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practise

verb
 
🔊/ˈpræktɪs/
🔊/ˈpræktɪs/
(US English practice)
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they practise
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he / she / it practises
🔊/ˈpræktɪsɪz/
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past simple practised
🔊/ˈpræktɪst/
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past participle practised
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-ing form practising
🔊/ˈpræktɪsɪŋ/
🔊/ˈpræktɪsɪŋ/
Idioms
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  1.  
     [intransitive, transitive] to do an activity or train regularly so that you can improve your skill练习；实习；训练
    • You need to practise every day.你需要每天练习。🔊🔊
    • practise for something She's practising for her piano exam.她在练习准备钢琴考试。🔊🔊
    • practise something I've been practising my serve for weeks.我练发球有好几周了。🔊🔊
    • She diligently practised her violin every day.她每天勤奋地练习小提琴。
    • practise something on somebody/something He usually wants to practise his English on me.他通常想跟我练习英语。🔊🔊
    • practise on somebody/something I learned hairdressing by practising on my sister.我是拿妹妹练习学会做头发的。
    • practise doing something Practise reversing the car into the garage.练习倒车入车库。🔊🔊
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    Topics Educationa1, Languagea1, Musica1
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb
    • diligently
    • hard
    • regularly
    • …
    preposition
    • for
    • on
    phrases
    • be well practised (in something)
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  2.  
     [intransitive, transitive] to work as a doctor, lawyer, etc.从事（医务工作、律师职业等）；执业
    • There are over 50 000 solicitors practising in England and Wales.英格兰和威尔士共有 5 万多名律师执业。🔊🔊
    • practise as something She practised as a barrister for many years.她从事出庭律师工作多年。🔊🔊
    • practise something He was banned from practising medicine.他被禁止行医。🔊🔊
    • She practised law for more than a decade.她执业十年以上。
    Topics Jobsb2
  3. [transitive] practise something (formal) to do something regularly as part of your normal behaviour经常做；养成…的习惯
    • to practise self-restraint/safe sex培养自制力；实行安全性行为
    • Do you still practise your religion?你还奉行你的宗教信仰吗？🔊🔊
    Extra Examples
    • These methods are still practised today.这些方法今天仍然在使用着。
    • This model of education widely practised.这种教育模式得到了广泛的实践。
    • whaling as currently practised目前的捕鲸行为
    • Polygamy is legal, but it is very rarely practised.一夫多妻制是合法的，但却很少有人这样做了。
    • Christians were allowed to practise their faith unmolested by the authorities.基督徒获准进行宗教活动，不受当局干涉。
    • People found guilty of practising black magic were hanged.被判犯有行巫术罪的人给绞死了。
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb
    • commonly
    • routinely
    • widely
    • …
    phrases
    • (be) practised today
    See full entry
    4. Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French practiser or medieval Latin practizare, alteration of practicare ‘perform, carry out’, from practica ‘practice’, from Greek praktikē, feminine (used as a noun), of praktikos ‘concerned with action’, from prattein ‘do, act’.
Idioms
practise what you preach
  1. to do the things yourself that you tell other people to do身体力行；躬行所言；言行一致