| 单词 | secondary |
| 释义 | sec·ond·a·ry /ˈsekəndəri $ -deri/ ●●○ S3 W2 adjective 1. secondary education/schooling/teaching etc SESthe education, teaching etc of children between the ages of 11 and 16 or 18 中等教育/学校教育/教学等〔指对11至16或18岁孩子的教育〕 → tertiary2 UNIMPORTANTnot as important as something else 次要的，从属的 → primary the novel’s secondary characters 这本小说中的次要人物secondary to Writing was always secondary to spending time with my family. 与和我的家人共度时光相比，写作总是排在第二位。be of secondary importance/be a secondary consideration Cost is the important thing – any benefits for the user are a secondary consideration. 成本才是重要的——对用户的益处是次要的考虑。► see thesaurus at unimportant —secondarily adverbExamples from the Corpussecondary• Liver biopsy showed that this patient already had secondary biliary cirrhosis.• The secondary decisions that follow become, in fact, the primary decisions.• Free secondary education increased the pressure on space.• These six secondary ideas in chapter 1 are distilled from a detailed discussion over many pages.• Price is the most important factor for us - location is a secondary issue.• The government sees unemployment as a secondary issue.• The study found that women were often reduced to secondary roles in the workplace.• Some accept the secondary status the discipline allocates them.• Tourism is secondary to oil revenues as a source of income.be of secondary importance/be a secondary consideration• Teenagers want their clothes to look good - comfort is of secondary importance to them.From Longman Business Dictionarysecondarysec‧ond‧a‧ry /ˈsekəndəri-deri/ adjective1secondary shares/bonds etcFINANCE shares, stocks etc in companies that are not considered to be the biggest or most importantSYN SECOND-TIERThe market for secondary corporate issues was quiet yesterday.2secondary industry/productCOMMERCE an industry or product that has developed from another industry and uses materials from that larger industrySecondary industries turn products from farming into more useful forms, eg wool into cloth.3secondary market/trading etcFINANCE trading of shares, bonds etc that have already been ISSUED (=made available and sold for the first time), and which are now available on the market for other investors to buy and sellThe primary market has been out-performing the secondary market in terms of value over the past four years.the 300,000 shares in the secondary offeringsec·ond·a·ry adjectiveChineseSyllable ages children of Business between Corpus teaching education, of the etc the |
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