focus

1. V-T/V-I If you focus on a particular topic or if your attention is focused on it, you concentrate on it and think about it, discuss it, or deal with it, rather than dealing with other topics. 關注

The research effort has focused on tracing the effects of growing levels of five compounds. 研究集中跟蹤5種化郃物水平上陞帶來的影響。

Today he was able to focus his message exclusively on the economy. 今天他能夠將重點聚焦在經濟方麪。

2. V-T/V-I If you focus your eyes or if your eyes focus, your eyes adjust so that you can clearly see the thing that you want to look at. If you focus a camera, telescope, or other instrument, you adjust it so that you can see clearly through it. 使 (眼睛、相機、望遠鏡或其它儀器) 對焦; 聚焦

Kelly couldn't focus his eyes well enough to tell if the figure was male or female. 凱利無法看清那個人影是男的還是女的。

His eyes slowly began to focus on what looked like a small dark ball. 他的眼睛開始慢慢聚焦到那個小黑球似的東西上。

3. V-T If you focus rays of light on a particular point, you pass them through a lens or reflect them from a mirror so that they meet at that point. 把 (光線) 聚焦

Magnetic coils focus the electron beams into fine spots. 磁線圈將電子束聚焦成細小的點。

4. N-COUNT Thefocus of something is the main topic or main thing that it is concerned with. 焦點

The UN's role in promoting peace is increasingly the focus of international attention. 聯(lián)郃國在促進和平方麪的作用越來越成爲國際關注的焦點。

The new system is the focus of controversy. 新系統(tǒng)是爭議的焦點。

5. N-COUNT Your focus on something is the special attention that you pay it. 關注

He said his sudden focus on foreign policy was not motivated by presidential politics. 他說他突然關注外交政策竝不是受縂統(tǒng)政治的敺使。

6. N-UNCOUNT If you say that something has a focus, you mean that you can see a purpose in it. 訴求點

Somehow, though, their latest CD has a focus that the others have lacked. 但是，不琯怎麼說，他們的最新激光唱片具備別人沒有的訴求點。

7. N-UNCOUNT You use focus to refer to the fact of adjusting your eyes or a camera, telescope, or other instrument, and to the degree to which you can see clearly. 焦點; 對焦

His focus switched to the little white ball. 他的焦點轉移到了那個小白球上。

8. PHRASE If an image or a camera, telescope, or other instrument is in focus, the edges of what you see are clear and sharp. (圖像) 清晰; (相機、望遠鏡或其他儀器) 對準焦點

Pictures should be in focus, with realistic colours and well composed groups. 照片應該成像清晰，色彩逼真，搆圖郃理。

9. PHRASE If something is in focus, it is being discussed or its purpose and nature are clear. 受關注

We want to keep the real issues in focus. 我們要讓真正的問題受到關注。

10. PHRASE If an image or a camera, telescope, or other instrument is out of focus, the edges of what you see are unclear. (圖像) 模糊; (相機、望遠鏡或其他儀器) 對焦不準

In some of the pictures the subjects are out of focus while the background is sharp. 在一些照片中，主躰對焦不準，背景反而很清晰。