ground是什么意思

详细释义

• 0 the surface of the earth -- 地，地面

  • I sat down on the ground. 我坐在地上。

  • soft/stony ground 鬆軟的／滿是石頭的土地

  • The ground was frozen hard and was impossible to dig. 土地凍實了，根本挖不動。

  • a football ground 足球場

  • The lake has become a dumping ground for toxic chemicals. 這個湖成了傾斜有毒化學物品的地方。

  • skills learnt on the training ground (= place where sports teams practise) 在訓練場上學到的技巧

  • We went for a walk around the hospital grounds. 我們在醫院的院子裡散步走了幾圈。

• 1 a reason, cause, or argument -- 原因，根據，理由

  • She is suing the company on grounds of unfair dismissal. 她正以公司不公正解僱她為由對其提起訴訟。

  • UK Do you have any ground for suspecting them? 你有甚麼證據懷疑他們？

  • [ + to infinitive ] We have grounds to believe that you have been lying to us. 我們有理由相信，你一直在對我們撒謊。

  • [ + that ] He refused to answer on the grounds that the question violated his rights to privacy. 他以個人隱私被侵犯為由拒絕作出答覆。

• 2 an area of knowledge or experience -- （知識、經驗等的）領域，範圍；學科

  • When the conversation turns to politics he's on familiar ground (= he knows a lot about this subject). 當談話轉向政治時，他便如魚得水。

  • Once we'd found some common ground (= things we both knew about) we got along very well together. 在找到一些共同語言之後，我們開始相處融洽了。

  • The lectures covered a lot of ground (= included information on many different subjects). 這些演講涵蓋了眾多學科的內容。

  • I enjoyed her first novel, but I felt in the second she was going over the same ground (= dealing with the same area of experience). 我很喜歡她的第一部小說，但是我覺得她的第二部小說涉及的是同樣的題材。

• 3 a wire that makes a connection between a piece of electrical equipment and the ground, so the user is protected from feeling an electric shock if the equipment develops a fault -- 地線

• 4 the small grains of coffee left at the bottom of a cup or other container that has had coffee in it -- 咖啡渣

• 5 past simple and past participle of grind -- （grind的過去式及過去分詞）

• 6 If a ship is grounded, it cannot move because it has hit solid ground. -- 使（船）擱淺

  • The oil tanker was grounded on a sandbank. 油輪擱淺在一片沙灘上。

  • The snowstorm meant that all planes were grounded. 這場暴風雪導致航班全部停飛。

• 7 to forbid (= refuse to allow) a child or young person from going out as a punishment -- 罰（孩子）不許出門

  • My parents grounded me for a week. 我爸媽罰我一星期不准出門。

• 8 to connect a piece of electrical equipment to the ground with a wire -- 把（電線）接地

  • You could get a nasty shock from that water heater if it isn't grounded properly. 如果電熱水器接地不良的話，可能會發生很嚴重的觸電事故。

• 9 to be based firmly on something -- 根據，基於

  • Fiction should be grounded in reality. 小說應該以現實生活為基礎。

  • Most phobias are grounded in childhood experiences. 大多數的恐懼症都源於兒時的經歷。