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[计] 调准

  1. The water pressure may need adjusting.
    水压可能需要调整。
  2. An instrument for gauging and adjusting machine parts; a trammel.
    量规;卡尺一种有来测量并调节机器部件的仪器;椭圆规
  3. The act of adjusting, arranging, or shifting characters to the left or right to fit a prescribed pattern.
    为了适合规定的格式,将字符向左或向右进行调整、排列或移位的动作。



Adjust \Ad*just"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Adjusted}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Adjusting}.] [OF. ajuster, ajoster (whence F. ajouter to
add), LL. adjuxtare to fit; fr. L. ad + juxta near; confused
later with L. ad and justus just, right, whence F. ajuster to
adjust. See {Just}, v. t. and cf. {Adjute}.]
1. To make exact; to fit; to make correspondent or
conformable; to bring into proper relations; as, to adjust
a garment to the body, or things to a standard.

2. To put in order; to regulate, or reduce to system.

Adjusting the orthography. --Johnson.

3. To settle or bring to a satisfactory state, so that
parties are agreed in the result; as, to adjust accounts;
the differences are adjusted.

4. To bring to a true relative position, as the parts of an
instrument; to regulate for use; as, to adjust a telescope
or microscope.

Syn: To adapt; suit; arrange; regulate; accommodate; set
right; rectify; settle.

  1. The Commerce Department said a survey found that businesses plan to spend $429.4 billion, after adjusting for inflation, topping the previous high of $391.6 billion set in 1985.
  2. For his wife, adjusting to life as the head of her household is frightening.
  3. AVERAGE 3.0% 2.8% NOTE: These estimates of gross national product are seasonally adjusted annual rates, after adjusting for inflation.
  4. Actually, after adjusting for inflation, teacher salaries went up just 12.9% from 1983 to 1989.
  5. All three girls returned to their elementary school Thursday, where they "seemed to be adjusting surprisingly well," said Schools Superintendent Joseph Cirasuolo.
  6. The average public school teacher is expected to earn 14 percent more in real purchasing power, after adjusting for inflation, in the year 2000 than now.
  7. These efforts, which have included higher standards and salaries for teachers and some changes in school governance, have resulted in a 29% spending increase on public education to grade 12 in the last nine years, after adjusting for inflation.
  8. In another report, the Labor Department said the weekly earnings of American workers grew 0.1% in March after adjusting for inflation.
  9. In addition, churches are adjusting to vast shifts in membership, with congregations swelling in Africa and Latin America as branches in Europe and the United States remain merely stable or, in some places, wither.
  10. In Colchester meanwhile, Lay & Wheeler's man about France has been spending his days chez the local printer, painstakingly adjusting columns of prices on his firm's new list. Wine merchants are in the front line of the exchange rate debacle.
  11. In a third report, the Labor Department said Americans' average weekly earnings, after adjusting for inflation, climbed 0.6 percent in July, the best showing since a 1.2 percent increase in April.
  12. Philip Morris decided to make the changes slowly, to avoid shocking consumers with a sudden shift in taste. Moreover, company officials insist they won't have problems adjusting to the tar and nicotine limits.
  13. Bob Stewart, owner of Noyes Marine Life, said Flazey seemed to be adjusting well.
  14. After adjusting for inflation, real personal disposable income grew between those periods by 1.4 per cent.
  15. It would give Secretary of Commerce Robert Mosbacher the assignment of adjusting the census figures so that illegal aliens don't count for purposes of redistributing House seats.
  16. But as the dollar began to reach the high end of its range against the yen in the afternoon, Japanese government bond dealers began adjusting positions.
  17. The EPA's proposal would require use of protective gloves and aprons while mixing, loading, adjusting or cleaning equipment used to spread cyanazine.
  18. Mr. Flanagan said he expects the federal funds rate, the tool most commonly used by the Fed in adjusting monetary policy, to move below the 4% target once the reserve requirement cut takes effect in April.
  19. Pages 19, 28, 45 Local authority spending: Total standard spending rises will be limited to 2.3 per cent next year after adjusting for changes in local authority functions, and excluding care in the community.
  20. But Patrick stood fast, adjusting his plan here and there, and on Thursday is expected to gain commission approval to implement the rate cap proposal.
  21. Genentech Inc., the biggest biotechnology issue, slid 5 1/2 to 28 yesterday, which was two-thirds its 1986 year-end price of 42 5/8, after adjusting for a split.
  22. Administration sources said Monday it is unlikely Bush can hold his no-new-taxes stance for more than one year, given the difficulty of reaching budget-deficit targets by adjusting only the spending side of the ledger.
  23. But the companies are adjusting and investing in the future through their work forces, and through modernization and streamlining of their production processes.
  24. The various changes left the GNP, after adjusting for inflation, rising at a rate of $22.1 billion in the third quarter to a new level of $4.007 trillion.
  25. They doubt the usefulness of Mr Patten's stance, given that Hong Kong business is already adjusting itself to Chinese sovereignty regardless of politics, and that Beijing says it will reverse his reforms anyway.
  26. In Mr. Reagan's tenure, outlays for Medicare will have risen 115% and for Social Security 67%, before adjusting for inflation.
  27. It is aimed at the US, but applies with equal force to the UK, after adjusting for privatisation instead of borrowing.
  28. Nevertheless over the past year they cannot be readily reconciled by adjusting for known coverage differences.
  29. Similarly, the incidence of diagnosed coronary heart disease among estrogen users was only 51% of that among the never-used group after adjusting the statistics for age.
  30. But for now he is still adjusting to his return to freedom.
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