【used音标】 英[ju:st] 美[ju:st]
【单词释义】 used是什么意思：
adj.[ju:zd]用过的；二手的；旧的。[ju:st]习惯于；适应
v.使用（use的过去式和过去分词）；常常，经常
[单词分级] 中考英语词汇
【关联词/派生词】
use n.[ju:s]使用；用途 v.[ju:z]使用；运用
user n.用户，使用者
usage n.用法；使用，用量；惯用法
useful adj.有用的，有益的
useless adj.无用的，无效的；无价值的
usefully adv. 有效地，有用地
username n. 用户名
usable adj. 能用的；适用的；可用的
usability n. [U]可用性；合用，可用
【单词例句】
◇ The lovely,naughty god had two kinds of arrows:the gold tipped arrows used to quicken the pulse of love and the lead tipped ones to palsy it.
这位可爱而又淘气的小精灵有两种神箭：加快爱情产生的金头神箭和中止爱情的铅头神箭。
---- Eros(Cupid)
◇ Kerosene was used to light lamps. It was a cheap substitute for whale oil, which was becoming harder to get.
煤油被用来点灯。它是鲸油的一种便宜的替代品，而鲸油正变得越来越难以获得。不久就产生了对煤油的大量需求。人们开始寻找新的石油供应。
---- Oil Refining
◇ The ice trade grew with the growth of cities. Ice was used in hotels, taverns, and hospitals, and by some forward-looking city dealers in fresh meat, fresh fish, and butter.
冰的买卖随着城市的发展而发展。 冰被用在旅馆、酒馆、医院以及被一些有眼光的城市商人用于肉、鱼和黄油的保鲜。
---- The Origin of Refrigerators
◇ Zeniths for employee hustle and productivity are Mondays before 11am in October, according to a study by California-based project management platform Redbooth published in November. The firm analysed project data from hundreds of thousands of users who used the service to plan and track their work.
根据加州项目管理平台Redbooth去年11月发布的一项研究，员工最忙碌、工作效率最高的时间是10月份每个周一上午11点之前。这一结论是该公司分析了来自数十万使用该平台计划并跟进工作的用户项目数据后得出的。
---- Is this the best time to be productive?
◇ "This seemed like a huge waste. Straws are made of oil, a precious and finite resource. Is making single-use plastic straws, which will be used for a matter of minutes before being tossed away, really what we want to do with this resource?"
“这看起来是一个巨大的浪费。塑料吸管是用石油制成的，而石油是一种宝贵的有限资源。用石油生产才用几分钟就丢掉的一次性吸管，我们真的想这么利用资源吗？”
---- Is time up for this plastic relic
◇ Almost everybody in the world comes into contact with it -- over a quarter of all plastic is used for packaging, the most popular use of the material.
塑料制品中最受欢迎的当属塑料袋了，超过四分之一的塑料最终都制成了各种袋子。日常生活中，几乎每个人都要用到它。
---- More plastic than fish in oceans by 2050
◇ But during the Reformation in 1549, an English Bishop and Protestant reformer named Thomas Cranmer used wedding rings as a way to break from tradition.
但是在1549年宗教改革时期，英国主教、新教改革者托马斯•克兰麦利用结婚戒指与传统决裂。
---- Why are wedding rings worn on the left hand?
◇ In the centuries since, crying crocodiles have become a metaphor for superficial remorse. The expression has been used as a fable to teach sincere repentance, by Shakespeare to convey false grief, and, more recently, by media mocking tearful politicians or murder suspects.
从那以后的数个世纪以来，哭泣的鳄鱼便被用来比喻虚伪的悔恨。这个表达曾作为寓言用来告诫人们要真心悔悟，也曾被莎士比亚用来指代假意的悲伤，到了现代，则被媒体用于嘲讽流泪的政客或谋杀嫌疑犯。
---- Where does the expression 'crocodile tears'
◇ This artificial sweetener is used in sweets, cakes, toothpaste and chewing gum and has a laxative effect on humans.
这种人造甜味剂用于糖果、糕点、牙膏和口香糖中，对人体有通便作用。
---- Food that dogs cannot eat
◇ Whether buying electronics or toilet paper, avocados or clothes, Chinese are used to simply tapping a button on their smartphone and getting a home delivery - sometimes several per day.
不管是购买电子设备还是卫生纸、牛油果或衣服，中国人已经习惯于按下智能手机屏幕上的一个按键就享受快递到家服务，有时一天要下好几单。
---- 'Little yellow horse' robot delivers useful service in China