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Index Book Alphabetical List N Count 可数名词 Ed N

英语单词 index
英美音标 英 ['ɪndeks] 美 ['ɪndeks]
中文释义 n.指数;索引;(刻度盘上的)指针
v.指出;编索引
英语例句 (1) Do you know the price index in the city?
(2) The index is arranged in alphabetical order.
(3) The handler for this event receives the column index and row index of the mouse pointer position.
(4) Wrinkles index advancing age.
(5) The book is not well indexed.
(6) All persons and places mentioned are carefully indexed.
中文例句 (1) 你知道这个城市的物价指数吗?
(2) 这索引是按字母顺序排列的。
(3) 此事件的处理程序接收鼠标指针所在位置的列索引和行索引。
(4) 皱纹显示出年岁在增加。
(5) 这部书索引做得不好。
(6) 所有提及的人名和地名都被仔细地编入索引中。
vocabulary简明 Can’t find any information on the yellow-eyed junco in your guide to rare birds? Check out your bird book's index. It’s an alphabetical list in the back of the book that catalogs all of the subjects covered by page number.
vocabulary扩展 In financial terms, an index is a list of stocks that are traded on the stock market, such as the Dow Jones Indexes. “Index cards” were once used to catalog books in a library, but now they’re mostly used to prepare for a test or a presentation, thanks to computers. As a verb, index describes the action of creating an index, such as, “I’m going to index my photo collection on my computer, so I can find what I’m looking for.”
柯林斯解释
The usual plural is indexes, but the form indices can be used for meaning 1. 复数通常为 indexes,但 indices 可以作为义项1的复数形式。
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[N-COUNT 可数名词]指数 An index is a system by which changes in the value of something and the rate at which it changes can be recorded, measured, or interpreted.
  [with supp]
  • ...the UK retail price index.

    英国零售价格指数

  • ...economic indices.

    经济指数

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[N-COUNT 可数名词]索引 An index is an alphabetical list that is printed at the back of a book and tells you on which pages important topics are referred to.
  • Curiously, the word 'gay' does not occur in the index...

    奇怪的是,gay这个词没有出现在索引当中。

  • There's even a special subject index.

    甚至有一个专项索引。

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[VERB 动词]为(书等)编索引 If you index a book or a collection of information, you make an alphabetical list of the items in it.
  [be V-ed]
  [V-ed]
  [V n]
  • This vast archive has been indexed and made accessible to researchers...

    这个存量巨大的档案室的所有文件都已编了索引,可供研究人员使用。

  • Painters and sculptors are indexed separately...

    画家和雕刻家被分开,分别做了索引。

  • She's indexed the book by author, by age, and by illustrator.

    她根据作者、年龄和插图画家分别为该书编了索引。

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[VERB 动词]使(与…)相应挂钩;使指数化 If a quantity or value is indexed to another, a system is arranged so that it increases or decreases whenever the other one increases or decreases.
  [be V-ed to n]
  [usu passive]
  • Minimum pensions and wages are to be indexed to inflation.

    最低养老金和最低工资要与通货膨胀挂钩。

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[N-COUNT 可数名词]标志;迹象;指标 If one thing is an index of another, it indicates what the other thing will be like.
  [usu N of/to n]
  [FORMAL 正式]
  • Weeds are an index to the character of the soil.

    杂草是反映土壤特征的一个指标。

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[N-COUNT 可数名词](数学中的)指数 In mathematics, indices are the little numbers that show how many times you must multiply a number by itself. In the equation 32 = 9, the number 2 is an index.
  [TECHNICAL 术语]
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