practise

1. V-T/V-I If you practise, or practise something, you keep doing it regularly in order to be able to do it better. 練習

She practised the piano in the primary school basement. 她在小學的地下室裡練習彈鋼琴。

2. →see also practised

3. V-T When people practise something such as a custom, craft, or religion, they take part in the activities associated with it. 遵循; 信奉; 從事

Her parents had yearned to be free to practise their religion. 她父母曾渴望能自由信奉他們的宗教。

He was brought up in a family that practised traditional Judaism. 他在一個信奉傳統猶太教的家庭裡長大。

4. practisingADJ 信奉的[ADJ n]

And he was more or less a practising Muslim throughout his life. 而他差不多一生都是個信奉穆斯林的人。

5. V-T If something cruel is regularly done to people, you can say that it is practised on them. 施行[usu passive]

Female circumcision is practised on 2 million girls a year. 每年有2百萬個女孩被施行女性割禮手術。

6. V-T/V-I Someone who practises medicine or law works as a doctor or a lawyer. 從事 (毉葯、法律等工作)

He doesn't practise medicine for the money. 他不爲賺錢而行毉。

...the obligations of my licence to practise as a lawyer. …我的律師從業執照槼定的義務。