Average
['æv(ə)rɪdʒ] or ['ævərɪdʒ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) an intermediate scale value regarded as normal or usual; 'he is about average in height'; 'the snowfall this month is below average'.
(noun.) a statistic describing the location of a distribution; 'it set the norm for American homes'.
(noun.) (sports) the ratio of successful performances to opportunities.
(verb.) compute the average of.
(verb.) achieve or reach on average; 'He averaged a C'.
(verb.) amount to or come to an average, without loss or gain; 'The number of hours I work per work averages out to 40'.
(adj.) lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered; 'average people'; 'the ordinary (or common) man in the street' .
(adj.) around the middle of a scale of evaluation; 'an orange of average size'; 'intermediate capacity'; 'medium bombers' .
(adj.) approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value; 'the average income in New England is below that of the nation'; 'of average height for his age'; 'the mean annual rainfall' .
(adj.) lacking exceptional quality or ability; 'a novel of average merit'; 'only a fair performance of the sonata'; 'in fair health'; 'the caliber of the students has gone from mediocre to above average'; 'the performance was middling at best' .
整理:马提--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) That service which a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the work beasts of the tenant, as the carriage of wheat, turf, etc.
(n.) A tariff or duty on goods, etc.
(n.) Any charge in addition to the regular charge for freight of goods shipped.
(n.) A contribution to a loss or charge which has been imposed upon one of several for the general benefit; damage done by sea perils.
(n.) The equitable and proportionate distribution of loss or expense among all interested.
(n.) A mean proportion, medial sum or quantity, made out of unequal sums or quantities; an arithmetical mean. Thus, if A loses 5 dollars, B 9, and C 16, the sum is 30, and the average 10.
(n.) Any medial estimate or general statement derived from a comparison of diverse specific cases; a medium or usual size, quantity, quality, rate, etc.
(n.) In the English corn trade, the medial price of the several kinds of grain in the principal corn markets.
(a.) Pertaining to an average or mean; medial; containing a mean proportion; of a mean size, quality, ability, etc.; ordinary; usual; as, an average rate of profit; an average amount of rain; the average Englishman; beings of the average stamp.
(a.) According to the laws of averages; as, the loss must be made good by average contribution.
(v. t.) To find the mean of, when sums or quantities are unequal; to reduce to a mean.
(v. t.) To divide among a number, according to a given proportion; as, to average a loss.
(v. t.) To do, accomplish, get, etc., on an average.
(v. i.) To form, or exist in, a mean or medial sum or quantity; to amount to, or to be, on an average; as, the losses of the owners will average twenty five dollars each; these spars average ten feet in length.
艾伯特整理
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Medium, mean proportion, medial sum or quantity.[2]. Mediocrity, medial standard, average standard.
v. a. [1]. Equate, reduce to an average, reduce to a mean.[2]. (Com.) Proportion, distribute proportionally.
v. n. Amount to, or result in, when the mean is taken.
a. [1]. Medial, mean.[2]. Middling, ordinary, passable, moderate, tolerable, well enough, pretty well, not bad.
錄入:泰茜
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Mean, medium, middle, mediocre
ANT:Extreme, excess, defect, perfectness, perfection
英格拉姆編輯
解釋/意思:
n. the mean value or quantity of a number of values or quantities: any expense incurred beyond the freight payable by the owner of the goods shipped as in the phrase Petty average: any loss or damage to ship or cargo from unavoidable accidental causes—Particular average. Again General average is the apportionment of loss caused by measures taken for the ship's safety as cutting away the masts throwing overboard cargo accepting towage or the like.—adj. containing a mean value: ordinary.—v.t. to fix an average.—v.i. to exist in or form a mean quantity.
編輯:威尔玛
例句/造句/用法:
- It is only a hostile average-sensual-man background against which the philosophers and poets stand out. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- In 1854 there were 111 millions of passengers conveyed on railways, each passenger travelling an average of 12 miles. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- The average spectator today can see a defect in an exhibited film as quickly as an expert. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- It was an average body of American citizens aroused to action by an obvious evil. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- In genera having more than the average number of species in any country, the species of these genera have more than the average number of varieties. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- By this apparatus 560 nickels can be milled in a minute; for large pieces the average is 120. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- This would have lengthened the average reign of each Pope, and enormously increased the continuity of the policy of the church. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- He was travelling with every conceivable advantage, and he averaged under five miles an hour. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The ground fought over had varied in width, but averaged three-quarters of a mile. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- If their average speed be taken at ten knots, they have averaged a saving of over a month at sea on each voyage from coast to coast. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Most of them spun around forty times in a minute, and one artist averaged about sixty-one times a minute, and kept it up during the whole twenty-five. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- This output, together with 75,000 horse rakes, also made, averaged a complete machine for every forty seconds in the year, working ten hours a day. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- I have endeavoured to test this numerically by averages, and, as far as my imperfect results go, they confirm the view. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- They mostly began to reign as old men, and their reigns were short, averaging less than two years each. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- We travelled at least eighteen miles an hour, when at full speed, and made the whole distance averaging probably as much as twelve miles an hour. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
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