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way1 /weɪ/ ●●● S1 W1 noun   → whey, weigh
1  method 方法 [countableC]WAY/METHOD a method that you use to do or achieve something 〔做或做成某事的〕方法
 There are several different ways we can tackle this problem.
我们可以用几种不同的方法处理这个问题。
way of doing something
 Evening classes are one way of meeting new people.
上夜校是认识新朋友的一个渠道。
 There’s no way of knowing if the treatment will work.
没有办法知道这种治疗方法是否有效。
way to do something
 What’s the best way to learn a language?
学一门语言最好的方法是什么？
in the same way/in various ways
 Make the drink with boiling water in the same way as tea.
像泡茶一样用沸水冲泡这种饮料。
 Animals communicate in various ways.
动物用各种各样的方式交流。
(in) the right/wrong way
 I think you’re going about this the wrong way.
我觉得你这么做方法不对。
ways and means (=methods of doing something, especially ones that are secret or not yet decided) 〔尤指秘密或还未确定的〕办法，手段，方式
 There are ways and means of raising the money that we need.
有一些办法可以筹到我们需要的钱。
way out/out of/around
 One way around the problem (=method of dealing with it) is recycling.
解决这个问题的一种途径就是回收利用。
 There seems to be no way out of the current economic crisis.
似乎没有办法能摆脱目前的经济危机。
way into television/publishing/finance etc (=a method of getting involved in a particular activity or type of work) 进入电视界/出版界/金融界等的途径
 companies eager for a way into business in Europe
急于在欧洲打通商路的公司
► see thesaurus at method
2  manner 方式 [countableC]WAY/MANNER the manner or style in which someone does something or in which something happens 〔某人做某事或某事发生的〕方式
 Look at the way he’s dressed!
看看他的打扮！
in a ... way
 ‘Hello, ’ he said in a friendly way.
“你好。”他友好地说。
 Maria got up and took a shower in a leisurely way.
玛丽亚起了床，从从容容地洗了个淋浴。
(in) this/that way
 I find it easier to work in this way (=like this).
对不起，我不知道你原来是这么想的。
 Sorry, I didn’t know you felt that way (=had that feeling or opinion).
我觉得这样做容易一些。
 The drugs didn’t seem to affect Anna in the same way.
这些药似乎在安娜身上没有起到相同的效果。
that’s no way to do something (=used to tell someone that they should not be doing something in a particular manner) 不能用这种方式做某事
 That’s no way to speak to your father!
不能这样跟你父亲说话！
in more ways than one (=in a number of ways) 在多方面
 The changes will benefit the company in more ways than one.
这些改变将使公司在多方面受益。
in somebody’s (own) way (=in a personal way that other people may not recognize) 以某人(自己)的方式
 I’m sure he does love you, in his own way.
我相信他是爱你的，用他自己的方式。
3  direction/how to go somewhere 方向/如何去某处 [countableC]TTRWAY/ROUTE
4  part of STH that is true 某事正确的部分 [countableC] used to say that there is a fact or a feature of something that makes a statement or description true 方面〔用于指出从某方面来看某种陈述或描述是正确的〕
5  distance/time 距离/时间 [singular]DISTANCE a distance or a length of time, especially a long one 〔尤指较长的〕距离；时间段
6  the space in front of you 前面的空间 [countableC usually singular] if someone or something is in the way, they are blocking the space in front of you, and you cannot move forward 〔前面的〕道路
7  make way (for something/somebody) 
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make way (for something/somebody)• The crowd opens up and makes way for us.• As people shuffled backward to make way for the procession, others were pushed against the platform.• The Glamorgan opener drops down to vice-captain to make way for Yorkshire's Martyn Moxon.• Is there any point in opening a book on who our Howard will drop to make way for rodders.• Two: who has to go to make way for him?• The Invisible Man will have to make way for the Insubstantial Man.
8  out of the way 
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get ... out of the way• I suspect that if the government gets out of the way, more charities will eagerly fill whatever gap is created.• But just getting out of the way of good ideas, important as it is, will not be enough.• People got out of the way of it I noticed.• As for the candidates, they can serve us best by moderating their rhetoric and simply getting out of the way.• Last week he was walking through us and we didn't get out of the way in time.• He told police it was too dark to tell whether the woman attempted to get out of the way.• And try to get out of the way fast as the trolleys thunder through.• We trudged across the main shipping lane with tankers and coasters hooting irritably at us to get out of the way.
9  on the/your/its way 
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way to/out/home etc• Nor was Woosnam accommodating on the way home.• Perhaps he got tired always getting his knees black on the way home from the pub!• They exchanged small talk in the car on the way to the restaurant.• She died on the way to the hospital.• We managed, though, losing none on the way home from the lumberyard.• Some media at any moment might be on the way in; others on the way out.• Daisy stayed low even while I cleared the last trees on the way out.• On the way out we passed Mr McCrindle's van coming in.
10  be/get under way 
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got under way• Discussions between the school district and Austin Community College about sharing education and training facilities also got under way.• As the twentieth century got under way, other cultural changes made slenderness seem desirable.• The latter effort got under way with a series of launches beginning in May 1960.• Stiles had 13 points in the first half, then quickly broke the record as the second half got under way.• A second round of talks on nuclear issues got under way this week.• At the same time the Monitor got under way, and her officers and crew took their stations for battle.• The index then rose steadily during the recession itself, but fell as soon as the recovery got under way.
11  make your way 
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make your own way (home/to something etc)• You and I can make our own ways here.• Alternatively you can make your own way between resorts - our representative will advise you.• Said he'd bailed me out once and he wouldn't do so again, I could make my own way.• Make your own peace with Wolsey's men; make your own way in the world.• Outside he stopped and realised that he would have to make his own way back.• Sometimes you have to make your own way out.• She was handed a map and told to make her own way to the nearest underground station.• He wanted to make his own way, he says.
12  push/grope/inch etc your way somewhere to get somewhere by using force or moving carefully 硬挤向/摸索着走向/小心翼翼地挪向某处
13  give way 
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way to• Anger gave way to an unhappy truth.• Those who had perfected the machines gave way to those skilled at rounding up the public.• Stone gave way to bronze, and then to iron.• Crying will probably give way to laughter.• With this awareness, children begin to accommodate to others, and egocentric thought begins to give way to social pressure.• The ability to produce in greater quantities made this system wasteful and it has given way to a more scientific process.• Integration is giving way to colonisation.• With notable exceptions, adobe slowly is giving way to cinder block and other inexpensive modern materials.
14  clear/pave/open/prepare etc the way (for something) to make it possible for something to happen or develop later (为某事物)扫清道路/铺平道路/开辟道路/创造条件等
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clear/pave/open/prepare etc the way (for something)• Such developments are paving the way to rapprochement between conventional and complementary medicine.• He gave as an example some of the early work in genetics which has paved the way for biotechnological developments.• Was he paving the way for another referendum?• Earlier legislation paved the way by limiting the use of custody as a penalty for offenders under the age of twenty-one.• He believes the Government has missed the opportunity to pave the way for badly needed investment.• When Ken wants to give his girlfriend a kiss he first calls in a construction team to clear the way.• She would pave the way for a much more slender ideal: the flapper.
15  a/the way forward an action, plan etc that seems a good idea because it is likely to lead to success 有望带来成功的事物
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way for• This Transatlantic co-operation was very definitely the way forward for big-scale Brit drama.• That is the way forward for snappy families.• Simplesse - the way forward for healthy eating?• It can especially help to remove unnecessary stumbling-blocks to the way forward for any given person.• This was the way forward for Britain as well, she argued.
16  state/condition 状况 [singular] a particular state or condition 〔特定的〕状况
17  fact/event 事实/事件 [singular] used to refer to something that happens 发生的事
18  behaviour 行为 [countableC] someone’s typical style of behaving, especially when it seems different or unusual 〔某人典型的〕行为方式〔尤指看起来不同或不寻常〕
19  development/progress 发展/进步 [singular] used in expressions about developing and improving 进步；变化
20  go some way towards doing something also go a long way towards doing somethingHELP to help a little or a lot to make something happen 对于做某事有点帮助[很有帮助]
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go a long way towards doing something• And Monday's game will go a long way towards determining Wright's future.• For it was he who arranged the finance which went a long way towards putting the station on the air.• Friedman's statement of the natural rate hypothesis went a long way towards reconciling such evidence with basic classical theory.• In doing so it can go a long way towards lifting the depression which has afflicted too many teachers in recent years.• Schema theory can go a long way towards explaining the sender's choice and arrangement of information in communication.• The new, improved materials available have gone a long way towards extending the lifespan of today's flat roof.• This decision goes a long way towards demonstrating the untenability of the marital-rape exemption in modern times.• This will also go a long way towards preventing your neighbour complaining about the noise you make.
21  choices/possibilities 选择/可能性 [countableC] used when talking about two choices someone could make, or two possibilities that could happen 〔两种之中的一种〕选择；可能性
22  within two feet/ten years etc either way no more than two feet etc more or less than a particular amount 〔误差〕上下不超过两英尺/十年等
23  (in) one way or another/one way or the other WAY/METHODused to say that someone does or will do something somehow, although you are not sure how 不管怎样
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(in) one way or another/one way or the other• One way or another, Roberts will pay for what he's done.• As you grow older, some of those uncertainties - such as whether or not you are lovable - are settled one way or another.• But the fact is that the way we live our lives often assumes a belief about them, one way or another.• In one way or another, all these therapies seem to have an effect on the electrical balances of the body.• In one way or another, the representatives will be compared with the total client system.• In one way or another, whatever happened, instinct told him that they would both survive.• Many others were involved in small business issues one way or another.• My gut feeling is that one way or another Congress will pull through.• Then one way or another he would have to deal with Capshaw.
24  way around/round/up ORDER/SEQUENCEPLACEa particular order or position that something should be in 〔某物应该属于某个〕次序[位置]
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the right/wrong way around/round/up• Make sure the brushes go back the right way up - match them with the side you have not yet removed.• The first step: learning how to hold the book the right way up.• No, he corrected himself: that was to put it the wrong way round.• The conclusion is patently the wrong way around.• The board he's sitting at in your picture has the pieces the wrong way round.• When the paper is fed between this second roller and an impression roller, the image is printed the right way round.• Do you feel that was the right way round for you?• Church twisted his head sideways as if the writing were the wrong way round.
25  by way of something 
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little in the way of something• He had little in the way of an offering.• It may be considered that there is little in the way of information skills worksheets or programmes at Milne's High School.• Such bodies surely need little in the way of encouragement before making full and frank disclosure.• The slickly produced pamphlet listed numerous general goals but offered little in the way of specifics and has been roundly criticized.• Unlike the Victoria Press, the Caledonian produced little in the way of books.• Sophie dear, you do manage to look so very striking with so little in the way of decoration!• Seizures are only temporary, with little in the way of problems between them.• With little in the way of grass or forests or wetlands to hold it back, runoff during the storms is extreme.
26  get in the way of something PREVENTto prevent someone from doing something, or prevent something from happening 阻止某事发生
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get in the way of something• He got himself upright again and never let his disapproval get in the way of our friendship.• George then shot Lennie because he was angry at Lennie for getting in the way of his dreams coming true.• I get in the way of his religion.• As a result, Allan says, politics gets in the way of devising economically and environmentally logical policies.• She got in the way of their passionate preoccupations.• You cut off all the old you that gets in the way of the maker you.• Thinking these thoughts gets in the way of my learning about sines and cosines.• But, hey, never let the truth get in the way of political grandstanding.
27  go out of your way to do something TRY TO DO OR GET somethingto do something with more effort than is usual or expected 特别努力地做某事
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go out of your way to do something• Jennifer knew what a difficult time I was having, and went out of her way to be friendly.• How to be compassionate to their pain and go out of their way to help them?• We are going out of our way to help him with it.• When Annie arrived, Harriman went out of his way to make life pleasant for her.• This is the second time to-night she has gone out of her way to be sensitive to Oregon.• And the recording industry is going out of its way to help.• Neither do they go out of their way to look for targets, human or otherwise.• They went out of their way to make me feel welcome.• To register his annoyance, he seemed to go out of his way to ignore us.• So empty, in fact, that the United States seemed to go out of its way to insult Ismail.
28  get/have your (own) way WANTto do what you want to, even though someone else wants something different 随心所欲，为所欲为
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get/have your (own) way• She remembered those days when they had played together as children, too, he always getting his own way.• Monica's so spoiled - she always gets her own way.• They both push you and have their own ways of motivating you.• For two and a half years, the company can have its way.• When some one or something stops them from getting their own way, their frustration can build up to explosion point.• Basilio still gets his way in the end because he marries his daughter to money.• Our genes will take care of that, anyway, and it is natural to let them have their way.• Under the genial exterior lay a considerable vanity, and a desire to have his own way.• She mostly managed to get her own way with him.
29  go your own way CHOOSEto do what you want, make your own decisions etc 按自己的意愿行事
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go your own way• After that if you want to be organised, you can be - or alternatively you can go your own way.• Or, of course, you can go your own way.• The herd ad is intended to show that the company goes its own way in investing.• The pairs of glassy eyes no longer corresponded, in death they broke ranks, each distended eye gone its own way.• Speech goes its own way, and speakers drift farther than ever from a literary standard.• If Cultural Studies goes its own way, what happens to what is left?• I want to go my own way, alone.• But enough to allow you to go your own way.
30  go somebody’s way 
31  come somebody’s way if something comes your way, you get or experience it, especially by chance 意外地落在某人头上
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come somebody’s way• We're determined to take every opportunity that comes our way.
32  in a big/small way used to talk about the degree to which something happens, or how important it is 大/小规模地
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in a big/small way• Actors are getting paid more than their worth all over Hollywood right now, and in a big way.• Way back, something went bad in a big way.• This is something he has carried in a big way into his later professional life.• But I think we blew it in a big way.• His ambulance service has taken off in a big way.• I began to prepare in a small way to enjoy the Christmas in Bedford.• But his baseball career has been resurrected in a big way this season.• Colorado has taken to the sport in a big way.
33  by a long way by a large amount 大大地，远远地
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by a long way• He plays both but his preference, and by a long way, is for gaelic football.• In the home market, it led the field by a long way, with 4,337,487 units sold.• It is by a long way his preferred title when he refers to himself.• It is, by a long way, the greatest test yet of whether he is up to the job.• The expense allowances they received often failed, sometimes by a long way, to cover the costs they had to meet.• Moreover, the pretty paper kites in the clear blue skies still outnumber the documentary versions by a long way.• And before they went there I thought they would, by a long way.
34  talk/buy etc your way into/past etc something/somebody to get where you want or achieve something you want by saying or doing something 通过说[做]〔某事〕达到目的
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talk/buy etc your way into/past etc something/somebody• Each receives some kind of government stipend, and Harry talks his way into a computer job while Kate does laundry.• Forbes' rivals have accused him of buying his way into the race.• Now nationalised and backed by government money, the firm may buy its way into video technology and markets.• The adventurers could fight, but it would be safer to try and talk their way past.• The family - without plane tickets and passports - had to talk their way past airport officials on their homeward journey.• They bought their way into the landed aristocracy.• You should be able to buy your way into any Mystery you choose with that.
35  work/munch/smoke etc your way through something to deal with, eat, smoke etc a large amount of things 大量地工作/吃/吸烟等
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work/munch/smoke etc your way through something• He had even tried starting at page 1 and working his way through to the end.• Tom, like most of the others, will need lots of reinforcement as he works his way through the change.• He worked his way through a bag of sandwiches and four cans of Pepsi.• He worked his way through college, performing menial tasks in exchange for reduced tuition.• He's probably smoking his way through your deposit.• You could sense the passage of time working its way through the foundation.• We are attempting to work our way through all these questions.• Environmentalists have warned that dioxins accumulate in fat and milk and will work their way through the food chain.
36  be on the/your way out to be becoming less popular, important, powerful etc 变得不再受欢迎[不再重要，不再有权势等]
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be on the/your way out• As October 18 dawned, Joe felt confident that Stilwell was on his way out.• It also looks like Shutt is on his way out ... bit of a shame really.• The old man could be on the way out, and anyone on the way out is inevitably a centre for drama.• All I know is that I am on my way out.• But drive-ins are on the way out.• But if Mr Mugabe is on the way out, he has little incentive to drop his assault on the farms.• Revue was on its way out.• Platform shoes are on the way out.• If your expenses are even one percent higher than your revenues, you are on your way out of business.
37  across/over the way on the opposite side of the street 在街道对面
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across/over the way• Solicitors will have the same immunity as barristers from legal actions over the way they conduct cases in court.• Just across the way is the wild-looking tip of Cumberland Island, a nature refuge where wild horses trample the sands.• Carroll was puzzled over the way Protestants who had always feared priests could now demand his services.• Then I remembered my quandary over the way one looked at X-rays.• The Braves, meanwhile, sat across the way, with the air conditioning blowing in a manufactured winter.• Lots of people from the neighborhood assemble in the street, across the way, to watch.• Those across the way claimed ringside seats on wooden chairs, each sitter shielded by a thick cotton-lace curtain.• Burns will tell his board today that the Sports Council wants a non-voting member watching over the way the cash is spent.
38  have a way of doing something USUALLYused to say that something often or usually happens 经常[总是]以某种形式发生
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have a way of doing something• Don't worry too much. These problems usually have a way of working out.• And we have ways of making sure that the escapade of that silly young man at Southend gets widely reported.• But the Washington Wizards have a way of bringing out the best in their opponents.• Evenings like this have a way of going on!• So do Humpbacks have ways of expressing the same request for the repetition of a pleasurable sonic experience?• The powerful have a way of establishing contracts that suit them.• Things like this have a way of surprising you.• Yet things have a way of evening ut, and I paid a heavy price for my hypocrisy.• If history has taught us anything about imaginary customers, it is that they have a way of doing unexpected things.
39  get into the way of doing something British EnglishBrE to start to do something regularly 开始习惯于做某事
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get into the way of doing something• The women had got into the way of going up on the deck every evening.
40  not in any way, shape, or formshape, or form not in any way used to emphasize that something is not true 不以任何形式〔强调某事不是真的〕
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not in any way, shape, or form• I am not responsible for his actions in any way, shape, or form.
41  split something two/three etc ways  (also divide something two/three etc ways)SEPARATE to divide something into two, three etc equal parts 将某物平均分成两份/三份等
42  have a way with somebody/something CANto be especially good at dealing with people or things of a particular type 对付某人/做某事很有一套
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had a way with words• He had a way with words, my master.
43  the way of the world how things always happen or are done, especially when this is not easy to change 大多数人的行为方式；世道；事情发生的规律
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the way of the world• Yet you have always chosen the way of the world.• Hugh's lovable plans for the way of the world.• Such is the way of the world: one step at a time, one word and then the next.• They said this is the way of the world.• That's the way of the world.• Marty always taking Ernest under wing, telling him the ways of the world, showing him how things worked.• Talk about a crash course in the ways of the world.• The new crowd of lawyers is a bit more savvy to the ways of the world.
44  every which way informal
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every which way• Dendrov branched every which way, a forest of tangled stags' horns.• Instead the field lines would be going every which way.• Martin put a couple of slick fakes on cornerback Larry Brown, turning and twisting him every which way.• I tried blanching and not blanching, cutting them every which way and freezing whole.• I have tried every which way to get it back down on the bottom.• His hair, dyed tomato red for a new movie, sticks up every which way.• He shook his head in wonder and his hair went every which way.• They went every which way and there seemed no end to them.
n45. → Way
 SPOKEN PHRASES → halfway, one-way, right of way, two-way, → that’s the way the cookie crumbles at cookie(3), → cut both ways at cut1(36), → in the family way at family(7), → go the way of all flesh at flesh1(9), → go your separate ways at separate1(4), → know your way around (something) at know1(10), → be laughing all the way to the bank at laugh1(8), → lead the way at lead1(7), → look the other way at look1(9), → out of harm’s way at harm1(6), → parting of the ways at parting1(3), → pay your way at pay1(13), → to put it another way at put(4), → rub somebody up the wrong way at rub1(7), → see which way the wind is blowing at wind1(6), → see your way (clear) to doing something at see1(38), → any way you slice it at slice2, → stand in somebody’s way at stand1(30), → where there’s a will there’s a way at will2(5), → work your way to/through etc something at work1(12)
n COLLOCATIONS – Meaning 1: a method that you use to do or achieve something
adjectives
the right way
That’s not the right way to deal with the problem.
the wrong way
There is a right way and a wrong way to do it.
a good way
Parent and toddler groups are a good way to meet other mums.
the best way
Doing the job is often regarded as the best way of learning the job.
a different way
There are many different ways of borrowing money.
a sure way
Improving your diet is the surest way to lower your risk of heart disease.
a quick way
Wouldn’t just asking him be the quickest way to find out?
an easy way
Here’s an easy way to cut up a mango.
verbs
have a way
Do you have any way of finding out if that is true?
find a way
We must find a way to help them.
think of/devise a way
I have to think of a way to make some money.
phrases
ways and means
We are discussing ways and means of bringing jobs to our area.
 THESAURUS
a way of doing something 做某事的方法
way something you can do in order to achieve what you want or deal with a problem 〔达到目的或处理问题的〕方法，方式
Visiting a country is a great way to learn a language.
去一个国家是学习语言的好办法。
a good way to lose weight
减肥妙方
method a way of doing something, especially one that a lot of people know about and use 〔尤指许多人知道并使用的〕方法，办法
They still use traditional methods of farming.
他们仍采用传统的农耕方式。
modern teaching methods
现代教学法
nDifferent research methods are used to gather data.
approach a general way of dealing with a particular problem or situation, especially a way that has been carefully thought about 〔尤指经过仔细考虑的〕方法，途径
We need a whole new approach to environmental issues.
应对环境问题我们需要全新的方法。
There will be considerable advantages to adopting this approach.
采用这一方法好处很多。
technique a way of doing something for which you need a skill that must be learned and practised 〔需通过学习和实践才能获取的〕技巧，手法
I went to a class to learn relaxation techniques.
我上了一个学习班学习放松技巧。
new surgical techniques
新的外科技术
techniques for improving staff performance
提升员工工作表现的技巧
strategy a carefully planned way to achieve something difficult or complicated that may take a long time 〔长期的〕行动计划；计谋，策略
They met to discuss the company’s business strategy.
他们开会讨论公司的经营策略。
the government’s long-term strategy for reducing crime
政府减少犯罪的长期策略
how to go to a place
way the road, path, direction etc that you must take in order to get to a place 〔去某处的〕路，道路
nAre you sure this is the right way to the sea?
nWill you come with me? I don’t know the way.
nroute a way from one place to another that people use regularly or that is shown on a map
There are two routes we could take but this is the quickest one.
the overland trade route between Europe and China
ndirections instructions on how to get to a place
Let’s stop and ask someone for directions.
If you follow these directions you’ll have no problem finding the house.
nshort cut a way of getting somewhere that is shorter than the usual way
Let’s take a short cut across the field.
Taxi-drivers know all the short cuts.
nhow to get to ... especially spoken used especially when you ask someone to tell you which is the right way
Can you tell me how to get to Grand Central Station?
It was getting dark and I wasn’t sure how to get home.
n COLLOCATIONS – Meaning 3:
adjectives
the quickest way
She knew the quickest way to the hospital.
the right way
Are you sure this is the right way?
the wrong way
He had ended up going the wrong way down a one-way street.
verbs
ask somebody the way
He asked me the way to the police station.
tell somebody the way
Can you tell me the way to the nearest post office, please?
show somebody the way
If you can show me the way, I’ll take you by car.
know the way
Do you know the way to Birkleigh?
lose your way
He lost his way in the fog.
find your way
I managed to find my way home.
Examples from the Corpus
way• Ottumwa? That's quite a ways from here, isn't it?• Is there any way of controlling the heating in here?• Council officers in Darlington have looked at ways of supporting the campaign.• Losing a job affects different people in different ways.• By phrasing questions in different ways, inconsistencies are exposed without the need for having a detailed knowledge of a particular technique.• I tried every way I could to make the child go to bed, but she refused.• You will find a tiny amount will go a long way.• Now that his marriage has broken down there is no way round this problem.• Women there have abortions again and again because it is the only way they can limit their family size.• The only way to lose weight is to eat less.• I think this is the quickest way into town.• Are you sure we're going the right way? I don't remember seeing that church before.• The government does not believe that this approach is the right way to deal with the problem.• The argument was a terrible way to end a wonderful week.• Jill's office is that way.• The bear went that way - you can see its tracks in the snow.• He walked all the way to Upper Street, near the bus-stops, before he found a free phonebox.• I could tell by the way he looked at me that he was annoyed.• Do you think you can find the way home by yourself?• Are you sure this is the way?• I just love the way she laughs.• On the way home I was thinking about the week.• Is this the way to Grand Central Station?• I'll show you the way we calculate the figures.• It is important to consider which way the house faces, as that determines how much sun it gets.• I don't recognize this part of town - we must have come the wrong way.• I think you're going about this in completely the wrong way.
way out/out of/around• She explains why these girls need love, direction, education, a way out of the lures of gang life.• Fortunately, a way out of this apparent paradox exists.• This healthy, realistic fear helps the organization resist the temptation to take the easy way out of a problematic situation.• I could talk my way out of trouble.• M fell all the way out of the first round.• Borrowing money is not the way out of debt.• My point was that they could power their way out of their problems with the latent potential among the workers.• They pushed and squeezed their way out of the jute field.
in somebody’s (own) way• Victorine be-came a companion in a way.• However, the vastly differing agendas of the majors and the indies affected questions of artistic control in differing ways.• Of course, everything was done in a way that cost a fortune.• Instead of a gentle immersion in the ways of the Kremlin, Lebed has found himself baptized by fire.• He'd put it in such a way that she couldn't argue.• Emphasize the difficulty of saying anything at all with regard to religion which may not be received by some one in a misleading way.• Even the payment of players was regulated in such a way as to prevent clubs competing in a free market for talent.• A videodisc player can be connected up to a monitor or television set in the same way as a videocassette player.
the other way• Or would it be better the other way round?• When you're overtaking, make sure there's nothing coming the other way.• Turn around and face the other way.• But if the means of communication have moved in a more public direction, the images have gone the other way.• This does not happen the other way about.• He was looking the other way, sorting mail.• I waved to her but she didn't see -- she was looking the other way.• They are succeeding by turning big piles into little piles, not the other way around.• Richard, of course, never deferential, never awed, totally fearless, just played the other way flat out!• For decades, that kind of estrange ment worked the other way around.• But sometimes it works the other way round.
in no way• The damage is very slight and in no way reduces the value of the painting.• It's too long, too slow and in no way original.• Note that the reviewing activities associated with Personal Interviews are in no way comparable with the procedures of job interviews.• But in no way has Weezer turned into a precision rock machine.• With the values used, the frequency is several kilohertz but is in no way critical for this present purpose.• Jennifer is in no way like the traditional father who just plays with the children.• Gray's comments should in no way be considered official policy.• As interesting as such examples are, of course, they in no way prove that caffeine actually improves mental functioning.• I never suspected them of having spied for long, a feeling which in no way eased my shame.• The electoral framework makes the operation particularly cynical: a pounding of people who in no way deserved it.• This will in no way influence our original decision.
a (long) ways• The black boy stepped back a ways.• He was sitting his roan horse on this side of the street but down a ways.• Not close, out a ways, as if giving themselves room to move around in.• We are quite a ways away, probably 500 yards.• The date may seem a ways off, but Chan needs sponsors and participants to sign on now.• We just popped out to get a beer and a burger, down-state a ways.• I even took them from both directions and walked up-stream a ways to see if it looked like this anywhere else.• My husband, John, is out yonder a ways.
way ahead• In fact, when it comes to some emotions, men are way ahead of us.• Then again, some major thinkers are way ahead of the curve.• Both men know the only way ahead to avoid a national racial bloodbath is to get together and start talking again.• We invariably ask the custodians of the business to exemplify what they would see as their preferred way ahead.• Here was a historic consensus and a historic clue both of which charted the directions for the way ahead.• We have reached a point where the way ahead seems to have petered out.• The idea was way ahead of its time.
somebody was born/made that way• She had been thirty-one years old when he was born, and they had never known why he was born that way.• I suppose I was born that way.
change/mend your ways• Are they going to go back and change their ways?• But we think you should give her another chance and see if she can change her ways.• Eventually, of course, the girl changes her ways and they fall in love.• As a result of this report the caretaker was informed that if he did not mend his ways he would be discharged.• Certainly we need to fear a refusal to change our ways.• This simple observation surprised us and made us change our ways of communicating with social workers.• She wrote back in an unusually cheery vein in-tended to demonstrate, I suppose, that she was mending her ways.• I was hoping that perhaps human beings would change their ways after reading the stories of my life with the Houys.
well on the way to• The Charity Commission says the new trustees are well on the way to restructuring their management and cutting administrative costs.• He won an Allstar last year and is well on the way to repeating this achievement.• Or if not actually in it, well on the way to it.• She's well on the way to recovery and her brain isn't affected.• The Hodges doctrine, with its limited interpretation of federal power, seemed well on the way to extinction.• Each is, if not yet a separate species, well on the way to an identity of its own.• Mitchell waited until they were well on the way to the processing plant before digging his way out and tumbling clear.• You can also receive an introduction to Web publishing that starts you well on the way to creating your own home page.
either way• It is possible to make the argument either way.• His jeering remarks had hidden barbs, and just went to prove how little he cared either way.• The worker should be comfortable either way.• A decision either way on Roe can therefore be perceived as favoring one group or the other...• But this is virtually impossible to establish either way so long as the argument has to depend on reported behaviour.• It seems you can't actually lose either way, doesn't it?• We could simply alternate between the two algorithms and catch the suspect either way.• They were: offences triable only on indictment; offences triable only summarily; and offences triable either way.
Way
TTRused in the names of roads 道，路〔用于道路名称〕
 Church Way
教堂道
way2 ●●○ S3 adverbadv  
1  FARvery far 很远
2  LOT/LARGE NUMBER OR AMOUNTby a large amount 大大地
3  American EnglishAmE informalVERY very 非常，很
Examples from the Corpus
way• You're way too smart to be driving a truck.
way ahead/behind/out etc• But drive-ins are on the way out.• One man found twenty dollars on the sidewalk on his way out.• The old man could be on the way out, and anyone on the way out is inevitably a centre for drama.• For a long time, the way ahead barred, Pétain found no opening for preaching his gospel.• At night there were no longer any bonfires to be seen, either on the hill or way out on the surrounding plain.• He worked his way out slowly, without disturbing her.• There has to be some way out, some way to get things back the way they were!
way heavier/smarter/bigger etc• Oh, way bigger, said the older man with pride.
Origin way1
Old English weg
way1 noun
→10-19
→20-29
→30-45

→40-45
 →n COLLOCATIONS1 →n COLLOCATIONS2
→THESAURUS1 →SPOKEN PHRASES1Wayway2 adverbadv
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