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aim

/eym/US // eɪm //UK // (eɪm) //

宗旨,瞄准,宗旨是,旨

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to position or direct so that, on firing or release, the discharged projectile will hit a target or travel along a certain path.
    • : to intend or direct for a particular effect or purpose: to aim a satire at snobbery.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to point or direct a gun, punch, etc., toward: He aimed at the target but missed it.
    • : to strive; try: We aim to please. They aim at saving something every month.
    • : to intend: She aims to go tomorrow.
    • : to direct efforts, as toward an object: The satire aimed at modern greed.
    • : Obsolete. to estimate; guess.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act of aiming or directing anything at or toward a particular point or target.
    • : the direction in which a weapon or missile is pointed; the line of sighting: within the cannon's aim.
    • : the point intended to be hit; thing or person aimed at: to miss one's aim.
    • : something intended or desired to be attained by one's efforts; purpose: whatever his aim in life may be.
    • : Obsolete. conjecture; guess.

Phrases

  • aim to
  • take aim

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • The aim is to cause a domino effect that disrupts the global food-supply chain.

  • The aim is to let users correlate meals with changes in blood glucose levels.

  • The WhatsApp lawsuit, meanwhile, has taken aim close to the heart of NSO’s business.

  • In the context of these crises, our primary aim should be for a system where people are not obligated to work to generate the means to survive.

  • The aim is to let users see “detailed information about all the ads they see on the web,” but it will need to get broad buy-in and implementation of Ad Disclosure schema to get there.

  • And, as Gow adds wryly from his own personal experience, “To a huge extent they achieved that aim very well.”

  • It will still carry a pair of Raytheon AIM-120 AMRAAM long-range air-to-air missiles and a pair of bombs.

  • Sometimes, they had a backup aim if their main goal fell through as the night dragged on.

  • The Raptor carries six AMRAAMs and two shorter range AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles inside its weapons bays.

  • To “link up the beachheads and peg out claims well inland” was necessarily the first aim of Overlord.

  • To reproduce the impulse born of the thought—this is the aim of a psychological method.

  • She is skilful in seizing salient characteristics, and her chief aim is to preserve the individuality of her sitters and models.

  • The next moment a pistol was fired at their head, and a deep groan shewed it had taken too true an aim.

  • The whole aim is to secure the development of character by the expression of the highest elements of character.

  • I have never seen him do anything, although a good act, that did not have a private aim.