orders
If someone in authority gives you an order, they tell you to do something.
The activists were shot when they refused to obey an order to halt.
那些激进分子因拒绝服从前进的命令被击毙了。
As darkness fell, Clinton gave orders for his men to rest.
夜幕降临时,克林顿命令手下的人去休息。
A court order is a legal instruction stating that something must be done.
She has decided not to appeal against a court order banning her from keeping animals.
她已决定不对禁止她养动物的判决上诉。
An order is a request for something to be brought, made, or obtained for you in return for money.
The city is going to place an order for a hundred and eighty-eight buses.
这个城市计划订购188辆公交车。
Someone's order is what they have asked to be brought, made, or obtained for them in return for money.
The waiter returned with their order and Graham signed the bill.
服务员拿着他们点的东西回来,接着格雷厄姆签了单。
If a set of things are arranged or done in a particular order, they are arranged or done so one thing follows another, often according to a particular factor such as importance.
Write down (in order of priority) the qualities you'd like to have.
(按先后顺序)写下你希望拥有的品质。
Music shops should arrange their recordings in simple alphabetical order, rather than by category.
音像店应该简单地按照字母顺序,而不是按类别摆放唱片。
The table shows the factors ranked in order of importance.
该表显示按重要性排列的各项因素。 。
Order is the situation that exists when everything is in the correct or expected place, or happens at the correct or expected time.
The wish to impose order upon confusion is a kind of intellectual instinct.
想在混乱中理出头绪是一种知性本能。
Order is the situation that exists when people obey the law and do not fight or riot.
Troops were sent to the islands to restore order last November.
去年11月,部队被派往岛上以恢复治安。
When people talk about a particular order, they mean the way society is organized at a particular time.
The end of the Cold War has produced the prospect of a new world order based on international co-operation.
冷战的结束产生了一种以国际合作为基础的世界新秩序。
A religious order is a group of monks or nuns who live according to a particular set of rules.
the Benedictine order of monks.
本笃会。
order around
If you say that someone is ordering you around, you mean they are telling you what to do as if they have authority over you, and you dislike this.
When we're out he gets really bossy and starts ordering me around.
在外面的时候,他就变得飞扬跋扈,开始对我指手画脚。
in order to
If you do something in order to achieve a particular thing or in order that something can happen, you do it because you want to achieve that thing.
so that
Most schools are extremely unwilling to cut down on staff in order to cut costs.
大多数学校都很不愿意为了减少开支而裁员。
There are increased funds available in order that these targets are met.
为了达到这些目标增加了可用资金。
If someone must be in a particular situation in order to achieve something they want, they cannot achieve that thing if they are not in that situation.
We need to get rid of the idea that we must be liked all the time in order to be worthwhile.
我们要摒弃那种为了体现自己的价值就要不断取悦他人的观点。
If something must happen in order for something else to happen, the second thing cannot happen if the first thing does not happen.
In order for their computers to trace a person's records, they need both the name and address of the individual.
如果他们要在电脑上追踪某人的记录,就需要这个人的名字和地址。
on order
Something that is on order at a shop or factory has been asked for but has not yet been supplied.
The airlines still have 2,500 new planes on order.
航空公司还有2500架新飞机在订购中。
to order
If you do something to order, you do it whenever you are asked to do it.
She now makes wonderful dried flower arrangements to order.
她现在根据订单要求制作精美的干花。
under orders
If you are under orders to do something, you have been told to do it by someone in authority.
I am under orders not to discuss his mission or his location with anyone.
我奉命不得跟任何人谈论他的任务或去向。
in order
If you put or keep something in order, you make sure that it is neat or well organized.
Now he has a chance to put his life back in order.
现在,他有机会使自己的生活重新走上正轨。
If you think something is in order, you think it should happen or be provided.
Reforms are clearly in order.
改革势在必行。
in the order of something , of the order of something
You use in the order of or of the order of when mentioning an approximate figure.
They borrowed something in the order of $10 million.
他们借了大约一千万美元。
in good order
If something is in good order, it is in good condition.
The vessel's safety equipment was not in good order.
这艘船的安全设备出了故障。
in working order
A machine or device that is in working order is functioning properly and is not broken.
Only half of the spacecraft's six science instruments are still in working order.
宇宙飞船的6种科学仪器中,只有一半还能正常运转。
out of order
A machine or device that is out of order is broken and does not work.
Their phone's out of order.
他们的电话出故障了。
If you say that someone or their behaviour is out of order, you mean that their behaviour is unacceptable.
Kent, you're out of order.
肯特,你太过分了。
orders , ordering , ordered
If a person in authority orders someone to do something, they tell them to do it.
command
Williams ordered him to leave.
威廉姆斯命令他离开。
If someone in authority orders something, they give instructions that it should be done.
The president has ordered a full investigation.
总统已下令进行彻底调查。
When you order something that you are going to pay for, you ask for it to be brought to you, sent to you, or obtained for you.
The couple ordered a new set of sterling silver rings from Tiffany for $200 each.
这对夫妇从蒂芙尼珠宝店订购了一套新的纯银戒指,每只200美元。
The waitress appeared. 'Are you ready to order?'
女服务员走了过来,“准备好点菜了吗?”
The way that something is ordered is the way that it is organized and structured.
a society which is ordered by hierarchy.
一个等级森严的社会。
We know the French order things differently.
我们知道法国人处理事情的方式不同。
a carefully ordered system in which everyone has his place.
一个分工明确、有条不紊的体系。