Unfortunately, there’s no practical alternative to driving.
遗憾的是,除了开车没有其他可行的方案。
a practical guide to buying and selling a house
房屋买卖的实用指南
3clear thinking 清晰的思维SENSIBLE a practical person is good at dealing with problems and making decisionsbased on what is possible and what will really work 〔人〕注重实际的,务实的OPP impractical
She’s a very practical person.
她是个很务实的人。
I was very shocked, but tried to be practical and think what to do.
5using your hands 动手GOOD AT good at repairing or making things 心灵手巧的
I’m not very practical – I can’t even change a light bulb.
我动手能力不强,连灯泡都不会换。
6for/to all practical purposesALMOSTused to say what the real effect of a situation is 实际上,事实上
The time you spend on it doesn’t, for all practical purposes, affect the final result.
你花在那上面的时间实际上对最终的结果并不起作用。
Examples from the Corpus
for/to all practical purposes• The editdisplayscreen can only be used, for all practical purposes, for cutting and pasting.• Indeed for all practical purposes he owned us.• Most of the 54 storiesreproduced here, even the previously published ones, were, for all practical purposes, lost.• Computerizedfreelanguageindexing is, for all practical purposes, the same as natural language indexing.• Yet for all practical purposes, Windows was Macintosh.• But, for all practical purposes you can say that a windangle of 60° produces maximumdrift.
7practical certainty/disaster/sell-out etcALMOSTsomething that is almost certain, almost a disaster etc 几乎确定无疑/是灾难/满座等
Sampras looks a practical certainty to win Wimbledon this year.
桑普拉斯打赢今年的温布尔登网球锦标赛看来是十拿九稳的。
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practical certainty/disaster/sell-out etc• It was a practical certainty that he would be trying to raise more loans long before these were ever repaid.
nCOLLOCATIONS
nouns
practical experience
You have to gain practical experience before you qualify as a solicitor.
practical work
Archaeology students are required to do a certain amount of practical work.
practical problems/difficulties
The local Social Services Department may be able to help with practical problems.
British EnglishBrESECSESEXAM/TEST a lesson or examination in science, cooking etc in which you have to do or make something yourself rather than write or read about it 〔科学、烹饪等的〕实验[实践]课;实验[实践]考试
practical• We've got our chemistrypracticaltomorrow morning.• For example, in electronicspracticals there used to be a large number of boys who'd done electronics at school.• The number of hours spent in lectures, tutorials or practicalsvaries for each individual.• We got on with the practicals while the staff held a meeting to discuss how to control the epidemic.
Originpractical
(1500-1600)Late Latinpracticus, from Greekpraktikos, from prassein“to do”