单词
threshold
读音
ˈθreʃhoʊld
美式
英式
词根
"Threshold" 可以被拆分为 "thresh-" 和 "-old"。古英语中的 "thresh-" 代表 "threshing" 或 "separate grain from husks", 而 "-old" 的用法没有被明确定义。虽然我们不能从词根去理解 "threshold" 的含义,但通过了解历史和文化背景,我们可以理解为何 "threshold" 用于描述 "doorway"。
释义
n. 入口;门槛;开始;极限;临界值
例句
He stepped across the threshold.
他迈过门槛。
She felt as though she was on the threshold of a new life.
她觉得好像就要开始新生活了。
The threshold for regulation is high.
监管的门槛很高。
He stepped across the threshold.
他迈过门槛。
She felt as though she was on the threshold of a new life.
她觉得好像就要开始新生活了。
The threshold for regulation is high.
监管的门槛很高。
强化记忆
你可以尝试通过故事的方式记忆这个词,比如:你站在家里的门口(threshold),金色的阳光从门外洒进来,你即将跨出这个"门槛",踏上新的旅程,开始新的"起点"。在早期的社会中,人们会在家门口洒一些禾草来抵挡风沙和寒冷,为了防止禾草被踩扁或被风吹走,人们在门口设置了一个门槛(threshold)。这也是 "threshold" 的最早含义,即物理意义上的"门槛"。而当 "threshold" 被用于比喻情景时,则表达的是某种东西的"界限"或"起始点"的含义。
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and at some point, when you overshoot,you cross a threshold, and it's that thresholdwhere we say, this is a person who has this disease,
those last tens of millions will have been raised upabove that threshold.So it's a miracle, actually, in our lifetime.
to have access to electricity by the year 2030.This binary threshold, however,ignores the quality, reliability or utility of the power,
You’ve got to think about your setup, your machine, the person’s skin,the person's pain threshold.The list goes on, and it’s very overwhelming.
But it also means people lose access as soon as they earn morethan the qualification threshold,regardless of whether or not they're financially stable enough to stay there.
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