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for putting things on 供放东西用FOR PUTTING THINGS ON [countableC]DFUDG a flat piece of wood, plastic, card etc that you use for a particular purpose such as cutting things on, or for playing indoor games 〔用于切割、玩室内游戏等的〕平板

Martha was chopping vegetables on a wooden board.

玛莎正在用一块木砧板切蔬菜。

a chess board

棋盘

→ breadboard , cheeseboard , chopping board

3 group of people 一群人 (also Board)GROUP OF PEOPLE [countableC]GROUP OF PEOPLE a group of people in a company or other organization who make the rules and important decisions 理事会，委员会，董事会

board of

The Board of Directors met yesterday.

董事会昨天开了会。

There was disagreement among the agency's board of governors.

这个机构的理事会成员之间意见有分歧。

sit on a board/have a seat on a board (=be a member of a board) 是董事会的成员

He gave up his seat on the board after 40 years.

他干满40年后退出了董事会。

a board meeting

董事会会议

a board member

董事会成员

n GRAMMAR: Singular or plural verb?

Board is usually followed by a singular verb in this meaning:

The board meets once a month.

In British English, you can also use a plural verb:

The board meet once a month.

n4. → Board

5 in building 用于建筑FOR BUILDING [countableC]TBC a long thin flat piece of wood used for making floors, walls, fences etc 〔用于铺地板、筑墙、做篱笆等的〕长条木板

We’ll have to take the boards up to check the wiring.

我们得把地板撬起来检查一下电线。

→ floorboard

6 on board

a) TTWTTAon a ship, plane, or spacecraft 在船上；在飞机上；在宇宙飞船上 SYN aboard

There are 12 children on board the ship.

船上有12名儿童。

b) involved with something or working for an organization 卷入；加入，进入〔某机构工作〕

Supporters of the treaty say that it will be necessary to have the United States on board.

这个条约的支持者说有必要让美国加进来。

He came on board in the late sixties and spent two decades with the agency.

他于60年代末加入，在这个机构里干了20年。

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on board• A light plane with four people on board crashed last night.

7 meals 膳食MEALS [uncountableU]DF the meals that are provided for you when you pay to stay somewhere 膳食，伙食

In the nursing home she will have to pay for room and board.

她进养老院就必须交膳宿费。

The landlord provides board and lodging (=meals and a place to stay).

房东提供食宿。

→ full board , half board

8 go by the board IMPOSSIBLEif an idea, way of behaving, or plan goes by the board, it fails to happen, ends, or is no longer possible 〔想法、计划等〕落空，失败；〔行为方式〕被摒弃

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go by the board• And because the domestic style was unsuited to amplified discourse, the domestic rules of politeness also went by the board.• Scientific batsmanship goes by the board.• We used to play golf, but went by the board when he moved.• Their principles have gone by the board.• Meanwhile, there are other niceties that have simply gone by the board in certain aspects of management life.• Health, education, transport and other welfare spending goes by the board.• Moral standards go by the board in an atmosphere that seems generated purely for the above purposes.• We had 100 people in the retail home delivery, but that was going by the boards by then.

9. in water sports 水上运动 [countableC] a surfboard or sailboard 冲浪板；帆板

10 across the board EVERYONEif something happens or is done across the board, it affects everyone in a particular group, place etc 全面地，涉及全体地

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across the board• They decided on a pay increase of 10% across the board.• The two main aims were achieved across the board.• The departures screen Grand Central Station was no help, reading cancelled across the board because schedules were too tentative to post.• State education spending began to drop under the Dukakis administration in 1988, when huge budget deficits caused cutbacks across the board.• The cumulative results impressively followed suit, and that improvement could be found across the board.• Jobs will be lost across the board, in manufacturing, marketing, and administration.• Tariffs will be lowered across the board, but some industries will be protected for another 15 years.• The changes will cause problems right across the board.• The changes, if reported correctly, will cause problems right across the board.• Sunlight came into the room, slanting across the boards in languid diamonds.• They're cutting 10% of their staff across the board.• In the end, the only system that works well, across the board, is the one that involves perfect imitation.

11 take something on board ACCEPTto listen to and accept a suggestion, idea etc 接受，采纳〔建议、想法等〕

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take something on board• The Chancellor has taken this on board, despite his predominantly male core of advisers.• It is available from your Book, but so often the planet does not take it on board.• Then taking her on board they went where she directed and reached the sacred grove where the Fleece hung.• And growers are only going to take precision farming on board if it can reduce the unit cost of production.• Our manager seemed to take our comments on board.• At Hollybush we took information on board in a democratic, communal fashion, grouped with notebooks and pencils around visual aids.

12. electricity 电 [countableC] a circuit board 线路板，电路板

13. theatre 剧场the boards [plural]APT the stage in a theatre 舞台 → tread the boards at tread1(7)

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the boards• However, as materials supplies improved in the mid-1950s, the Boards increased their expenditure on standardisation.• Though the Raiders gave up some height on the boards, they outrebounded Pace 38-30.• Spray on woodworm fluid following the manufacturer's advice, and replace the boards and then spray the top surface.• Sometimes the boards at the front seem to extend huge leads over the rest of the fleet.• Above him rivulets of mud slid through the boards of the roof.• All that remains is to wrap the covering material round and glue it down to the boards.

14. sports area 运动区域boards [plural] American EnglishAmEDSO the low wooden wall around the area in which you play ice hockey 〔冰球场四周的〕护板

15. college/medical boards American EnglishAmESEC examinations that you take in the US when you formally ask to be accepted as a student at a college or medical school 大学/医学院的入学考试

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college/medical boards• Three times during that year, Cottle was called before medical boards to assess his fitness for active service.• I have reflected on the position of elected councillors being allowed to become chairmen of college boards.• Soldo and his co-developer, librarian Richard Schiff, visited many state medical boards to introduce the concept.• The activity of state medical boards is directly related to their independence and financial backing, Winn said.• That will provide the college boards with new perspectives and new experience.

→ above board , diving board , drawing board , ironing board , sounding board, → sweep the board at sweep1(11)

n COLLOCATIONS – Meaning 3: a group of people in a company or other organization who make the rules and important decisions

phrases

a board of directors/trustees

The board of directors met yesterday.

a board of governors (=in a school)

She sits on the board of governors.

the school board American EnglishAmE

The school board voted on the appointment.

the chairman of the board

James Clark has been named chairman of the board.

board + NOUN

a board member

Two board members resigned earlier this year.

a board meeting

An emergency board meeting will have to be held.

at board level (=at a senior level in a company, involving people on the board)

The policy was approved at board level.

verbs

be on the board

He's on the board of trustees.

be appointed to the board

They agreed that an independent chairman should be appointed to the board.

sit/serve on the board

She had served on the board of governors of the BBC.

have a seat on the board

He gave up his seat on the board after 40 years' service.

put something to the board (=ask the board to consider something)

Their proposals were put to the board.

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board• An apparent ring, which had its own people inside, was responsible for earlier Sparc 2 board thieves.• The track led only to Scudder's Cottage, the name crudely painted on a board nailed to the gate.• Room and board is $3,000 per semester.• We got the cedar boards from an old fence.• Where's the chess board?• a cutting board• The floor boards are one quarter-inch thick and come in 34 designs.• The licensing board has refused us permission to sell alcohol on the premises.• It was a notice board devoted exclusively to funeral announcements, and the lawyer's death was well represented.• For six years, Lowman worked with the Los Angeles school board to get more teaching programs and transportation for handicapped children.• In October, the school board recommended that uniforms become compulsory.• And a more frantic presence was trapped behind the skirting board.• I'll put an announcement up on the board.• Your homework assignment is written on the board.• If you don't agree with the result etc you can appeal to the board of examiners.• Mr Balmuth joined Caldor in 1987 as president and was elected to the board in 1989.• The board argued that the dispute was not protected by the First Amendment since it was an internal personnel matter.

on a board• Between 525 and 530 people were believed to have been on board.• As a result, those who were brought on board saw themselves as an enviable elite, however overworked and underpaid.• Prior will take a family vacation before coming on board.• Make that three wounded and one loony on board.• He was the only navy man on board and therefore in charge of the ship and equal in position to Dogwell.• The second crew lifted off on 28 July of the same year and remained on board for nearly 59 days.

room and board• He also took on extra film work to earn enough for the trip to New York and room and board there.• A Solution: The Job Corps provides room and board to disadvantaged young adults while they complete their studies and learn trades.• Those who live in normally receive room and board plus a wage - often well below the legal minimum.• While this was in addition to room and board, the amount itself was very small.

Board

1 used in the name of some organizations 局，部，委员会〔用于机构名称〕

the New York State Board of Elections

纽约州选举委员会

the British Boxing Board of Control

英国拳击运动管理委员会

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board2 verb

1 [intransitiveI, transitiveT] formalTT to get on a bus, plane, train etc in order to travel somewhere 登上〔公共汽车、飞机、火车等〕

2 be boarding TTif a plane or ship is boarding, passengers are getting onto it 正在登机；正在上船

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be boarding• People were boarding and I elbowed my way into line.• They want a meeting, they intimate, and are boarding for that purpose now.• There was more to this, when Sammler was boarding in the tomb.• The other option to consider will be boarding kennels.

3 [intransitiveI always + adverbadv/prepositionprep]DH to stay in a room in someone’s house that you pay for 〔在某人家里〕寄宿

4 [intransitiveI]SES to stay at a school at night as well as during the day 在校寄宿

5.board something ↔ out phrasal verbphr v DHPDLTto pay money and arrange for an animal to stay somewhere 寄养〔动物〕

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board out• Our responsibility stops at our town line, another board member blurted out.• On a lightly floured board, roll out dough into a 12-inch circle.• Flour board and roll out dough.• They moved up the corridor, their footfalls against the bare boards sending out hollow echoes.• Wild with anxiety, my mother got the governing board to send out search parties and she accompanied them herself.• The board wanted out so they trashed everything and walked away.• The board threw out the bids from the three finalists, including Heritage, and restarted the process.• Both the Lakeside Planning Group and the Lakeside Design Review Board oppose throwing out the specific plan.

6 board something ↔ up phrasal verbphr v COVERto cover a window or door, or all the windows and doors of a building, with wooden boards 用木板封住〔门窗〕

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board up• The Highlands Congested Districts Board was set up for this purpose in 1897, but it was able to achieve very little.• Outside his office Kurds wandered past boarded - up houses and waited for the post.• The Banking Code Standards Board has drawn up new guidance on such matters as exit penalties and reasonable rates of interest.• Instead of answering she walked to the bulletin board and pinned up the clipping.• The full board will take up the matter Monday, and passage is expected.• Under its current system board design, up to four PowerPC chips could be used.• Catchment boards were set up, which in 1948 became river boards, and in 1964 river authorities.• The board must come up with a plan to put the city back on its financial feet.

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board• Flight 503 for Toronto is now boarding.• They boarded a flight for Israel.• A week later he boarded a ship bound for New York.• Phoebe boards here during the week and goes home at weekends.• Police boarded the Aberdeen to Newcastle plane after the pilot radioed for help.• The sooner Morgan boarded the chopper and pushed off the better.• Before boarding the plane, Jenny tried once more to call home.• Her parents offered no explanation when police boarded their plane at Chicago airport yesterday to arrest them for abandoning their children.• My only knowledge is the pubs that still remain but are boarded up.• I boarded with the Jansens until I found a place of my own.• I board with the Nicholsons during the week.

From Longman Business Dictionary

LBED_03_aboardboard1 /bɔːdbɔːrd/ noun

1[countableC] (also board of directors)COMMERCE the group of people who have been elected to manage a company by those holding shares in the company

These accounts were approved by the Board of Directors on 15th July last year.

The executive committee effectively runs the company between monthly board meetings.

→ management board → supervisory board

2[countableC] a group of people who make important decisions or rules about how an institution operates and make sure that these rules are obeyed

The city’s licensing board voted yesterday for restrictions on opening hours.

board of

the board of examiners

→ appeals board → marketing board → oversight board

3[countableC] (also circuit board)COMPUTING the part of a computer containing the CHIPs that govern a particular function

A good sound board will really liven up your games and multimedia applications.

4[uncountableU] (also board and lodging)TRAVEL the meals and the room provided for you when you stay or live somewhere

→ full board → half board

5on board on a ship, plane, or train

All the crew must be on board by four o'clock this afternoon.

6take something on board informal to listen to or accept a suggestion

He was not able to comment, but he took on board the strength of feeling against the proposal.

7be on board/bring somebody on board informal to join an organization or agree with someone’s plans, ideas etc, or to make someone do this

The response was to look for a way to accommodate the Danish Government, to bring the Danes back on board.

boardboard2 verb [intransitiveI, transitiveT]TRAVEL

to get on a bus, plane, train, or ship

Flight TA134 for Boston is now boarding at Gate 16.

I boarded a bus and headed off out of Lesotho.

Origin board1

Old English bord

board1 noun →n GRAMMAR1 →n COLLOCATIONS1Boardboard2 verb →REGISTER1

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