4.put/lay/set down a markerBritish EnglishBrE to say or do something that clearly shows what you will do in the future 表明意向
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marker• Others use a finemarker to write the new letters in an open space on the top of the key.• Make sure you use non-toxicglues, markers and other materials if you plan to eat the hard-cooked eggs.• A granitemarker shows where the battle took place.• The book narrates the entire trans-peninsular highway by kilometer marker.• He looked again at the scatter of markers, hoping that some system of lines might appear, some focal point.• Others were so big and free of obstacles that the drill of placing markers seemed pointless.• Both are considered by some as the most reliablemarkers of disease activity in Crohn's disease.• The card was signed with a silvermarker.• Assessment of intestinal permeability in ulcerative colitis after the ingestion of variousmarkers has yieldedconflicting results.
marker of/for• The use of immunohistochemical staining as a marker of point mutation has been critically reviewed by Wyndord-Thomas.• Some clinicians and microbiologists continue to believe that P cepacia is a marker for, rather than the cause of, pulmonary deterioration.• So Paul had a big blue felt marker for days and a red one for nights.• Research is currently in progress to detect an accurategeneticmarker for the disease.• The mainmarker of her music is her voice.• Such events will ringhollow if they are not markers for some-thing larger and deeper that is going on in the school.• Both are considered by some as the most reliable markers of disease activity in Crohn's disease.• Futureadvances in technology may disclose other, more sensitivemarkers ofcellproliferation whose predictiveaccuracy is greater.