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routines

/roo-teen/US // ruˈtin //UK // (ruːˈtiːn) //

例行公事,例行程序,套路,常规

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a customary or regular course of procedure.
    • : commonplace tasks, chores, or duties as must be done regularly or at specified intervals; typical or everyday activity: the routine of an office.
    • : regular, unvarying, habitual, unimaginative, or rote procedure.
    • : an unvarying and constantly repeated formula, as of speech or action; convenient or predictable response: Don't give me that brotherly-love routine!
    • : Computers. a complete set of coded instructions directing a computer to perform a series of operations.a series of operations performed by the computer.
    • : an individual act, performance, or part of a performance, as a song or dance, given regularly by an entertainer: a comic routine; a dance routine.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of the nature of, proceeding by, or adhering to routine: routine duties.
    • : dull or uninteresting; commonplace.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounhabitual activity

Examples

  • On Friday evening, as the conference got underway, the two senators were on the stage delivering comedic standup routines.

  • Usually, magicians spend months—years—developing new routines.

  • There are good reasons why these routines are not making it into the tributes to Williams.

  • Petit walks the wire back and forth four times, varying the walks with little routines from time to time.

  • Mr. Mayall, who was married with three children, was famed for his slapstick routines.

  • A self-willed chaos to familiar routines and associations, an involuntary revisiting of dead hours and buried sensations.

  • Their danger to all the routines of ordinary life was not realized until it was too late.

  • The sense of inevitable routines that held all the world in thrall six years ago has gone.

  • Aaron's farming methods, so much different to Murnan routines, puzzled and intrigued the boy.

  • Data can be sorted and classified at high speed for further processing by use of these generalized sorting routines.