why not write to her?

为什么不给她写信呢?

牛津词典

‘Let's eat out. ’ ‘ Why not? ’

“咱们到外边吃去吧。”“好哇。”

牛津词典

Why don't we go together?

我们为什么不一起去呢?

牛津词典

Why Jane, it's you!

呦,简,是你呀!

牛津词典

Why, it's easy─a child could do it!

嗨,这容易得很,连小孩子都干得了!

牛津词典

I had no intention of going into the whys and the wherefores of the situation.

我无意深入调查这一情况的来龙去脉。

牛津词典

Why hasn't he brought the whisky?...

他为什么没把威士忌拿来?

Why didn't he stop me?...

为什么他没阻止我?

He still could not throw any further light on why the elevator could have become jammed...

对于电梯为什么会卡住他仍旧给不出更多的解释。

Experts wonder why the US government is not taking similarly strong actions against AIDS in this country...

专家们对为什么美国政府没在这个国家采取类似的强硬措施来对抗艾滋病而感到疑惑。

There's a reason why women don't read this stuff; it's not funny...

女人不读这种东西是有原因的,它并不好笑。

Unless you're ill, there's no reason why you can't get those 15 minutes of walking in daily.

除非你病了,否则你没有理由每天连走15分钟都做不到的。

Why not give Claire a call?...

为什么不给克莱尔打个电话?

Why don't you come home with me until you sort things out?...

你何不先和我一起回家,等事情解决了再走?

Why don't you look where you're going?...

走路怎么不看着点儿道呢?

Why don't they just leave it alone?

他们就不能别管了吗?

'Want to spend the afternoon with me?' — 'Why not?'...

“想和我共度这个下午吗?”——“好啊!”

'Shall I tell them about poor Mrs Blair?'—'Why not?'

“我应该告诉他们可怜的布莱尔太太的情况吗?”——“为什么不呢?”

Why hello, Tom...

哎呀,你好,汤姆。

Why, this is nothing but common vegetable soup...

啊,这只不过是普通的蔬菜汤而已。

真题例句

Why learning and forgetting are complementary.

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That's why leaders continue to manage the present while building toward the big changes of the future.

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Instead of giving people practice, the gradual reduction likely gave them cravings and withdrawal symptoms before they even reached quit day, which could be why fewer people in that group actually made it to that point.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

That’s why horses, which also come from Central Asia, like both apples and carrots so much.

出自-2017年6月听力原文

Why do some people live to be older than others? You know the standard explanations: keeping a moderate diet, engaging in regular exercise, etc.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

Stan Glantz, a professor of medicine in San Francisco,explains why: And you know, one thing that I wanted to ask you.

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Why do some students give up when they encounter difficulty, whereas others who are no more skilled continue to strive and learn? One answer, I soon discovered, lay in people's beliefs about why they had failed.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

In other words, there's a reason why people like to gamble.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

It’s: why are the British so cold? And they’re talking about the British personality—the famous British reserve.

出自-2016年12月听力原文

Why not instead think of learning as if it were food—something so valuable to humans that they have evolved to experience it as a pleasure?Joy should not be trained out of children or left for after-school programs.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

Why do so many Americans eat tons of processed food, the stuff that is correctly called junk and should really carry warning labels? It's not because fresh ingredients are hard to come by.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

Shouldn't preparing—and consuming—food be a source of comfort, pride, health, well-being, relaxation, sociability? Something that connects us to other humans? Why would we want to outsource this basic task, especially when outsourcing it is so harmful? When I talk about cooking, I'm not talking about creating elaborate dinner parties or three-day science projects.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

Instead of trying to get children to work hard, why not focus on getting them to take pleasure in meaningful, productive activity, like making things, working with others, exploring ideas, and solving problems? These focuses are not so different from the things in which they delight.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

Criticism, at its best, is deeply personal, and gets to the heart of why we write the way we do.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

Leo, why do you say English will become the world language? Hello, yes? No one knows for sure just how old kites are.

出自-2015年12月听力原文

So here's a suggestion offered by two researchers at the Rand Corporation: Why not take a lesson from alcohol control policies and apply them to where food is sold and how it's displayed?

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

Oh… Why don't you use the ladder?

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Why did Alex fail to receive the warm response he had hoped for?

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Why does the speaker say the worst way to complain is over the telephone

出自-2010年6月听力原文

But I don't understand why you're so excited.

2019年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section B

Economic factors seem to explain less of why young adult women are increasingly likely to live at home.

2019年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

hi, Leo, why do you say English will become the world language?

2015年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section B

How and why does children's thinking change?

2015年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section A

If breakfast alone isn't a guarantee of weight loss, why is there a link between obesity and breakfastskipping?

2019年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

Instead of giving people practice, the gradual reduction likely gave them cravings 瘾 and withdrawal symptoms before they even reached quit day, which could be why fewer people in that group actually made it to that point.

2017年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C

Instead of trying to get children to work hard, why not focus on getting them to take pleasure in meaningful, productive activity, like making things, working with others, exploring ideas, and solving problems?

2015年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

like, if people jump the traffic lights, I don't know why there isn't a camera on the traffic lights to stop people doing that.

2016年6月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section B

New evidence shows why getting enough sleep is a top priority.

2016年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

One answer, I soon discovered, lay in people's beliefs about why they had failed.

2016年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

Only about one-in-five say women's family responsibilities are a major reason why there aren't more females in top leadership positions in business and politics.

2019年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

Scientists have different theories as to why there's a relationship between the two.

2019年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

Some people wonder why countries spend millions of dollars on space projects.

2017年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C

That is why being self-aware, investing in broader networks of friends, and being open to new ideas will become even more crucial skills.

2019年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

That's why the British don't like flats.

2016年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section B

That's why there is most often a delay associated with muscle soreness.

2019年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

The journalist Ian Leslie, in his new and enjoyable book Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends on it, insists that the answer to that last question is "Yes".

2017年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

There is absolutely no reason why men can't go into this profession.

2019年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section A

They're documenting why teaching is such a fruitful way to learn, and designing innovative ways for young people to engage in instruction.

2018年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C

This is why few locals in Seattle carry an umbrella generally.

2019年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

While the study didn't assess why divorce is more likely when wives but not husbands become seriously ill, Karraker offers a few possible reasons.

2019年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C

Why should you consider taking a course in demography in college? You’ll be growing up in a generation where the baby boomers are going into retirement and dying.

出自-2017年6月听力原文

Why, then, has this claim become so popular?Part of the answer is that this is what always happens during periods of high unemployment—in part because experts and analysts believe that declaring the problem deeply rooted, with no easy answers, makes them sound serious.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

Whether this is right, and if so where and when the ecological axe will fall, is hard to determine with any precision—which is why governments and financial institutions are only beginning to bring such risks into their economic calculations.

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That's why school reform is so critical.

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It is also the reason why development agencies are not united in their view of environmental issues; while some, like the WRI, maintain that environmental progress needs to go hand-inhand with economic development, others argue that the priority is to build a thriving economy, and then use the wealth created to tackle environmental degradation.

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If this is not happening today, we should ask why.

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Here are some of the important proposals in the House and Senate bills to try to address those problems, and why it is hard to know how well they will work.

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And that, fundamentally, is why claims that we face huge structural problems have been multiplying: they offer a reason to do nothing about the mass unemployment that is crippling our economy and our society.

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Yet the persistent question of Why do I need that? – or, perhaps more tellingly, Why do you need to know that? – dogs the steps of many new ventures.

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That is why government has historically intervened, banning advertising, imposing health warnings and punitive duties.

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That could be another explanation for why companies seem to be strengthening their talk of the practicality of their devices.

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So why has it taken so long? The Department of Health declared its intention to consider the move in November 2010 and consulted through 2012.

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Perhaps the reason why so many universities offer their students so little is they know studying at a top university remains a brilliant investment even if you don't learn anything.

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But that isn't why the government—under pressure from cancer charities, health workers and the Labour party—has agreed to legislate for standardised packaging.

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That helps explain why, as I'm First's Rubinoff indicated, the schools to which these students end up resorting can end up being some of the poorest matches for them.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

So what factors, at the community level, do predict if poor children will move up the economic ladder as adults? What explains, for instance, why the Salt Lake City metro area is one of the 100 largest metropolitan areas most likely to lift the fortunes of the poor and the Atlanta metro area is one of the least likely?Harvard economist Raj Chetty has pointed to economic and racial segregation, community density, the size of a community's middle class, the quality of schools, community religiosity, and family structure, which he calls the single strongest correlate of upward mobility.

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Why does love die?Changing technology and markets have stimulated the team approach tomanagement.

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The College Essay: Why Those 500 Words Drive Us Crazy

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Question 15: Why did Dennis Hutton go to New York?

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Why did James Dean move back to Indiana when he was young?

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A robot's appearance affects its ability to successfully interact with humans, which is why the riKEN-Tri Collaboration Center for Human-Interactive Robot Research decided to develop a robotic nurse that looks like a huge teddy bear.

2018年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

And it goes some way towards explaining why books about swimming, in which people tackle icy lakes, and overcome oceans while reflecting on their lives have recently become so popular.

2018年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section B

As a zoologist focusing on the studies of apes and monkeys, I've been studying why humans evolved to become the naked ape and why skin comes in so many different shades around the world.

2019年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

As he and other researchers examined the question of why teens were more apt to take risks in the company of other teenagers,they came to suspect that a crowd's influence need not always be negative.

2018年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

I never really understood why so many girls were such big fans of her.

2019年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section A

I wanted to know why so I began self-monitoring to try to understand my behavior.

2017年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

In other words, we really must make the case for why we are doing it.

2019年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section A

It is also the reason why development agencies are not united in their view of environmental issues; while some, like the Wri, maintain that environmental progress needs to go hand-in-hand with economic development, others argue that the priority is to bu

2016年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

Moffitt said it's still unclear why some children have better self-control than others, though she says other researchers have found that it's mostly a learned behavior, with relatively little genetic influence.

2016年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

Our long-term operation in the region depends on a healthy and thriving Antarctic marine ecosystem, which is why we have always had an open dialogue with the environmental non-governmental organisations.

2019年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

So if ifs so easy to get your protein in food, why add more in the form of powders, snack bars or a boost at your local juice bar?

2019年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

So please tell us, why did you decide to open a café?

2018年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section A

So why has it taken so long?

2016年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C

Take some time to reflect on your attitudes, to think about what you believe and why.

2019年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

That helps explain why, as I'm first's Rubinoff indicated, the schools to which these students end up resorting can end up being some of the poorest matches for them.

2015年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

That is why government has historically intervened, banning advertising, imposing health warnings and punitive duties.

2016年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C

That may be one reason why so many people find relief in swimming when life seas get rough.

2018年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section B

That's why women are told to eat 25 grams a fiber a day—men even more.

2017年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section B

That's why, for example, may say they believe in the benefits of recycling or exercise, but don't behave in line with their views, because it takes awareness, effort and courage to go beyond merely stating that you believe something is a good idea.

2019年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

There are good reasons why crop plants do not use dryness defenses already.

2018年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

There is another reason why I want to chat with you before Monday.

2017年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section A

There's a surplus of physical shopping space for the crowds, which is one reason why stores are downsizing and closing.

2019年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

This is why we're all on board in focusing on those thousand days to improve nutrition.

2015年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

Too many people in this country, including some among our elected leadership, still do not understand how science works or why robust, long-range investments in research vitally matter.

2016年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section A

Twenge and her colleagues wanted to understand why this change in average well-being occurred.

2019年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

According to the passage, why did snowmen become a phenomenon in the middle ages?

2015年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读A 题设

And that's precisely why one garbage-eating Frenchman has caught our attention.

2019年高考英语浙江卷 完形填空 原文

And the story poses an interesting question: why do some people discover new vitality and creativity to the end of their days, while others go to seed long before?

2019年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

And why do cats give dead birds to their owners?

2018年高考英语全国卷2 听力 原文

As a child, Adeline couldn't understand why the medal was so significant.

2019年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

As expected, I got a roasting, but I now understand why I need discipline.

2017年高考英语天津卷 阅读表达 原文

As soon as Christiansen saw the photos, he realized why he had failed to spot the caldera.

2019年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

Berger explains in his new book, "contagious: why things catch on."

2016年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

But what I still can't figure out is why I never got tired, never felt better in my life.

2015年高考英语天津卷 阅读表达 原文

Come on, you just sit around all day! why don't you do something?

2017年高考英语北京卷 听力 原文

Explain why she was interested in the computer.

2016年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读A 选项

Explain why the number of certain species has declined.

2015年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读C 选项

From my experience, there are three main reasons why people don't cook more often: ability, money and time, money is a topic i'll save for another day.

2014年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 七选五 原文

He said the chickens had never missed a meal and he could not figure out why some of them had stopped laying eggs.

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However, there are a number of other reasons that might explain why you want to garden.

2016年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 七选五 原文

I thought, "why don't they just try rolling the things" a square could be turned into a rough sort of wheel by attaching wooden poles to its sides, he realized.

2015年高考英语四川卷 阅读理解 阅读E 原文

I usually got pretty upset and kept asking him why.

2015年高考英语广东卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

If Louis could find his way out of his problems, why should I ever give up?

2015年高考英语重庆卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

If steel is heavier than water, why are ships able to float on the sea?

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If Tononi's theory is right, it would explain why, when we miss a night's, we find it harder the next day to concentrate and learn new information — our brains may have smaller room for new experiences.

2017年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 七选五 原文

In Lucy Grant's opinion, why does downsgifting require a lot of thoughts and planning?

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In order to make a change, you need to decide why it's important.

2017年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 七选五 原文

It hit me then: why, as a child, helping dad clean his comb was such a pleasure?

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It won an Oscar in 2006, and if you watch it, you'll understand why.

2015年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

Let's begin with the question of why people volunteer.

2015年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Not everyone acts the same in response to events, and that is why what triggers one person may or may not trigger another.

2018年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 七选五 原文

Now that you know why you want to wake up, consider re-arranging your morning activities.

2017年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 七选五 原文

One day, mentally exhausted, I wrote down all the reasons why this problem could not be solved.

2016年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

Other road users, including horse riders, manage to obey the rules so why not cyclists?

2015年高考英语湖南卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

Scientists have advanced many theories about why human beings cry tears, none of which has been proved.

2016年高考英语浙江卷(6月) 单项选择 原文

She asked her mother why he did that and her mother said that the man was homeless and hungry.

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She couldn't understand why some people had to live their lives without shelter or enough food.

2017年高考英语北京卷 完形填空 原文

Since his regular job was boring, I asked him why he just didn't do his sideline full-time.

2018年高考英语浙江卷 完形填空 原文

That can be annoying—that's why some people feel sick.

2015年高考英语湖北卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

That is why fish prefer shallow water to deep water because the former is warmer.

2015年高考英语广东卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

That is why I help brighten people's days.

2015年高考英语湖南卷 单项选择 原文

That relief is coupled with a deep understanding of why the same people keep coming back for more: connecting to the community as you freely give your time, money, skills, or services provides a real joy.

2019年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

That was why he had bought the papers with all his money.

2015年高考英语湖北卷 完形填空 原文

That's why exercise is considered so vital that National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA puts it right on the workday schedule.

2015年高考英语湖北卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

That's why students do better in tests if they get a chance to sleep after learning.

2017年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 七选五 原文

That's why TV ears has earned the trust and confidence of audiologists听觉学家 nationwide as well as world-famous doctors.

2015年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

The author mentions the functions of science at the beginning of the passage to explain why many writers use science in their works.

2015年高考英语湖北卷 阅读理解 阅读E 题设

The exhibition tells us why we should do something to stop air pollution.

2015年高考英语四川卷 单项填空 原文

The next time you feel the urge to spread the latest news, thing about why you want to gossip and what effects your "juicy story" might have.

2016年高考英语浙江卷(6月) 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

The real reason why prices were, and still are, too high is complex, and no short discussion can satisfactorily explain this problem.

2015年高考英语江苏卷 单项填空 原文

The reason why any of us take any risks at all might have to do with early humans.

2016年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读E 原文

The reason why someone is triggered by something and others are not is often due to one's personal history and psychological traits.

2018年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 七选五 原文

The reason why the ponies here are naughty is that Haytor is a tourist-heavy area and tourists are constantly feeding the ponies foods, despite signs asking them not to.

2015年高考英语湖北卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

There are several reasons why school uniforms are good idea.

2019年高考英语浙江卷 语法填空 原文

This is why there is a saying that if you want something done, ask a busy person to do it.

2018年高考英语浙江卷 完形填空 原文

This is why you're saving my life.

2016年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

This is why, in part at least, the US national climate assessment says that: "There is no ‘one-size fits all' adaptation."

2017年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

To do so, it should help to understand why people undertake volunteer work and what keeps their interest in the work.

2015年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Travel through 100 of the most unbelievable years in world history and learn why being a Roman emperor wasn't always as good as it sounds.

2017年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

On the contrary, constraints on improving productivity explain why education isn't developing more quickly there than it is.

出自-2009年考研阅读原文

One reason why it is hard to design and teach such courses is that they cut across the insistence by top American universities that liberal-arts education and professional education should be kept separate, taught in different schools.

出自-2011年考研阅读原文

One of the reasons why the appointment came as such a surprise, however, is that Gilbert is comparatively little known.

出自-2011年考研阅读原文

A few generative rules are then sufficient to unfold the entire fundamental structure of a language, which is why children can learn it so quickly.

出自-2012年考研翻译原文

The fossil record shows that many species have endured for millions of years - so why shouldn't we? Take a broader look at our species' place in the universe, and it becomes clear that we have an excellent chance of surviving for tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of years.

出自-2013年考研阅读原文

That's one reason why we have launched Arc, a new publication dedicated to the near future.

出自-2013年考研阅读原文

Also unclear is why Microsoft has gone it alone.

出自-2013年考研阅读原文

It is also the reason why when we try to describe music with words, all we can do is articulate our reactions to it, and not grasp music itself.

出自-2014年考研翻译原文

The other reason why costs are so high is the restrictive guild-like ownership structure of the business.

出自-2014年考研阅读原文

Why ruin rural ones?.

出自-2016年考研阅读原文

There is no reason why everyone cannot be welcomed on Mauna Kea to embrace their cultural heritage and to study the stars.Robert F.

出自-2017年考研阅读原文

The crash of Egypt Air Flight 804,which terrorists may have downed over the Mediterranean Sea ,provides another tragic reminder of why.

出自-2017年考研阅读原文

Perhaps that is why we explore the starry skies, as if answering a primal calling to know ourselves and our true ancestral homes.

出自-2017年考研阅读原文

If everything was going so well, then why did over 17 million people vote for Brexit, despite the warnings about what it could do to their country’s economic prospects?.

出自-2017年考研阅读原文

This is why repeated attempts at reform legislation have failed in recent years, leaving the Postal Service unable to pay its bills except by deferring vital modernization.

出自-2018年考研阅读原文

Also unclear is why microsoft has gone it alone.

2013年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

And yet, John Hagel, author of The Power of Pull and other books, says Brynjolfsson and McAfee miss the reason why these jobs are so vulnerable to technology in the first place.

2014年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Because US colleges and universities seldom acknowledge how social class can affect students' educational experiences, many first-generation students lack insight about why they are struggling and do not understand how students like them can improve.

2015年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

But it is really happiness that's linked to investment, or could something else about happier cities explain why firms there spend more on R and D?

2016年考研真题(英语二)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

If everything was going so well, then why did over 17 million people vote for Brexit, despite the warnings about what it could do to their country's economic prospects?

2017年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Learning why they disagree with us and learning to talk and work together with them.

2020年考研真题(英语一)翻译 Section Ⅲ

One reason why it is hard to design and teach such courses is that they cut across the insistence by top American universities that "liberal-arts education and professional education should be kept separate, taught in different schools".

2011年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Perhaps this is why many worry about the agonizing dullness of a jobless future.

2017年考研真题(英语二)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

Studying this could help understand why human evolution picked pace in the last 30, 000 years, with social environment being a major contributory factor.

2015年考研真题(英语一)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

The "mommy wars" of the 1990s are still going on today, prompting arguments about why women still can't have it all and books like Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In, whose title has become a buzzword in its own right.

2015年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

The crash of Egyptair Flight 804, which terrorists may have downed over the Mediterranean Sea, provides another tragic reminder of why.

2017年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

The fossil record shows that many species have endured for millions of years-so why shouldn't we?

2013年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Then, why do we trust at all?

2018年考研真题(英语一)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

There is no reason why everyone cannot be welcomed on Mauna Kea to embrace their cultural heritage and to study the stars.

2017年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

This is why people who work outside the home have better health.

2015年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

This is why researchers generally regard so-called moral guilt, in the right amount, to be a good thing.

2019年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

This kind of thinking is why so many people try to avoid arguments, especially about politics and religion.

2020年考研真题(英语一)翻译 Section Ⅲ

When the court deals with social policy decisions, the law it shapes is inescapably political-which is why decisions split along ideological lines are so easily dismissed as unjust.

2012年考研真题(英语一)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

Why this similarity exists in smell genes is difficult to explain, for now.

2015年考研真题(英语一)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

英英释义

Noun
  • 1. the cause or intention underlying an action or situation, especially in the phrase `the whys and wherefores'

Adverb
  • 1. question word; what is the reason (`how come' is a nonstandard variant);

    "why are you here?"

    "how come he got an ice cream cone but I didn't?"

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