priority
柯林斯詞典
1. N-COUNT If something is a priority, it is the most important thing you have to do or deal with, or must be done or dealt with before everything else you have to do. 優(yōu)先處理的事
Being a parent is her first priority. 做母親是她的頭等大事。
The government's priority is to build more power plants. 政府的當務(wù)之急是建造更多的發(fā)電廠。
2. PHRASE If you give priority to something or someone, you treat them as more important than anything or anyone else. 優(yōu)先考慮
Women are more likely to give priority to child care and education policies. 女性更可能給孩子的照料和教育方案以優(yōu)先考慮。
3. PHRASE If something takes priority or has priority over other things, it is regarded as being more important than them and is dealt with first. 有優(yōu)先性
The fight against inflation took priority over measures to combat the deepening recession. 對抗通貨膨脹的斗爭比對抗日益加深的經(jīng)濟衰退措施更具優(yōu)先性。
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priority /pra???r?t?/ (priorities)
劍橋詞典
- something that is very important and must be dealt with before other things
- We need to establish a new set of priorities.
- You need to identify your priorities.
- a low priority task
- If agriculture were given priority, the country would easily be able to feed itself.
- The establishment of new areas of employment is a priority. 返回 priority
優(yōu)先考慮的事
The management did not seem to consider office safety to be a priority. 管理部門似乎并不認為應(yīng)優(yōu)先考慮辦公室安全問題。
My first/top priority is to find somewhere to live . 我首先要考慮的是找個地方住。
You have to learn to get your priorities right /straight (= decide which are the most important jobs or problems and deal with them first). 你必須學(xué)會先處理最重要的事。
Repairing the plumbing is a priority task (= more important than other jobs ). 修好水管是當務(wù)之急。
Banks normally give priority to large businesses when deciding on loans (= they deal with them first because they consider them most important ). 銀行在發(fā)放貸款時通常優(yōu)先考慮大企業(yè)。
Official business requirements obviously take/have priority over personal requests (= official business matters will be dealt with first). 公事顯然應(yīng)放在私事之上。
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