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n. 地位，关系；[法] 条款；术语；措辞；价钱（term的复数形式）
v. 把…称为（term的三单形式）

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Why couldn't Britain compete with some of its neighbouring countries in terms of food in the post-war decades?

It is invalid in terms of methodology

Excessive Internet use should be defined not by the number of hours spent online but "in terms of losses," said Maressa Orzack, a Harvard University professor.

They also took terms in watering, weeding and maintaining the plot.

Now, however, recent developments in electric vehicle technology mean they can match conventional petrol engines in terms of performance and safety

"The Greeks are always concerned about boxing themselves in, in terms of convictions (信念)," he says.

"This is Aesop, the fabulist, the man of these charming little tales, often told in terms of animals and animal relationships," he says.

According to a new Pew Research Center survey on women and leadership, most Americans find women indistinguishable from men on key leadership traits such as intelligence and capacity for innovation, with many saying they're stronger than men in terms of b

Genuine criticism creates a precious opening for an author to become better on his own terms— a process that is often extremely painful, but also almost always meaningful.

I might just have to review a few accountancy terms.

I think it will be very interesting to see what etiquette (礼仪) emerges in terms of whether you tell people you have a camera or not, and whether guests have a right to ask that it be tuned off, if it's not a security issue.

In a multi-state study of assisted living, for instance, University of North Carolina researchers found that a host of variables—the facility's type, size or age; whether achain owned it; how attractive the neighborhood was—had no significant relationship

In terms of class, digital divide exists among different types of workers and between the upper and middle classes and the lower class.

The nutritional and health crises that followed the policy of structural adjustment, he says, led to many children and teenagers failing to reach their full potential in terms of height.

To help quantify the costs of a poor diet, I recently tried to estimate this impact in terms of a most famous food, the burger.

A key process in interpersonal interaction is that of social comparison, in that we evaluate ourselves in terms of how we compare to others.

The child of tomorrow, I realized, may actually be ahead of us, in terms of sensing not what is new, but what is essential

When a noted leader on the art of management, Peter Drucker, coined the phrase "Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things," he was seeking to clarify the distinctions he associates with the terms.

What does the author think of UK universities in terms of commercialisation

One fifth of them were on bad terms with their sisters and brothers.

Throughout the body of the speech, Juan dealt only with the basic mechanics of the earthquakes and carefully avoid technical terms.

But thinking about or remembering descriptions in terms of their social meaning activated the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex—part of the brain's social network—even as traditional memory regions registered low levels of activity.

But we're on very good terms with all the shops.

Even when a tiny number grows by a large percentage terms, it is often still tiny.

External conditions also matter in terms of when and how often we lie.

From a political perspective, we need to understand the terms on which major countries like China and the USA might sign up to a global agreement because at the moment we don't have that consensus.

In order to make sure it doesn't control us,we should come to terms with the fact that it's more than the technology itself that's responsible for our habits.

In practical terms, the new guidelines being develop could result in doctors choosing one drug over another for cost reasons or even deciding that a particular treatment — at the end of life, for example — is too expensive.

Many dairy farmers were persuaded to switch to grass-fed when they saw its advantage in terms of profits.

One could therefore present Napoleon in terms of his desire to impress or Churchill in terms of his lonely gloom.

Several noted nutritionists and research projects have concluded that this diet is one of the most healthful in the world in terms of preventing such illnesses as heart disease and cancer, and increasing life expectancy.

So, we expect that the second part of the year will not be very good in terms of wage growth.

The report finds more than a quarter of the countries experienced flat or falling monthly wages in real terms.

The study also found that when subjects thought about and later recalled descriptions in terms of their informational content, regions associated with factual memory, such as the medial temporal lobe, became active.

Thoughts turn first to some sort of global statistic, some indicator which would rate the wealth of nations in both economic and environmental terms and show a relationship between the two.

Yudell said scientists need to get more specific with their language, perhaps using terms like "ancestry"or "population" that might more precisely reflect the relationship between humans and their genes, on both the individual and population level.

Arts as an economic driver our communities benefit from arts in terms of economy.

As their world expanded, she said, children compared themselves to others online in a way that was "hugely damaging in terms of their self-identity, in terms of their confidence, but also in terms of their ability to develop themselves".

Conclusion· With a large brain, human beings beat other beings in terms of intelligence.

I still have three terms to go until I'm done.

If properly administered, a kitemark on terms and conditions could help people know what exactly they are signing up to.

In a society that tends to measure everything in terms of dollars and cents, we learn form a young age to consider the costs of our decisions in financial terms.

Instead, he says, firms should provide a plain-English version of their terms.

It is to be had on no other terms.

Other European countries laid down a similar requirement for immigrants, and some terms are even tougher.

Project managers evaluate the performance of the team members in terms of what they produce for projects, rather than the amount of time they spend on them.

Surely small towns and big cities both have some problems in terms of transport.

The writer advises users of social media to read the terms and conditions even if there is a kitemark.

Translated into high school terms, this means that if everybody you hang around with is laughing at what John wore or what jane said, then you can bet that wearing or saying something similar will get you the same kind of negative attention.

If you and I parachuted back to Fortune 500 companies in 1990, we would see much less frequent use of terms like journey, mission, passion.

In many respects, the dearth of moral purpose frames not only the fact of such widespread phone hacking but the terms on which the trial took place .

It is often defined in terms of body mass index, or BMI.

More than half of all British scientific research is now published under open access terms: either freely available from the moment of publication, or paywalled for a year or more so that the publishers can make a profit before being placed on general rel

These terms are also intended to infuse work with meaning—and, as Rakesh Khurana, another professor, points out, increase allegiance to the firm.

"You have the importation of terminology that historically used to be associated with non-profit organizations and religious organizations: terms like vision, values, passion, and purpose, " said Khurana.