六级I’m going to define what love is, but then most of the experiments I’m going to talk about are really focused more on attraction than love.

我将要定义什么是爱，但我将要谈论的大多数实验实际上更多地关注吸引力而不是爱。

2016年12月听力原文

考研France, which prides itself as the global innovator of fashion, has decided its fashion industry has lost an absolute right to define physical beauty for women.

以全球时尚创新者而自豪的法国已经决定，其时尚产业已经失去了为女性定义形体美的绝对权利。

2016年考研阅读原文

高考On the other hand, Ericsson(1993) suggests that the most effective learning occurs through involvement in highly structured activities defined as deliberate practice.

另一方面，Ericsson（1993）认为，最有效的学习是通过参与被定义为刻意练习的高度结构化的活动。

2015年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读表达 原文

六级a basis for explaining human genetic diversityan aid to understanding different populationsan explanation for social and cultural differencesa term to describe individual human characteristicsmodern genetics research is likely to fuel racial conflictsrace is a poorly defined marker of human genetic diversityrace as a biological term can explain human genetic diversitygenetics research should consider social and cultural variablesit is absolutely necessary to put race aside in making diagnosisit is important to include social variables in genetics researchracial categories for genetic diversity could lead to wrong clinical predictionsdiscrimination against black people may cause negligence in clinical treatmentThey be more precise with the language they use.

解释人类遗传多样性的基础有助于理解不同的人群解释社会和文化差异描述人类个体特征的术语现代遗传学研究可能助长种族冲突种族是人类遗传多样性的一个定义不清的标记种族作为一个生物学术语可以解释人类遗传多样性遗传学研究应考虑到社会和文化的差异，在诊断中必须将种族放在一边，在遗传学中包含社会变量是很重要的。研究遗传类别的遗传多样性可能导致错误的临床预测。临床治疗中的疏忽他们使用的语言更加精确。

2016年12月阅读原文

四级Seventy percent of girls aged 10 to 18 report that they define perfect body image based on what they see in magazines.

70%的10-18岁女孩表示，她们根据在杂志上看到的东西来定义完美的身体形象。

2016年12月阅读原文

考研It was not until the mid-1980s, when amplifying age and sex differences became a dominant children's marketing strategy, that pink fully came into its own, when it began to seem inherently attractive to girls, part of what defined them as female, at least

直到20世纪80年代中期，扩大年龄和性别差异成为儿童的主要营销策略，粉红色才完全形成了自己的风格，开始对女孩具有天生的吸引力，至少是女性的一部分

2012年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

高考If acceptable social behavior is too strictly defined and controlled, the insensitive or aggressive behavior that administrators are seeking to minimize may actually be encouraged.

如果对可接受的社会行为的定义和控制过于严格，那么管理者试图最小化的不敏感或攻击性行为实际上可能会受到鼓励。

2016年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

六级Twenty years ago, the Urban Land Institute defined the two types of cities that dominated the US landscape: smaller cities that operated around standard 9-5 business hours and large metropolitan areas that ran all 24 hours of the day.

20年前，城市土地研究所（Urban Land Institute）定义了主导美国景观的两类城市：大约9-5个工作小时的小城市和全天24小时运行的大城市。

2017年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

四级If it is hard enough to define a team's membership, agreeing on its purpose is harder still.

如果很难确定团队成员，那么就更难达成一致。

2017年6月阅读原文

六级Michael Yudell, a professor of public health at Drexel University in Philadelphia, said that modern genetics research is operating in a paradox: on the one hand, race is understood to be a useful tool to illuminate human genetic diversity, but on the other hand, race is also understood to be a poorly defined marker of that diversity.

费城德雷塞尔大学公共卫生教授迈克尔·尤德尔（Michael Yudell）说，现代遗传学研究正处于一个悖论中：一方面，种族被认为是阐明人类遗传多样性的有用工具，但另一方面，种族也被认为是多样性的一个定义不明确的标志。

2016年12月阅读原文

四级The-doctors response to the question of whether or not dogs can fall in love like humans do was a straight "Of course!" He went on to say that if love is defined as a long term commitment meaning dogs seek one another out when they're apart, they're happy

对于狗是否能像人类一样坠入爱河的问题，医生们的回答是“当然！”他接着说，如果爱被定义为一种长期的承诺，意味着狗在分开时会彼此寻找，那么它们是幸福的

2019年12月四级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

考研“So few authors have brains enough or literary gift enough to keep their own end up in journalism,” Newman wrote,“that I am tempted to define‘journalism’ as‘a term of contempt applied by writers who are not read to writers who are'.

纽曼写道：“很少有作家有足够的头脑或文学天赋来维持自己在新闻界的地位，因此我很想把‘新闻’定义为‘不被阅读的作家对被阅读的作家的蔑视’。

2010年考研阅读原文

考研We define such sold media as owned media whose traffic is so strong that other organizations place their content or e-commerce engines within that environment.

我们将此类售出媒体定义为自有媒体，其流量如此之大，以至于其他组织将其内容或电子商务引擎置于该环境中。

2011年考研阅读原文

高考Desktop computers, basic mobile phones, and box-set TVs defined 1992.

1992年定义的台式计算机、基本移动电话和盒式电视机。

2018年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

考研They suggest beauty should not be defined by looks that end up impinging on health.

他们建议，美貌不应该以最终影响健康的外表来定义。

2016年考研阅读原文

四级Norms define how people " ought" to behave under particular circumstances in a particular society.

规范定义了人们在特定社会的特定环境下“应该”如何行为。

2013年12月听力原文

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

它通常用体重指数（BMI）来定义。

2014年考研真题（英语二）完形填空 Section Ⅰ

六级The Wallaces, both children of church ministers, had a clearly defined formula for their "little magazine", as Reader's digest was originally subtitled.

华莱士夫妇都是教会牧师的孩子，他们的“小杂志”有一个明确的公式，正如《读者文摘》最初的副标题所示。

2018年6月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

四级The length of the workday, for many workers, is defined by time.

对于许多工人来说，工作日的长短是由时间决定的。

2015年12月阅读原文

考研One reason for the persistence of this pyramid of production is that for the past half-century, much of the world's media culture has been defined by a single medium - television - and television is defined by downloading.

这种金字塔式的生产方式持续存在的一个原因是，在过去的半个世纪里，世界上的许多媒体文化都是由单一媒体——电视——定义的，而电视则是通过下载来定义的。

2012年考研阅读原文

考研Beethoven’s importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions.

贝多芬在音乐中的重要性主要是由他的作品的革命性决定的。

2014年考研翻译原文

六级Resurrection plants, defined as those capable of recovering from holding less than 0.1 grams of water per gram of dry mass, are different.

复活植物，定义为那些能够从每克干物质含水量少于0.1克的情况下恢复的植物，是不同的。

2018年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

高考They would define the driver's role in such cars and govern how such cars perform in crashes where lives might be lost.

他们将定义驾驶员在此类车辆中的角色，并控制此类车辆在可能造成人员伤亡的碰撞中的表现。

2017年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

考研In other words, at a time when the working class has turned the country on its political head, frustrated that the opportunity that once defined America is vanishing, one obvious solution is staring us in the face.

换句话说，当工人阶级改变了国家的政治方向，对曾经定义美国的机会正在消失感到沮丧时，一个显而易见的解决方案就摆在我们面前。

2018年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

考研first generation was defined as not having a parent with a four-year college degree.

第一代被定义为父母没有四年大学学历。

2015年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

考研The concept of sustainable development has been defined as profitable.

可持续发展的概念被定义为有利可图。

2016年考研阅读原文

考研Of even greater concern is the fact that obesity turns out to be very difficult to define.

更令人担忧的是，事实证明肥胖很难定义。

2014年考研真题（英语二）完形填空 Section Ⅰ

考研So few authors have brains enough or literary gift enough to keep their own end up in journalism. Newman wrote that "I am tempted to define ‘journalism' as a term of contempt applied by writers who are not read to writers who are."

因此，很少有作家有足够的头脑或文学天赋，能够在新闻界保持自己的地位。纽曼写道：“我很想把‘新闻业’定义为一个蔑视的术语，不被阅读的作家用在那些被阅读的作家身上。”

2010年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

考研Of course, it is precisely these superfluous things that define human culture and ultimately what it is to be human.

当然，正是这些多余的东西定义了人类文化，并最终定义了什么是人类。

2012年考研阅读原文

考研Of course, it is precisely these superfluous things that define human culture and ultimately what it is to be human.

当然，正是这些多余的东西定义了人类文化，并最终定义了什么是人类。

2012年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

考研One reason for the persistence of this pyramid of production is that for the past half-century, much of the world's media culture has been defined by a single medium - television - and television is defined by downloading.

这种金字塔式的生产方式持续存在的一个原因是，在过去的半个世纪里，世界上的许多媒体文化都是由单一媒体——电视——定义的，而电视则是通过下载来定义的。

2012年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

考研One reason for the persistence of this pyramid of production is that for the past half-century, much of the world's media culture has been defined by a single medium—television—and television is defined by downloading.

这种生产金字塔持续存在的一个原因是，在过去的半个世纪里，世界上的许多媒体文化都是由单一媒体电视定义的，而电视是通过下载定义的。

2012年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

四级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.

哈佛大学教授马雷萨·奥扎克（Maressa Orzack）说，过度使用互联网不应该用上网时间来定义，而应该用“损失”来定义。

2010年6月阅读原文

六级Once you have started the boulder rolling, it develops momentum, which is defined by its mass and velocity.

一旦你开始巨石滚动，它就会产生动量，这是由它的质量和速度决定的。

2015年12月阅读原文

六级Humanistic thinking helps define our culture and values.

人文思维有助于定义我们的文化和价值观。

2010年12月阅读原文

六级But try to imagine our world as well without the remarkable works that have defined our culture and values.

但是，试着想象一下，如果没有那些定义了我们的文化和价值观的杰出作品，我们的世界也会怎样。

2010年12月阅读原文

六级I'm going to define what love is, but then most of the experiments I'm going to talk about are really focused more on attraction than love.

我将要定义什么是爱，但我将要谈论的大多数实验实际上更多地关注吸引力而不是爱。

2016年12月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

六级So how would you define Jazz?

那么你如何定义爵士乐呢？

2019年12月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section A

四级The difference lies in whether the project is in a sense defined and developed by the student or whether it's assigned by a teacher.

区别在于项目是由学生定义和开发的，还是由老师指定的。

2019年6月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

六级The Affluent Society is a modern classic because it helped define a new moment in the human condition.

《富裕社会》是现代经典，因为它帮助定义了人类状况的一个新时刻。

2007年6月英语六级真题

四级Oceanography has been defined as “The application of all sciences to the study of the sea”.

海洋学被定义为“将所有科学应用于海洋研究”。

1990年1月英语四级真题

四级” Such beliefs stem from the tendency of people to allow the third event to define the time period.

“这种信念源于人们倾向于允许第三个事件来定义时间段。

1995年1月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级But Agreement ceases as soon as we attempt to define “wisdom” and consider means of promoting it.

但一旦我们试图定义“智慧”并考虑促进它的方法，协议就停止了。

1995年1月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级They help us to define and understand our problems and find solutions to them.

它们帮助我们定义和理解我们的问题，并找到解决方案。

2000年6月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级In fact, today, experts define office politics as proper behavior used to pursue one’s own self-interest in the workplace.

事实上，今天，专家们将办公室政治定义为在工作场所追求自身利益的适当行为。

2004年6月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级We all define fun differently, of course, but I can guarantee this: If you put just a bit of it into your day, you energy will increase quickly.

当然，我们对乐趣的定义各不相同，但我可以保证：如果你在一天中只投入一点，你的能量就会迅速增加。

2006年12月大学英语新四级(CET-4)真题

四级These images have helped define the way all women are viewed, including Michelle Obama.

这些照片帮助定义了人们对所有女性的看法，包括米歇尔·奥巴马。

2009年12月大学英语四级考试真题

四级But innovation, broadly defined, is the crucial ingredient in all economic progress—higher growth for nations, more competitive products for companies, and more prosperous careers for individuals.

但广义上讲，创新是所有经济进步的关键因素——国家的增长更高，公司的产品更具竞争力，个人的职业生涯更繁荣。

2015年6月大学英语四级考试真题（第3套)

四级"Seventy percent of girls aged 10 to 18 report that they define perfect body image based on what they see in magazines. "

“70%的10岁至18岁的女孩表示，她们根据在杂志上看到的内容来定义完美的身体形象。”

2016年12月大学英语四级真题（第2套）

四级If it is hard enough to define a team’s membership, agreeing on its purpose is harder still.

如果定义一个团队的成员已经够难的了，那么就其目的达成一致就更难了。

2017年6月大学英语四级真题（第2套）

四级The difference lies in whether the project is in a sense defined and developed by the student or whether it’s assigned by a teacher.

区别在于这个项目在某种意义上是由学生定义和开发的，还是由老师分配的。

2019年6月大学英语四级真题（第3套）

四级In 1979, a National Academy of Sciences report used the term “global warming” to define increases in the Earth’s average surface temperature, while “climate change” more broadly re-ferred to the numerous effects of this increase，such as sea-level rise and ocean acidification(酸化).

1979年，美国国家科学院的一份报告使用“全球变暖”一词来定义地球平均表面温度的上升，而“气候变化”更广泛地指的是这种上升的众多影响，如海平面上升和海洋酸化(酸化).

2020年12月大学英语四级真题（第3套）

考研You can define the excessive speed of a motor-car in terms of a pointer reading on a speedometer.

你可以根据速度表上的指针读数来定义汽车的超速。

1981年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题

考研But can you define excessive noise in the same way?

但你能用同样的方式定义过度噪音吗？

1981年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题

考研Although everyone more or less knows what noise is, i. e. , it is sounds that one would rather not hear, it is perhaps best to define it more precisely for scientific purposes.

虽然每个人或多或少都知道噪音是什么，也就是说，它是人们不愿意听到的声音，但为了科学目的，最好更准确地定义它。

1988年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题

考研Accountability isn’t hard to define.

责任并不难定义。

1991年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题

考研In general, the tests work most effectively when the qualities to be measured can be most precisely defined and least effectively when what is to be measured or predicted cannot be well defined.

一般来说，当要测量的质量可以最精确地定义时，测试最有效，而当要测量或预测的内容不能很好地定义时则最无效。

1995年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题

考研Reporters tend to be part of a broadly defined social and cultural elite, so their work tends to reflect the conventional values of this elite.

记者往往是广义的社会和文化精英的一部分，因此他们的工作往往反映了这一精英的传统价值观。

2001年全国攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试英语试题

考研Tylor defined culture as “…that complex whole which includes belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society.

泰勒将文化定义为“……一个复杂的整体，包括信仰、艺术、道德、法律、习俗以及人类作为社会成员所获得的任何其他能力和习惯。

2003年全国攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试英语试题

考研I shall define him as an individual who has elected as his primary duty and pleasure in life the activity of thinking in a Socratic (苏格拉底) way about moral problems.

我将把他定义为一个选择苏格拉底式思维活动作为其主要职责和生活乐趣的人(苏格拉底) 道德问题的方式。

2006年全国硕士研究生招生考试英语试题