【term音标】 英[tɜ:m] 美[tɜ:rm]
【单词释义】 term是什么意思：
n.学期；条款；术语；期限
vt.把…称为；把…叫做
[单词分级] 中考英语词汇
[单词复数] terms [第三人称单数] terms
[单词现在分词] terming
[单词过去式] termed
[单词过去分词] termed
【term形近词/近似词】
germ n.微生物；病菌，细菌；起源
【单词例句】
◇ The traditional Chinese solar calendar divides the year into 24 solar terms. Start of Winter, the 19th solar term of the year, begins this year on Nov 8 and ends on Nov 21.
中国传统二十四节气的第19个节气是立冬，今年的立冬从11月8日开始，11月21日结束。
---- Start of Winter
◇ In terms of this extraordinary woman, you can’t classify her status by her horrible clothes or disgusting nails.
就这个不同寻常的女人来说，你不能根据她糟糕的衣服或令人恶心的指甲给她的身份地位分类。
◇ Why did college become the predominant term for postsecondary education? And is there any difference between the two institutions?
为什么college成为指代中学后教育时普遍使用的术语？这两种机构之间有什么区别吗？
---- What's the difference between a college and a university?
◇ While you're not going to die over one unwashed blueberry, long-term pesticide consumption can increase your risk of cancer and cause birth defects, fertility issues, neurodegenerative disease, and immune system disease, according to Dr. Le.
黎博士指出，虽然你不会因为吃下一颗未洗的蓝莓而丧命，但长期摄入农药会增加你患癌症的风险，并导致出生缺陷、生育问题、神经退行性疾病和免疫系统疾病。
---- How to washing your fruits and veggies
◇ According to Dictionary.com, fall isn't a modern nickname that followed the more traditional autumn. The two terms are actually first recorded within a few hundred years of each other.
根据词典网站Dictionary.com，fall并不是秋天的传统说法autumn的现代别称。这两个说法最早的记录相距时间不到几百年。
---- The reason why Americans refer to Autumn as fall?
◇ "In terms of weight loss, diet plays a much bigger role than exercise," University of Texas exercise scientist Philip Stanforth tells Business Insider.
得克萨斯州立大学的运动科学家菲利普·斯坦福斯说：“在减肥这方面，饮食比锻炼重要得多。”
---- Common fitness misconceptions
◇ Being fit earlier in life is associated with a reduced risk, in some cases of up to 42%, of developing nine different types of cancer in later life, according to a large long-term study.
一项大型长期研究显示，年轻时身强体健可以降低年老时患上9种不同癌症的风险，某些情况下甚至能将风险降低42%之多。
---- Fitness earlier in life reduces cancer risk when older
◇ But not everyone is convinced the robots are a long-term logistics solution.
但并非所有人都相信送货机器人是一种长期的物流解决方案。
---- 'Little yellow horse' robot delivers useful service in China
◇ According to Barnes, some employees have found the reduced time to complete their work stressful. "People were really positive going in, then a bit negative, then positive again," says Barnes. "In general terms, people are more positive because they are suddenly able to do things that they otherwise couldn't do."
巴恩斯说，一些员工因为完成工作的时间变短而感到压力重重。他说：“刚开始人们真的很积极，然后会有点消极，接着又会变得积极。普遍来说，人们变得更积极了，因为他们突然能够做那些本来做不了的事了。”
---- New Zealand employees try four-day week
◇ The world is flooded with plastic garbage. There will be more plastic than fish in terms of weight in the world's oceans by 2050, the World Economic Forum warned Tuesday.
在我们的世界，塑料垃圾已经泛滥成灾。1月19日，世界经济论坛发出警告：到2050年，世界各大海洋中的塑料垃圾总重量将超过海中鱼类。