unit

CET4TEM4考研CET6中高频词基本词汇

英 ['juːnɪt] 美['junɪt]

释义

n. 单位，单元；装置；[军] 部队；部件

词态变化

复数: units;

近义词

constituent part component piece element segment section portion member

中文词源

unit 单元，单位

来自拉丁语unus, 一，来自PIE*oi-no, 一，词源同one。用于指单元，单位。

英文词源

unit: unit: [16] The term unit was given general currency by the 16th-century English mathematician, astrologer, and magician John Dee. It was formed from Latin ūnus, probably on the analogy of digit, and used as a mathematical term to replace unity as a translation of Euclid’s monás ‘indivisible number’. In a comment added to his introduction to Sir Henry Billingsley’s translation of Euclid, Dee wrote ‘Note the word unit to express the Greek monas, and not unity: as we have all commonly until now used’.
unit (n.): 1560s, "single number regarded as an undivided whole," alteration of unity on the basis of digit. Popularized in John Dee's English translation of Euclid, to express Greek monas (Dee says unity formerly was used in this sense). Meaning "single thing regarded as a member of a group" is attested from 1640s. Extended sense of "a quantity adopted as a standard of measure" is from 1738. Sense of "group of wards in a hospital" is attested from 1893.

双语例句

1. The unit's exports will total $85 million this year.: 该部门今年的出口总额将达8,500万美元。

2. Their unit was shelling the German lines only seven miles away.: 他们的部队在炮轰仅有7英里之遥的德军防线。

3. From the smallest to the largest production unit, no one escaped notice.: 从最小的到最大的生产单位，全都在监控之下。

4. Each unit including the parent company has its own, local management.: 包括母公司在内，每个单位都有自己的地方管理层。

5. The Indian cavalry under Haig became a functionally efficient unit.: 黑格领导下的印度骑兵成为了一支高效执行任务的队伍。

英英释意

1. any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange;: "the dollar is the United States unit of currency"; "a unit of wheat is a bushel"; "change per unit volume"

2. an individual or group or structure or other entity regarded as a structural or functional constituent of a whole;: "the reduced the number of units and installations"; "the word is a basic linguistic unit"

3. an organization regarded as part of a larger social group;: "the coach said the offensive unit did a good job"; "after the battle the soldier had trouble rejoining his unit"

4. a single undivided whole;: "an idea is not a unit that can be moved from one brain to another"

5. a single undivided natural thing occurring in the composition of something else;: "units of nucleic acids"

6. an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity;: "how big is that part compared to the whole?"; "the team is a unit"

实用场景例句

The cell is the unit of which all living organisms are composed.: 细胞是构成一切生物的单位。

The basic unit of society is the family.: 社会的基本单位是家庭。

The game's selling price was $15 per unit.: 这游戏的售价为每套15元。

What's the unit cost ?: 单位成本是多少钱？

army/military/police units: 陆军 / 军事 / 警察分队

Medical units were operating in the disaster area.: 医疗小组正在灾区工作。

the intensive care unit: 特护病区

a maternity unit: 妇产科

a unit of time/length/weight: 时间 / 长度 / 重量单位

a unit of currency , such as the euro or the dollar: 货币单位，如欧元或美元

Women are advised not to drink more than fourteen units of alcohol per week.: 建议妇女每周饮酒不超过十四个酒精单位。

a fitted kitchen with white units: 用白色组件的厨房

floor/wall units: 地板 / 墙壁组合件

bedroom/kitchen/storage units: 卧室 / 厨房 / 贮藏室组合设备

a waste disposal unit: 废物销毁器

the central processing unit of a computer: 电脑的中央处理器

The present perfect is covered in Unit 8.: 现在完成时在第8单元讲解。

a column for the tens and a column for the units: 十位数栏和个位数栏

Agriculture was based in the past on the family as a unit.: 过去的农业是以家庭为单位的。

...the health services research unit...: 医疗卫生服务研究部门

The results from this unit are staggering.: 这个团队得出的结果令人吃惊。

One secret military unit tried to contaminate the drinking water of the refugees...: 一个秘密军事分队企图污染难民的饮用水。

Two small Marine units have been trapped inside the city for the last 36 hours.: 两支海军小分队在过去的36个小时被困在城内。

The unit plugs into any TV set.: 这个部件能插进任何电视机。

The terms of the contract are acceptable to us.: 我们认为这个合同的条件可以接受.

The control unit decoded the 18 bits.: 控制器对这18位字进行了译码.

The family is the basic unit of society.: 家庭是构成社会的基本单位.

They lopped 20 p off the price of each unit.: 他们把单价削减了20便士.

考试真题

The rest of the energy savings comes from the solar units.

And most noticeable of all, there is the phenomenon of large urban and suburban high schools that have split up into smaller units of a few hundred, generally housed in the same grounds that once boasted thousands of students all marching to the same band.

If he has ambitious goals and is willing to put in long hours, everyone in his unit will follow his example.

By marking down the unit price.

On Jan 9, 2007, Steve Jobs formally announced Apple's "revolutionary mobile phone"—a device that combined the functionality of an iPod, phone and Internet communication into a single unit, navigated by touch.

Reading the earnings announcements of large retail stores like Macy's, Nordstrom, and Target is about as uplifting as a tour of an intensive care unit.

But my connection with pandas goes back to my days on a TV show in the mid-1980s, when I was the first western TV reporter permitted to film a special unit caring for pandas rescued from starvation in the wild.

The unit of measurement for the x-axis is days.

The unit of measurement for the y-axis is kilometers.

When an individual ant comes under attack or is dying, it sends out an alarm pheromone to warn the colony to prepare for a conflict as a defense unit.