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高中CET4CET6考研IELTS

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基本释义

v.
集中; 调焦; 聚焦; 集中光束; (物理学中光波、声波等的)焦点,聚光点
n.
焦点; 中心点; 聚焦点; 震源; 调节(照相机、显微镜等的)焦距; (使)集中目光;(使)逐渐聚焦

词性变化

实用例句

Let your eyes focus on objects that are further away from you.

睁大眼睛看清楚离你较远的物体。

牛津词典

It took a few moments for her eyes to focus in the dark.

过了好几分钟她的眼睛才适应了黑暗。

牛津词典

In this scene, the camera focuses on the actor's face.

在这个镜头中,摄影机对准演员的脸部。

牛津词典

He focused his blue eyes on her.

他那蓝色的眼睛注视着她。

牛津词典

I quickly focused the camera on the children.

我迅速把照相机的镜头对准孩子们。

牛津词典

It was the main focus of attention at the meeting.

这是会议上关注的主要焦点。

牛津词典

His comments provided a focus for debate.

他的评论提供了辩论的重点。

牛津词典

The visit helped to focus world attention on the plight of the refugees.

这次访问促使全世界关注难民困境。

牛津词典

Each exercise focuses on a different grammar point.

每个练习各有不同的语法重点。

牛津词典

The discussion focused on three main problems.

讨论集中在三个主要问题上。

牛津词典

...a lot of out-of-focus photographs.

许多对焦不实的照片

The deficit in the US balance of payments put these considerations out of focus...

美国的国际收支逆差使这些因素没有得到关注。

The movement towards democracy in Latin America and the foreign debt problems that have plagued it have gone out of focus.

拉丁美洲的民主运动和困扰该地区的外债问题已经淡出人们的视线。

In some of the pictures the subjects are out of focus while the background is sharp.

一些照片背景很清晰,被摄主体却因失焦而显得模糊。

His eyes slowly began to focus on what looked like a small dark ball...

他的眼睛慢慢开始看清楚那个看上去像是个小黑球的东西。

His focus switched to the little white ball...

他把关注点转移到那个小白球上。

Together these factors determine the depth of focus...

这些因素综合起来决定了景深。

Magnetic coils focus the electron beams into fine spots.

磁线圈把电子束聚焦成微小的点。

Pictures should be in focus, with realistic colours and well composed groups.

照片应该图像清晰,颜色逼真,构图合理。

This aggression is the real issue the world should be concerned about. We want to keep that in focus...

这次侵略才是世界应该关注的真正问题。我们想继续保持关注。

These issues were brought into sharp focus by the Gulf crisis.

海湾危机让这些问题备受关注。

Kelly couldn't focus his eyes well enough to tell if the figure was male or female...

凯利没有看清楚那个人影到底是男的还是女的。

Somehow, though, their latest album has a focus that the others have lacked...

但是,他们的最新专辑设法找到了其他专辑所欠缺的一种目的性。

Suddenly all of the bizarre and seemingly isolated examples took on a meaningful focus.

突然之间,所有那些怪异且看上去孤立的例子都具有了意义。

The research effort has focused on tracing the effects of growing levels of five compounds...

研究重点追踪了5种化合物含量上升的影响。

He is currently focusing on assessment and development...

他目前在关注评估和发展。

The UN's role in promoting peace is increasingly the focus of international attention...

联合国在促进和平方面的作用越来越受到国际社会的关注。

The new system is the focus of controversy...

这个新体制是争议的焦点。

He said his sudden focus on foreign policy was not motivated by presidential politics...

他说他突然关注外交政策并非受总统政治的驱使。

The report's focus is on how technology affects human life rather than business...

这个报告关注的是技术如何影响人类生活而非商业活动。

真题例句

an accelerating speeda shift to city centersa new focus on small citiesan ever-increasing demandPeople can live without private cars.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

They need to keep teams small and focused: giving in to pressure to be more inclusive is a guarantee of dysfunction.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

The majority of previous research has focused on how we learn and remember new information.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

The Cleveland Clinic, a hospital operator, has reorganised its medical staff into teams to focus on particular treatment areas; consultants, nurses and others collaborate closely instead of being separated by speciality and rank.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

People with HSAM often have to make efforts to avoid focusing on the past.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

Companies are abandoning conventional functional departments and organising employees into crossdisciplinary teams that focus on particular products, problems or customers.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

The researchers also note that dogs scan faces as a whole to sense how people are feeling, instead of focusing on a given feature.

出自-2017年6月听力原文

These experiments indicated that a focus on effort can help resolve helplessness and generate success.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

Nonetheless, the renewed focus on waistlines means that industry groups are under pressure to demonstrate their products are healthy as well as tasty.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

It is the focus of the modeling business.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

Focusing on effort is effective in helping children overcome frustration and achieve success.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

The coach had criticized him for not focusing on his soccer drills.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

Instead of trying to get children to work hard, why not focus on getting them to take pleasure in meaningful, productive activity, like making things, working with others, exploring ideas, and solving problems? These focuses are not so different from the things in which they delight.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

What does the author think a liberal arts college should focus on?

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

the new findings do highlight the benefits of focusing on our food and avoiding TV and multitasking while eating.

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

Many policy measures to control obesity(肥胖症)assume that people consciously and rationally choose what and how much they eat and therefore focus on providing information and more access to healthier foods," note the two researchers.

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

Decades ago, Kodak anticipated that digital photography would overtake film — and in fact, Kodak invented the first digital camera in 1975 — but in a fateful decision, the company chose to shelf its new discovery to focus on its traditional film business

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

In modern western societies, however, the focus on individuality and independence means that people are less concerned about conforming to (遵守) the dictates of family and culture.

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

His insistence on putting users first, and focusing on elegance and simplicity, has become deep-rooted in his own company, and is spreading to rival firms too.

出自-2012年12月阅读原文

Students focused more on test scores.

出自-2012年6月阅读原文

Those who take risks they later regret usually focus on immolate benefits and simply haven't considered what might go wrong.

出自-2011年12月阅读原文

boys can focus on their lessons without being distracted

出自-2011年12月阅读原文

It focuses more on mixed school education.

出自-2011年12月阅读原文

Tony Little, headmaster of Eton, warned that boys were being faded by the British education system because it had become too focused on girls.

出自-2011年12月阅读原文

Annan stressed the need for the negotiations to focus on increasing the flow of money from rich to poor regions to help reduce their vulnerability to climate hazards while still curbing the emissions of the heat-trapping gases.

出自-2011年6月阅读原文

What does Kofi Annan say should be the focus of the Copenhagen conference

出自-2011年6月阅读原文

By focusing on the notes in the margins.

出自-2014年6月听力原文

They focus too much attention on themselves.

出自-2013年6月听力原文

What did Obcamp's speech focus on?

出自-2011年12月听力原文

According to the same study, efforts to reduce consumption should focus on improving consumer awareness and behaviour.

2019年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C

But I'm here to tell you that instead of focusing on doing what we love, I think we should focus on loving what we do.

2019年6月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C

Companies are abandoning conventional functional departments and organising employees into cross-disciplinary teams that focus on particular products, problems or customers.

2017年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

Each episode will focus on a different area of science, and tell us what we know, how we know it, and what we still don't know.

2019年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section B

He became one of the first modern chefs to focus on the appearance of his table, not just the flavor of his dishes.

2018年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

I cant seem to focus on anything, because 1 still haven't decided if I should accept the offer for that PhD program in London, or if I should take the job offer in New York.

2019年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section B

In one the focus could be on building financial success and personal achievement, in another on creating a better work/life balance, still another on exploring and understanding options more fully, or becoming an independent producer, yet another on makin

2019年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

Instead of trying to get children to work hard, why not focus on getting them to take pleasure in meaningful, productive activity, like making things, working with others, exploring ideas, and solving problems?

2015年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

It lets him leave his royal duties on the ground and fully focus on something else.

2018年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section A

My research focus is on what happens to our immune system as we age.

2019年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

Nevertheless, you should always focus on quality, not quantity.

2018年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

The Cleveland Clinic, a hospital operator, has reorganised its medical staff into teams to focus on particular treatment areas; consultants, nurses and others collaborate closely instead of being separated by speciality and rank.

2017年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

The general consensus is that the best ones avoid mindless violence, and instead focus on strategy and challenge us to solve problems and achieve broad goals.

2019年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C

Though Chasin says the focus of the work is on the activity of writing, rather than the text that ends up getting written, some of the work that comes out of the sessions has stuck with her.

2019年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C

We believe that to focus on longevity as primarily an issue of aging is to miss its full implications.

2019年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

Within Italy, the great focus was Rome, whose ancient ruins and more recent achievements were shown to every Grand Tourist.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

To focus more on beauty products than clothing.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

The nations participating at COP 21 are focusing on quantitative emissions-reduction commitments.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

Some math training programs primarily focus on raising students' math scores.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

In an email statement from the state's Office of Customer Focused Government, which is examining the possibility of outsourcing, spokeswoman Michelle R.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

For the next few years, you have a chance to focus on thinking.

出自-2017年6月听力原文

The report focused on poor urban areas, where farms in or near cities supply relatively inexpensive food.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

I'd be sympathetic if the union focused solely on higher compensation.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

The Consumer Electronics Show in recent years has begun to focus more on the practical value than the showiness of electronic devices.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

Studying at university will only become less attractive if employers shift their focus away from where someone went to university--and there is no sign of that happening anytime soon.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

Some of the ventures focus on the Antarctic resources that are already up for grabs, like abundant sea life.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

Rather than just dazzling with a high cool factor, there is a focus on the practical.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

Companies that have long focused on hardware now have to think of ecosystems instead to give consumers practical solutions to their everyday problems.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

The team focused on athletes since they are theoretically the best role models for active, healthy lifestyles for children.

出自-2016年12月听力原文

Social work is different from other professions, because we focus on the person and environment.

出自-2016年12月听力原文

I’m going to define what love is, but then most of the experiments I’m going to talk about are really focused more on attraction than love.

出自-2016年12月听力原文

Its primary mission is to enhance human well-being and help meet the basic needs of all people, with the particular focus on those who are vulnerable, oppressed and living in poverty.

出自-2016年12月听力原文

It is most imperative to focus our efforts on the elimination of income inequality.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

Fifth graders tended to focus on features of individual eagles .

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

College students focused on critical issues of interdependence between eagles and their habitats (栖息地).

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

A recent article in The Harvard Crimson noted the shocking growth of Harvard's public relations arm in the last five years and it questioned whether a focus on risk management and avoiding controversy was really the best outward-looking face of this great institution.

出自-2014年6月阅读原文

What does the author think a prestigious university like Harvard should focus on

出自-2014年6月阅读原文

In face of global warming, much effort has been focused on reducing greenhouse gas emissions through a variety of strategies.

出自-2012年6月阅读原文

Organizations cannot thrive without being focused on their desired end results any more than an individual can thrive without goals to provide a sense of purpose

出自-2012年6月阅读原文

Leadership is the most significant word in today's competitive business environment because it directs the manager of a business to focus inward on their personal capabilities and style.

出自-2011年12月阅读原文

It is the result of America's growing focus on domestic market

出自-2011年12月阅读原文

Interest in this aspect of the settlement has focused on "orphan" works, where there is no known copyright holder – these make up an estimated 5-10% of the books Google has scanned.

出自-2011年12月阅读原文

When Stephen Covey, founder and director of the Leadership Institute, explored leadership styles in the past decade, he focused on the habits of a great number of highly effective individuals

出自-2011年12月阅读原文

State and federal governments could sharpen that focus everywhere by broadly publishing minority graduation rates.

出自-2011年6月阅读原文

It focuses on theory rather than on practical skills.

出自-2011年6月阅读原文

Much of the concern among politicians about the state of American universities today is focused on the absence of "real world" education—which means preparation for professional and scientific careers.

出自-2010年12月阅读原文

What is the focus of Ashby Plant's study?

出自-2010年6月阅读原文

A man who had recently reconciled with his brother told Gold there's something that lets older people to put aside bad deeds of the past and focus a little on what we need now, especially when it's sisters and brothers.

出自-2014年6月听力原文

They tend to forget past unhappy memories and focus on their present needs

出自-2014年6月听力原文

workers who bill or get paid by the hour, think employer and fast-food workers, report focusing more on pursuing more money than those who get paid by salary and the fact has been fast.

出自-2014年6月听力原文

He had also planned the content of his speech to focus on the teams with the best records, the ones that had won the most games in the last season.

出自-2013年12月听力原文

What is the focus of Delia Sedona's presentation?

出自-2012年12月听力原文

What did Obcamp's speech focus on?

出自-2011年12月听力原文

When you look at every possible option, you tend to focus more on what was given up than what was gained.

出自-2011年6月听力原文

Focus on the accuracy of the language he used.

出自-2010年6月听力原文

But she says nations will not make progress fighting hunger and poverty until they begin to focus on those critical first thousand days.

2015年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

Consequently, before going into any stressful situation, focus only on what you want to have happened.

2017年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section B

Ego aside, a third advantage is that the emotional neutrality of indifferent relationships has been found to enhance critical evaluation, to strengthen one's focus on task resolution, and to gain greater access to valuable information.

2019年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C

I bet Brenda is glad it's done with, and she can focus on wedding preparations.

2019年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section A

Instead of narrowing our focus, like negative emotions do, positive emotions affect our brains in ways that increase our awareness, attention and memory.

2016年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C

Italy is not the only country to focus on reducing food waste.

2017年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section A

Kasselman wants to build an array of solar magnifying mirrors at one end of the line to collect and focus heat onto water-filled tubes.

2018年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C

Rather than just dazzling with a high cool factor, there is a focus on the practical.

2016年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

Smartphone-based data collection comes at an appropriate time in the evolution of psychological science Today, the field is in transition, moving away from a focus on laboratory studies with undergraduate participants towards more complex, real-world situ

2018年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C

Studying at university will only become less attractive if employers shift their focus away from where someone went to university—and there is no sign of that happening anytime soon.

2016年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C

Surfing the Internet during class doesn't just steal focus from the educator; it also hurts students who're already struggling to grasp the material.

2018年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读

That institute examined a wider range of potential problems for humanity, while the LCFI has a narrow focus.

2019年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C

They focus on improving diets or providing micro-food supplements.

2015年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

within Italy, the great focus was Rome, whose ancient ruins and more recent achievements were shown to every Grand Tourist.

2017年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

Yet our schools focus primarily on students as individual entities.

2018年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

As you make reading a regular part of your life, you'll make more connections, stay more focused and understand the text better.

2017年高考英语浙江卷(11月) 阅读理解 七选五 原文

Another study of 302 volunteers at hospitals in Chicago focused on individual differences in the degree to which people view "volunteer" as an important social role.

2015年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Anxious all the time, I was unable to keep focused for more than an hour at a time.

2016年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

Anytime you find the world waving a chair in your face, remember this: all you need to do is focus on one thing?

2014年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Cafés focused around psychology, history, and engineering are catching on, filling tables well into the evening.

2015年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

During my first quarter at university of California, riverside ucr, I thought that I wanted to study political science with its focus on international affairs, so that's what I applied for.

2016年高考英语浙江卷(6月) 阅读理解 七选五 原文

In contrast, when individuals are involved in deliberate practice, they exhibit behavior focused on improving performance by the most effective means available.

2015年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读表达 原文

It was focused on the garage and yard.

2015年高考英语湖南卷 阅读理解 阅读C 选项

Most of us are more focused on our tasks in the morning than we are later in the day.

2016年高考英语全国卷2 语法填空 原文

My fund-raising focus also gave me new motivation to exercise regularly.

2017年高考英语天津卷 完形填空 原文

Our standard course guarantees a significant increase in your confidence in a foreign language, with focused teaching in all 4 skill areas----speaking, listening, reading and writing.

2016年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

She had more difficulty keeping focused.

2016年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读A 选项

The coach is able to focus on the kids while the other parents are relieved to be off the hook for another season.

2019年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

The end result is that we feel like we can't focus or that we're focused on the wrong things, and so we take less action, make less progress, and stay the same when we could be improving.

2014年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

The focus on fitness is as much about science and the future as it is about keeping any individual healthy.

2015年高考英语湖北卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

The workshops all take the same form, focusing on a single play as a kind of case study, and using individual scenes as specific lessons.

2015年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

There's a new frontier in 3D printing that's beginning to come into focus: food.

2018年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

These results, once again, lead to concrete advice: "once an individual begins volunteering, continued efforts might focus on developing a volunteer role identity.

2015年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

They conduct between 30 and 40 workshops annually, focusing on half a dozen different plays, mostly for corporations, but also for government agencies.

2015年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

They focus on arriving at the camp in time.

2018年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读D 选项

They focused on football, basketball and baseball.

2019年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 七选五 原文

To read a line graph, it's important to focus on the points of intersection rather than the line segments between the points.

2015年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

Walk out of our comfort zone and try new things! College is when we should focus on a specific major, but high school is when we have to figure it out.

2015年高考英语湖南卷 阅读表达 原文

We were respectful of craft and focused on digging into the characters we were going to play.

2017年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

We've all been there: in a lift, in line at the bank or on an airplane, surrounded by people who are, like us, deeply focused on their smartphones or, worse, struggling with the uncomfortable silence.

2018年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

When a lion tamer holds a chair n front of the lion's face, the lion tries to focus on all four legs of the chair at the same time.

2014年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

When everyone else in the class was focusing on tasks, I could not.

2015年高考英语重庆卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

With its focus divided, the lion becomes confused and is unsure about what to do next.

2014年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

You just focus on the move.

2019年高考英语全国卷2 听力 原文

They also focused on important rituals that appeared to preserve a people’s social structure, such as initiation ceremonies that formally signify children’s entrance into adulthood.

出自-2009年考研阅读原文

First, scientific work tends to focus on some aspect of prevailing Knowledge that is viewed as incomplete or incorrect.

出自-2012年考研阅读原文

Today, the social sciences are largely focused on disciplinary problems and internal scholarly debates, rather than on topics with external impact.

出自-2013年考研阅读原文

In fact, allowing non-lawyers to own shares in law firms would reduce costs and improve services to customers, by encouraging law firms to use technology and to employ professional managers to focus on improving firms’ efficiency.

出自-2014年考研阅读原文

The fashion industry knows it has an inherent problem in focusing on material adornment and idealized body types.

出自-2016年考研阅读原文

Peretti gives the example of Netflix discontinuing its DVD-mailing service to focus on streaming.

出自-2016年考研阅读原文

Rather than just focusing on GDP, over 40 different sets of criteria from health, education and civil society engagement have been measured to get a more rounded assessment of how countries are performing.

出自-2017年考研阅读原文

Curriculums - from grammar school to college- should evolve to focus less on memorizing facts and more on creativity and complex communication.

出自-2018年考研阅读原文

A Knight Foundation focus-group survey of young people between ages 14 and 24 found they use.

出自-2018年考研阅读原文

As for me, weighing myself every day caused me to shift my focus from being generally healthy and physically active to focusing solely on the scale.

2019年考研真题(英语二)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

Curriculums - from grammar school to college - should evolve to focus less on memorizing facts and more on creativity and complex communication.

2018年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

first, scientific work tends to focus on some aspect of prevailing knowledge that is viewed as incomplete or incorrect.

2012年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Gap year experiences can lessen the blow when it comes to adjusting to college and being thrown into a brand new environment, making it easier to focus on academics and activities rather than acclimation blunders.

2017年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

If you are surrounded by problems and cannot stop thinking about the past, try to focus on the present moment.

2015年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

In fact, allowing non-lawyers to own shares in law firms would reduce costs and improve services to customers, by encouraging law firms to use technology and to employ professional managers to focus on improving firms'efficiency.

2014年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Over the past decade, the focus has been on climate change——how the warming of the Earth from greenhouse gases is leading to conditions that worsen fires.

2017年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Rather than obsessing over the scale, turn your focus to how you look, feel how your clothes fit and your overall energy level.

2019年考研真题(英语二)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

This allows the TSA to focus on travelers who are higher risk, saving time for everyone involved.

2017年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

This new focus on personal fulfillment can help keep employees motivated amid increasingly loud debates over work-life balance.

2015年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

To combat the trap of putting a premium on being busy, Cal Newport, author of Deep work: Rules for Focused Success in a distracted World, recommends building a habit of "deep work"—the ability to focus without distraction.

2018年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

When the government talks about infrastructure contributing to the economy the focus is usually on roads, railways, broadband and energy.

2014年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Whichever approach, the key is to determine your length of focus time and stick to it.

2018年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

While seemingly innocent, this loss of mental focus can potentially have a damaging impact on our professional, social, and personal wellbeing.

2014年考研真题(英语一)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

with so much focus on children's use of screens, it's easy for parents to forget about their own screen use.

2017年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

英英释义

Noun
  • 1. the concentration of attention or energy on something;

    "the focus of activity shifted to molecular biology"

    "he had no direction in his life"

  • 2. maximum clarity or distinctness of an image rendered by an optical system;

    "in focus"

    "out of focus"

  • 3. maximum clarity or distinctness of an idea;

    "the controversy brought clearly into focus an important difference of opinion"

  • 4. a central point or locus of an infection in an organism;

    "the focus of infection"

  • 5. special emphasis attached to something;

    "the stress was more on accuracy than on speed"

  • 6. a point of convergence of light (or other radiation) or a point from which it diverges

  • 7. a fixed reference point on the concave side of a conic section

Verb
  • 1. direct one's attention on something;

    "Please focus on your studies and not on your hobbies"

  • 2. cause to converge on or toward a central point;

    "Focus the light on this image"

  • 3. bring into focus or alignment; to converge or cause to converge; of ideas or emotions

  • 4. become focussed or come into focus;

    "The light focused"

  • 5. put (an image) into focus;

    "Please focus the image; we cannot enjoy the movie"

同义词辨析

concentrate, focus

这两个动词均有"集中,聚集"之意。

  • concentrate: 指把人或物集中在一起,也可指把精力或注意力集中于某一事物上。
  • focus: 侧重指把光、热、射线等集中于一点,也可指把思想或精力等集中于某人或某事情上。

同义词

vi.集中;调节

adjustconcentrate

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