course

noun

1. a mode of action

e.g. if you persist in that course you will surely fail
once a nation is embarked on a course of action it becomes extremely difficult for any retraction to take place

Synonym: course of action

2. education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings

e.g. he took a course in basket weaving
flirting is not unknown in college classes

Synonym: course of studycourse of instructionclass

3. facility consisting of a circumscribed area of land or water laid out for a sport

e.g. the course had only nine holes
the course was less than a mile

4. (construction) a layer of masonry

e.g. a course of bricks

Synonym: row

5. part of a meal served at one time

e.g. she prepared a three course meal

6. a body of students who are taught together

e.g. early morning classes are always sleepy

Synonym: classformgrade

7. a connected series of events or actions or developments

e.g. the government took a firm course
historians can only point out those lines for which evidence is available

Synonym: line

8. general line of orientation

e.g. the river takes a southern course
the northeastern trend of the coast

Synonym: trend

9. a line or route along which something travels or moves

e.g. the hurricane demolished houses in its path
the track of an animal
the course of the river

Synonym: pathtrack

verb

1. hunt with hounds

e.g. He often courses hares

2. move along, of liquids

e.g. Water flowed into the cave
the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi

Synonym: runflowfeed

3. move swiftly through or over

e.g. ships coursing the Atlantic

adv

1. as might be expected

e.g. naturally, the lawyer sent us a huge bill

Synonym: naturallyof course

1. 当然(在英语口语中常用于代替 of course)
Course is often used in the expression 'of course', or instead of 'of course' in informal spoken English. See 见 of course .

2. (尤指船或飞机的)航向，航线，路线
The course of a vehicle, especially a ship or aircraft, is the route along which it is travelling.

e.g. Aircraft can avoid each other by going up and down, as well as by altering course to left or right...
飞机可以通过上下升降和左右移动改变航线来避免相撞。
e.g. The tug was seaward of the Hakai Passage on a course that diverged from the Calvert Island coastline.
托船驶离卡尔弗特岛海岸朝哈凯航道驶去。

3. 行为方式;处理方式
A course of action is an action or a series of actions that you can do in a particular situation.

e.g. My best course of action was to help Gill by being loyal, loving and endlessly sympathetic...
我能给吉尔的最大帮助就是对他忠诚、关爱他并且永远满怀同情之心。
e.g. He must fall on his sword. That's the only course left open to him...
他必须面对失败，他唯有这一条路走。

4. 进程;发展的方向
You can refer to the way that events develop as, for example, the course of history or the course of events .

course的反义词

e.g. ...a series of decisive naval battles which altered the course of history...
改变历史进程的一系列决定性的海战
e.g. In the natural course of events cows would wish to be milked more than twice a day...
按照事情发展的自然规律，母牛每天应该挤奶两次以上。

5. (某科目的)课程，讲座
A course is a series of lessons or lectures on a particular subject.

e.g. ...a course in business administration...
企业管理课程
e.g. I'm shortly to begin a course on the modern novel.
我不久将要选修一门现代小说课程。

6. 疗程
A course of medical treatment is a series of treatments that a doctor gives someone.

e.g. Treatment is supplemented with a course of antibiotics to kill the bacterium...
治疗期间辅以一个疗程的抗生素注射来杀灭细菌。
e.g. She went to her doctor, who offered to put her on a course of tranquillizers.
她去看医生，医生建议她服用一个疗程的镇静剂。

7. 一道菜
A course is one part of a meal.

e.g. The lunch was excellent, especially the first course.
午餐很棒，尤其是第一道菜。
e.g. ...a three-course dinner.
有3道菜的晚餐

8. (体育)比赛场地;高尔夫球场
In sport, a course is an area of land where races are held or golf is played, or the land over which a race takes place.

e.g. Only 12 seconds separated the first three riders on the Bickerstaffe course...
比科斯达夫赛场上的前3名骑手之间只差12秒。
e.g. In July comes the Tour de France, when 200 cyclists cover a course of 2,000 miles.
7月份迎来了环法自行车赛，200名自行车选手要骑行2,000英里的赛程。

9. 河道
The course of a river is the channel along which it flows.

e.g. Romantic chateaux and castles overlook the river's twisting course.
富有浪漫气息的庄园和城堡俯瞰着蜿蜒的河道。

10. 快速地流动;奔流
If a liquid courses somewhere, it flows quickly.

e.g. The tears coursed down his cheeks...
他泪如雨下。
e.g. When you're sitting still, you need less blood coursing through your arteries.
静坐时动脉血液流动较缓。

11. 在…过程中
If something happens in the course of a particular period of time, it happens during that period of time.

e.g. In the course of the 1930s steel production in Britain approximately doubled...
在20世纪30年代，英国的钢铁产量几乎翻了一番。
e.g. We struck up a conversation, in the course of which it emerged that he was a sailing man.
我们聊了起来，在谈话过程中得知他是一名水手。

12. 照例;自然;理所当然
If you do something as a matter of course, you do it as part of your normal work or way of life.

e.g. If police are carrying arms as a matter of course then doesn't it encourage criminals to carry them?
如果警察每天理所当然地携带武器，这难道不会促使罪犯也持械吗？

13. 在正确航道(或航线)上/偏离航道(或航线)
If a ship or aircraft is on course, it is travelling along the correct route. If it is off course, it is no longer travelling along the correct route.

course的翻译

e.g. The ill fated ship was sent off course into shallow waters and rammed by another vessel.
这艘倒霉的船偏离航道误入浅水区，被另外一艘船撞上了。

14. 很可能做成;可能获得
If you are on course for something, you are likely to achieve it.

e.g. England are well on course for a place at the World Cup Finals...
英格兰队很有可能打进世界杯决赛。
e.g. The company is on course for profits of £20m in the next financial year.
该公司有望在下一个财年实现2,000万英镑的盈利。

15. 任其发展;听其自然
If something runs its course or takes its course, it develops naturally and comes to a natural end.

e.g. They estimated that between 17,000 and 20,000 cows would die before the epidemic had run its course...
他们估计在流行病结束之前会有17,000到20,000头牛死去。
e.g. As for the imprisoned leaders, he asserted that justice would have to take its course.
他坚称必须对监禁的领导人依法审判。

16. 坚持到底
If you stay the course, you finish something that you have started, even though it has become very difficult.

e.g. The oldest president in American history had stayed the course for two terms.
美国历史上的第一位总统连任两届。

17. 总有一天;最后;终于
If something changes or becomes true in the course of time, it changes or becomes true over a long period of time.

e.g. In the course of time, many of their myths become entangled.
最后，他们很多荒诞的说法都变得错综复杂了。

18. in due course -> see due

1. 球场：(3)中国高尔夫球场(course)方面的问题. 根据中国高尔夫(ChinaGolf)杂志对中国高尔夫球场和练习场的统计,国内现处于营运状态的正式球场(Course)为165个,而练习场(DrivingRange)为14个. 例如广东省这样的高尔夫龙头省份在拥有52个已营运的正式球场的同时,

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2. 科目：有许多科目(course)组成的一系列科目总称为program. 指不列颠哥伦比亚州同时具有community college性质和提供学位课程的高等教育机构. 其他州有的情况称属于university一部分的小规模的大学(college)为university college.