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orient

verb
OPAL W
🔊/ˈɔːrient/
🔊/ˈɔːrient/
(also orientate)
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they orient
🔊/ˈɔːrient/
🔊/ˈɔːrient/
he / she / it orients
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past simple oriented
🔊/ˈɔːrientɪd/
🔊/ˈɔːrientɪd/
past participle oriented
🔊/ˈɔːrientɪd/
🔊/ˈɔːrientɪd/
-ing form orienting
🔊/ˈɔːrientɪŋ/
🔊/ˈɔːrientɪŋ/
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  1. [usually passive] orient somebody/something (to/towards somebody/something) to direct somebody/something towards something; to make or adapt somebody/something for a particular purpose使朝向；使面对；确定方向；使适应
    • Our students are oriented towards science subjects.我们教的学生都是理科方向的。🔊🔊
    • policies oriented to the needs of working mothers针对在职母亲的需要而制定的政策
    • We run a commercially oriented operation.我们经营一个商业性的企业。🔊🔊
    • Neither of them is politically oriented (= interested in politics).他们两人都无意涉足政治。🔊🔊
  2. orient yourself to find your position in relation to everything that is around or near you确定方位；认识方向
    • The mountaineers found it hard to orient themselves in the fog.登山者在大雾中很难辨认方向。🔊🔊
  3. orient yourself to make yourself familiar with a new situation熟悉；适应
    • It took him some time to orient himself in his new school.他经过了一段时间才熟悉新学校的环境。🔊🔊
    4. compare disorientate
    Word Originlate Middle English: via Old French from Latin orient- ‘rising or east’, from oriri ‘to rise’.

Orient

noun
🔊/ˈɔːriənt/
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the Orient
[singular] (old-fashioned, literary)
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  1. the eastern part of the world, especially China and Japan东方（尤指中国和日本） compare Occident