concentrating
present participle ofconcentrate
| 单词 | concentrating |
| 释义 | concentrating present participle ofconcentrate concentrate verb uk/ˈkɒn.sən.treɪt/us/ˈkɑːn.sən.treɪt/concentrateverb(GIVE ATTENTION)B1[IorT] todirectyourattentionoryoureffortstowards aparticularactivity,subject, orproblem: Come on, concentrate! We don't have alldayto do this. I can't concentrateonmyworkwith all thatnoise. Ifindrunningconcentratesthemind(=helpsme tothink). I'm going to concentrateonmy writing for a while. Thecompanyis concentrating (itsresources)ondevelopingnewproducts.
Paying attention and being careful
concentrateverb(COME TOGETHER)C1[Tusually passiveorI,usually+ adv/prep] tobringor come together in alargenumberoramountin oneparticulararea: Most of the country'spopulationis concentrated in thenorth. In thedryseason, theanimalstendto concentrate in theareaswhere there iswater. Collecting and amassing
concentrateverb(REMOVE WATER)[T] to make aliquidorsubstancestrongerandreduceitssizebyremovingwaterfrom it Becoming and making stronger
Examplesofconcentratingconcentrating In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Moreover, given limited administrative resources, it is likely that rate collectors maximise yields byconcentratingon the most accessible and better-off ratepayers. From theCambridge English Corpus Concentratingon indefinites, he reviews recent proposals that indefinites are not quantificational but introduce a choice-function instead. From theCambridge English Corpus Voters have an interest inconcentratingtheir votes on parties that can gain representation. From theCambridge English Corpus In the second, we addressed a smaller collection of features,concentratinginstead on modularizing the proofs of their basic metatheory. From theCambridge English Corpus These could also have acted asconcentratingagents for the reactants in the aqueous ambient. From theCambridge English Corpus Different to our previous vibratory projects, we startedconcentratingon the image rather than on the sound. From theCambridge English Corpus Further indications that resisting parasites is costly come from observations that levels of immunity are reduced when the animal isconcentratingresources in other activities. From theCambridge English Corpus Respondents with a complete diagnostic interview were asked to participate in the present follow-up studyconcentratingon depression in older adults. From theCambridge English Corpus Modularisation speeding up the initial system construction allowsconcentratingthe efforts in fine-tuning the system to the particular application scenario. From theCambridge English Corpus And during that time, were youconcentratingon acting, or directing, or writing? From theCambridge English Corpus This problem can be fixed by considering the items that a phrase contains rather thanconcentratingon its start and end points. From theCambridge English Corpus The attack profiles are modified - either by dislocating it from the following events, or byconcentratingthe energy of the events. From theCambridge English Corpus Therefore, as she concluded, teacher education and development programmes must include a broader perspective, not onlyconcentratingon training practical teaching skills. From theCambridge English Corpus Next, the students read four texts thematically related to these topics and wrote what the texts were about,concentratingon the most important information. From theCambridge English Corpus Byconcentratingcare on the physical body, the warehousing model's view of residents' helplessness pervaded their whole life and could destroy the person. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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