concentrate是什么意思

详细释义

• 0 to direct your attention or your efforts towards a particular activity, subject, or problem -- 专注，专心；全神贯注；集中（注意力）

  • Come on, concentrate! We don't have all day to do this. 快点儿，集中注意力！我们可没有一整天时间来干这事。

  • I can't concentrate on my work with all that noise. 那么吵，我没法集中精力。

  • I find running concentrates the mind (= helps me to think). 我发现跑步能使我集中心思。

  • I'm going to concentrate on my writing for a while. 我要专心写作一会儿。

  • The company is concentrating (its resources) on developing new products. 公司正在集中力量开发新产品。

• 1 to bring or come together in a large number or amount in one particular area -- 集中；聚集；会集；集结

  • Most of the country's population is concentrated in the north. 该国的大多数人口都集中在北部。

  • In the dry season, the animals tend to concentrate in the areas where there is water. 在干旱的季节，动物常常聚集在有水的地区。

• 2 to make a liquid or substance stronger and reduce its size by removing water from it -- 使浓缩

• 3 a liquid from which some of the water has been removed -- 浓缩物；浓缩液

  • fruit-juice concentrate 浓缩果汁

  • a mineral concentrate 精矿