constructing [
kən'strʌkt]
[计] 构造
- The act or process of constructing.
构筑建筑的行为或过程 - A hollow metal cylinder used especially in constructing dams and foundations.
金属筐一种尤其用于筑堤及防御工事的中空的金属筐 - Is that why they're constructing so many underpasses, overpasses and highways?
那就是他们建这么多天桥、地下通道和公路的原因吗?
Construct \Con*struct"\ (k[o^]n*str[u^]kt"), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
{Constructed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Constructing}.] [L.
constructus, p. p. of construere to bring together, to
construct; con- + struere to pile up, set in order. See
{Structure}, and cf. {Construe}.]
1. To put together the constituent parts of (something) in
their proper place and order; to build; to form; to make;
as, to construct an edifice.
2. To devise; to invent; to set in order; to arrange; as, to
construct a theory of ethics.
Syn: To build; erect; form; compile; make; fabricate;
originate; invent.
- Northrop and McDonnell Douglas are building a prototype design known as YF-23 while Lockheed, Boeing and General Dynamics are constructing a prototype known as the YF-22.
- USI, the nation's largest polyethylene producer, also is constructing a 300 million-pound linear low-density facility that is scheduled to begin operations in early 1988 at its Port Arthur, Texas, plant.
- Sumitomo will give the Soviet partners expertise on coal marketing and trading, and cooperate in constructing a coal-export terminal at the Nakhodka port, he said.
- He faces the longer, less controllable test of bringing together, constructing and letting grow new - and opposing - forces that will form a new Russia.
- At Mr. al-Afghani's souvenir shop, new and unusual orders continue coming in. One customer wants a Scud in flight, which Mr. al-Afghani is constructing with a wooden base and a thin wire holding aloft a foot-long missile.
- Lawmakers have questioned the wisdom of constructing a base in Europe when Cheney plans to close others overseas and at home.
- Tazawa said $14.4 million will be allotted to constructing the late emperor's mausoleum in Hachioji, 28 miles west of the capital.
- That leaves analogue operators, including those constructing GSM networks, with investments to recoup and capacity to fill.
- The United States has accused Libya of constructing a chemical weapons plant, but Libya says the plant at Rabta is for manufacturing pharmaceuticals.
- The company is constructing another 48-inch pipeline at the site in southern Oaxaca state, Pemex said.
- The State Department, citing "changing conditions" in the Soviet Union, is giving high priority to constructing a new U.S. Embassy in Moscow to replace the one to be razed after years of indecision.
- Now GM is adhering to its own stiffer standards in a cooperative effort with the UAW to choose workers for the Saturn plant that GM is constructing in Spring Hill, Tenn.
- Thousands of demonstrators linked hands Sunday in an attempt to form a human chain around a northern Japan site where the government is constructing a plant to reprocess spent nuclear fuel.
- Schlesinger recommended partially dismantling the new U.S. embassy in Moscow and constructing a high-security annex under tighter security precautions than employed in the past.
- FERC charged that the Transco unit, Transcontinental Gas Pipeline Corp., failed to get necessary clearances before constructing its Mobile Bay pipeline system in 1987.
- But I have to live in the real world." House detention is an alternative to paying up to $40 a day to keep a prisoner in the county jail, as well as putting off the cost of constructing new prisons.
- The completed value is estimated to be about Pounds 20m. The costs of constructing the airstrip, flight-control tower and the infrastructure of the estate are about Pounds 3.5m.
- These differences will complicate the task of constructing a stable coalition. The election was called after the Hata group's rebellion led to the government's defeat last Friday in a no-confidence motion over its failure to enact political reforms.
- After constructing his distribution center, Mr. Stemberg clustered more stores around it, expanding mostly in New England and the metropolitan markets of New York, Philadelphia, and Washington.
- The scientists demonstrated their findings by constructing a mutant strain of the AIDS virus that could not complete the critical step.
- Salzgitter AG denied the report but said in a statement that its subsidiary was involved with Imhausen-Chemie, identified by U.S. officials as a key participant in the Libyan plant, in constructing a pharmaceutical plant in Hong Kong.
- He streamlined Carnegie's steel empire-cutting costs by consolidating operations and constructing a company-owned railway to connect widely scattered plants.
- He devoted every minute - and his marriage - to constructing the public image that Hammer was a business genius, a philanthropist and humanitarian, with influence over the Kremlin and the White House.
- The Taiwanese are constructing industrial estates where exporters can locate factories.
- Lake Merritt United Methodist Church is constructing its new building around the glittering mosaic, valued in the millions of dollars but donated by another church.
- That would create intellectual complicity between the U.S. and Europe in constructing a real European defense."
- Niagara has been trying to cut costs partly to compensate for huge overruns it incurred in constructing the Nine Mile Point 2 nuclear power plant.
- The Soviet Union has been pursuing an "enormously expensive" program of constructing huge underground bunkers and subways to protect its leaders and allow them to fight a protracted nuclear war, Defense Secretary Frank C. Carlucci said Friday.
- A spokesman for Coastal Corp., Houston, said the new contracts "don't affect our plans" for constructing a natural gas pipeline across the Gulf of Mexico to Pasco County, Fla., where Citrus has total market share.
- I will undertake efforts so that the principles of constructing the government will be clear to all.