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ldoce_233_enet1 /net/ ●●● S2 W2 noun
1  INTERNET 因特網the Net  (also the net) the system that allows millions of computer users around the world to exchange information 因特網 SYN the web
Bruce spends most evenings surfing the Net (=looking at information in different places on the Internet).
布魯斯晚上大多在網上浏覽信息。
on the Net
You might find something on the Net.
你也許能從網上找到些什麽。
Examples from the Corpus
the Net• After a while, Swamp invited me to join the rest of the bowlers in the nets.• I run the nets out to the full extent and erect them on the return journey.• Hidden in the Net is the mystery of the Invisible Hand-control without authority.• After eleven minutes it looked as though the changes would work, when John headed into the net from a centre by Hulme.• In addition to inaugurating a new era of news, PointCast is pioneering an innovative way to advertise on the Net.• Because I think the Net fundamentally undermines the continued existence of the nation-state, which is already past its economic usefulness.• In a child-centred class of 30 children it is easy for some to slip through the net and learn nothing.• Ultimately, the net effect of the Bettelheim uproar was-not much.
→5  See picture of hairnet 發網, mosquito net 蚊帳, net 球網, fishing net 漁網
2  fishing_equipment.jpg for fishing/catching things 用於釣魚/捕獲東西 [countableC]DT something used for catching fish, insects, or animals which is made of threads or wires woven across each other with regular spaces between them 網
a fishing net
漁網
a butterfly net
捕蝶網
→4  See picture of 見圖 FISHING
3  for sports 用於運動 [countableC]
a) DSthe thing that players must hit the ball over in games such as tennis 〔網球等的〕球網
b) DSthe thing behind the posts that players try to kick or hit the ball into in games such as football or hockey 〔足球、曲棍球等的〕球門網 → goal
Henry kicked the ball into the back of the net.
亨利將球踢進了網窩。
→5 see picture at 見圖 tennis
4  for keeping things out 用於將物體阻擋在外 [countableC] something used for keeping things out, for example insects or birds, which is made of threads woven across each other with regular spaces between them 網罩〔用於阻擋昆蟲、鳥類等〕
a mosquito net
蚊帳
5  material 材料 [uncountableU] very thin material made from fine threads woven together, with small spaces between 網眼織物；網紗
net curtains
紗簾
6. slip through the net if criminals slip through the net, they avoid attempts by the police etc to catch them 〔罪犯〕漏網
Examples from the Corpus
slip through the net• No one knows how many have slipped through the net.• Several other counties are already regretting that he slipped through the net.• Paul Merton slipped through the net.• Graham, on the other hand, had nearly slipped through the net.• This one slipped through the net.• Even with the former region's history of testing in primaries, children continue to slip through the net.• In a child-centred class of 30 children it is easy for some to slip through the net and learn nothing.
7  fall/slip through the net if someone or something falls or slips through the net, a system which was designed to help or check them has not succeeded in doing this 未被〔某體制〕照顧到
In a class of 30 children it is easy for some to slip through the net and learn nothing.
在有30個孩子的班級裏，有些孩子很容易被忽視，什麽也學不到。
Examples from the Corpus
fall/slip through the net• No one knows how many have slipped through the net.• Paul Merton slipped through the net.• Graham, on the other hand, had nearly slipped through the net.• This one slipped through the net.• One group still fell through the net.• Even with the former region's history of testing in primaries, children continue to slip through the net.• In a child-centred class of 30 children it is easy for some to slip through the net and learn nothing.
8  cast/spread your net wide to consider or try as many things as possible in order to find what you want 撒開大網；想盡辦法尋找
Record companies are casting their nets wide in search of new talent.
唱片公司爲了發掘新人正在撒開大網。
Examples from the Corpus
cast/spread your net wide• Later that afternoon the police, who had been diligently searching certain caravans on Turpin's Field, spread their net wider.• Furse spread his net wide, but it did not sink deep.• I cast my net wide enough to find parents who vary from house cleaner to fashion designer to electrician to corporate manager.• It was argued in Chapter 2 that the criminal law ought to spread its net wider where the potential harm is greater.• We cast our net wider and in a different direction.
→ fishnet stockings, hairnet, safety net, netting
Examples from the Corpus
net• By the production line stand basketball nets and ping-pong tables for use during breaks.• Humpback whales have even been seen to weave a snare of air-bubbles - a bubble net.• a fishing net• The bride wore a veil made of ivory net.• Nicholas Branch has unpublished state documents, polygraph reports, Dictabelt recordings from the police radio net on November 22.• If intervention remains, it should be reduced to the original concept of a safety net for use in extreme emergencies.• Mosquito netting: inner door flaps can be unzipped independently from the net.• The puck went straight into the net.• Clips for fixing and joining the nets are available from some cage and netting manufacturers.• It swipes the underside of the net.• The fishermen will have to use turtle excluder devices in their nets, which allow turtles to escape before they drown.
fishing net• I had a fishing net with me and carefully fished it out.• There were many anchored wooden boats with large outboard motors, but strangely, there were few fishing nets.• The actual death toll is much greater because thousands more turtles are caught in fishing nets and suffocate.• The harbour porpoise is vulnerable to drowning in fishing nets.• Others die from entanglement in fishing nets.• Many seals are shot or killed with dynamite after being trapped in fishing nets.• I thought about my brother, when I broke that fishing net.• These are floats, blown from bottle glass, and used to hold up fishing nets.
the back of the net• We are making the chances but we can't find the back of the net.• At least Friesen has found the back of the net.• He had no great ability, apart from sticking the ball in the back of the net, either.• I felt it hit my leg and I looked up and it was bouncing in the back of the net.• John Moncur put it in the back of the net.• The next thing I knew it was in the back of the net and I was celebrating.• Jennifer Sclater received a good cross inside the D and struck the ball into the back of the net.• Resolute Of late they have simply become too predictable when seeking the back of the net.
mosquito net• There are also two inner pockets and a mosquito net in each door.• A mosquito net was providentially suspended above the bed; the creek was certain to be thick with insects when night fell.• To protect people from being bitten they must be educated and persuaded to use insect repellents and mosquito nets.• No breath of air stirred the Collector's mosquito net.• Finally I took the mosquito netting from a nail out the barn.• Uncle Michael on a metal bed, cocooned in a fold of army blanket under mosquito netting, drawing ragged breaths.• There are two entrances both with mosquito nets.
net curtains• Outside, the once-respectable semis have crooked To Let signs and greying net curtains.• In all of them hang net curtains.• Some one had stuck some little net curtains up at the entrance, turning it into a tiny window.• Which is in any case an airwell, with more net curtains at the windows on the other side.• Neighbours had watched discreetly through parted net curtains.• From behind the ruched net curtains, she could see him plodding his way around the green.• He walked to the window and gazed down through the net curtains.• The net curtains were planets of watery growth.
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net2 ●○○ (also nett British English) adjectiveadj [only before noun]
1  BFBBthe net amount is the final amount that remains after all the other amounts have been taken away 〔錢〕淨得的 → gross
The net profit (=after taxes, costs etc) was up 16.3% last month.
上個月淨利潤增長了16.3%。
The company reported a net loss of $56 million last year.
公司報告去年淨虧損5,600萬美元。
Vernon estimates the company’s net worth at over $8 billion.
弗農估算公司的資産淨值超過80億美元。
The United States is a net importer of beef (=it imports more than it exports).
美國是牛肉淨進口國。
2  net result/effect the final result or effect of something 最後結果
The net result will be higher costs to the consumer.
最後的結果是消費者將支付更高的費用。
Examples from the Corpus
net result/effect• We found that neither in theory nor in practice need the net effect be one of disincentive.• But the net effect has been to leave exactly the same number dependent upon means-tested assistance.• The net result is clear: the wire will be pulled toward Mars and will stay taut under this combination of forces.• The new system is designed to spread payments over several months but the net effect is that people pay more in total.• The net effect is to paralyze the organization in the present.• The net result of global warming will be a rise in sea levels.• Yet the net result of his pages of lists is to create a curious abundance-effect.• The net effect of superimposing habituation on imprinting would be to displace the preference away from the familiar.• The net result of this mechanism is increased sodium in the extracellular fluid.• The net result, say some officials, is that foreign money has frequently ended up fertilising or irrigating opium fields.
3. net weight TMthe weight of something without its container 淨重
Examples from the Corpus
net weight• Documents must not be handed to drivers or otherwise issued with blank spaces for recording particulars of tare weights or net weights.
—net adverbadv
He earns $40,000 net.
他淨掙四萬美元。
jars of coffee weighing 450 grams net
淨重450克的一罐罐咖啡
Examples from the Corpus
net• It is the price of the bonds that determines the net asset value of bond funds.• Ronson told bankers that the March 31 accounts would show net assets had fallen to £135 million compared with £585 million previously.• Foreign investors were net buyers, though some were waiting for a market drop to allow bargain-hunting.• Orange is expected to break even in net income terms by 1998.• That account tells us the amount of net payments over receipts compared with the budgeted figures.
net profit• Arcade had net profit 16. 9 million guilders in its fiscal year ended March on sales of about 398 million guilders.• Fujitsu says it expects to break even in 1993-94, with zero net profit.• Roche will report net profit April 24.• Another net profit for Swindon Town.• It has 2,600 employees and 1995 revenues of $ 984 million with a net profit of $ 131 million.• Nestle posted 1994 net profit of 2. 94 billion francs, before items.
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net3 verb (netted, netting)
1  [transitiveT] informalBFBB to earn a particular amount of money as a profit after tax has been paid 淨獲，淨賺
I was netting around $64,000 a year.
我一年淨賺約6.4萬美元。
2  [transitiveT]GET to succeed in getting something, especially by using your skill 〔尤指靠技能〕成功獲取
The company has recently netted several large contracts.
該公司最近獲得了幾個大合同。
An undercover sweep netted 22 suspects in one evening.
一次秘密搜查行動一晚就抓獲了22名嫌疑人。
3  [intransitiveI, transitiveT] informalDS to hit or kick the ball into the net in sport 擊〔球〕入網；踢〔球〕入網 → score
Rooney has netted nine goals for United so far this season.
本賽季到目前爲止魯尼已經爲曼聯隊踢入九個球。
4  DSO[transitiveT] to catch a fish in a net 用網捕〔魚〕
We netted three fish in under an hour.
不到一小時我們就網住了三條魚。
Examples from the Corpus
net• A few folks probably got buzzed and the sale netted $ 125.• Donna got a raise in February, but she's still only netting $19,000 a year.• An undercover drug sweep netted 22 suspects in one evening.• For the first three months of 1990, Starcorp netted $547 million.• The lake is commercially netted by licensed fishermen.• The event, expected to net more than $ 1 million, was sponsored by the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee.• Measure A netted only 58 percent of the vote.• But town have netted only around half that in sales.
From Longman Business Dictionary
netnet1 /net/ (also nett British EnglishBrE) adjectiveadj
1ACCOUNTING a net amount of money is one that remains after things such as costs and tax have been taken away
Net income after higher taxes, provisions and depreciation jumped more than 25%.
The company reported a net loss for the period after a charge related to reorganization costs.
net of
The payment is net of tax.
→ compare gross1
2[only before a noun]COMMERCE in buying, exporting etc, concerning a situation where the amount bought etc by one side is more than the amount bought etc by the other
Because of its oil fields in the North Sea, Britain is a net exporter (=a country that exports more than it imports) of oil, though a small one.
Canadian investors were net purchasers of US equities for the third straight quarter (=the value of US shares bought by Canadians was more than the value of Canadian shares bought by people in the US).
3the net weight of something is its weight without its container or wrapping
netnet2 noun
1the net (also the Net)COMPUTING the system that allows computer users all over the world to communicate with each other; the Internet
Most users do not aimlessly surf the net (=look at information in different places as a form of entertainment). They always or usually go back to the same sites.
2[uncountableU] American EnglishAmEACCOUNTING a company’s profit after tax has been taken awaySYN NET PROFIT
The supermarket chain said net for the quarter was $40.3 million.
3safety/welfare etc net a system that will prevent people from suffering financial problems if they become ill, unemployed etc
safety net programs, including unemployment compensation and retraining of workers
The social welfare net is essential.
netnet3 verb (past tensepst and past participlepp netted, present participle netting) [transitiveT] especially American EnglishAmEACCOUNTING
1if something nets a company or a person a particular amount of money, it gives them that amount, perhaps after costs are taken away
Its public stock offering netted the company $72 million.
charges involving a fraud scheme that netted him $12 million
2if a person or a company nets a certain amount in a year, they earn that amount as income or as profit after tax is taken away
The farm netted as much as $1.5 million a year.
After the capital-gains tax was paid, we only netted about $3.25 per hour.
→ net out
→ net something → down
netnet4 adverbadvACCOUNTINGTAX
after things such as costs and tax have been taken away
someone who earns more than £40,000 net
net of
All fund dividends are paid gross rather than net of tax.
Origin net1
Old English nett
 net2
(1400-1500) French “bright, clean”; → NEAT
 net3
1. (1700-1800) → NET2
2. (1500-1600) → NET1
net1 nounnet2 adjectiveadjnet3 verb
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