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topic [ 'tɔpik] n.题目,论题,话题

topic ['tɔpik] n. 题目,话题

topic ['tɔpik] 题目

Weather a large family is a good thing or not is a very popular topic, which is often talked about not only by city residents but by farmers as well.
家庭人口多好还是家庭人口少好是一个非常通俗的主题,不仅是城里人,而且农民都经常讨论这个问题。

I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.
我把自己这点知识归因于不耻于提问,归因于常常与各种各样的人谈论那些造成了他们各自专业与行当的主题。

The hydrologic cycle, a major topic in this science, is the complete cycle of phenomena through which water passes, beginning as atmospheric water vapor, passing into liquid and solid form as precipitation, thence along and into the ground surface, and finally again returning to the form of atmospheric water vapor by means of evaporation and transpiration.
水文地质循环是这一科学里面的一个重要课题,它是水的完全循环过程。这一过程从水蒸汽开始中,以降水量的形式成为液态或者固态水,这样就到了地表,最后又通过蒸发或者散发方式回到水蒸汽的状态。

The topic centers on the crisis in these two countries.
话题以那两个国家的危机为中心。

Our conversation ranged over many topics.
我们的谈话涉及很多话题。

I like to have a man's knowledge comprehend more than one class of topics, one row of shelves. I like a man who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, American thinker  
我希望人的知识不限于一类题目、一排书架。我既喜欢看一个好谷仓,也喜欢欣赏一出好悲剧。
美国思想家、爱默生。R. W.

阐述 [chǎn shù] /expound (a position)/elaborate (on a topic)/

反面 [fǎn miàn] /(n) the reverse side of sth/(n) the opposite side of some topic/(n) the other side/

话题 [huà tí] /subject (of a talk or conversation)/topic/

来看 [lái kàn] /(v) interpret a topic from a certain point of view/

来说 [lái shuō] /(v) interpret a topic from a certain point of view/

论题 [lùn tí] /topic/

命题 [mìng tí] /(v) assign a topic for an essay/

涉及 [shè jí] /involve/touch upon (a topic)/

讨论的议题 [tǎo lún de yì tí] /topic of discussion/

题 [tí] /topic/subject/to inscribe/to superscribe/

题目 [tí mù] /subject/title/topic/

问题 [wèn tí] /problem/issue/topic/

议题 [yì tí] /topic of discussion/topic/subject/issue (under discussion)/

{adj: current} occurring in or belonging to the present time
"current events"
"the current topic"
"current negotiations"
"current psychoanalytic theories"
"the ship's current position"
<-> noncurrent

{adj: hot} extended meanings; especially of psychological heat; marked by intensity or vehemence especially of passion or enthusiasm
"a hot temper"
"a hot topic"
"a hot new book"
"a hot love affair"
"a hot argument"
<-> cold

{adj: likely} has a good chance of being the case or of coming about
"these services are likely to be available to us all before long"
"she is likely to forget"
"a likely place for a restaurant"
"the broken limb is likely to fall"
"rain is likely"
"a likely topic for investigation"
"likely candidates for the job"
<-> unlikely

{adj: meaty, substantive} being on topic and prompting thought
"a meaty discussion"

{adj: present} temporal sense; intermediate between past and future; now existing or happening or in consideration
"the present leader"
"articles for present use"
"the present topic"
"the present system"
"present observations"
<-> future, past

{adj: thematic} relating to or constituting a topic of discourse

{adj: topical} of or relating to or arranged by topics
"a detailed record on both a chronological and a topical basis"

{adj: unmentionable} unsuitable or forbidden as a topic of conversation
"unmentionable words"

{adv: by the way, by the bye, incidentally} introducing a different topic
"by the way, I won't go to the party"

{adv: descriptively} by giving a description
"these topics need to be treated not just descriptively"

{adv: popularly} among the people
"this topic was popularly discussed"

{adv: tenthly} (in enumerating something, such as topics or points of discussion) in the tenth place

{n: FAQ} a list of questions that are frequently asked (about a given topic) along with their answers

{n: Renaissance man} a scholar during the Renaissance who (because knowledge was limited) could know almost everything about many topics

{n: arrangement, organization, organisation, system} an organized structure for arranging or classifying
"he changed the arrangement of the topics"
"the facts were familiar but it was in the organization of them that he was original"
"he tried to understand their system of classification"

{n: bird's eye view, panoramic view} a situation or topic as if viewed from an altitude or distance

{n: breadth, comprehensiveness, largeness} the capacity to understand a broad range of topics
"a teacher must have a breadth of knowledge of the subject"
"a man distinguished by the largeness and scope of his views"

{n: capitulation} a summary that enumerates the main parts of a topic

{n: chat room, chatroom} a site on the internet where a number of users can communicate in real time (typically one dedicated to a particular topic)

{n: colloquium} an academic meeting or seminar usually led by a different lecturer and on a different topic at each meeting

{n: conference, group discussion} a discussion among participants who have an agreed (serious) topic

{n: consideration} a discussion of a topic (as in a meeting)
"consideration of the traffic problem took more than an hour"

{n: dilation} a lengthy discussion (spoken or written) on a particular topic

{n: discussion, give-and-take, word} an exchange of views on some topic
"we had a good discussion"
"we had a word or two about it"

{n: discussion, treatment, discourse} an extended communication (often interactive) dealing with some particular topic
"the book contains an excellent discussion of modal logic"
"his treatment of the race question is badly biased"

{n: encyclopedia, cyclopedia, encyclopaedia, cyclopaedia} a reference work (often in several volumes) containing articles on various topics (often arranged in alphabetical order) dealing with the entire range of human knowledge or with some particular specialty

{n: expatiation} a discussion (spoken or written) that enlarges on a topic or theme at length or in detail

{n: expert witness} a witness who has knowledge not normally possessed by the average person concerning the topic that he is to testify about
<-> lay witness

{n: exposition, expounding} a systematic interpretation or explanation (usually written) of a specific topic

{n: frontier} an undeveloped field of study; a topic inviting research and development
"he worked at the frontier of brain science"

{n: gasbag, windbag} a boring person who talks a great deal about uninteresting topics

{n: grey area, gray area} an intermediate area; a topic that is not clearly one thing or the other

{n: hard news} news that deals with serious topics or events

{n: hobbyhorse} a topic to which one constantly reverts
"don't get him started on his hobbyhorse"

{n: homily, preachment} a sermon on a moral or religious topic

{n: hot potato} a difficult situation
"he dropped the topic like a hot potato"

{n: index} an alphabetical listing of names and topics along with page numbers where they are discussed

{n: list, listing} a database containing an ordered array of items (names or topics)

{n: memoir} an essay on a scientific or scholarly topic

{n: position, view, perspective} a way of regarding situations or topics etc.
"consider what follows from the positivist view"

{n: press corps} a group of journalists representing different publications who all cover the same topics
"the White House press corps"

{n: reconsideration} a consideration of a topic (as in a meeting) with a view to changing an earlier decision

{n: reference book, reference, reference work, book of facts} a book to which you can refer for authoritative facts
"he contributed articles to the basic reference work on that topic"

{n: refresher course, refresher} a course that reviews and updates a topic for those who have not kept abreast of developments

{n: sage} a mentor in spiritual and philosophical topics who is renowned for profound wisdom

{n: skinny} confidential information about a topic or person
"he wanted the inside skinny on the new partner"

{n: soft news} news that does not deal with serious topics or events

{n: special} a television production that features a particular person or work or topic
"the last of a series of BBC specials on Iran is being shown tonight"

{n: subject, topic, theme} the subject matter of a conversation or discussion
"he didn't want to discuss that subject"
"it was a very sensitive topic"
"his letters were always on the theme of love"

{n: symposium} a meeting or conference for the public discussion of some topic especially one in which the participants form an audience and make presentations

{n: talk show, chat show} a program during which well-known people discuss a topic or answer questions telephoned in by the audience
"in England they call a talk show a chat show"

{n: topic sentence} a sentence that states the topic of its paragraph

{n: topic, subject, issue, matter} some situation or event that is thought about
"he kept drifting off the topic"
"he had been thinking about the subject for several years"
"it is a matter for the police"

{n: topicalization} (linguistics) emphasis placed on the topic or focus of a sentence by preposing it to the beginning of the sentence; placing the topic at the beginning of the sentence is typical for English
"`Those girls, they giggle when they see me' and `Cigarettes, you couldn't pay me to smoke them' are examples of topicalization"

{n: transition} a passage that connects a topic to one that follows

{v: broach, initiate} bring up a topic for discussion

{v: churn out} produce something at a fast rate
"He churns out papers, but they are all about the same topic"

{v: discourse, dissertate} talk or hold forth formally about a topic
"The speaker dissertated about the social politics in 18th century England"

{v: fill in} supply with information on a specific topic
"He filled me in on the latest developments"

{v: leap, jump} pass abruptly from one state or topic to another
"leap into fame"
"jump to a conclusion"

{v: raise, bring up} put forward for consideration or discussion
"raise the question of promotions"
"bring up an unpleasant topic"

{v: write on, write of, write about} write about a particular topic
"Snow wrote about China"

The newspaper advice column " Dear Abby " appears in more than 1,000 newspapers, and over the years has tried to give answers to people seeking help with such topics as marriage, troublesome children, sex, work, religion, problems with drugs and so on.
忠告栏 "亲爱的艾比 ",见诸于 1000多种报纸,其作者多年来一直在努力答复那些就婚姻、恼人的孩子、性、工作、宗教和毒品等问题写信求助的人。

She tackles the topics which come her way large and small, intense and light-hearted with equal parts of serious advice, reference to social and psychological experts, and a good helping of wit.
安处理她所遇到的任何问题-无论是大是小,激烈的还是轻松的-时,都会参照社会及心理专家的意见提出同样严肃的建议,同时又不乏机智。

" A hot topic down the road, " Coffey said, will be whether education even late in life has a protective effect against mental decline.
科菲认为, "接下来要解决的热门话题 "是接受较晚的教育是否具有防止智力衰退的攻效。

I often find myself reading with interest about a topic that I never thought would interest me--some unusual scientific quest, for instance.
我常常发现我自己饶有兴趣地读着一个我从未想到会使我感兴趣的题目-比如,某个不同寻常的科学调查。

But we should recognise that human reproduction is a sensitive topic and a new method that has an impact on human reproduction will always be greeted with fear and revulsion by the majority who have no problems procreating.
但是,我们应该承认,人类的繁殖是一个敏感的话题,而一个对人类的繁殖产生影响的新方法也总是会引起没有生育问题的大多数人的担心和厌恶。

We also reviewed the scientific research literature on self-change, a topic that behavioral scientists began to explore in earnest in the 1960s.
我们还回顾了有关改变自我的科学研究文献。早在 20世纪 60年代,改变自我就是行为科学家开始认真探索的课题。

Most are searchable by topic as well as by keyword and author, but even after I rummaged through the relevant categories( Anger, Guilt, etc. ), none of them actually gave me the exact quote I was looking for, although many offered me something equally germane instead.
在这些网站,大多可以依据话题、关键词和作者查找相关引语。我在这些网站根据各种主题(生气、愧疚等)查来查去,最终还是没有成功。当然,不少网站还是提供了一些相关内容。

World room provides comprehensive detail on a variety of topics, from the best restaurant in which to clinch a deal to weekend escapes from each city.
Worldroom 网站收录了众多话题的详细信息,从适合商业谈判的高级餐馆到周末理想的度假地,应有尽有。

And seminars, those mainstays of the management advice business, have been given on the same topic.
还有讲座──管理咨询业的台柱──讲的都是这同一个话题。

The hydrologic cycle, a major topic in this science, is the complete cycle of phenomena through which water passes, beginning as atmospheric water vapor, passing into liquid and solid form as precipitation, thence along and into the ground surface, and finally again returning to the form of atmospheric water vapor by means of evaporation and transpiration.  
水文循环(hydrologic cycle),作为该学科中的一个主要课题,指的是水所经过的诸现象的整个循环过程,开始时是作为大气中的水蒸气,转而作为雨、雪、露、雹一类的降水量经过液体和固体形态,由此而沿着地层表面分布或进入地层表面,最终通过蒸发和散发作用再度回复到大气水蒸气的形态。

The isotopic composition of lead often varies from one source of common copper ore to another, with variations exceeding the measurement error; and preliminary studies indicate virtually uniform is topic composition of the lead from a single copper-ore source.
铅的同位素构成经常在一种普通铜矿石来源与另一种铜矿石来源之间存在差异,其差异程度超出测量误差;而最初的研究表明,对于来自单独一个铜矿石来源的铅来说,其同位素构成几乎是毫无二致的。

Dr. Alan Rubin has written a number of books on diabetes-related topics. He said the connection between insulin resistance and diets rich in fat has long been suspected. "They wanted to have a study, which very clearly showed that there was something going on in the fast food that pointed to insulin resistance, and I think this study does a very good job of doing that," he said.
艾伦.罗宾博士已经写了很多和糖尿病有关的书籍。他表示把抗性胰岛素和食用含有大量脂肪的饮食联系起来是长期受到质疑的。他说:"他们想要用一项研究清晰的表明快餐与抗性胰岛素有着某种联系,并且我认为这项研究已经很好的证实了这一观点。"

……已成为人的关注的热门话题,特别是在年青人当中,将引发激烈的辩论。
______ has become a hot topic among people,especially among the young and heated debates are right on their way.


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