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a plan or system for doing or organizing something 计划；方案；体系；体制 a training scheme 培训方案 - scheme for doing something
a local scheme for recycling newspapers 当地的报纸回收计划 - scheme to do something
to introduce/operate a scheme to improve links between schools and industry 推行／实施加强学校和业界之间联系的方案 - under a scheme
Under the new scheme only successful schools will be given extra funding. 在新体制下，只有办得好的学校才可获得额外经费。 to introduce/launch/run a scheme 介绍/发起/实施一项计划 a salary/insurance/loan scheme 工资/保险/贷款计划 The houses have been demolished as part of a major regeneration scheme. 作为一项重大重建计划的一部分，这些房屋已被拆除。
Extra ExamplesTopics Businessb2The project is based on a successful pilot scheme in Glasgow. 该项目基于格拉斯哥一个成功的试验方案。 The scheme allows customers to trade in their own computer against the cost of a new one. 这一方案让顾客用原有的电脑冲抵一部份购买新电脑的费用。 Under the scheme, land would be sold to building companies. 根据这一计划，土地将出售给建筑公司。 a government-backed scheme 政府资助的计划 a scheme whereby the elderly will be provided with help in the home 为老年人居家生活提供帮助的方案
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- major
- multi-million-pound
- ambitious
- …
- have
- come up with
- design
- …
- offer something
- provide something
- allow something
- …
- in a/the scheme
- under a/the scheme
- scheme for
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a plan for getting money or some other advantage for yourself, especially one that involves cheating other people 阴谋；诡计；计谋 - scheme to do something
an elaborate scheme to avoid taxes 周密的避税方案 They hatched a scheme to rob a Monte Carlo casino. 他们策划了一个抢劫蒙特卡洛赌场的计划。 - scheme for doing something
Is this another one of your crazy schemes for making money? 这是你另一个疯狂的赚钱计划吗？
Extra ExamplesPolice uncovered a scheme to steal paintings worth more than $250 000. 警方发现了一起企图盗窃价值超过25万元画作的阴谋。 This is not one of those get-rich-quick schemes that you see on the internet. 这可不是你在因特网上看到的那类暴富计划。 She's come up with a hare-brained scheme for getting her novel published. 她想出了一个让自己的小说得以发表的不靠谱计划。 He has an ingenious scheme to attract funding. 他有一套吸引资金的独特计划。 They concocted an elaborate fund-raising scheme. 他们精心策划了一个筹款计划。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- crazy
- hare-brained
- elaborate
- …
- concoct
- devise
- dream up
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- involve something
- scheme to do something
an ordered system or arrangement 有序的系统或安排 It is a poem with a rhyme scheme and a defined structure. 这是一首有韵律和明确结构的诗。
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an area of social housing (= houses or flats for people to rent or buy at low prices) 社会保障性住房 I'm from Glasgow and grew up in a scheme. 我来自格拉斯哥，在一个安居计划房中长大。
Word Originmid 16th cent. (denoting a figure of speech): from Latin schema, from Greek skhēma ‘form, figure’. An early sense was ‘diagram of the position of celestial objects’, giving rise to ‘diagram, outline’, which led to the current senses. The unfavourable sense “plot” arose in the mid 18th cent.
Idioms
the/somebody’s scheme of things
the way things seem to be organized; the way somebody wants everything to be organized 格局；心中的安排