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general-purpose

/jen-er-uhl-pur-puhs/US // ˈdʒɛn ər əlˈpɜr pəs //

通用型,通用,普及型,通用的

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : useful in many ways; not limited in use or function: a good general-purpose dictionary.

Examples

  • “They are hypocritical on this very issue,” Shearer said about Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder and other public officials.

  • It also contains some clunky passages of adultery, temptations of the flesh, and general sexual awkwardness.

  • Closed courthouses, rogue clerks, and misleading statements from the attorney general as Florida welcomes same-sex marriage.

  • “We would just as soon stay away from a group that will create controversy,” the Cubs general manager Sam Bernabe told the paper.

  • By setting no goals, the player must find their own purpose.

  • A Yankee, whose face had been mauled in a pot-house brawl, assured General Jackson that he had received his scars in battle.

  • In the year of misery, of agony and suffering in general he had endured, he had settled upon one theory.

  • Some were even re-arrested for the same nefarious purpose, and the daily papers published their names on each occasion.

  • I called out several times, as loud as I could raise my voice, but all to no purpose.

  • To others the fierce desire for social justice obliterates all fear of a general catastrophe.