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新东方网托福频道为各位考生带来与“zero"有关的词语,期望对我们的托福备考有所协助。
1. zero in on
Meaning: If you zero in on something, you focus your attention on it.
中文解析:瞄准,对准…;对…会集火力、留心力
If you're reporting on an issue rather than an event, first get the readerinterested by zeroing in onthe main players and their conflict.
假定你在就某争议疑问做陈述而非某作业,那么首要你要让读者留心到主角和他们之间的冲突。
I like the way our lecturer zeroes in on the central issues withoutspending too much time on all that boring background information.
我喜爱这种授课个性,授课者直接会集火力在首要作业上而非花过多时刻在无聊的布景信息上。
2. zero tolerance
Meaning: If something is given zero tolerance, it won't be accepted evenonce.
中文解析:零忍耐,一次都不答应。
Because of the school's zero-tolerance policy, our boy was expelled forsmoking just one cigarette.
因为学校采纳零忍耐方针,所以学校男生只是因为吸了一根烟就被开除了。
3. zero-sum game
Meaning: A zero-sum game is a situation in which any gain by one side orperson is at the expense of a loss to another side or person involved in thesituation.
中文解析:零和博弈又称零和游戏 (zero-sumgame),与非零和博弈相对,是博弈论的一个概念,属非协作博弈,指参加博弈的各方,在严肃竞赛下,一方的收益必定意味着另一方的丢掉,博弈各方的收益和丢掉相加总和永久为“零”。两边不存在协作的可以。
The stock marke
t has become a giant zero-sum game in which one investorgains what another investor loses.
股市商场现已成了一个无量的零和博弈游戏,在股市商场中一个出资者赚到的一起就会有另一个出资者输钱。
In a zero-sun game, if you add the total gains of the participants and thetotal losses of the participants, the sum will always be zero.
在零和游戏中,假定你把一切参加者赚到的和输掉的加在一同,总和永久是零。