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单词 underline
释义
underline
verb[T]
uk
/ˌʌn.dəˈlaɪn/us
/ˌʌn.dɚˈlaɪn/
(alsounderscore)
B1
todrawalineunder a word,especiallyinorderto showitsimportance:
（尤指为了强调）在（词语）下面画线
All thetechnicalwords have been underlinedinred.所有术语的下面都画了红线。
B2
toemphasize:
强调，突出
She gave someshockingexamplesto underline theseriousnessof thesituation.她举了一些令人震惊的例子以强调形势的严峻。
To underlinetheirdisgust, thecrowdstartedthrowingbottlesat thestage.为了宣泄他们的厌恶，观众们开始朝舞台上扔瓶子。
More examples
  • Theteacherunderlined theimportanceofattentiontodetail.
  • Choose between the twoformsof theverband underline thecorrectanswer.
  • Bothcandidatesunderlinedtheircommitmenttonationalsecurity.
  • Thistragicincidentunderlines the need fortightersafetymeasures.
  • Thesefindingsunderline theimportanceofnurseryeducation.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Stressing & emphasizing
  • accentuate
  • accentuation
  • all day longidiom
  • ass
  • believe
  • drive/hammersomethinghomeidiom
  • drop the micidiom
  • exactly
  • insistence
  • intensely
  • like blazesidiom
  • misemphasis
  • overemphasis
  • overemphasize
  • percent
  • ram
  • stress
  • underscore
  • work/laugh/freeze, etc.yourarse offidiom
  • work/laugh/freeze, etc.yourass offidiom
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(Definition ofunderlinefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

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underline
verb[T]
us
/ˈʌn·dərˌlɑɪn/
todrawalineunder a word:
to underlinesignificantpartsof atext
To underline is also toemphasize:
Theannouncementunderlines IBM’snewfoundwillingnesstoemploytechnologiesdevelopedby othercompanies.
(Definition ofunderlinefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofunderline

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The instability of the local political environment was underlined by the political confusion among the city's former political elite.
From theCambridge English Corpus
However, despite greater complementarity between men and women and incremental changes recorded in women's organisation, the literature also underlines how domestic violence remains widespread.
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The falling pitch contour, displayed in (1a, b), is one of these contours, and the syllables initiating it (underlined in the examples) are primarystressed.
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The words in the reparandum are underlined and displayed in a different color.
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The reason is that cotton often brought out the worst in colonial rule and always underlined some of its deepest contradictions.
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At issue here is the loss of trapped morphology in the ergative ; in (11) the material lost is underlined.
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Indeed, this underlines the fact that a significant number of the top civil servants in 1911 were already in post in 1891.
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In a two-level program, overlining indicates compile-time operations whereas underlining indicates run-time operations.
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The analysis communicates with the specializer using two-level terms, which indicate code generation by underlining and compile-time operations by overlining.
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The bases participating in the pairing indicated in column 3 are underlined (column 2).
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Various theory-internal abstractions are underlined in this chapter.
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The topic of the sentence is underlined in these examples.
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At each reduction step, the selected -abstraction and its argument are underlined.
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The first message underlines the explicit alliance of civil society within the health agenda.
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The differences in tone, emphasis and content were underlined by fundamentally different policies and ideological positions in major issues.
From theCambridge English Corpus
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