concentrate
verbVerb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they concentrate | |
| he / she / it concentrates | |
| past simple concentrated | |
| past participle concentrated | |
| -ing form concentrating |
- [intransitive, transitive]
to give all your attention to something and not think about anything else 集中（注意力）；聚精會神 I can't concentrate with all that noise going on. 吵鬧聲不絕於耳，我無法集中精神。 - concentrate on something
I struggled to concentrate on my job because I was worried about my son. 我努力集中精力工作，因爲我擔心我的兒子。 - concentrate on doing something
She tried to concentrate on reading her book but couldn't. 她試圖集中精力看書，但沒能做到。 - concentrate something
Nothing concentrates the mind better than the knowledge that you could die tomorrow (= it makes you think very clearly). 沒有什麽比知道自己明天就可能會死去更能讓人定下心來去思考種種問題的了。 - concentrate something on something
After 1926 she concentrated her energies on her medical practice. 1926年後，她把精力集中在醫療實踐上。 - concentrate something on doing something
I decided to concentrate all my efforts on finding somewhere to live. 我決定全力以赴找個住的地方。
Extra ExamplesI tried to work but I found I couldn't concentrate. 我試圖工作但發現不能集中精神。 I was tired and couldn't concentrate properly. 我累了，無法集中精力。 She was sitting at her desk concentrating hard. 她正坐在書桌邊，精神高度集中。 She tried to concentrate, but her thoughts kept drifting back to the day before. 她試圖集中注意力，但她的思緒一直飄回到前一天。 We were told to concentrate on a black dot in the middle of the screen. 我們被告知要專注於屏幕中間的一個黑點。 We're concentrating even harder on giving quality service this year. 今年我們更加注重提供優質服務。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- hard
- intensely
- intently
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- be unable to
- cannot
- be difficult to
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- on
- [transitive] concentrate something + adv./prep.
to bring something together in one place 使…集中（或集合、聚集） Power is largely concentrated in the hands of a small elite. 權力主要集中在少數精英人物的手裏。 We need to concentrate resources on the most run-down areas. 我們需要把資源集中用於最衰敗的地區。 Fighting was concentrated around the towns to the north. 戰鬥集中在北方諸城鎮的周圍進行。 Never concentrate the heat in one place for too long. 切勿將熱量集中在一個地方太久。
Extra ExamplesThese jobs are disproportionately concentrated in the service sector. 這些工作過分集中在服務行業。 The immigrant community is strongly concentrated geographically. 移民群體在地域上非常集中。 Most of the country's industry is concentrated in the north. 該國的工業大部份集中在北方。
- [transitive] concentrate something (specialist)
to increase the strength of a substance by reducing its volume, for example by boiling it （使）濃縮
Word Originmid 17th cent. (in the sense ‘bring towards a centre’): Latinized form of concentre, fromcon- ‘together’ + centrum ‘centre’ or from French concentrer ‘to concentrate’. Sense (1) dates from the early 20th cent.