focuses
基本解释
- n. 重点(focus的复数);焦点
- v. 集中(focus的三单形式);使聚焦;调节焦距
词源解说
- 17世纪40年代进入英语,直接源自古典拉丁语的focus,意为炉床,壁炉。
用法辨析
- focus用作名词时原始意义是“火炉”,引申为“焦点”,转化为动词则为“(使)聚焦”,“(使)集中”。即“调整…的焦点或焦距以便看清”,引申则表示“使(注意力等)集中于某物”。
- focus用作及物动词时,可以接望远镜、焦点等作宾语,也可以接阳光等作宾语,还可以接目光等作宾语。focus用于比喻作“致力于”解时,则可以接mind, attention等作宾语。
- focus也用作不及物动词,这时常和介词on连用,表示“聚焦于…”“致力于…”等。
- focus on sth表示“集中于某事”;
- focus作“中心,焦点”的解释时,用词范围很广,常被滥用,需注意。
v. (动词)
英汉例句
- A defect of vision prevented him from focusing accurately.
视力缺陷使他无法准确聚焦。 - He focuses the lens of a microscope.
他调整显微镜的镜片以定焦点。 - The camera has two focuses.
这部相机有两个焦距。
用作动词 (v.)
用作不及物动词: S+~(+A)
用作及物动词: S+~+ n./pron.
用作名词 (n.)
词组短语
- focus one 's thoughts 集中思想
- focus the lens of a microscope 调节显微镜的镜片
- focus accurately 准确地调节
- focus properly 调整
- focus on 集中于
- focus on the interaction between 着重说明…之间的相互作用
- focus on a problem 集中在某个问题上
用作动词 (v.)
~+名词
~+副词
~+介词
英英字典
- If you focus on a particular topic or if your attention is focused on it, you concentrate on it and think about it, discuss it, or deal with it, rather than dealing with other topics.
- If you focus your eyes or if your eyes focus, your eyes adjust so that you can clearly see the thing that you want to look at. If you focus a camera, telescope, or other instrument, you adjust it so that you can see clearly through it.
- If you focus rays of light on a particular point, you pass them through a lens or reflect them from a mirror so that they meet at that point.
- Thefocus of something is the main topic or main thing that it is concerned with.
- Your focus on something is the special attention that you pay it.
- If you say that something has a focus, you mean that you can see a purpose in it.
- You use focus to refer to the fact of adjusting your eyes or a camera, telescope, or other instrument, and to the degree to which you can see clearly.
- If an image or a camera, telescope, or other instrument is in focus, the edges of what you see are clear and sharp.
- If something is in focus, it is being discussed or its purpose and nature are clear.
- If an image or a camera, telescope, or other instrument is out of focus, the edges of what you see are unclear.
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专业释义
- 震源
- (病)灶;疫源地
- (镜头的)焦点,焦距
- 聚焦,对焦点,对光;成像清晰点