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英式音标:[ˈgrævɪteɪt]英式读音
美式音标:[ˈɡrævɪˌtet]美式读音
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概况:

vi. 受引力作用;被吸引

词义:

vi.

受重力作用;被吸引;

变形

过去式:gravitated过去分词:gravitated现在分词:gravitating第三人称单数:gravitates

英英释义

gravitate[ 'ɡræviteit ]

v.

move toward

"The conversation gravitated towards politics"

be attracted to

"Boys gravitate towards girls at that age"

move due to the pull of gravitation

"The stars gravitate towards each other"

用法:

双语例句

用作动词(v.)

When this beautiful girl arrived, all the men in the room gravitated towards her.
这美貌的姑娘一到,全屋的男人都让她吸引住了。

In summer people gravitate to the seaside.
夏天的海边吸引人们。

The planets gravitate to (towards) the sun.
行星绕着太阳运行。

权威例句

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Degravitation of the Cosmological Constant and Graviton Width

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What's wrong with cross-cultural comparisons of subjective Likert scales?: The reference-group effect.

Baryons in the Warm-Hot IntergalacticMedium

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Gravity in the randall-sundrum brane world

Job Matching and Occupational Choice
同根词:gravity,gravitational,gravitation
英语词源:

gravitate (v.)

1640s, "exert weight; move downward" (obsolete), from Modern Latin gravitare (16c. in scientific writing), from Latin gravitas "heaviness, weight," from gravis "heavy" (see grave (adj.)). Meaning "be affected by gravity" is from 1690s. Figurative sense "be strongly attracted to, have a natural tendency toward" is from 1670s. Related: Gravitated; gravitating. The classical Latin verb was gravare "to make heavy, burden, oppress, aggravate."

造句:

1. Many young people gravitate to the cities in search of work.

许多年轻人被吸引到城里找工作。

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2. You naturally gravitate toward people with shared values.

你自然而然地被具有共同价值观的人吸引。

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3. Brain scientists call this effect "asymmetric dominance" and it means that people gravitate toward the choice nearest a clearly inferior option.

大脑科学家称这种效应为“不对称优势”,指人们倾向选择一个与明显更差的选项程度较为接近的一个选项。

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4. The elderly gravitate there, shuffling in cheerful pairs along Marine Parade or jogging in slow motion past the Sea Gull Café, intent on some distant goal.

被吸引到那里的老人们,或是成对欢愉地沿着马林百列缓步慢行,或是不紧不慢地经过海鸥咖啡店,要去往远处的某个地方。

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5. But the generations do gravitate in different directions.

但几代人做的重心在不同的方向。

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6. Nowadays, we tend to gravitate towards more natural looking solutions.

时至今日,我们趋向尝试更自然的方案。

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7. The multitaskers did not appear to gravitate to entertainment websites.

电视这个多能手似乎没有转向娱乐网站。

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8. People tend to gravitate to people and ideas in which they already agree.

人总是倾向于接受他们已经接受的人,同意已经同意的观点。

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9. Children will always gravitate toward the modeled behaviors of their parents.

孩子们总是倾向于父母的表率行为。

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10. Why did foreign money gravitate to the low income segment of the housing market?

为什么外资被引至房产市场的低收入区间?

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11. Health systems will not automatically gravitate towards greater fairness and efficiency.

卫生系统不会自动变得更加公平和有效。

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12. Naturally artistic, these folks also gravitate toward jobs involving design, music, or dance.

优雅世艺术的气质使他们很适合从事设计、音乐和舞蹈方面的工作。

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13. While I was walking along CES 2011, I tend to gravitate toward the booths that interest me personally.

伴随着CES到达2011年,我个人的兴趣倾向于品牌。

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14. Revenue from credit derivatives will fall as they gravitate towards exchanges, eroding spreads for dealers.

信用衍生品的利润将会下降,大交易商从中获得的利差会缩小,投资者会偏好比衍生品更实在的交易。

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15. You want to make a statement by what you purchase today, so you gravitate toward buying something expensive.

今天你想通过自己购买的东西来说明问题,因此你可能倾向于买些贵重的东西。

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16. We tend to gravitate toward people who are the most like us, at least in the ways that make us feel comfortable.

我们喜欢结识那些最和我们相似的人,至少他们做事的方式让人舒服。

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17. Others naturally gravitate towards them to sound out ideas; this may be formalized into mentoring or coaching roles.

其他人自然会来找他们寻求点子,这下就有可能变成指导者或教练。

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18. We don't like change and we will always gravitate towards what is familiar because familiarity keeps us feeling safe.

我们不喜欢改变,我们总是朝向我们熟悉的方式,因为熟悉使我们感到安全。

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19. Health systems will not automatically gravitate towards greater equity or naturally evolve towards universal coverage.

卫生系统不会自动增强公平性或自然实现普遍覆盖。

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20. A fourth idea raised in the book is that individuals naturally gravitate toward what is most meaningful and deeply significant.

第四个想法在书中提出的是,个人自然倾向于什么是最有意义的和具有深远意义。

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21. Many also gravitate toward adrenaline-charged jobs as day traders, test pilots, brain surgeons and bomb defusers, some studies find.

有研究发现,很多人还倾向于选择日内短线交易员、试飞员、脑外科医生和拆弹专家等刺激肾上腺素的工作。

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22. Many also gravitate toward adrenaline-charged jobs as day traders, test pilots, brain surgeons and bomb defusers, some studies find.

有研究发现,很多人还倾向于选择日内短线交易员、试飞员、脑外科医生和拆弹专家等刺激肾上腺素的工作。

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