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Related topics: Linguistics, Drug culture
use1 /juːz/ ●●● S1 W1 verb  
1  USE somethinguse STH 使用某物 [transitiveT] if you use a particular tool, method, service, ability etc, you do something with that tool, by means of that method etc, for a particular purpose 用，使用；应用
 Can I use your phone?
我可以用一下你的电话吗？
 I’ll show you which room you can use.
我来跟你说一下你可以用哪个房间。
 I always use the same shampoo.
我一直用同一种洗发水。
 Use your imagination when planning meals.
安排三餐时要动点脑筋。
 She booked the flight using a false name.
她用化名预订了航班。
easy/difficult/simple etc to use
 Drop-down menus make the program very easy to use.
下拉式菜单使得这个程序使用起来非常简便。
use something for (doing) something
 They were using animals for scientific experiments.
他们用动物做科学实验。
 Bob uses the van for picking up groceries.
鲍勃用小型货车运送食品杂货。
use something as something
 My parents use the house as a holiday home.
我父母把这房子用作度假屋。
use something to do something
 Most people now use their cars to go shopping.
现在大多数人开车去购物。
use force (=use violent methods) 使用暴力
2  amount of STH 某物的数量 [transitiveT]USE/CONSUME to take an amount of something from a supply of food, gas, money etc 使用，耗费，消耗〔食物、煤气、金钱等〕
 We use about £40 worth of electricity a month.
我们每月的电费大约40英镑。
 Standard washing machines use about 40 gallons of water.
一般的洗衣机大约用40加仑的水。
3  treat SB unfairly 不公正地对待某人 [transitiveT]USE A PERSON to make someone do something for you in order to get something you want 利用〔某人〕
 Can’t you see that Howard is just using you?
你看不出霍华德只是在利用你吗？
 Gerald had been using her for his own ends.
杰拉尔德一直在利用她来达到自己的目的。
4  an advantage 优势 [transitiveT]USE something to take advantage of a situation 利用〔优势〕
use something to do something
 She used her position as manager to get jobs for her friends.
她利用自己的经理职位为朋友谋职。
5  could use something spokenWANT if you say you could use something, you mean you would really like to have it 真想要某物
 I could use a drink.
我真想喝一杯。
6  word 词语 [transitiveT]SL to say or write a particular word or phrase 应用；说；写
 We use the word ‘hardware’ to describe the actual machine.
我们使用“硬件”这个词来指机器本身。
 Don’t use bad language.
别说脏话粗话。
7. drugs 毒品 [intransitiveI, transitiveT]MDDADDICTED to regularly take illegal drugs 吸食〔毒品〕 → used to
8 use something ↔ up phrasal verbphr v to use all of something 用完，用光
 She’s used up all the hot water.
她把热水都用完了。
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use up• I tried to do a tree too but the shaving foam went phut and I realized I'd used it all up.• We had to go downstairs to the toilet, and in the winter the water used to freeze up.• We help women choose and use make- up.• That is to say, once we have used them all up and thrown them away, there won't be any more - ever.• Then you get used to climbing up anywhere you want.• Knowledge memorized as a list of facts is of little practical use unless backed up by activities that put it to work.• Or the settlor could direct that in a certain event a new use should spring up in D's favour.• Public libraries frequently have computers that people can use to brush up on their skills.
 THESAURUS
use to use something for a particular purpose 使用
Do you mind if I use your phone?
我用一下你的电话，你不介意吧？
They rebuilt the church using local stone.
他们用当地石料重建了那座教堂。
We use a range of different methods.
我们要用一系列不同方法。
make use of something to use something that is available to you 利用〔可获得的〕某物
Staff can make use of a wide range of facilities.
员工可使用各种各样的设施。
She made full use of her contacts within the organization.
她充分利用了她在机构中的人脉。
employ formal to use a particular method or skill in order to achieve something 运用〔某种方法或技能以达到某目的〕
The surgeons employed a new technique.
外科医生们使用了一种新技术。
They employed every means at their disposal (=every available method).
他们用尽了一切能用的方法。
utilize formal to use something that is available to you, for a practical purpose 利用〔可获得的某物达到某一目的〕
The company has developed a new way to utilize solar energy.
公司开发了一种利用太阳能的新方法。
a better way of utilizing the space
更好利用空间的方法
exploit to use something as fully and effectively as possible, or to use something that will give you an advantage over your opponent 充分利用
The country’s natural resources have not yet been fully exploited.
该国的自然资源未被充分利用。
He was quick to exploit any weakness in his opponent’s argument.
他能很快地利用对手论点中的弱点。
apply to use something such as a method, idea, or system in a particular situation 应用〔方法、观点或系统等〕
New technology is being applied to almost every industrial process.
几乎每一道工序都应用了新技术。
I wanted to apply the things that I had learned on the course.
我想运用之前在课程中学到的东西。
draw on something to use information, knowledge, or experience that you have learned in the past 运用〔以前获得的信息、知识或经验〕
He was able to draw on his own experience as a diplomat when he was writing the book.
他写这本书的时候用上了自己当外交官的经历。
nJournalists draw on information from many different sources.
resort to something to use violence, force, threats etc as a way of achieving something 采取，诉诸〔暴力、武力、威胁等〕
nExtremists on both sides resort to violence.
We are prepared to resort to force if necessary.
我们已做好准备，必要时动用武力。
nto use your power or your rights
exercise formal to use your rights, authority, influence etc
Only 40% of the population exercised their right to vote.
Congress must decide whether to exercise its veto.
wield /wiːld/ formal to use great power or influence
The central banks wield enormous power.
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use• First, the wrong caulking had been used.• Are we allowed to use a dictionary in the test?• She lets herself be used and then dropped by almost every man she meets.• I try not to use bad language around the kids.• Morgan stopped using drugs and alcohol six years ago when he entered a long-term treatment program.• She first started using drugs when she was thirteen.• Planning is essential to make sure that resources are used effectively.• Carla often doesn't use good judgment in selecting boyfriends.• Martens uses her stage name when she travels.• Most scholars would agree that Mark came first and the other two used him in writing their accounts.• In his political life, he was not above using his families for his own ends.• Charles was able to use his family connection for his own personal advancement.• We shall use his perceived activities as an excuse for not growing up.• The drug smugglers used innocent travellers to carry the drugs through customs.• Every other machine in Harley's range uses its trusted formula of a 45 V-twin in a steel backbone frame.• This can be on-line or off-line recognition of hand-printed characters, or of machine-printed characters using optical character recognition.• A spectrograph uses optical elements called gratings or prisms to separate the light gathered by a telescope into its component colors.• The average Westerner uses over 260 lbs of paper every year.• Right-wing activists used people's fears of unemployment as a way of stirring up extremism.• Researchers often use questionnaires in their work.• Silly me, I have begun to conjure up an image of Newt Gingrich as a man more used than using.• Now that we have a car we very rarely use the buses.• The experts were asked to use the four-point system commonly used in schools.• How often do you use the library?• Can't you see Tad's just using you?• I can't tell you what to do - you must use your own discretion.• Can I use your pen?• Do you mind if I use your phone?
use force• The police have recently had to defend their policy of using force against rioters.• The regime was quite willing to use force and terror against its enemies.• Despite Boss's success, Keith used the Quaker decision to use force as a new argument against the majority.• He was quite prepared to use force if that was necessary.• Gallagher had promised to use force if the students closed down the campus, but now he wavered.• This has the apparently anomalous result that both the policeman and the defendant are using force lawfully.• Crackdown on problem children Social workers have been given new powers to use force to control troublesome youngsters in care.• The law permits every citizen to use reasonable force to defend themselves or their property.• He remains prepared to use force to do that.• Truman did not threaten to use force to impose his views.• He knew from their previous struggle he would have to use force to subdue her.
use ... language• Prince Charles yesterday parodied Hamlet to illustrate how literature could be destroyed by bad use of language.• She could understand the books quite well, she considered, but the papers seemed to use a different language.• The loss of Lardie Moonlight Tribal people are sometimes thought to use primitive languages.• Decide from the very beginning that your aim is to use the target language as much as possible in the sessions.• Hilton's use of language in Scale 2 is more creative than in Scale 1.• Even officers used the language of the gutter.• I used the language of the speculator.• We use language to talk about the meanings of linguistic expressions as well as about things that are not meanings.
Related topics: Linguistics
use2 /juːs/ ●●● S1 W1 noun  
1  [singular, uncountableU]USE something the action or fact of using something 使用，用
2  [countableC]USE something a purpose for which something can be used 用途，用处
3  make use of something USE somethingto use something that is available in order to achieve something or get an advantage for yourself 利用某物，使用某物
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make good use of• Blier also makes good use of some provocative Barry White songs, and the leads are excellent.• Farmers can make good use of some land while other areas nearby are less attractive, or even repel them.• And that the Department could make better use of the great store of experience within the teaching profession during the consultation process.• The large 12in x 10.5in format makes good use of Schlegelmilch's high-quality colour photography.• Gallegos said the region has made good use of that money.• He made good use of every piece of newspaper that he could pick up and every convenient hedgerow!• We need to keep them within the national health service work force and to make better use of their additional skills.• I think Cohen, as a politician, will make better use of the media.
4  put something to (good) use USE somethingto use something such as knowledge or skills for a particular purpose (好好)利用某事物
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put something to (good) use• But I am putting it to use.• Many large and medium size companies, government departments and Local authorities are putting Dataease to use somewhere within their organisations.• I'd like a job where I could put my degree in languages to good use.• Much of ecology is about this process: finding energy; putting it to use.• The time has come to put your skills to use by developing a more useful and complex object orientated program.• The trouble is we never stop long enough to put them to good use.• Throughout the 1980s, researchers and company executives struggled with how to put Al to use.• It does not seem regressive to put it to use in the service of gay survival as well.• How do you put it to use in daily practice?
5  the use of something USE somethingthe ability or right to use something 运用某事物的能力；某物的使用权
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the use of something• Indeed the Bains Report advocated the use of programme teams which cut across the traditional departmental structure of local government.• Other seminars concentrated on media skills such as poster-making, writing, drama, audio cassette production and the use of newsletters.• It is usually a matter of variations in the use of material, usually of the series itself.• One of the greatest hazards for today's free-roaming feline is the use of rodent poisons.• The descriptions above have been based on estimating and planning the use of time on the project.• The rules do not prevent the use of extrinsic evidence in interpreting genuine ambiguities in the words of the contract.• And if Angel did not want to become a priest, what was the use of sending him to study at Cambridge?
6  be (of) no use (to somebody) USELESSto be completely useless (对某人)没用处
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be (of) no use (to somebody)• But a sleek sailing boat that spends all its time in harbour is no use to anyone.• She knew that it was no use offering to make it: it would only make Bella angry.• It is of no use to put forward a partial plan for the revitalization of our education.• It was of no use if they received the sacrament of Matrimony and did not live as Christians.• But these models are no use to Clinton.• But there was no use brooding on it: the full story would never be known now.• But all this was of no use to Bowman.• Photographic film cameras on satellites would be of no use until the means of recovering film capsules from orbit could be developed.
7  it’s no use doing something spokenPOINTLESS used to tell someone not to do something because it will have no effect 做某事没用
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it’s no use doing something• It's no use complaining - you just need to take the test again later.• But it's no use running away from it.• He says it's no use having a ban if it can't be enforced.• I've telephoned everyone I can think of, but it's no use.• I can buy the best legal brains in the business, so it's no use your fighting.• I said to him, Listen, George, it's no use living in the past.• No, it's no use protesting!• On the open road, it's no use pretending that the Bentley handles with the agility of a Porsche.
8  it’s no use! spokenPOINTLESS used to say that you are going to stop doing something because you do not think it will be successful 白搭！不行！〔用于表示因认为不会成功而要停止做某事〕
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it’s no use!• Oh, it's no use! I can't fix it.
9  what’s the use (of something) spokenPOINTLESS used to say that something seems to be a waste of time (做某事)有什么意义，(做某事)有什么用〔用于表示做某事似乎是浪费时间〕
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what’s the use (of something)• My granda is dying there and what's the use?• And what's the use of being on observation when you can't observe anything?• You're a bloody animal, Cullam, without an animal's ... Oh! what's the use?
10  be in use USE somethinga machine, place etc that is in use is being used 〔机器、场所等〕在使用中
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be in use• The actual strength of each type very rarely reflected this establishment - at one stage no less than forty B.2s were in use!• They want to know whether the new umbrella qualification could be in use as early as 2001.• Once a suitable disinfectant is in use resistance will not occur if it is used correctly.• Cut-Through Lane was in use as a tank testing ground by the Ordnance Depot at Chilwell and everything was on wartime footing.• All of the washing machines are in use.• The mine was in use for 60 years, but played out and shut down in 1943.• All the photocopiers are in use. Could you come back later?• The meeting room is in use at the moment, so we'll have to go somewhere else.• With the advent of the new national curriculum, these materials should be in use in every science classroom.• But how were they to know the code they were writing in 1975 would still be in use 25 years later?• A number of other variations are in use.
11  for the use of somebody PROVIDEprovided for a particular person or group of people to use 供某人使用
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for the use of somebody• In any case, I returned to my notes, hereto appended for the use of the reader.• We believe that these results have important consequences for the use of d 3C A as a probe for studying DNA-protein interactions.• It is now demanding damages for the use of seeds that they swear they never sowed.• The board room is for the use of company executives only.• I could find no pattern for the use of verse and prose in Los amantes de Teruel.• Here, too, to qualify for reimbursements for the use of listed property four elements must be substantiated: 1.• We are left with a picture of general support for the use of signing.• Chemistry in Britain thanks Tripos for the use of the illustration on the cover of this Supplement.
12  be of use (to somebody/something) USEFULto be useful (对某人/某物)有用
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be of use (to somebody/something)• As for myself, I was feeling a mounting confidence in my capabilities - I was of use.• However, your suggestion will be kept on file and may be of use should circumstances change in the future.• Every instrument that could possibly be of use to the mission found its way on board.• They all wanted to be of use, to serve!• I wanted to be of use to some one.• Let me see if I can fashion a parable that will be of use to a politician.• Any diagnostic system that is quicker and cheaper than the present system would be of use.
13  come into use  (also bring something into use)USE somethingUSE STH# to start being used, or to start using something 开始使用(某物)
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come into use• Tanning beds came into use around 1979.• Doubtless, this instability will continue as more sophisticated techniques of diagnosis come into use by the medical profession.• There were many different drugs coming into use.• Doors were fitted and it came into use on 7 September.• It came into use around the turn of the century.• The scourge of firedamp explosions caused by the miners' lights should have dwindled to nothing after the lamp came into use.• Various kinds of minuscule came into use, such as the humanistic and the Carolingian.• The new register comes into use the following February.
14  go/be out of use USE STH#a machine, place etc that goes out of use or is out of use is not being used 〔机器、场所等〕废弃不用，不再使用
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go/be out of use• The guns are out of use and that is what matters.
15  have no use for somebody/something NEED#to have no respect for someone or something 厌恶某人/某事物，不喜欢某人/某事物
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have no use for somebody/something• My company has no use for workers who are not motivated.• I have no use for second-hand books and unfashionable clothes and bits of ornament.• For example, the business may be sold to some one else who decides they have no use for the present management.• Am I right in assuming that you have no use for it?
16  something/somebody has their uses spokenUSEFUL used, often humorously, to say that something or someone can sometimes be useful, even though it may not seem that way 某事物/某人自有其用处〔常为幽默用法〕
17. [countableC]SL one of the meanings of a word, or the way that a particular word is used 〔某个词的〕(一项)词义，用法
n COLLOCATIONS
adjectives
widespread/extensive use (=when something is used in many places or situations, or among many people)
The widespread use of computers changed business completely.
efficient use
Doing the work in stages makes the most efficient use of resources.
effective use
We need to consider whether there could be a more effective use of our time.
heavy/frequent use (=when something is used a lot)
The heavy use of pesticides in the area led to severe health problems.
regular use
These drugs are not recommended for regular use.
greater use
We want to encourage employees to make greater use of the sports facilities.
land use
Our department is responsible for establishing the guidelines for land use in the county.
drug/alcohol use
Drug use among teenage boys is on the increase.
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use• Herring, 55, is a former drug user who started the foundation in San Jose in 1980.• It appears that chronic caffeine use may cause up-regulation or down-regulation of other neurotransmitter systems as well.• Technology developed for the space program have civilian uses as well.• Robots have many different uses in modern industry.• It's main use is as a cleaning agent for metals.• A pastry brush has a variety of uses in the kitchen.• It leads to a crime: Some one is murdering claimants and putting their insurance money to private use.• The land has been developed for tourism and other recreational uses.• There have been complaints about the use of excessive force by the police.• He had no expectations or intentions that they would ever become constantly updated guidebooks for the use of millions.• There has been a decline in the use of the subway system over recent years.• And the lowest of low points was the use of five captains in seven Tests in 1988-89.• One in 12 people who took part in the survey was without the use of their machine for over a fortnight.• the use of animals in scientific experiments• The ramifications of the wrong use of imagination have to be fully realized before we can hope to control it.
use of• Increased use of fertilizers has led to water pollution.• The military has agreed to allow public use of the land.• He lost the use of both legs as a result of the accident.• Joe's given me the use of his office till he gets back.
have/find a use for something• Obviously, Amphi planned to buy the land and find a use for it later.• Then they'd have a use for their bunkers.• I use the same archetypes storytellers have used for centuries.• Mr Macdonald claims the orders will deny traditional fishermen access to areas they have used for generations.• More than a decade after DuPont first came up with Biomax, it has yet to find a use for it.• In which case he will have use for that thick skin very soon.• But out on the court, the big women find a use for these bodies that challenge what society deems feminine.
Origin use1
(1200-1300) Old French user, from Latin usus, past participle of uti “to use”
 use2
(1200-1300) Old French us, from Latin usus; → USE1
use1 verb →THESAURUS1use2 noun
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