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place

英 [pleɪs] 美[ples]

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n. 地方；住所；座位
vt. 放置；任命；寄予
vi. 名列前茅；取得名次
n. (Place)人名；(罗)普拉切；(法)普拉斯；(英)普莱斯

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Technological innovation places greater value on agility ( ' , 灵活性).

Often the best ideas for big changes come from unexpected places—it's just a matter of tuning in.

But current studies are beginning to place greater emphasis on the conditions under which we forget, as its importance begins to be more appreciated.

As smaller cities copy the model of these 24-hour cities, more affordable versions of these places will be created.

Winter in many places is very cold.

People in cold places live in warm houses and have learned to adapt.

The system Medicare developed to rate nursing home quality is of little help to finding a satisfactory place.

The author thinks her friend made a rational decision in choosing a more hospitable place over an apparently elegant assisted living home.

Many people feel guilty when they cannot find a place other than a nursing home for their parents.

It is an interaction between the person and the place, not the sort of place in itself, that leads to better or worse experiences.

I have seen this place—it is elegant, inside and out.

Does assisted living really mark a great improvement over a nursing home, or has the industry simply hired better interior designers? Are nursing homes as bad as people fear, or is that an out-moded stereotype ( ' , 固定看法 )? Can doing one's homework really steer families to the best places? It is genuinely hard to know.

Parents and teachers will tell you not to worry when applying for a place at a university.

Her biggest concern is the emphasis American culture places on thinness and the negative ways this affects girls today.

But mostly, I hate tipping because I believe I would be in a better place if pay decisions regarding employees were simply left up to their employers, as is the custom in virtually every other industry.

It produces about two million tons of salt that is shipped to more than 1,500 places in the northeastern United States.

If you are a college student looking for a part-time job, the best place to start your job search is right on campus.

Did you know that besides larger places like France and Germany, Europe is home to several extremely tiny countries? One of these countries contains less than a square mile of land.

There are two ways to interpret Plutarch when he suggests that a critic should be able to produce a better in its place.

It's not the kind of place nerds like.

It places more emphasis on work efficiency than on workers' lives.

It is a thing of no great difficulty, according to Plutarch, to raise objections against another man's speech, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome.

"It is a thing of no great difficulty," according to Plutarch," to raise objections against another man's speech, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome."

A maker space is a place which can be in a school, but it doesn't look like a classroom.

All of which, combined with California's reputation as the home of technological innovation, makes the place ideal for developing and testing systems designed to monitor pollution in detail.

And I'm going to miss all my friends here, and especially this place.

And it's becoming a great place to work," says Scott Summers, the vice president of Gale International, the developer of the city.

Around half of ocean heat intake since 1865 has taken place since 1997, researchers report online in Nature Climate Change.

At McDonald's, customers will spend on average 3 minutes and 9 seconds from the time they place their orders until they receive their food.

Chances are you've actually seen this place.

Corporations created home pages where they could place text and graphics to sell products.

Healing can take place after this.

I have seen this place—It is elegant, inside and out.

In 1816, Careme began a culinary journey which would forever mark his place as history's first top chef.

In a bid to take production back to Detroit, michigan lawmakers have introduced legislation that could make their state the best place in the country, if not the world, to develop self-driving vehicles and put them on the road.

It's a great place to live.

It's a place where you get to make things based on your interest and on what you're learning to do.

Its key objective is to place at the centre of recovery efforts measures that would generate high levels of employment and provide basic social protection for the most vulnerable.

It's pointless unless there is a repeatable process in place to turn inspiration into financial performance.

Just building a place as an "international business district" doesn't mean it will become one.

Many patients also gained a better understanding of the illnesses that landed them in the hospital in the first place.

Moreover, in order to be curious, you have to be aware of a gap in your knowledge in the first place.

One vision of the perfect city of the future: a place that offers easy access to air travel.

So in short, if you like sunny but not too hot summers, mild winters but with lots of cloudy days, Seattle's the place to be.

Some birds migrate by flying to a warmer place for the winter, where they can find more food.

The competition only happens every four years and the last time the team went, they won the third place in the nation.

The fashion for teams is driven by a sense that the old way of organising people is too rigid for both the modern market place and the expectations of employees.

The results reveal that while Swedes were the tallest people in the world in 1914, Dutch men have risen from 12th place to claim top spot with an average height of 182.5cm.

The whole program started as a safe place for kids to come after school.

There are two ways to interpret Plutarch when he suggests that a critic should be able to produce "a better in its place."

This help is critically important because the high cost of caring for animal victims is a major factor that prevents people from getting involved in cruelty cases in the first place.

This once-in-a-lifetime event actually may take place twice in some folks' lives.

They have seriously polluted the places where birds spend winter.

The recent discovery of the giant Zohr gas field off the Egyptian coast will eventually have impact on pricing in the Mediterranean region and Europe, and there is significant development potential in many other places, notably Argentina.

The most recent one took place last week in Washington, D.C.Students join a team through their schools, which provide a volunteer coach and pay a nominal fee to send students to regional and state competitions.

The essential place to visit, however, was Italy.

Many schools don't place academic competitions at the top of their priority list.

Direct subsidies to research and development have been adopted by some governments but are a poor substitute for a carbon price: they do only part of the job, leaving in place market incentives to over-use fossil fuels and thereby add to the stock of atmospheric greenhouse gases without regard to the collateral ( ' , 附带的) costs.

But there are initiatives in place to try to get more underrepresented students involved in accelerated math.

But efforts are in place to expose more black, Hispanic, and low-income students to advanced math, in the hope that the demographic pool of high-level contenders will eventually begin to shift and become less exclusive.

With fertilizer prices jumping nearly 50% per metric ton over the last year in some places, human waste is an attractive, and often necessary, alternative.

There's work to be done, but workers aren't ready to do it—they're in the wrong places, or they have the wrong skills.

Right into the early 20th century, kitchens were smoky, noisy places, generally located underground, or to the back of the house, and as far from living space as possible.

No duplicate is to be found in any other place.

It is beneficial to encourage young people to explore the broader world and get ready to make it a better place.

But there is also a place in a young life for noble purposes that include a dedication to the broader society, a love of country and an aspiration to make their own leadership contributions.

A place where women could work more efficiently.

A place where high technology could be applied.

A place to experiment with new ideas.

A place of interest to the educated people.

The theory is that smoking should be stripped of any appeal to discourage new generations from starting in the first place.

It is building its second ice-breaking ship and setting up research drilling operations on an ice dome 13,422 feet above sea level that is one of the planet's coldest places.

Rising more than 1,000 feet in the middle of the gently rolling plains of Wyoming, the massive column of rock looks as though it was dropped down into this location from a different time and place.

If we can help to direct students to more of these types of campuses and help students to understand them to be realistic and accessible places, have them apply to these schools at greater frequency and ultimately get in and enroll, we are going to raise the success rate, Rubinoff said, citing a variety of colleges ranging from large state institutions to smaller private schools.

After all, students making their own choices in this respect is what caused the problem in the first place.

And the plots and the events that take place are also invented.

Apple's stance on these issues emerged post-Snowden, when the company started putting in place a series of technologies that, by default, make use of encryption to limit access to people's data.

As an EU-funded effort, the search for salt-tolerant varieties of rice is taking place in all three countries.

As more journals and funders adopt data-sharing requirements, and as a growing number of enthusiasts call for more openness, junior researchers must find their place between adopters and those who continue to hold out, even as they strive to launch their

Basically we turned our skin darker to serve as a natural sun protector in the place of the hair we lost.

Direct subsidies to research and development have been adopted by some governments but are a poor substitute for a carbon price: they do only part of the job, leaving in place market incentives to over-use fossil fuels and thereby add to the stock of atmo

Experts said that whether or not Apple loses this specific case, measures that it could put into place in the future will almost certainly be able to further limit the government's reach.

Half of your brain stays alert and prepared for danger when you sleep in a new place, a study has revealed.

He said although more fishing was taking place nearer penguin colonies it was often happening later in the season when these colonies were empty.

However, the last such increase in temperature took place two years ago.

Internal recovery refers to the shorter periods of relaxation that take place within the frames of the work day or the work setting in the form of short scheduled or unscheduled breaks, by shifting at physical resources required for the initial task are t

New laws have been put into place that would make it easier for farms and supermarkets to donate unsold foods to those who are in need.

One useful tip is that things are more likely to be remembered if you are in exactly the same state and place as you were when you learned them.

rising more than 1, 000 feet in the middle of the gently rolling plains of Wyoming, the massive column of rock looks as though it was dropped down into this location from a different time and place.

Strategic innovation is the process of managing innovation of making sure it takes place at all levels of the company, and that is related to the company's overall strategy.

The lake's landscape is bizarre and deadly—and made even more so by the fact that it's the place where nearly 75 percent of the world's flamingos are born.

The most recent one took place last week in Washington, D.C.

The order essentially asks Apple to hack its own devices, and once it is in place, the precedent could be used to justify law enforcement efforts to get around encryption technologies in other investigations far removed from national security threats.

There is no other place like it.

They were able to accurately place the hair samples in broad regions roughly corresponding to the movement of rain systems.

To put technology in its place, we must be conscious not only of how technology is changing, but also of how it is changing us.

Unless the meal takes place in a beer house, this is considered bad manners.

You know, they were often victims of a generation firmly convinced that the woman's place was in the home.

Although serious problems still remain and need to be dealt with, the world is a safer and healthier place.

Apple days are being held at all sorts of places with an interest in fruit, including stately gardens and commercial orchards.

At least there is enough good news, so it remains a good place for the residents to enjoy their life.

At that moment, I remembered that my father once said, " the classroom is a place for learning and that include leaning from textbooks, and mistake as well."

At which place can people of different ages enjoy a good laugh?

Because there are more places to take shelter.

Before you came over, I never realized what a beautiful place I lived in.

But it's quiet, and should be a nice place for an artist.

But station residents have to be careful about staying in one place too long.

But the revolution that was taking place in the 1830s would change all that.

But, according to a new study, we should be placing a higher value on motherhood all year.

Can quickly move to another place.

Community isn't so much a place as it is a state of mind.

Dark environments are more likely to encourage overeating, for people are often less self-conscious (难为情) when they're in poorly lit places – and so more likely to eat lots of food.

Designers have also created informal gathering places, and upgraded employees' access to heavily trafficked areas such as copy and coffee rooms.

Duiker placed hundreds of remarkable buildings in Hilversum.

Find a good place for your own garden.

For example, stores place fruits and vegetables in the first section.

Hannah's place is divided into several areas, providing shelter for people when it is so cold that sleeping outdoors can mean death.

He decided to offer Shelly-Ann a place in his very strict training sessions.

He smiled at me and carefully placed his comb on his wallet.

He would smile affectionately at me and place the comb on his wallet.

Hearing these stories, I'm skeptical about the place — other destinations are described as "purer" natural experiences.

He'd move his fingers clumsily on the piano, and then she'd take his place.

Her library used to be a meeting place for all who loved books and liked to share knowledge.

How did the man come to place?

How is Riverbend music theater different from the other places?

However, a similar study of British accents in the US turned these results upside down and placed some regional accents as the most attractive and BBC english as the least.

I got a place next to the window, so I had a good view of the sidewalk.

I placed the chick in the nest, and it quickly calmed down.

I pushed her toward the front door, waving at the family, saying, sorry, please forgive us, you have a really nice place.

I was in a place of pure happiness.

I wonder if you could tell me how to find a place to have my shoes mended.

I'd skipped nearby Guilin, a dream place for tourists seeking the limestone mountain tops and dark waters of the Li river which are pictured by artists in so many Chinese paintings.

If producers are required to take back packaging they use to sell their products, would they reduce the packaging in the first place?

If you want to take an underground journey, which place is the best choice?

If your home doesn't have enough window light, get more lamps and flood the place with brightness.

If you're looking for a unique adventure, the Space and Aviation Center (SAC) is the place to be.

In fact, I got the same medal as the one that the guy who came in first place had.

In many countries the concept of extended producer responsibility is being considered or has been put in place as an incentive for reducing waste.

In the afternoon, there will be rain in most places, with winds becoming stronger along the coast.

In the north of india, the population is booming due to high birth rates, but in the south, where most economic development is taking place, birth rate is falling rapidly.

In these places patients can go to be near nature during their recovery.

Indeed, I was no different from others; I just needed a quieter place.

It had already been placed in a carrier for safety.

It helped her know more new places.

It is a truly delightful place, which looks the same as it must have done 100 years ago with its winding streets and pretty cottages.

It takes place almost every year all over the world.

It was a change that took place without being noticed though it was of the extreme importance, a spiritual change which affected the whole state.

It's a great place to get ice-cream, coffee and other food.

Last week some city officials suggested the city might be interested in turning the old theater into a museum and public meeting place.

Later, however, there will be a few showers in high places.

London is a big place, and whatever you do, you'll find yourself doing quite a lot of walking.

Most cats just drag food home because it's a safe place to eat.

Mountains are regarded as spiritual places by many cultures.

Mum and I became mad with him for placing our family in trouble.

My mother bought the beautiful basket and put it safely in some hiding place I couldn't find.

One of the very best varieties for eating quality is Orleans Reinette, but you'll need a warm, sheltered place with perfect soil to grow it, so it's a pipe dream for most apple lovers who fall for it.

Only about one in ten places offered him food that would otherwise be discarded.

Our hosts shared many of their experiences and recommended wonderful places to eat, shop, and visit.

People settle in these places because they are easy to get to and naturally suited to communications and trade.

Place your cup in the deepest part of the hole.

Remove the skin and place them in plastic bags or containers and freeze.

Schools should be lively places where individuals are encouraged to develop to their greatest potential.

She had asked the government for permission to move the books to a safe place, but they refused.

So one day, just to see what she would do, I gently placed one on top of the groundhog's head.

Steve moved to the piano and sat at the bench, hands trembling as he gently placed his fingers on the keys.

Students are placed into classes according to their current language skills.

Tall poles, placed in large training areas, teach the birds to stay clear of electrical lines by giving them a painful but undeadly electric shock.

The accents placed at the bottom in this study, on the other hand, were regional地区的city accents.

The astronauts will suffer from a carbon-dioxide headache when they exercise in one place for a long time.

The city's "psychology cafes", which offer great comfort, are among the most popular places.

The crowds might damage the beauty of the place.

The freezing northeast hasn't been a terribly fun place to spend time this winter.

The gold medal will be awarded to whoever wins the first place in the bicycle race.

The miracle of 1511 took place during six freezing works called the winter of death.

The parade ends with the boogg being placed on a 40-foot pile of firewood.

The processes take place to stop our brains becoming loaded with memories.

The weather effects both good and bad, are felt in many places.

Then lay the tube in place so that one end rests all the way in the cup and the rest of the line runs up — and out — the side of the hole.

Then the person leaves it in a public place, hoping that the book will have an adventure, traveling far and wide with each new reader who finds it.

Then they placed the block on the ground.

There is an emergency shelter in winnipeg called "Hannah's place", something that Hannah is very proud of.

Therefore, there is the desire for their dorms to be replacement homes and not places to experience intellectual growth.

Thirty years later, a woman approached me in a public place.

This development did not take place overnight.

This year, 25310 students who have accepted places in higher education institutions have put off their entry until next year, according to statistics on university entrance provided by the university and college admissions service ucas.

To lift a big structure like the tremont hotel, pullman would place thousands of Jackscrews beneath the building's foundation.

To think he is sleeping on the streets tonight when he could have stolen the money and paid for a place to stay in.

Traditional technology still has a place nowadays.

TV doesn't take the place of reading for most children; it takes the place of similar sorts of recreation, such as listening to the radio and playing sports.

Unlike fast-food places, fine dining shops prefer customers to stay longer and spend.

Waterhouse, one of the poorest communities in jamaica, is a really violent and overpopulated place.

We know that, while awake, fresh memories are recorded by reinforcing connections between brain cells, but the memory processes that take place while we sleep have been unclear.

We've been to this place before, and I don't feel the soup tastes any different.

When this takes place, especially when a new-born company has no revenue to speak of, the regulators should raise red flags.

Yet knowing we can have more can also create a problem, because when we go to change the way we do things, up come the old patterns and pitfalls that stopped us from seeking what we wanted in the first place.

You are waiting at a wrong place.

The first and more important is the consumer's growing preference for eating out: the consumption of food and drink in places other than homes has risen from about 32 percent of total consumption in 1995 to 35 percent in 2000 and is expected to approach 38 percent by 2005.

Of all the changes that have taken place in English-language newspapers during the past quarter-century,perhaps the most far-reaching has been the inexorable decline in the scope and seriousness of their arts coverage.

We define such sold media as owned media whose traffic is so strong that other organizations place their content or e-commerce engines within that environment.

There recordings are cheap, available everywhere, and very often much higher in artistic quality than today’s live performances; moreover, they can be “consumed” at a time and place of the listener’s choosing.

The networked computer is an amazing device, the first media machine that serves as the mode of production, means of distribution, site of reception, and place of praise and critique.

A sacred place of peace, however crude it may be, is a distinctly human need, as opposed to shelter, which is a distinctly animal need.

The fossil record shows that many species have endured for millions of years - so why shouldn't we? Take a broader look at our species' place in the universe, and it becomes clear that we have an excellent chance of surviving for tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of years.

Ground surveys allow archaeologists to pinpoint the places where digs will be successful.

But there are few places where clients have more grounds for complaint than America.

Vaux says that Science’s idea to pass some papers to statisticians “has some merit, but a weakness is that it relies on the board of reviewing editors to identify ‘the papers that need scrutiny’ in the first place”.

This impact will not only be through the publications in Science itself, but hopefully through a larger group of publishing places that may want to model their approach after Science.

Precisely because readers from different historical periods, places and social experiences produce different but overlapping readings of the same words on the page-including for texts that engage with fundamental human concerns-debates about texts can play an important role in social discussion of beliefs and values.

In many respects, the dearth of moral purpose frames not only the fact of such widespread phone hacking but the terms on which the trial took place.

Factors such as the place and period in which we are reading, our gender ethnicity, age and social class will encourage us towards certain interpretation but at the same time obscure or even close off others.

The sensible place to build new houses，factories and offices is where people are，in cities and towns where infrastructure is in place.

A century ago Octavia Hill launched the National Trust not to rescue stylish houses but to save“the beauty of natural places for everyone forever”.

Many of the most celebrated national figures have participated in historical events that have taken place within the EEOB's granite walls.

"They blame it on the manufacturing recession," says birgit Klohs, chief executive of The right Place, a business development agency for western michigan.

A badly run "year of culture" washes in and out of a place like the tide, bringing prominence for a spell but leaving no lasting benefits to the community.

And yet, John Hagel, author of The Power of Pull and other books, says Brynjolfsson and McAfee miss the reason why these jobs are so vulnerable to technology in the first place.

If appropriate public policies were in place to help all women—whether CEOs or their children's caregivers—and all families, Sandberg would be no more newsworthy than any other highly capable person living in a more just society.

In many respects, the dearth of moral purpose frames not only the fact of such widespread phone hacking but the terms on which the trial took place .

In place of Thomas Carlyle, Britain nurtured Christopher hill, EP Thompson and Eric Hobsbawm.

Instead, the digital services tax is part of a much larger trend, with countries over the past few years proposing or putting in place an alphabet soup of new international tax provisions.

Last month, Howard Schmidt, the nation's cyber-czar, offered the federal government a proposal to make the Web a safer place—a "voluntary trusted identity" system that would be the high-tech equivalent of a physical key, a fingerprint and a photo ID card,

millennials may not be that interested in taking their place.

Of all the changes that have taken place in English-language newspapers during the past quarter-century, perhaps the most far-reaching has been the inexorable decline in the scope and seriousness of their arts coverage.

On the other hand, putting your faith in the wrong place often carries a high price.

Researchers measured people's cortisol, which is stress marker, while they were at work and while they were at home and found it higher at what is supposed to be a place of refuge.

So remember the little details of the people you met or you talked with; perhaps the places they have been to the place they want to go, the things they like, the thing the hate—whatever you talk about.

Take a broader look at our species' place in the universe, and it becomes clear that we have an excellent chance of surviving for tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of years.

The sensible place to build new houses, factories and offices is where people are, in cities and towns where infrastructure is in place.

They can manage to have a job in one place and a family in another.

This aversion to arguments is common, but it depends on a mistaken view of arguments that causes profound problems for our personal and social lives- and in many ways misses the point of arguing in the first place.

To find out, the researches controlled for various factors that might make firms more likely to invest like size, industry, and sales -- and for indicators that a place was desirable to live in, like growth in wages or population.

Vaux says that Science's idea to pass some papers to statisticians "has some merit, but a weakness is that it relies on the board of reviewing editors to identify ‘the papers that need scrutiny'in the first place".

We need them to imagine the United States as a place where they can be productive for a while without committing themselves to staying forever.

When people place their trust in an individual or an institution, their brains release oxytocin, a hormone that produces pleasurable feelings and triggers the herding instinct that prompts humans to connect with one another.