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vi. 呼叫；拜访；叫牌
vt. 呼叫；称呼；召集
n. 电话；呼叫；要求；访问
n. (Call)人名；(瑞典、罗)卡尔；(英)考尔

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Recruitment advertisements routinely call for team players.

Calling out our fears explicitly, as Leah did, can help us act decisively.

Whenever she called her parents or other relatives, she always had to think about the time difference so that she wouldn’t wake someone up or call when she knew they were at church.

I think that things have become very gloomy these days, lots of misunderstanding, misleading cues, a lot of what the ancients would have called sophistry ( ' , 诡辩 ).

I call this a fixed mind-set ( ' , 思维模式).

After such an experience an animal often remains passive even when it can effect change—a state they called learned helplessness.

Why do so many Americans eat tons of processed food, the stuff that is correctly called junk ( ' , 垃圾 ) and should really carry warning labels? It's not because fresh ingredients are hard to come by.

To call people's attention to prisoners' conditions in America.

His face went down lower and lower, and then, with complete joy he called out, Dad.

Many of its 800 stores are likely to close following the company’s decision to call in administrators after an attempt to sell the business for a token £1 failed.

Also, mothers may call on their children more often than fathers, given traditional gender norms.

And now I've got what you'd call a good old-fashioned pub.

As I sat blocked and clueless for two solid days, I momentarily wondered if I couldn't just call an expert on the subject matter which I was tackling, or someone who took the class previously, to get me going.

But I get off the phone pretty quickly when I call.

Director of Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation Chris Murray described it as an "urgent call to action".

I can call to add two more to the table,if you would like.

I prefer to make a call if I'm in a hurry.

I will give you a call that morning no matter what.

If I call them, I'll have to have a long conversation.

It would seem silly to call such a thing a "disease".

Many of its 800 stores are likely to close following the company's decision to call in administrators after an attempt to sell the business for a token £1 failed.

Other choices, in descending order of personalization, are: a real-time phone call, a voice-mail message, a handwritten note, a typewritten letter and the most unfriendly is email.

Recruitment advertisements routinely call for "team players".

Some colleges have what they call an "honor code", though if you are smart enough to get into these schools, you are either smart enough to get around any codes or hopefully, too ethical to consider doing so.

That's what we call it in the workplace, " says a woman in her 20s.

Their invention is a small biological circuit they call E-Kaia.

We're not trying to assign blame or criticize anyone or call anyone consciously sexist.

Whenever she called her parents or other relatives, she always had to think about the time difference so that she wouldn't wake someone up or call when she knew they were at church.

They call for increased investments.

One of the largest feeders for high school math competitions—including those that eventually lead to the IMO—is a middle school program called MathCounts.

In his resignation letter, Morgan called the reorganization unworkable.

Another influential feeder for advanced-math students is an online school called Art of Problem Solving, which began about 13 years ago and now has 15,000 users.

Although calls to share data often concentrate on the moral advantages of sharing, the practice is not purely altruistic ( ' , 利他的).

A New York City-based nonprofit called Bridge to Enter Mathematics runs a residential summer program aimed at getting underserved students, mostly black and Hispanic, working toward math and science careers.

The idea is that we are taking more out of what you might call the planet's environmental bank balance than it can sustain; we are living beyond our ecological means.

One recent study attempted to calculate the extent of this ecological overshoot of the human economy, and found that we are using 1.2 Earth's-worth of environmental goods and services—the implication being that at some point the debt will be called in, and all those services—the things which the planet does for us for free—will grind to a halt.

Now Fred, you went to university in Canada?( ' , 9 ) A recent International Labour Organization report says the deterioration of real wages around the world calls into question the true extent of an economic recovery, especially if government rescue packages are phased out too early.

To call stress an epidemic isn't exaggeration.

Perlow calls this vicious cycle the cycle of responsiveness: Once bosses and colleagues experience an employee's increased responsiveness, they increase their demands on the employee's time.

Meanwhile, emerging technologies – the drones, 3D printers and smart-home devices of the world – now seem a bit too old to be called the next big thing.

Calling on all the nations concerned to make joint efforts.

The third element of love in Sternberg’s theory is what he calls decision commitment, the decision that one is in a love relationship, the willingness to label it as such and the commitment to maintain that relationship at least for some period of time.

Sternberg would argue it’s not love if you don’t call it love and if you don’t have some desire to maintain the relationship.

Some 10,000 pairs of the birds, called fulmars, a kind of Arctic seabird, make their nests on Devon Island, north at the Arctic circle.

And he has a theory of love that argues that it’s made up of three components: intimacy,passion and commitment, or what is sometimes called decision commitment.

So what factors, at the community level, do predict if poor children will move up the economic ladder as adults? What explains, for instance, why the Salt Lake City metro area is one of the 100 largest metropolitan areas most likely to lift the fortunes of the poor and the Atlanta metro area is one of the least likely?Harvard economist Raj Chetty has pointed to economic and racial segregation, community density, the size of a community's middle class, the quality of schools, community religiosity, and family structure, which he calls the single strongest correlate of upward mobility.

She is expecting up to 20 people at the first meeting she has called, at her local pub in the Cornish village of Polperro.

More than a decade ago, cognitive scientists John Bransford and Daniel Schwartz, both then at Vanderbilt University, found that what distinguished young adults from children was not the ability to retain facts or apply prior knowledge to a new situation but a quality they called preparation for future learning.

In Paying for the Party, Hamilton describes what she calls the party pathway, which eases many students through college, helped along by various clubs that send students into the party scene and a host of easier majors.

Team management calls for new skills if personnel potential is tobe fully realized.

As more journals and funders adopt data-sharing requirements, and as a growing number of enthusiasts call for more openness, junior researchers must find their place between adopters and those who continue to hold out, even as they strive to launch their

I guess you could call it a liquid salad.

It is a movement building steady momentua call to make research data, software code and experimental methods publicly available and transparent.

Penguins, like other seabirds and marine mammals, occupy higher levels in the food chain and they are what we call bio-indicators of their ecosystems.

Psychologists call them "masters of deception", those rare individuals with a natural ability to tell, with complete confidence, when someone is telling a lie.

Some passengers enjoy the animals so much that they call the airport to schedule flights around their visits.

Sternberg would argue it's not love if you don't call it love and if you don't have some desire to maintain the relationship.

That's when they call Maple hill.

These include the centuries-old custom of "bul", where leaders would call a temporary stop to fishing for key species in order to give fish stocks an opportunity to replenish.

They may be able to handle a drought of some length, and many people use the term "drought tolerant" to describe such plants, but they never actually stop needing to consume water, so Farrant prefers to call them drought resistant.

To begin to figure out how computers are struggling, researchers at the University of Washington created a massive database of faces—they call it MegaFace—and tested a variety of facial-recognition algorithms as they scaled up in complexity.

To call stress an epidemic isn't exaggeration.

We call these labels learning styles.

We race to get all our ground work done: packing, going through security, doing a last-minute work call, calling each other, then boarding the plane.

A computer analysis blindly compared calls produced by mothers and chicks, ranking them by similarity.

A free schedule of events for each term is available by calling the box office at 556-4183.

A legend, also called a key, is a guide to the symbols and colors used in the graph.

A Swiss study reported that while the weight of electronic goods represented by precious metals was relatively small in comParison to total waste, the concentration of gold and other precious metals was higher in so-called e-waste than in nature.

A warning call reached the lighthouse.

A week went by, a woman called to speak to Alice.

And if you want to make a change, please call me before march the 10th.

And the more frequently mothers had called to their eggs, the more similar were the babies' begging calls.

At the heart of the phenomenon lie tiny marine microorganisms (海洋微生物) called phytoplankton.

But when he finally reached her, the woman flooded him with questions: "Who are you? What antique shop?" However, when she hung up, she regretted the way she had handled the call.

By next year, half of the calls we receive will be scams (欺诈).

Changing levels of body chemicals called hormones not only make teenagers' bodies develop adult characteristics, but also make it hard for teenagers to fall asleep before 11 pm.

Ccharlie, do you know a restaurant called bravo?

Many studies show that older parents—today's grandparents—would have called their children more often if the means and cost of doing so had not been a barrier.

Determined to be myself, move forward, free of shame and worldly labels, I can now call myself a "marathon winner".

During my second year at the city college, I was told that the education department was offering a "free" course, called thinking chess, for three credits.

Ehlers called the number of Jeff and Lisa to tell them he had found their dog.

Five minutes after he arrived, he had an emergency call and left.

For want of better names, we shall call these two classes immediate reward and delayed reward.

He would call in advance to make sure there was no alcohol at the party.

Hi, I'm calling to make some changes to an existing reservation.

How often do you call each other?

I got a rescue call from a woman in muttontown.

I hate it when she calls me at work—I'm always too busy to carry on a conversation with her.

I raced to the staircase and called out, "Sally! Come down immediately! "

If something were wrong,someone would have called you.

If you give us your number, we'll call you when the card arrives.

If you lose something on a bus or train or in a station, please call lost & found at 202-962-1195.

In Greece, people share a special cake called vasilopita.

In much of asia, especially the so-called "rice bowl" cultures of China, japan, korea, and vietnam, food is usually eaten with chopsticks.

In the 1760s, Mathurin Roze opened a series of shops that boasteda special meat soup called consomme.

In these cultures, silence is a call for reflection.

It really annoys me when Kate calls her friends during office hours.

It's called apple day but in practice it's more like apple month.

Long before most of us even noticed what we now call "the environment," Buckminster Fuller said, "Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting."

Looking back on your day, you will find it hard to deny that a horseback safari is as close as you will ever come to answering the call of the wild.

My mother's call returned me to the real world.

Naomi heard multiple stops and starts, Steve struggling, searching while his wife joni called him "honey" and encouraged him.

New-born chicks can then imitate their mom's call within a few days of entering the world.

None more so than husband and wife team Kenneth and Carol Adelman, well-known advisers to the White House, who started up a training company called "movers and Shakespeares".

Oh, may I ask for a wake-up call, please?

Okay, I'll give them a call.

On January 31, a musher named Seppala had to cross a frozen body of water called Norton Sound.

On the third Monday of April, the holiday sechselauten is kicked off when a cotton snowman called the boogg is stuffed with explosive and paraded through town by bakers and other tradesmen who throw bread to the crowds.

Once called the garden of Amsterdam, it still attracts travelers to come over to cycle and walk through the surrounding forests.

Once lighthouses had telephones, keepers would call each other to warn that the inspector was approaching.

One early morning, I went into the living room to find my mother reading a thick book called best loved poems to read again and again.

One is related to what freud calls the pleasure principle, the other to what he calls the reality principle.

One thing is for certain—Larry went above and beyond the call of duty by getting so close to the burning vehicle! His efforts most likely saved the woman's life.

Senior citizens and disabled customers can get free guide on how to use proper metrobus and metrorail services by calling 202-962-1100.

She called on the White House to help.

So she called Zac back and apologized.

So, four days later, he called his friend greg, and the two drove back.

Sorry, I don't have the information now, I'll call you back.

Such situations have led to calls for the tech giants to be broken up.

Tell you what, I'll be calling jim late this week anyway, so I'll mention it to him.

Thank you for calling, and goodbye.

The benefits of this kind of engineering come with consequences 一 called light pollution 一 whose effects scientists are only now beginning to study.

The core of what children's minds have and chimps' don't is what Tomasello calls shared intentionality.

The foundation began another campaign called national red scarf day, a day when people donate $20 and wear red scarves in support of Canada's hungry and homeless.

The instructors called for an ambulance.

The lives of these people have finally been recorded thanks to the effects of a Frenchman form Paris called gin.

The man who had his bright lights on came over and told Larry he had made an emergency call.

The miracle of 1511 took place during six freezing works called the winter of death.

The problem of robocalls has gotten so bad that many people now refuse to pick up calls from numbers they don't know.

The proposal attempts to deal with what some call the "death valley" of autonomous vehicles: the grey area between semi-autonomous and fully driverless cars that could delay the driverless future.

The reason I'm calling is that we'd like to offer you the position you were interviewed for last thursday.

The researchers call the effect "Enclothed Cognition, " suggesting that all manner of different clothes probably affect our cognition in many different ways.

The science of creating and reading coded messages is called cryptography.

Then they identified begging calls by analyzing the order and number of notes.

There is an emergency shelter in winnipeg called "Hannah's place", something that Hannah is very proud of.

These advertise the presence of chicks to adults; they might also encourage our chick to start calling as well.

They're called "motorheads" by the rest of the student body.

This is called " transactive memory".

This is called "herd immunity", which protects the people who get hurt easily, including those who can't be vaccinated for medical reasons, babies too young to get vaccinated and people on whom the vaccine doesn't work.

We will give you a call as soon as it's fixed.

Whaley recalls how at the beginning of the year, when called upon to read, chris would excuse himself to go to the bathroom.

When a secretary in my office first called him "motorhead", I was shocked.

When another person helps us in such ways, he or she is participating in what I've called a social prosthetic system.

When I was 17, I read a magazine article about a museum called the mcnay, once the home of a watercolorist named marian mcnay.

When the eggs were hatched, the baby birds made the similar chirp to their mothers—a sound that served as their regular "Feed me!" call.

When we got a call saying she was short-listed, we thought it was a joke.

Without delay, I called to thank her.

You can end up with what astronauts call a carbon-dioxide headache.

You can even listen through the headset only and put the TV on mute if the situation calls for a quiet environment —maybe the baby is sleeping.

He argued that human evolution was characterized by a struggle he called the “survival of the fittest,” in which weaker races and societies must eventually be replaced by stronger, more advanced races and societies.

” Yet bank shares rose and the changes enhance what one lobby group politely calls “the use of judgment by management.

They found that the principal requirement for what is called “global cascades” -the widespread propagation of influence through networks -is the presence not of a few influentials but, rather, of a critical mass of easily influenced people.

These men believed in journalism as a calling,and were proud to be published in the daily press.

The supposed importance of influentials derives from a plausible sounding but largely untested theory called the “two step flow of communication”: Information flows from the media to the influentials and from them to everyone else.

Over the past decade, thousands of patents have been granted for what are called business methods Amazon.

In his book The Tipping Point,Malcolm Aladuell argues that social epidemics are driven in large part by the acting of a tiny minority of special individuals,often called influentials,who are unusually informed,persuasive,or well-connected.

Even Tommasini, who had advocated Gilbert’s appointment in the Times, calls him “an unpretentious musician with no air of the formidable conductor about him”.

Rosenberg, the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize, offers a host of example of the social cure in action: In South Carolina, a state-sponsored antismoking program called Rage Against the Haze sets out to make cigarettes uncool.

I call it a secret war for two reasons.

But in her new book Join the Club, Tina Rosenberg contends that peer pressure can also be a positive force through what she calls the social cure, in which organizations and officials use the power of group dynamics to help individuals improve their lives and possibly the word.

In most of the homeless gardens of New York City the actual cultivation of plants is unfeasible, yet even so the compositions often seem to represent attempts to call arrangement of materials, an institution of colors, small pool of water, and a frequent presence of petals or leaves as well as of stuffed animals.

To encourage innovation and competition, the report calls for increased investment in research, the crafting of coherent curricula that improve students’ ability to solve problems and communicate effectively in the 21st century, increased funding for teachers and the encouragement of scholars to bring their learning to bear on the great challenges of the day.

Rather, we ascribe meanings to test on the basis of interaction between what we might call textual and contextual material: between kinds of organization or patterning we perceive in a text’s formal structures ( ' , so especially its language structures) and various kinds of background, social knowledge, belief and attitude that we bring to the text.

Mental health has commonly been called conscience,instinct,wisdom,common sense,or the inner voice.

Simply arranging a meeting, making a phone call, or hosting an event is not an official act.

Perhaps that is why we explore the starry skies, as if answering a primal calling to know ourselves and our true ancestral homes.

Calls to disassemble all telescopes on Mauna Kea or to ban future development there ignore the reality that astronomy and Hawaiian culture both seek to answer big questions about who we are, where we come from and where we are going.

A group of labour MPs, among them Yvette Cooper, are bringing in the new year with a call to institute a UK "town of culture" award.

Koziatek's school is a wake-up call.

Last year, Europe Commission vice President Viviane Reding issued a call to voluntary action.

simply arranging a meeting, making a phone call, or hosting an event is not an "official act".

Social psychologists have amassed oceans of research into what they call the "above average effect", or "illusory superiority".

The food industry will be alarmed that such senior doctors back such radical moves, especially the call to use some of the tough tactics that have been deployed against smoking over the last decade.

The key messages that have been put together for World Environment Day do include a call for governments to enact legislation to curb single-use plastics.

You can call their views stupid, or joke about how ignorant they are.

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