bearing

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bear·ing /ˈbeərɪŋ $ ˈber-/ noun

1 have a/some/no etc bearing on something CONNECTED WITHto have an effect or influence on something, or not have any effect or influence 对某事有影响/有一些影响/没有影响等

Exercise has a direct bearing on how healthy you are.

锻炼直接影响你的身体状况。

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have a/some/no etc bearing on something• The availability of security may, however, have a bearing on whether or not a particular loan will be granted.• The outside influences have no bearing on what you can do for your basketball team...• And that it might have some bearing on what has happened now.• It has come to have a bearing on the larger questions of civilized survival.• But the facts of the past seemed to have no bearing on the facts of the present.• The observations on immortality in Chapter Thirteen may be seen to have some bearing on this.• Party political factors, professionalism and the dispositions of key personalities all usually have some bearing on internal management structures.• This year's form will have a bearing on all future claims.

2 lose your bearings CONFUSED

a) to become confused about where you are 迷失方向

I completely lost my bearings in the dark.

我在黑暗中完全迷失了方向。

b) to become confused about what you should do next 晕头转向，不知所措

young men who have lost their bearings in a changing society

在不断变化的社会中迷失了方向的年轻人

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lose your bearings• I was trying to get to the A22 and lost my bearings a bit in all the country lanes.• He had lost his bearings on a trip to nearby shops a few weeks earlier.• Perhaps it was exhausted, perhaps it had lost its bearings in the thick fog.• Among right-wing circles this perception simply intensified their existential feeling of Angst, of having lost their bearings.• She soon lost her bearings in the dense forest.• When Kelly left, the company began to lose its bearings.• But as the world grew unfamiliar, I began to lose my bearings.• We lost our bearings in the fog and ended up 30 miles from home.• If you lost your bearings down here you might never get out.

3 get/find your bearings

a) to find out exactly where you are 弄清自己的方位，辨明方向

He paused to get his bearings.

他停下来看自己在哪里。

b) CONFIDENTto feel confident that you know what you should do next 找到自己的方向

An introduction session helps new students get their bearings.

介绍会可以帮助新生找到自己的方向。

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get/find your bearings• Ozzie drank his beer and got his bearings.• She was able to get her bearings this way and soon found herself at the back of the house.• It took her a minute to get her bearings.• She stopped for a moment to get her bearings.• Pausing to get his bearings, he blew furiously on his fingers to cool them down.• Without stopping to get his bearings, he began walking up Broadway along the east side of the street.• They are there to allow us to find our bearings and set our calendar.• To get their bearings Allen once more climbed.

4. [singular, uncountableU]CHARACTER/PERSONALITY the way in which you move, stand, or behave, especially when this shows your character 举止，风度

5 [countableC]SGTM technical a direction or angle that is shown by a compass 〔罗盘显示的〕方向，方位；方位角

learning to take a compass bearing

学习用罗盘辨别方向

6. [countableC]TPART technical a part of a machine that turns on another part, or in which a turning part is held 〔机器的〕承座；轴承 → ball bearing

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bearing• It took her a minute to get her bearings.• The lady is tall, strong, and dignified in her bearing.• If I may speak for the Law Officers of the Crown, we are scrupulous in bearing that vital principle in mind.• In many cases, such thinking has no bearing on what is happening in the regions.• The fact that discrimination is unintentional has no bearing on its legality or otherwise.• Assumptions about the rate of payment by debtors may have a significant bearing on the expected profitability of the project.• It had some bearing at all levels of society.

take ... bearing• We spent that afternoon taking our bearings.• The reactions and thrust of each deck is taken on elastomeric bearings and by ballast walls.• But, for now ... she took the letter bearing Ven's address and telephone number from her bag.• The second he used to take its magnetic bearing, which he then scribbled into his daily log.• It is this unvarying ubiquitous signal that we ourselves use, of course, when we take our bearings with a compass.• High fences around Admiralty installations gave good views as the birds perched briefly on the wires, taking their bearings.

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