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tunnel vision

/tuhn l vizh uhn/US // ˈtʌn l ˈvɪʒ ən //

隧道视野,隧道视角,隧道眼,隧道视力

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a drastically narrowed field of vision, as in looking through a tube, symptomatic of retinitis pigmentosa.
    • : the tendency to look at things from only one point of view; prejudice or narrow-mindedness:All empires invariably produce a kind of tunnel vision.
    • : a fixation on only one objective, course of action, etc.:These special interest groups operate with defiantly single-minded tunnel vision.

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Examples

  • Again it’s the common citizen, the common soldier, who has paid the price of bureaucratic hubris and tunnel vision.

  • He also has tunnel vision, partly because the rest of the retina is harder for the gene therapy to reach.

  • In people with RP, mutations in more than 70 genes cause slow deterioration of the rods, leading to tunnel vision, and later the cones, leading to blindness.

  • In those instances, he says, you might have tunnel vision while focused on the task at hand.

  • The sports world remains a utopia of optimism and tunnel vision.

  • And in order for them to realize their vision, they are willing to use any means.

  • Seeing what they were doing, I was inspired to add my vision to their technique.

  • Another member of the plot took care of the ammo along with black uniforms, night-vision equipment, and body armor.

  • Mr. Bachner said it had been hard to introduce his work ethic and share his vision with the locals and his team.

  • “One of the challenges is to get the weavers to see my vision,” Mr. Bachner said.

  • The vision—it had been an instantaneous flash after all and nothing more—had left his mind completely for the time.

  • The grass had a delightful fragrance, like new-mown hay, and was neatly wound around the tunnel, like the inside of a bird's-nest.

  • The vision of dreams is the resemblance of one thing to another: as when a man's likeness is before the face of a man.

  • Alford speaks of this as remarkable; but vision is the especial promise of Wisdom, therefore of Solomon, son of David.

  • The south tunnel in New Street was blocked April 18, 1877, by a locomotive turning over.