categorize
verb(British English also categorise)
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they categorize | |
| he / she / it categorizes | |
| past simple categorized | |
| past participle categorized | |
| -ing form categorizing |
to put people or things into groups according to what type they are 将…分类；把…加以归类 - categorize somebody/something
Participants were categorized according to age. 参加者按年龄分组。 - categorize somebody/something as something
His latest work cannot be categorized as either a novel or an autobiography. 他最近的作品既不属于小说也不属于自传。
Extra ExamplesHer work is difficult to categorize. 她的工作很难归类。 The employees are categorized as support personnel. 这些员工被归为辅助人员。 These factors can be conveniently categorized under three headings. 这些因素可以很方便地分成3类。 We categorize voters by their choice of newspaper. 我们以选民对报纸的选择进行分类。 categorizing people according to their jobs 按工作把人们分类 Some types of investment risk are difficult to categorize. 某些投资风险类型难以归类。 Trade unions can be categorized into three main types. 工会可以分为三种主要类型。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- broadly
- generally
- be difficult to
- be hard to
- be impossible to
- …
- according to
- by
- into
- …
- categorize somebody/something