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aimed

/eym/US // eɪm //UK // (eɪm) //

旨在,目的,目的是,目的在于

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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

  • Albeit frank about its aim to build more brand awareness, 85% of the show’s time teaches, for free, how to build a business to success.

  • The aim of this program is to boost confidence in math among 6th and 7th graders.

  • At the 11-minute mark, Schulman explains the initiative and its aims.

  • On updating e-commerce rules and liability — which is a stated aim of the DSA plan — Google is cautiously supportive of regulatory changes to reflect what it describes as “the digital transformation of the last two decades.”

  • Amazon’s Project Kuiper has similar aims but has yet to loft any satellites.

  • Isolated lesbians learned that there were other women like them via books whose covers aimed to titillate heterosexual men.

  • But consider how citizens here in the States are now being arrested for posting threatening messages aimed at police on Facebook.

  • So too with a vaccine that provokes a specific immune response aimed at a specific RNA sequence.

  • Leave it to Katniss to cut through a story with one perfectly aimed strike.

  • I was lost, fresh back from Vietnam, searching, maybe, for a peril the equivalent of war but aimed in the direction of life.

  • He aimed at the yawning hippopotamus and fired, hitting it on the skull, but at such an angle that the ball glanced off.

  • The well-aimed shots of the Americans were beginning to tell forcibly against the Spaniards.

  • In employing these heavy pressures of wind, increased purity and beauty of tone should alone be aimed at.

  • Prosperity is a good thing, but you, at least, know what he has aimed at stands high above that.

  • Tchaikovsky, on the contrary, had more respect than enthusiasm for Beethoven, and never aimed at following in his footsteps.