In addition to the uses shown below, of is used after some verbs, nouns, and adjectives in order to introduce extra information. Of is also used in phrasal prepositions such as ‘because of’, ‘instead of’ and ‘in spite of’, and in phrasal verbs such as ‘make of’ and ‘dispose of’.
除下列用法外，of 可以用在某些动词、名词和形容词之后引出附加信息。of 还可用于 because of,instead of, in spite of 等短语介词和 make of, dispose of 等短语动词中。
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PREP
（用于连接两个名词，其中前者表示后者的特定方面） You use of to combine two nouns when the first noun identifies the feature of the second noun that you want to talk about.
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The average age of the women interviewed was only 21.5.
参加面试的女性平均年龄才21.5岁。
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...the population of this town...
该镇的人口
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The aim of the course is to help students to comprehend the structure of contemporary political and social systems.
这门课程旨在帮助学生了解当代政治与社会体制的结构。
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PREP
（用于指称动作的名词后说明该动作的对象或主体） You use of after nouns referring to actions to specify the person or thing that is affected by the action or that performs the action. For example, 'the kidnapping of the child' refers to an action affecting a child; 'the arrival of the next train' refers to an action performed by a train.
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PREP
（用于人或事物的名称后引出其所属或相关的机构或地方） You use of after the name of someone or something to introduce the institution or place they belong to or are connected with.
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...the Prince of Wales.
威尔士亲王
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...the Finance Minister of Bangladesh.
孟加拉国财政部长
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...the superb rock-hewn Cave Temples of Badami.
巧夺天工的巴达米石窟庙群
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PREP
（用在可数名词后、不可数名词前表示某一单个物品） You use of after a count noun and before an uncount noun when you want to talk about an individual piece or item.
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...a blade of grass...
一片草叶
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Marina ate only one slice of bread...
玛丽娜只吃了一片面包。
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With a stick of chalk he wrote her order on a blackboard.
他用一截粉笔将她的指示写在黑板上。
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...local decorations of wood and straw.
用木头和稻草制成的本地饰品
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...loose-fitting garments of linen.
宽松的亚麻布衣服
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...a mixture of paint-thinner and petrol.
油漆稀释剂与汽油的混合物
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PREP
（用于指称施动者的单词前说明对该动作的看法）出自…，在…一方 You use of before a word referring to the person who performed an action when saying what you think about the action.
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This has been so nice, so terribly kind of you...
您这么做真是太好心，太令我们感激不尽了。
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I suppose it's stupid of us not to be able to make up our own minds...
我们自己都没办法拿定主意，这真是太傻了。
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That's certainly very generous of you Tony.
托尼，你真是慷慨大方。
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PREP
（用于描述名词后引出所指的人或事物） You use of after a noun which describes someone or something, to introduce the person or thing you are talking about.
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...an awkward, slow-moving giant of a man.
举止笨拙、行动迟缓的巨人般的男子
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PREP
（表示程度）更大/较小程度上的… If something is more of or less of a particular thing, it is that thing to a greater or smaller degree.
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Your extra fat may be more of a health risk than you realize...
多余的脂肪对健康的威胁可能比你意识到的要大。
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As time goes by, sleeping becomes less of a problem.
随着时间的推移，睡眠逐渐不再成为问题。
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PREP
（用于be动词后表示某人或某事物具有的特点或特性） You use of after the verb 'be' to indicate a characteristic or quality that someone or something has.
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The crisis faced over the next few months is of an entirely different scale...
接下来几个月内将要面临的危机规模将是无法相比的。
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Both world wars were of unquestionable importance as economic events.
两次世界大战都是重要性无可置疑的经济事件。
法律
- 1.被确证有罪
- 2.被认定有罪
计算机
- 1.= output file,【unix】输出文件;= Overflow Fag,【ASM】溢出标志
- 1. In software engineering, the degree of complication of a system or system component, determined by such factors as the number and intricacy of interfaces, the number and intricacy of conditional branches, the degree of nesting, the types of data structures, and other system characteristics.
- 在软件工程中，系统或系统组成部分的复杂程度由下述因素确定：接口的数量和错综程度、条件转移的数量和错综程度、嵌套的深度、数据结构的类型，以及其它一些系统特性。
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 2. "The Chronological Record of Historians," written by Sima Qian of the Western Han Dynasty (206 B.C.-24 A.D.), was the world's earliest biographical work of literature, covering a history of 3,000 years. Its contents rang from the legendary Huang Di, or Yellow Emperor, to Emperor Wudi of the Han Dynasty (206B.C.-220A.D.).
- 中国西汉司马迁编著的《史记》是世界上最早的传记文学。它记事起于传说中的黄帝，迄于汉武帝，首尾3000年。
来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- 3. China ranks first in the world for the number of species of chrysanthemum. Thirty-five varieties of chrysanthemum were recorded in "A Manual of Chrysanthemum," written by Liu Meng of the Song Dynasty (960 A.D.-1279 A.D.), who pointed out that variation led to more biological species.
- 中国菊花品种居世界第一。公元10世纪时， 宋朝刘蒙所著《菊谱》中指出， 变异可形成生物的新类型，记有35种菊花品种。
来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- 4. Convinced of the importance of education, modern states "invest"in institutions of learning to get back "interest"in the form of a large group of enlighted young men and women who are potential leaders.
- 现代国家由于确信教育的重要性，才向教育机构“投资”，以期获得一大批有知识的男女青年的形式收回“利息”，这些青年是潜在的领导人。
来自《用法词典》
- 5. Having suffered grievously from biological weapons attacks in the past, China supports work that helps comprehensively to strengthen the effectiveness of the convention. It has actively participated in the work of drawing up a Protocol of the Ad Hoc Group of States Parties to the BWC established in 1994, and has made contributions to the progress of the negotiations on the Protocol.
- 中国在历史上也曾深受生物武器之害。中国支持全面加强《禁止生物武器公约》有效性的工作，积极参加了于1994年设立的公约缔约国特设工作组有关制定《公约》议定书的工作，并为议定书的谈判取得进展作出了贡献。
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 6. Mr. Lorry had been idle a lo and had just poured out his last glassful of wine complete an appearance of satisfaction as is ever to be found in an elderly gentleman of a fresh complexion who has got to the end of a bottle, when a rattling of wheels came up the narrow street, and rumbled into the inn-yard.
- 罗瑞先生已经悠闲了许久，刚带着心满意足的神情斟上最后一杯。这位因喝完了足足一瓶酒而容光焕发的老年绅士露出了完全满足的神态。此时那狭窄的街道上却响起了辚辚的车轮声，然后隆隆的车声便响进了院子。
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 7. Printing originated in China. In the period between the Sui Dynasty in the second half of the 6th century and the Tang Dynasty in the first half of the early 7th century, lithographic printing was invented and, in the 9th century, a large number of books began to be printed by the lithographic process. In the reign of Emperor Qingli of the Northern Song Dynasty (960 A.D.-1127 A.D.), a common fellow named Bi Sheng invented printing by movable type and started to use baked clay types for printing. The technology was introduced to other countries in about the mid-8th century.
- 中国首先发明印刷术。公元6世纪下半叶到7世纪上半叶的隋、唐之际， 中国就发明了雕版印刷，到9世纪， 开始了大规模的雕版印书。北宋庆历年间， 平民毕升发明用胶泥焙烧的活字， 开始了活字印刷。约在8世纪中叶，印刷术传到国外。
来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- 8. The minute division of labour in the production process,and increasing interdependency in trade and economy is evident in the financial crisis afflicting us at the end of this century. Economic activity is no longer purely a matter of production, trade and barter. It is a means to satisfy human desires of every kind. Within it, there is an element of unequal relationship between the strong and the weak.
- 而生产分工精细化，贸易与经济依存度提升的结果，从世纪末的金融风暴中可以看得一清二楚，经济活动不再是单纯的生产和交易、或互补有无的事情，而是人类满足各种欲望的手段，其中包含强权与弱者之间的不平等关系。
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 9. We are so familiar with the fact that man ages, that people have for years assumed that the process of losing vigour with time, of becoming more likely to die the older we get, was something self-evident, like the cooling of a hot kettle or thewearing-out of a pair of shoes.
- 我们都非常熟悉人总是要衰老的这样一个事实，以致多年来人们就认为，随着时光的流逝而丧失活力或者越衰老就越可能死掉这一过程是不言而喻的，正象一壶热水会冷却，一双鞋子会穿破一样。
来自《用法词典》
- 10. "The Si Ku Quan Shu", or "Complete Library in the Four Branches of Literature," completed in 1782, has the world's longest series of books. The work, comprising four traditional divisions of Chinese learning -- classics, history, philosophy, and belles-letters -- contains 3,503 titles bound into more than 36,000 books with a total of 853,456 pages.
- 中国的 《四库全书》 是世界上页数最多的书。 它完成于1782年， 分经、史、子、集四部，收书 3，503 种， 分装成 36，000 余册， 共有 853，456 页。
来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- 11. A man without an education,many of us believe,is an unfortunate victim of adverse circumstances deprived of one of the greatest twenty-century opportunities.
- 我们许多人都相信，没有受过教育的人是境况不佳的不幸牺牲品，他们被剥夺了20世纪最了不起的机会之一。
来自《用法词典》
- 12. A molecule of water is made up of two atoms of hygrogen and one atom of oxygen.
- 一个水分子是由两个氢原子和一个氧原子构成的。
来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
- 13. After become effective of property insurance contract, those who serve as insurance mark insurance belongings reachs his to concern a benefit, because the meeting is buying and selling, given, accede to wait for the happening of the circumstance and be transferred, after the cession of insurance mark, the alienee that insurance profit meets what change insurance bid subsequently of course.
- 财产保险合同生效后，作为保险标的的保险财产及其有关利益，会由于买卖、赠予、继续等情况的发生而转移，保险标的转让后，保险利益当然会随之转移给保险标的的受让人。
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 14. China has the earliest record of a solar prominence in the world. Carried in the oracle bone inscriptions of the Yin Dynasty (in the 14th century B.C.) were the routine records of the solar eclipse and the lunar eclipse, and the earliest record of a solar prominence in the world.
- 中国有世界上最早的日珥记录。公元前 14 世纪， 殷朝甲骨文中， 已有日食和月食的常规纪录，以及世界上最早的日珥记录。
来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- 15. China has the world's largest number of terrestial vertebrates, with a total of 1,800 species, which accounts for approximately one-tenth of the same species of vertebrates in the world.
- 中国陆栖脊椎动物种类居世界第一位，有1，800种，约占世界同类动物总数的十分之一。
来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- 16. If there were any inhabitants of the moon, they would see our earth reflecting the light of the sun, again like a huge mirror hung in the sky. They would speak of earthlight just as we speak of moonlight.
- 假如月亮上有居民，他们也会看到我们反射太阳光的地球同样就像一个巨大的镜子悬在空中，他们也会像我们谈论月光那样谈论地球光。
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 17. It's a case of diamond cut diamond with those two and both of them are afraid of going too far in their demands of each other.
- 这两个人势均力敌，双方都唯恐彼此提出过分的要求。
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 18. Located to the south of China's Inner-Mongolia Plateau is the world's largest loess plateau, traversing the entire territory of Shanxi Province, part of Shaanxi and Gansu Provinces, and the Ningxia Hui Nationality Autonomous Region. It covers an area of approximately 600,000 square kilometers and rises 1,000 to 2,000 meters above sea level.
- 世界最大的黄土高原， 位于中国内蒙古高原以南， 包括山西省全部和陕西、甘肃、宁夏回族自治区的一部分，面积约60万平方公里，海拔在1，000至2，000米。
来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- 19. Mount Qomolangma, main peak of the Himalayas, situated on the Sino-Nepalese border, rises 8,848.13 metres above sea level, making it the highest peak in the world. This height was obtained by a group of Chinese mountain climers, who climbed to the summit of Mount Qomolangma in 1975 and, consequently, corrected the inaccurate height of 8,882 metres held correct for many years.
- 位于中国和尼泊尔交界的喜马拉雅山的主峰珠穆郎玛峰是世界最高的山峰。海拔8，848.13米。这是中国登山队于1975年登上珠峰之后测定的数字，它校正了过去人们很长时间内认为是8，882米的说法。
来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- 20. The cabaret owns business suite, standard suite and the building 147 of a marks,11 of the size board room, the carousal hall and various 20 of, is your business meeting, travel to spend a holiday of ideal place.
- 酒店拥有商务套房、标准套房及双标房148间，大小会议室11间，大宴会厅及各种包间20套，是您商务会议、旅游度假的理想场所。
来自《简明英汉词典》
