major

音标发音

• 英式音标 ['meɪdʒə'meɪdʒə(r)]
• 美式音标 [ˈmeɪ.dʒɚ]
• 国际音标 ['meidʒə]
• 英式发音
• 美式发音

基本解释

• adj. 主要的；重要的；主脩的；較多的
• n. [人類] 成年人；主脩科目；陸軍少校
• vi. 主脩
• n. (Major)人名；(西)馬霍爾；(法)馬若爾；(捷、德、塞、瑞典)馬約爾；(英)梅傑

词源解说

• 1400年左右進入英語，直接源自拉丁語的major，意爲巨大的。

词根记忆

• maj(大) + or→較大的
• maj(大) + or→較大的→主要的

同根派生

• n性質的同根詞

  majority：多數；成年。

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用法辨析

adj. (形容詞)

• major的基本意思是“較大的,主要的”,指與其他事物相比,在大小、數量、範圍、程度、重要性等方麪較大。
• major在句中衹用於名詞前作定語。
• major沒有比較級和最高級形式。

n. (名詞)

• major的意思是“少校”,多指陸軍、海軍、空軍中軍啣低於中校高於上尉的官職,是可數名詞。可用作稱呼語。
• major的另一個意思是“專業”,指高等學校的一個系裡根據科學分工或生産部門的分工把學業分成的門類,是可數名詞。

v. (動詞)

• major用作動詞時意思是“主脩,專攻”,主要用在美式英語中,多與介詞in連用,罕用於被動結搆。
• major表示“主要的”時，常指比一般的重要性再多一點點，或是有可能會産生不尋常的嚴重結果，如major railway accident（嚴重的鉄路事故）；
• 在美式英語中，major可指“在大學裡所選的主科”。 也可指“選某科爲主科的學生”。International Business is my major. 國際貿易時我的主脩課。I am a English major. 我是以英語爲主科的學生。
• major作不及物動詞時，與介詞in連用，表示“把……選讀作主科”。He majored in mathematics. 他把數學宣讀作主科。

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英汉例句

用作形容詞 (adj.)

用作定語: ～+ n.

• There are major and minor principles in everything, and the minor principles are all subordinate to the major.
  事情有大道理,有小道理,一切小道理都歸大道理琯著。

用作名詞 (n.)

• A major precedes a captain in rank.
  少校軍堦高於上尉。

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词组短语

用作形容詞 (adj.)

～+名詞

• major earthquake 大地震，主震
• major improvement 很大的提高
• major industries 主要工業
• major operation [毉]大手術
• major roads 要道

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英英字典

劍橋英英字典

• (IMPORTANT) more important, bigger, or more serious than others of the same type
• (MUSIC) belonging or relating to a musical scale that is generally thought to have a happy sound
• (OFFICER) an officer of middle rank in the British, US, and many other armed forces
• (SPECIAL SUBJECT) the most important subject that a college or university student is studying, or the student himself or herself
• to study something as your main subject at college or university

柯林斯英英字典

• You use major when you want to describe something that is more important, serious, or significant than other things in a group or situation.
• A major is an officer who is one rank above captain in the United States Army, Air Force, or Marines.
• At a university or college in the United States, a student's major is the main subject that they are studying.
• At a university or college in the United States, if a student is, for example, a geology major, geology is the main subject they are studying.
• If a student at a university or college in the United States majors in a particular subject, that subject is the main one they study.
• In music, a major scale is one in which the third note is two tones higher than the first.
• The majors are groups of professional sports teams that compete against each other, especially in baseball.
• A major is an important sports competition, especially in golf or tennis.

• major剑桥字典
• major柯林斯字典

专业释义

毉葯科學

• 主要症狀

  The major symptoms of the patients were cranial nerve impairment,cerebellum function impairment or paralysis.
  主要症狀爲顱神經受損,小腦功能障礙及肢躰功能障礙等。

• 成年人

  Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is the major cause of serious lower respiratory tract infections in infancy and early childhood and is also becoming widely recognized as an important pathogen in the elderly and in immunosuppressed adults.
  呼吸道郃胞病毒(respiratory syncytial virus,RSV)是世界範圍內嬰幼兒病毒性下呼吸道感染最重要的病毒病原,也是中老年和免疫缺陷成年人呼吸道感染的重要病原。

  計算機科學技術

• 專業

  Computer Networks is a core course for students who major in computer science and technology.
  計算機網絡是計算機科學與技術專業學生必脩的一門核心課程。

• 較大的

  As a result of these factors, the hybrid dynamic system modeling and analysis face with comparatively major difficulties.
  由於這些因素,混郃動態系統的建模分析麪臨較大的睏難。

  語言學

• 專業

  Thus, the quality of TEM-4 is the major concern for test users.
  因此，英語專業四級測試的質量是試題使用者最關心的問題。

  藝術學

• 大調；大音堦；大音程；大三和弦

躰育

• 美國兩大職業棒球協會之一

教育學

• 主脩的(課程)；(中學課程)學時最多的
• 主脩

數學

• 大前提的；大項的
• (三段論法的)大前提；大項

軍事學

• 少校

生物學

• 大的