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Long Term Long Term Time N 英 Lɒŋ Tɜːm] 美

英语单词 long-term
英美音标 英 [lɒŋ tɜːm] 美 [lɔːŋ tɜːrm]
中文释义 adj.长期的
英语例句 (1) Scalability for both short and long term growth.
(2) After a long struggle, we bested them.
中文例句 (1) 可伸展性的方案,满足您短期和长期的需求。
(2) 经过长期的斗争,我们终于击败了他们。
vocabulary简明 Something that's long-term has lasted for quite a while. If you have a long-term girlfriend, she's been in your life for years.
vocabulary扩展 Use the adjective long-term to describe things that are so enduring that they're nearly permanent. Someone who's a long-term resident of Canada has lived there for a very long time, and news of long-term unemployment is discouraging because it means people have been out of work for months and months. Long-term was originally a word describing only insurance policies, in the 1870's.
柯林斯解释
1
[ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]长期的;长远的 Something that is long-term has continued for a long time or will continue for a long time in the future.
  [usu ADJ n]
  • A new training scheme to help the long-term unemployed is expected...

    一项旨在帮助长期失业者的新的培训计划有望出台。

  • The association believes new technology will provide a long-term solution to credit card fraud.

    该协会相信新技术将可长远地解决信用卡诈骗问题。

2
[N-SING 单数名词]长期;长远 When you talk about what happens in the long term, you are talking about what happens over a long period of time, either in the future or after a particular event.
  [the N]
  • In the long term the company hopes to open in Moscow and other major cities...

    公司的长期目标是希望在莫斯科和其他大城市开门营业。

  • Over the long term, such measures may only make the underlying situation worse.

    长远来看,这些措施可能只会使潜在问题恶化。

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