manifest

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man·i·fest1 /ˈmænəfest/ verb [transitiveT] formal

1 SHOW A FEELING OR ATTITUDEto show a feeling, attitude etc 显示，表明，表露〔感情、态度等〕

The shareholders have manifested their intention to sell the shares.

股东们表明了要出售股票的意图。

manifest something in/as/through something

A dog’s protective instincts are manifested in increased alertness.

狗的自我保护本能表现在它的警觉性越来越高。

2 manifest itself formal APPEARto appear or to become easy to see 显现，显露

His illness began to manifest itself at around this time.

他的病到这时开始显现出来。

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manifest itself• The uncertainty manifests itself above all in the volatile perceptions of the two candidates.• A typically ambiguous attitude towards foreigners manifested itself at this point.• That manifested itself in a lack of motivation and commitment in the work force.• On the microscopic level, this problem manifests itself in abstractionism.• Interest is now focused on how this might manifest itself in the government's promised rethink on constitutional reform.• Yet this delayed-action disease manifested itself in widening circles and in larger numbers of people.• This lack of real leadership manifested itself on many occasions.

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manifest• Mountain sickness is usually manifested as headache and tiredness.• Classical tardive dyskinesia is manifested by the insidious onset of oral-lingual-buccal dyskinesia.• They also disagree on how functions are manifested in literary language.• This problem manifests itself when a student forgets to bring home her books or remembers the books but forgets the homework assignments.• Subacute combined degeneration of the spinal cord due to vitamin B12 deficiency is a treatable condition manifesting sensory ataxia.• For the character to know and demonstrate their doom, their body must physically manifest the flaw through an impairment.• Originally Delphi manifested the Goddess of Prophecy in a vaporous cave where fumes induced visionary trances.• They manifested themselves particularly in language.• How you manifest your aspects is your choice entirely.

manifest2 adjectiveadj formal

OBVIOUSplain and easy to see 显而易见的，明显的 SYN obvious, patent

a manifest error of judgment

明显的判断错误

be made/become manifest (=be clearly shown) 明白地显现出来

Their devotion to God is made manifest in ritual prayer.

他们对上帝的虔诚在宗教仪式的祷告中明白地显示出来。

—manifestly adverbadv

a manifestly unfair system

明显不公平的制度

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manifest• As in Prague, Warsaw and East Berlin in those days, people power has been manifest.• It is then that the full impact of Cobra power is manifest.• On the dang I thought of him as an imposing man in whose face a heightened intelligence and authority was manifest.• That is, it studies the relation between the significances of a text, and the linguistic characteristics in which they are manifest.• The mountaintop offers different information-there some grand order seems both manifest and enormous, far larger than the purely human world.• In the case of manifest content there is no real problem.• The doctrine of manifest destiny was distinct from the imperialist dynamic that flourished around the turn of the century.• The educational system is a manifest failure.• That vision was made manifest in the Ford Motor Company.

be made/become manifest• Now the suspected subservience of the judiciary to the politicians seemed to be made manifest.• Through the actions and attitudes of struggling individuals, the true costs of self-defeating organizational behavior are made manifest.• The relationship was made manifest at the life crisis ceremonials of partner lineages.• That vision was made manifest in the Ford Motor Company.• We believe that results can only be properly evaluated if the problems connected with the study are made manifest rather than concealed.

manifest3 noun [countableC]

a list of passengers or goods carried on a ship, plane, or train 〔船、飞机、火车的〕旅客名单，载货清单

the ship’s cargo manifest

船的载货清单

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manifest• the flight's passenger manifest• And I can't help seeing the manifests - in any case, I've always been interested in them.

From Longman Business Dictionary

manifestman·i·fest /ˈmænəfest/ noun [countableC]TRANSPORT

an official list of the goods being carried on a ship or aircraft

computerized cargo manifests

Before each international flight, computers scan the passenger manifest (=the list of passengers travelling on a ship or aircraft).

Origin manifest2