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1 [N-COUNT 可数名词]方法；手段 If you refer to a way of doing something, you are referring to how you can do it, for example the action you can take or the method you can use to achieve it. Freezing isn't a bad way of preserving food... 冷冻不失为一种保存食物的好方法。 Another way of making new friends is to go to an evening class... 另一种交友的办法就是去上夜校。 I worked myself into frenzy plotting ways to make him jealous... 我绞尽脑汁，处心积虑，就是为了让他嫉妒。 I can't think of a worse way to spend my time... 我想不出更糟的消磨时间的办法。 There just might be a way... 或许会有个什么办法。 'All right, Mrs Bates,' she said. 'We'll do it your way.' “好吧，贝茨夫人，”她说，“我们就按你说的办。”
2 [N-COUNT 可数名词]方式；作风 If you talk about the way someone does something, you are talking about the qualities their action has. She smiled in a friendly way... 她友好地笑了笑。 He had a strange way of talking... 他说话的方式怪怪的。 I also used to love the smooth way in which the foreigner operated. 我也曾经喜欢那个老外平稳流畅的操作方式。
3 [N-COUNT 可数名词]形式 If a general statement or description is true in a particular way, this is the form of it that is true in a particular case. Computerized reservation systems help airline profits in several ways... 电子订票系统通过多种方式帮助航空公司获利。 She was afraid in a way that was quite new to her... 她感到从未有过的害怕。 To be female is not a disability； it is just a particular way of being human. 身为女性并不意味着不便；这只是人类一种特定的存在形式。
4 [N-COUNT 可数名词](某个)方面；(某)点 You use way in expressions such as in some ways , in many ways, and in every way to indicate the degree or extent to which a statement is true. In some ways, the official opening is a formality... 从某些方面来说，正式的开幕仪式只不过是走个形式。 She described her lover as 'perfect in every way'. 她形容她的爱人“各方面完美至极”。
5 [N-PLURAL 复数名词]习惯；习俗；行为方式 The ways of a particular person or group of people are their customs or their usual behaviour. He denounces people who urge him to alter his ways... 他指责那些督促他改变习惯的人。 I think you've been too long in Cornwall. You've forgotten the ways of the city... 我认为你们在康沃尔呆的太久了，已经忘记了城市的生活方式。 He said he was against returning to old authoritarian ways. 他说他反对回到过去的独裁做法。
6 [N-SING 单数名词]惯常的行为；作风 If you refer to someone's way, you are referring to their usual or preferred type of behaviour. She is now divorced and, in her usual resourceful way, has started her own business... 如今她离了婚。一贯足智多谋的她已开始自己创业。 Direct confrontation was not his way. 正面冲突不是他的风格。
7 [N-COUNT 可数名词]看法；角度 You use way to refer to one particular opinion or interpretation of something, when others are possible. I suppose that's one way of looking at it... 我想那是其中的一种看法。 With most of Dylan's lyrics, however, there are other ways of interpreting the words... 但是，迪伦的大多数歌词都有其他的解读方式。 Sometimes, the bank manager just doesn't see it your way. 有时银行经理和你看问题的角度就是不一样。
8 [N-COUNT 可数名词]可能的后果；可能作出的决定 You use way when mentioning one of a number of possible, alternative results or decisions. 9 [N-SING 单数名词]观点；态度 The way you feel about something is your attitude to it or your opinion about it. 10 [N-SING 单数名词]情况；状态 If you mention the way that something happens, you are mentioning the fact that it happens. I hate the way he manipulates people... 我讨厌他摆布别人。 You may remember the way each scene ended with someone looking pensive or significant. 你或许还记得，每一场的结尾要么是某人作沉思状，要么是某人故作深沉。
11 [N-SING 单数名词]行进；前进；进程 You use way in expressions such as push your way , work your way, or eat your way, followed by a prepositional phrase or adverb, in order to indicate movement, progress, or force as well as the action described by the verb. She thrust her way into the crowd... 她挤进了人群。 He thought we were trying to buy our way into his company... 他以为我们是想通过贿赂进入他的公司。 Start at the bottom and try to work your way up. 从底层干起，然后努力一步步升上去。
12 [N-COUNT 可数名词]路线；路径 The way somewhere consists of the different places that you go through or the route that you take in order to get there. Does anybody know the way to the bathroom?... 有谁知道洗手间在哪里吗？ I'm afraid I can't remember the way... 我恐怕不记得路了。 We're not even a third of the way there... 我们才走了不到三分之一的路。 We'll go out the back way. 我们从后门出去。
13 [N-SING 单数名词]方向 If you go or look a particular way, you go or look in that direction. As he strode into the kitchen, he passed Pop coming the other way... 他大步走进厨房，与迎面而来的爸爸擦身而过。 They paused at the top of the stairs, doubtful as to which way to go next... 他们在楼梯顶部停住了，不知道接下来该往哪边走。 Could you look this way? 请往这边看好吗？
14 [N-SING 单数名词]行进方向 You can refer to the direction you are travelling in as your way . 15 [N-SING 单数名词](正确的)路径，道路 If you lose your way, you take a wrong or unfamiliar route, so that you do not know how to get to the place that you want to go to. If you find your way, you manage to get to the place that you want to go to. The men lost their way in a sandstorm and crossed the border by mistake... 那些人在沙尘暴中迷了路，不小心穿越了边境。 They've changed a lot of the old street names, and people can't find their way anymore. 许多老的街道名都被改了，人们再也找不到原来的路了。
16 [N-COUNT 可数名词]生活道路 You talk about people going their different ways in order to say that their lives develop differently and they have less contact with each other. 17 [N-SING 单数名词]获得；收到 If something comes your way, you get it or receive it. Take advantage of the opportunities coming your way in a couple of months... 把握住这几个月之内你可能获得的机会。 If I run into anything that might interest you, I'll send it your way. 如果我碰上你可能感兴趣的东西，我就给你寄过去。
18 [N-SING 单数名词]行进路线；通路 If someone or something is in the way, they prevent you from moving forward or seeing clearly. 19 [N-IN-NAMES 名称名词]（用于道路名）…路 Way is used in the names of some roads, and also in the names of some long paths for walkers in the countryside. 20 [N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]（某人居住地的）周边；特定的地区 You can use way to refer to the area near where someone lives or near a specified place. If you speak standard English anywhere round our way, people tend to view you with suspicion. 如果你在我们这里说标准英语，大家就会对你产生怀疑。 ...somebody from Newcastle way. 从纽卡斯尔那边来的人
21 [N-SING 单数名词]位置；摆放 You use way in expressions such as the right way up and the other way around to refer to one of two or more possible positions or arrangements that something can have. 22 [ADV 副词]远远地；大大地；非常 You can use way to emphasize, for example, that something is a great distance away or is very much below or above a particular level or amount. [ADV adv/prep] [emphasis] Way down in the valley to the west is the town of Freiburg... 从这里往西远远的山谷中是弗赖堡镇。 These exam results are way above average... 这些考试成绩远高于平均水平。 I have to decide my plan way in advance. 我得趁早制订计划。
23 [N-PLURAL 复数名词](分成的)部分 If you split something a number of ways, you divide it into a number of different parts or quantities, usually fairly equal in size. The region was split three ways, between Greece, Serbia and Bulgaria... 这一地区被希腊、塞尔维亚和保加利亚分成了3部分。 Splitting the price six ways had still cost them each a bundle. 即使把价钱平摊成6份，每人也还是要花一大笔钱。 - Way is also a combining form.
24 [N-SING 单数名词]路程；距离 Way is used in expressions such as a long way , a little way, and quite a way, to say how far away something is or how far you have travelled. Some of them live in places quite a long way from here... 他们中有些人住的地方离这里很远。 A little way further down the lane we passed the driveway to a house... 顺着巷子再走过去一点，我们经过车道来到一幢房子前。 We've a fair way to go yet. 我们还有一大段路要走。
Usage Note : If you want to state the distance of a particular place from where you are, you can say that it is that distance away. ...Durban, which is over 300 kilometres away. If a place is very distant, you can say that it is a long way away, or that it is a long way from another place. It is a long way from London... Anna was still a long way away. Far is used in negative sentences and questions about distance, but not usually in affirmative sentences. 表示某地距某人所在地的距离可用away: Durban, which is over 300 kilometres away (距此超过300公里远的德班)。如果某地很远，可以用 a long way away 或 a long way from: It is a long way from London (它离伦敦很远)，Anna was still a long way away (安娜还在很远的地方)。far则多用于关于距离的否定句或疑问句中，通常不用于肯定句。 25 [N-SING 单数名词](时间的)距离 Way is used in expressions such as a long way , a little way, and quite a way, to say how far away in time something is. 26 [N-SING 单数名词](表示动作完成的程度)全部/多半/一半 You use way in expressions such as all the way , most of the way and half the way to refer to the extent to which an action has been completed. 27 [PHRASE 短语]在街对面 If something is across the way, it is nearby on the opposite side of a road or area. 28 [PHRASE 短语](强调距离)一路 You use all the way to emphasize how long a distance is. [usu PHR after v] [emphasis] 29 [PHRASE 短语]自始至终；一直 You can use all the way to emphasize that your remark applies to every part of a situation, activity, or period of time. 30 [PHRASE 短语]事情就是这样 You can use as is the way to say that a particular situation or example of behaviour is typical and you would not expect it to be different. As is the way with these gatherings, the declarations were largely drafted before the delegations arrived. 就像通常的这种集会一样，宣言内容在代表团到达之前就差不多拟好了。
31 [PHRASE 短语]病得很重；很不健康 If you say that someone is in a bad way, you mean that they are very ill or unhealthy. [v-link PHR] [INFORMAL 非正式] 32 [PHRASE 短语]大规模地；大肆地 If you say that something exists, happens, or develops in a big way, you are emphasizing its great extent or importance. [PHR after v] [emphasis] [INFORMAL 非正式] 33 [PHRASE 短语]二者不能兼得 If someone says that you can't have it both ways, they are telling you that you have to choose between two things and cannot do or have them both. Countries cannot have it both ways: the cost of a cleaner environment may sometimes be fewer jobs in dirty industries... 各国不可能两全其美：环境更清洁的代价有时可能就是污染企业就业岗位的减少。 Make up your mind, you can't have it both ways. 你决定吧，反正鱼与熊掌不可兼得。
34 [PHRASE 短语]顺便地；附带说一句 You say by the way when you add something to what you are saying, especially something that you have just thought of. [PHR with cl] [SPOKEN 口语] The name Latifah, by the way, means 'delicate'... 顺便说一句，Latifah 这个名字意思是“娇嫩”。 By the way, how did your seminar go? 对了，你的研讨会进行得怎样？
35 [PREP-PHRASE 短语介词]作为…；以求… You use by way of when you are explaining the purpose of something that you have said or are about to say. For example, if you say something by way of an introduction, you say it as an introduction. By way of contrast, Manchester United will travel slightly more than 1,200 miles... 相比而言，曼联队的行程将略多于1,200英里。 'I get very superstitious about things like that,' she said by way of explanation. “在那种事儿上我会很迷信，”她解释道。
36 [PREP-PHRASE 短语介词]采用…方法；通过 If you do something by way of a particular method, you use that method to do it. [PREP n] [mainly BRIT 主英] [WRITTEN 笔语] I teach psychology by way of a range of traditional lectures, practicals and tutorials. 我采用传统授课与实践和指导相结合的方式教授心理学。
37 [PREP-PHRASE 短语介词]经由；取道 If you go somewhere by way of a particular place, you go through that place in order to get to where you want. 38 [PHRASE 短语](彻底地)改变 If someone changes their ways or mends their ways, they permanently improve their behaviour or their way of doing something. |