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lockstep

/lok-step/US // ˈlɒkˌstɛp //UK // (ˈlɒkˌstɛp) //

步调一致,步伐一致,步步高升,步调一致的

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a way of marching in very close file, in which the leg of each person moves with and closely behind the corresponding leg of the person ahead.
    • : a rigidly inflexible pattern or process.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : rigidly inflexible: a lockstep educational curriculum.

Examples

  • It comes down to having to set up new processes to keep in lockstep with how Apple’s framework functions.

  • At times, she has placed the only dissenting vote on a five-member board that tends to work together in lockstep.

  • It’s helped that the messaging between the experts and politicians has been more or less in lockstep since day one.

  • He shared this stock chart, which shows the London and Moscow shares in near lockstep since the start of the year.

  • It’s hard to imagine a recovery where the banks don’t rebound in lockstep with the rest of American business.

  • Yet they cannot reasonably believe that the rest of America will march in lockstep with them.

  • And demand (and sales) tends to rise in lockstep with the economy.

  • When a community is in the grips of a siege mentality, that sort of lockstep friendship may seem appealing.

  • What we were again thinking was here again are two characters who have for the most part been in lockstep for two years.

  • And as waves, they will produce characteristic interference patterns caused by waves arriving out of step or in lockstep.

  • I've thought iv thim whin th' lockstep was goin' in to dinner, an' prayed f'r th' day whin I might see ye again.

  • Flanked by guards, we cross the prison yard in close lockstep.

  • Breakfast is over; the lines form in lockstep, and march to the shops.

  • Often enough it is the choice of the gun on the shoulder, or, by and by, the stripes on the back in the lockstep gang.

  • Through the leveling influences of the educational lockstep such children at present are often lost in the masses.