gap

释义

n.缺口; 间隔; 差距

词态变化

复数 :   gaps ;

实用场景例句

The economic gap among different social strata

不同社会阶层之间的经济差距

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The trade gap in the United States widened during this period.

美国的贸易逆差在这一时期有所扩大。

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The thick curtains were pulled tight by his hands, leaving just a narrow gap for light to peek through.

厚重的窗帘被他用手紧紧拉上，只留下一道狭窄的缝隙让光线透入。

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The roaring gale forced its way through the narrow gaps in the shattered windowpanes with tremendous power.

怒吼的狂风以巨大的力量从破碎窗玻璃的狭窄缝隙中挤进来。

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Following a four-year gap, William joined the armed forces.

经过四年的间隔期后，威廉加入了武装部队。

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We must recruit more young scientists to address the gap caused by the upcoming wave of retirements in the next decade.

我们必须招聘更多年轻的科学家来解决未来十年退休潮造成的缺口。

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A market gap was detected by Stewart, whose experienced entrepreneur's keen vision identified this overlooked potential.

斯图尔特以经验丰富企业家的敏锐洞察力发现了这个被忽视的市场空白。

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We believe we've spotted a gap in the industry (= a chance to offer a product or service that currently doesn't exist).

我们相信我们已经发现了行业内一个尚待填补的空白。

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There are noticeable gaps in his knowledge.

他的知识中有明显的欠缺之处。

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Her departure created a significant gap in our community.

她的离开在我们社区留下了明显的空缺。

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the gap between knowledge and application

知识与应用的差距

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the gap between urban and rural

城乡之间的差距

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The economic gap between the two countries continues to widen (= the difference in their economies is increasing).

两国之间的经济差距继续扩大。

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They reunited after a gap of fifteen years.

他们时隔十五年后再次相聚。

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a pause in the discussion

讨论的停顿

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Keep a gap between you and the person in front.

在你和前面的人之间保持一定距离。

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a gap in a fence

栅栏的缺口

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There was only a small gap between the desk and the window.

桌子和窗户之间只有一条小缝隙。

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I'm considering a gap semester to volunteer in South America.

我正在考虑休学一学期去南美洲做志愿者。

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The method is especially attractive for gauging natural streams.

该方法对于测量天然的流注具有特殊的吸引力.

辞典例句

真题例句

It further widens the gap between the old and the young.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

As a result, their math grades overtook those of the other students by the end of the first semester—and the gap between the two groups continued to widen during the two years we followed them.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

High school degrees offer far less in the way of preparation for work than they might, or than many other nations currently offer, creating a growing skills gap in our economy.

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

The gap between Apple and other tech firms is now likely to narrow.

出自-2012年12月阅读原文

Houses built before 1939 use about 50% more energy per square foot than those built after 2000, mainly due to the tiny cracks and gaps that expand over time and let in more outside air.

出自-2010年6月阅读原文

In fact, the more information flows throughout the entire society, the wider the gap becomes between "information haves" and "information have-nots", leading to digital divide .

2015年12月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section A

Moreover, in order to be curious, you have to be aware of a gap in your knowledge in the first place.

2017年12月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

The greatest gap, however, is between the Net-generation,  familiar with personal computers and the Internet, and the older generation,  accustomed to an industrial society.

2015年12月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section A

Yet there are recent signs that the gap could be starting to shrink.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

The achievement gap between children from high- and lowincome families is 30-40% larger among children born in 2001 than those born 25 years earlier, according to Mr.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

How much is today's spirit of harmony a change from our more turbulent past? A mere generation ago, parentchild relations were described as the generation gap.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

have placed religious beliefs above party politicshave bridged the gap between the rich and the pooroffer poor children more chances to climb the social laddersuffer from higher levels of racial and economic segregationFamily structure.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

Tennessee State's overall graduation rate is a tiny 39 percent, but at least it has a smaller gap between the outcomes for first-generation students and those of their peers.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

Inequality is dangerous, he argued, not merely because it doesn't look good to have a large gap between the rich and the poor, but because inequality itself destroys upward mobility, making it harder for the poor to escape from poverty.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

For all the new attention devoted to the 1 percent, a new dataset from the Equality of Opportunity Project at Harvard and Berkeley suggests that, if we care about upward mobility overall, we're vastly exaggerating the dangers of the rich-poor gap.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

But if it was known that Black people were viewed differently from African Americans, researchers, until now, hadn't identified what that gap in perception was derived from.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

in a 2012 report,the World Economic Forum found that when it comes to closing the gender gap in"economic participation and opportunity,"the United States is ahead of not only Sweden but also Finland,Denmark,the Netherlands,Iceland,Germany,and the United Kingdom.

出自-2014年6月阅读原文

It is a society well worth studying,and its efforts to conquer the gender gap impart a vital lesson—though not the lesson the Swedes had in mind。

出自-2014年6月阅读原文

Sweden has done more than other nations to close the gender gap.

出自-2014年6月阅读原文

Still, there's a huge disconnect between the way we currently train scientists and the actual employment opportunities available for them, and an urgent need for dramatic improvements in training programs to help close the gap.

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

Middlebury College in Vermont, another top school, had a 19-point gap in 2007 and a 22-point gap in 2006.

出自-2011年6月阅读原文

The most selective private schools – Harvard, Yale, and Princeton – show almost no gap between black and white graduation rates.

出自-2011年6月阅读原文

But such a Darwinian spirit is beginning to give way as at least a few colleges face up to the graduation gap

出自-2011年6月阅读原文

At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the gap has been roughly halved over the last three years.

出自-2011年6月阅读原文

With effort and money, the graduation gap can be closed

出自-2011年6月阅读原文

Harvard, Yale, and Princeton show almost no gap between black and white graduation rates mainly because they recruit the best students.

出自-2011年6月阅读原文

Washington and Lee University is cited as an example to show that the gap of graduation rates between whites and minorities can be closed

出自-2011年6月阅读原文

The generation gap is bound to narrow.

出自-2010年12月阅读原文

In many countries immigrants have been filling such gaps in the labour force as have already emerged (and remember that the real shortage is still around ten years off).

出自-2010年12月阅读原文

A mere generation ago, parent-child relations were described as "the generation gap".

2016年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

Because of these differences, comparing France's consumption with the U.S.'s overstates the gap in economic welfare.

2018年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

If we want to fix the problem of the income gap, first we have to understand it.

2018年12月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

What has become obvious to me when it comes to the income gap is that there needs to be an opportunity for the people at the bottom to push them back up and push them into the middle class to give them hope in their lives.

2018年12月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

How does Owain James feel about the gap-year phenomenon?

2015年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读C 题设

It is not surprising that more and more students are taking a gap year to earn money to support their study for the degree.

2015年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

More students than ever before are taking a gap year before going to university.

2015年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Silence may be viewed by some cultural groups as extremely uncomfortable; therefore attempts may be made to fill every gap 间隙 with conversation.

2016年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

Students taking a gap year are better prepared for college studies.

2015年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读C 题设

Students who take a gap year are often more mature and responsible, he said.

2015年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

The gap-year phenomenon originated with the months left over to oxbridge applicants between entrance exams in november and the start of the next academic year.

2015年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Their wings can bridge the gap between lines, resulting in electrocution if they touch two lines at once.

2016年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

There is no gap between mind and matter.

出自-2011年考研翻译原文

Finally,because automation threatens to widen the gap between capital income and labor income, taxes and the safety net will have to be rethought.

出自-2018年考研阅读原文

"The gap is between the jobs that take no skills and those that require a lot of skill,” says Rob Spohr, a business professor at Montcalm Community College.

2017年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

But despite common misconceptions, a gap year does not hinder the success of academic pursuits—in fact, it probably enhances it.

2017年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

But the article is actually quite optimistic, as it outlines a potential solution to this problem, suggesting that an approach can close 63 percent of the achievement gap between first-generation and other students.

2015年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

But while this may be true, it's not a good enough reason to condemn gap years.

2017年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

finally, because automation threatens to widen the gap between capital income and labor income, taxes and the safety net will have to be rethought.

2018年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Gap year experiences can lessen the blow when it comes to adjusting to college and being thrown into a brand new environment, making it easier to focus on academics and activities rather than acclimation blunders.

2017年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

giving more children this training could increase the number of people interested in the field and help fill the jobs gap, Cortina said.

2016年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Koziatek's Manchester School of Technology high School is trying to fill that gap.

2018年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Rather than pulling students back, a gap year pushes them ahead by preparing them for independence, new responsibilities and environmental changes—all things that first-year students often struggle with the most.

2017年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Studies from the United States and Australia show that students who take a gap year are generally better prepared for and perform better in college than those who do not.

2017年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Taking a gap year to figure things out initially can help prevent stress and save money later on.

2017年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

There is a gap in working-class jobs, but the workers who need those jobs most aren't equipped to do them.

2018年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

They cite past research by several authors to show that this is the gap that must be narrowed to close the achievement gap.

2015年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

This has created "a paradox" in that recruiting first-generation students, but then watching many of them fail, means that higher education has "continued to reproduce and widen, rather than close" an achievement gap based on social class, according to th

2015年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Today, widespread social pressure to immediately go to college in conjunction with increasingly high expectations in a fast-moving world often causes students to completely overlook the possibility of taking a gap year.

2017年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

with the gap between the church's teachings and ways of thinking being eclipsed by the Renaissance, the gap between the medieval and modern periods had been bridged, leading to new and unexplored intellectual territories.

2020年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

英英释义

Noun

1. a conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures;

"gap between income and outgo"

"the spread between lending and borrowing costs"

2. an open or empty space in or between things;

"there was a small opening between the trees"

"the explosion made a gap in the wall"

3. a narrow opening;

"he opened the window a crack"

4. a pass between mountain peaks

5. an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity;

"it was presented without commercial breaks"

Verb

1. make an opening or gap in