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美 [ɡraʊndz]英 [ɡraʊndz]

n.地面;地;土地;土壤;土;开阔地;空旷地
v.使停飞;(使)搁浅，触海底;阻止…起飞;罚(儿童)不准出门
ground的第三人称单数和复数

grounds

辨析词语

reason grounds excuse motive need justification cause pretext

These are all words for a cause or an explanation for sth that has happened or that sb has done.以上各词均指事情发生或做某事的原因、理由、解释。

a cause or an explanation for sth that has happened or that sb has done; a fact that makes it right or fair to do sth指某事发生或做某事的原因、理由、解释、正当理由、道理：

He said no but he didn't give a reason.

他说不行，但没有说明原因。

( rather formal ) a good or true reason for saying, doing or believing sth指说、做或相信某事的充分理由、根据：

You have no grounds for complaint.

你没有理由抱怨。

a reason, either true or invented, that you give to explain or defend your behaviour; a good reason that you give for doing sth that you want to do for other reasons指为自己行为所作的辩护、借口、理由：

Late again! What's your excuse this time?

又迟到了！你这次有什么借口？

It gave me an excuse to take the car.

这使我有理由开车去了。

a reason that explains sb's behaviour指动机、原因：

There seemed to be no motive for the murder.

这起谋杀案看不出有什么动机。

(usually used in negative statements) a good reason to do sth（常用于否定句）指必须、需要：

There is no need for you to get up early tomorrow.

你明天不必早起。

( rather formal ) a good reason why sth exists or is done指事物存在或做某事的正当理由：

I can see no possible justification for any further tax increases.

我看不出还能提出什么理由再加税了。


Justification is used to talk about finding or understanding reasons for actions, or trying to explain why it is a good idea to do sth. It is often used with words like little , no , some , every , without , and not any . Grounds is used more for talking about reasons that already exist, or that have already been decided, for example by law. moral/economic grounds

( rather formal ) a reason for having particular feelings or behaving in a particular way指某种感情或行为产生的原因、动机、缘故：

There is no cause for alarm .

不必恐慌。

( rather formal ) a false reason that you give for doing sth, usually sth bad, in order to hide the real reason指为掩盖做某事（通常为不好的事）的真正理由而找的借口、托词：

He left the party early on the pretext of having to work.

他借口有事要处理，早早离开了聚会。

柯林斯词典

grounds

频次

1
N-SING 地；地面
The ground is the surface of the earth.

Forty or fifty women were sitting cross-legged on the ground...

四五十个女人盘腿坐在地上。
2
N-SING （相对于空中的）地面
If you say that something takes place on the ground, you mean it takes place on the surface of the earth and not in the air.

Coordinating airline traffic on the ground is as complicated as managing the traffic in the air.

协调地面的航空交通与管理空中交通一样复杂。
3
N-SING 土；土地；土壤
The ground is the soil and rock on the earth's surface.

The ground had eroded.

这片土壤遭到侵蚀。
4
N-UNCOUNT （尤指建筑物极少或具有某种特性的）土地
You can refer to land as ground, especially when it has very few buildings or when it is considered to be special in some way.

...a stretch of waste ground...

一块荒地
5
N-COUNT （有特定用途的）场地
You can use ground to refer to an area of land, sea, or air which is used for a particular activity.

...Indian hunting grounds...

印第安人的狩猎场
6
N-COUNT 运动场，…场（美国英语中亦作grounds）
A ground is an area of land which is specially designed and made for playing sport or for some other activity. In American English grounds is also used.

...the city's football ground.

该市的足球场
7
N-PLURAL （大型或重要建筑周围的）场地，庭院，花园
The grounds of a large or important building are the garden or area of land which surrounds it.

...the palace grounds.

皇家花园
8
N-VAR （适于方法、思想等发展的）地方
You can use ground to refer to a place or situation in which particular methods or ideas can develop and be successful.

The company has maintained its reputation as the developing ground for new techniques...

该公司一直享有新技术研发基地的美誉。
9
N-UNCOUNT 范围；领域；基础
You can use ground in expressions such as on shaky ground and the same ground to refer to a particular subject, area of experience, or basis for an argument.

Sensing she was on shaky ground, Marie changed the subject...

感到自己的观点站不住脚，玛丽于是换了个话题。
10
N-UNCOUNT 优势；有利条件
Ground is used in expressions such as gain ground ,lose ground, and give ground in order to indicate that someone gets or loses an advantage.

There are signs that the party is gaining ground in the latest polls...

有迹象表明该党在最新一轮投票中正逐渐领先。
11
N-VAR 理由；根据
If something is grounds for a feeling or action, it is a reason for it. If you do something on the grounds of a particular thing, that thing is the reason for your action.

In the interview he gave some grounds for optimism...

他接受采访时阐述了持乐观态度的理由。
12
VERB 以…为根据；建立在…基础上
If an argument, belief, or opinion is grounded in something, that thing is used to justify it.

Her argument was grounded in fact...

她的观点有事实根据。
13
VERB 使不能起飞；使停飞
If an aircraft or its passengers are grounded, they are made to stay on the ground and are not allowed to take off.

The civil aviation minister ordered all the planes to be grounded...

民航部长下令所有飞机不得起飞。
14
VERB 罚（儿童）不能出门；禁足
When parents ground a child, they forbid them to go out and enjoy themselves for a period of time, as a punishment.

Thompson grounded him for a month, and banned television.

汤普森罚他一个月不能出门，并禁止看电视。
15
V-ERG （使）搁浅
If a ship or boat is grounded or if it grounds, it touches the bottom of the sea, lake, or river it is on, and is unable to move off.

Residents have been told to stay away from the region where the ship was grounded...

居民们被告知不要靠近船只搁浅的区域。
16
N-COUNT 接地装置；地线
The ground in an electric plug or piece of electrical equipment is the wire through which electricity passes into the ground and which makes the equipment safe.
18
ADJ （肉等）切碎的，磨碎的
Ground meat has been cut into very small pieces in a machine.

...ground beef.

绞碎的牛肉
20

Ground is the past tense and past participle of grind .
21
See also:grounding;home ground
22
PHRASE 开辟新领域；开创新方法
If you break new ground, you do something completely different or you do something in a completely different way.

Gellhorn may have broken new ground when she filed her first report on the Spanish Civil War.

当盖尔霍恩发出她第一篇关于西班牙内战的报道时，她也许已经开辟了一片新的天地。
23
PHRASE 烧为灰烬；夷为平地
If you say that a town or building is burnt to the ground or is razed to the ground, you are emphasizing that it has been completely destroyed by fire.

The town was razed to the ground after the French Revolution.

该镇在法国大革命后被夷为平地。
24
PHRASE 共同看法；相同的立场
If two people or groups find common ground, they agree about something, especially when they do not agree about other things.
25
PHRASE 躲藏起来；潜伏起来
If you go to ground, you hide somewhere where you cannot easily be found.

Citizens of East Beirut went to ground in basements and shelters.

东贝鲁特的市民们躲进了地下室和掩体中。
26
PHRASE 中间立场；中间观点
The middle ground between two groups, ideas, or plans involves things which do not belong to either of these groups, ideas, or plans but have elements of each, often in a less extreme form.

She seems to have found a middle ground in which mutual support, rather than complete dependency, is possible.

她似乎已经找到了实现相互支持而非完全依赖其中一方的中间立场。
27
PHRASE 开始；起步
If something such as a project gets off the ground, it begins or starts functioning.

We help small companies to get off the ground.

我们帮助一些小公司顺利起步。
28
PHRASE 在自己熟悉的领域里；在自己的地盘
If you are on your own ground, you are in a place or situation in which you feel confident because you are very familiar with it.

On her own ground she knows exactly what she's doing.

她在自己熟悉的领域里对自己的行为有十足的把握。
29
PHRASE 为…打下基础
If you prepare the ground for a future event, course of action, or development, you make it easier for it to happen.

...a political initiative which would prepare the ground for war.

为战争埋下了伏笔的政治倡议
30
PHRASE 改变立场；改变观点
If you shift your ground or change your ground, you change the basis on which you are arguing.
31
PHRASE 坚持主张；坚定立场
If you stand your ground or hold your ground, you continue to support a particular argument or to have a particular opinion when other people are opposing you or trying to make you change your mind.

The spectacle of Sakharov standing his ground and speaking his mind gave me hope.

萨哈罗夫坚持立场、坦率直言的样子让我看到了希望。
32
PHRASE 坚守阵地；不退却
If you stand your ground or hold your ground, you do not run away from a situation, but face it bravely.

She had to force herself to stand her ground when she heard someone approaching.

听到有人走近，她只好强迫自己鼓起勇气，绝不退缩。
33
PHRASE （工作、衣服等）完全适合
If you say that something such as a job or piece of clothing suits someone down to the ground, you mean that it is completely suitable or right for them.
34
PHRASE 为数不多；数目少
If people or things of a particular kind are thin on the ground, there are very few of them.

Good managers are often thin on the ground.

优秀的经理人常常寥寥无几。
35
to have one's ear to the ground→ see:ear

英英释义

noun

the enclosed land around a house or other building: it was a small house with almost no yard; Synonym: yard curtilage

your basis for belief or disbelief;knowledge on which to base belief: the evidence that smoking causes lung cancer is very compelling; Synonym: evidence

a justification for something existing or happening: he had no cause to complain; they had good reason to rejoice; Synonym: cause reason

a tract of land cleared for some special purposes (recreation or burial etc.)

dregs consisting of solid particles (especially of coffee) that form a residue: it is a Middle Eastern custom to read your future in your coffee grounds

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双语例句

1

Instead of flying thousands of miles in search of food , they make the waste sites their winter feeding grounds .

这些鸟类不再飞行数千英里去寻找食物，而是把垃圾场变成它们冬天的觅食地。
2

Although the planned operation will be located more than 40 miles away , drawing the soda ash in through pipelines , conservationists worry it could still upset the natural water cycle and breeding grounds .

尽管规划的工厂将位于40多英里之外，通过管道抽取纯碱，但环保主义者担心它仍会破坏天然的水循环和繁殖地。
3

Customers are thin on the ground at this time of year .

一年里这个季节顾客很少。
4

There 's a lot of support for the policy on the ground .

这一政策得到相关人员的普遍支持。
5

I 'd rather meet him here on my own home ground .

我宁愿在我自己的地盘上见他。
6

The car was found on a piece of waste ground .

那辆车是在一块荒地里发现的。
7

The argument ground on for almost two years .

这场争论拖拖拉拉持续了近两年。
8

It 's an ideal proving ground for the new car .

这里是个理想的新车试验场。
9

The flour is ground using traditional methods .

这面粉是用传统方法磨制而成。
10

We had to go over the same ground in class the next day .

我们得在第二天的课上讨论同样的话题。
11

We felt the ground give way under our feet .

我们感觉到脚下的土地下陷了。
12

The government is claiming the high ground in the education debate .

政府在教育辩论中处于有利地位。
13

The kids were playing on waste ground near the school .

孩子们在学校附近的荒地玩耍。
14

They are not prepared to give ground on tax cuts .

他们不准备在减税方面让步。
15

Most of the monkeys ' food is found at ground level .

猴子的食物大多可在地面找到。
16

They walked for a long time and covered a good deal of ground .

他们步行了很长时间，走了好长的一段路。
17

I thought I was on safe ground discussing music with her .

我以为与她一起讨论音乐是稳妥的。
18

They needed to make up ground on their competitors .

他们必须穷追猛赶竞争对手。
19

The rope was plenty long enough to reach the ground .

这根绳子长及地面依然有余。
20

Years of oppression had ground the people down .

人民年复一年地遭受着压迫。
21

He lost his balance and fell to the ground .

他失去平衡摔倒在地上。
22

He was back on familiar ground , dealing with the customers .

他又干起了与顾客打交道的老本行。
23

It will be a clear night with some ground frost .

今夜晴，部分地面有霜冻。
24

The committee will prepare the ground for next month 's meeting .

这个委员会将为下个月的会议做好准备。
25

The explosion made a massive hole in the ground .

爆炸在地面留下了一个巨大的坑。
26

This area of the city has become a breeding ground for violent crime .

这个市区已成为暴力犯罪的滋生地。
27

Without more money , the movie is unlikely to get off the ground .

没有更多的资金，这部影片难以顺利开拍。
28

The region at the time was fertile ground for revolutionary movements .

当时该地区是革命运动的沃土。
29

The cables are buried one metre below ground level .

电缆埋在地平面下一米深的地方。
30

You 're on dangerous ground if you criticize his family .

你要是批评他的家人可就惹麻烦了。

grounds

辨析词语

柯林斯词典

grounds

1 N-SING 地；地面 The ground is the surface of the earth.

2 N-SING （相对于空中的）地面 If you say that something takes place on the ground, you mean it takes place on the surface of the earth and not in the air.

3 N-SING 土；土地；土壤 The ground is the soil and rock on the earth's surface.

4 N-UNCOUNT （尤指建筑物极少或具有某种特性的）土地 You can refer to land as ground, especially when it has very few buildings or when it is considered to be special in some way.

5 N-COUNT （有特定用途的）场地 You can use ground to refer to an area of land, sea, or air which is used for a particular activity.

6 N-COUNT 运动场，…场（美国英语中亦作grounds） A ground is an area of land which is specially designed and made for playing sport or for some other activity. In American English grounds is also used.

7 N-PLURAL （大型或重要建筑周围的）场地，庭院，花园 The grounds of a large or important building are the garden or area of land which surrounds it.

8 N-VAR （适于方法、思想等发展的）地方 You can use ground to refer to a place or situation in which particular methods or ideas can develop and be successful.

9 N-UNCOUNT 范围；领域；基础 You can use ground in expressions such as on shaky ground and the same ground to refer to a particular subject, area of experience, or basis for an argument.

10 N-UNCOUNT 优势；有利条件 Ground is used in expressions such as gain ground ,lose ground, and give ground in order to indicate that someone gets or loses an advantage.

11 N-VAR 理由；根据 If something is grounds for a feeling or action, it is a reason for it. If you do something on the grounds of a particular thing, that thing is the reason for your action.

12 VERB 以…为根据；建立在…基础上 If an argument, belief, or opinion is grounded in something, that thing is used to justify it.

13 VERB 使不能起飞；使停飞 If an aircraft or its passengers are grounded, they are made to stay on the ground and are not allowed to take off.

14 VERB 罚（儿童）不能出门；禁足 When parents ground a child, they forbid them to go out and enjoy themselves for a period of time, as a punishment.

15 V-ERG （使）搁浅 If a ship or boat is grounded or if it grounds, it touches the bottom of the sea, lake, or river it is on, and is unable to move off.

16 N-COUNT 接地装置；地线 The ground in an electric plug or piece of electrical equipment is the wire through which electricity passes into the ground and which makes the equipment safe.

18 ADJ （肉等）切碎的，磨碎的 Ground meat has been cut into very small pieces in a machine.

20 Ground is the past tense and past participle of grind .

21 See also:grounding;home ground

22 PHRASE 开辟新领域；开创新方法 If you break new ground, you do something completely different or you do something in a completely different way.

23 PHRASE 烧为灰烬；夷为平地 If you say that a town or building is burnt to the ground or is razed to the ground, you are emphasizing that it has been completely destroyed by fire.

24 PHRASE 共同看法；相同的立场 If two people or groups find common ground, they agree about something, especially when they do not agree about other things.

25 PHRASE 躲藏起来；潜伏起来 If you go to ground, you hide somewhere where you cannot easily be found.

26 PHRASE 中间立场；中间观点 The middle ground between two groups, ideas, or plans involves things which do not belong to either of these groups, ideas, or plans but have elements of each, often in a less extreme form.

27 PHRASE 开始；起步 If something such as a project gets off the ground, it begins or starts functioning.

28 PHRASE 在自己熟悉的领域里；在自己的地盘 If you are on your own ground, you are in a place or situation in which you feel confident because you are very familiar with it.

29 PHRASE 为…打下基础 If you prepare the ground for a future event, course of action, or development, you make it easier for it to happen.

30 PHRASE 改变立场；改变观点 If you shift your ground or change your ground, you change the basis on which you are arguing.

31 PHRASE 坚持主张；坚定立场 If you stand your ground or hold your ground, you continue to support a particular argument or to have a particular opinion when other people are opposing you or trying to make you change your mind.

32 PHRASE 坚守阵地；不退却 If you stand your ground or hold your ground, you do not run away from a situation, but face it bravely.

33 PHRASE （工作、衣服等）完全适合 If you say that something such as a job or piece of clothing suits someone down to the ground, you mean that it is completely suitable or right for them.

34 PHRASE 为数不多；数目少 If people or things of a particular kind are thin on the ground, there are very few of them.

35 to have one's ear to the ground→ see:ear

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1
N-SING 地；地面
The ground is the surface of the earth.

2
N-SING （相对于空中的）地面
If you say that something takes place on the ground, you mean it takes place on the surface of the earth and not in the air.

3
N-SING 土；土地；土壤
The ground is the soil and rock on the earth's surface.

4
N-UNCOUNT （尤指建筑物极少或具有某种特性的）土地
You can refer to land as ground, especially when it has very few buildings or when it is considered to be special in some way.

5
N-COUNT （有特定用途的）场地
You can use ground to refer to an area of land, sea, or air which is used for a particular activity.

6
N-COUNT 运动场，…场（美国英语中亦作grounds）
A ground is an area of land which is specially designed and made for playing sport or for some other activity. In American English grounds is also used.

7
N-PLURAL （大型或重要建筑周围的）场地，庭院，花园
The grounds of a large or important building are the garden or area of land which surrounds it.

8
N-VAR （适于方法、思想等发展的）地方
You can use ground to refer to a place or situation in which particular methods or ideas can develop and be successful.

9
N-UNCOUNT 范围；领域；基础
You can use ground in expressions such as on shaky ground and the same ground to refer to a particular subject, area of experience, or basis for an argument.

10
N-UNCOUNT 优势；有利条件
Ground is used in expressions such as gain ground ,lose ground, and give ground in order to indicate that someone gets or loses an advantage.

11
N-VAR 理由；根据
If something is grounds for a feeling or action, it is a reason for it. If you do something on the grounds of a particular thing, that thing is the reason for your action.

12
VERB 以…为根据；建立在…基础上
If an argument, belief, or opinion is grounded in something, that thing is used to justify it.

13
VERB 使不能起飞；使停飞
If an aircraft or its passengers are grounded, they are made to stay on the ground and are not allowed to take off.

14
VERB 罚（儿童）不能出门；禁足
When parents ground a child, they forbid them to go out and enjoy themselves for a period of time, as a punishment.

15
V-ERG （使）搁浅
If a ship or boat is grounded or if it grounds, it touches the bottom of the sea, lake, or river it is on, and is unable to move off.

16
N-COUNT 接地装置；地线
The ground in an electric plug or piece of electrical equipment is the wire through which electricity passes into the ground and which makes the equipment safe.

18
ADJ （肉等）切碎的，磨碎的
Ground meat has been cut into very small pieces in a machine.

20

Ground is the past tense and past participle of grind .

21
See also:grounding;home ground

22
PHRASE 开辟新领域；开创新方法
If you break new ground, you do something completely different or you do something in a completely different way.

23
PHRASE 烧为灰烬；夷为平地
If you say that a town or building is burnt to the ground or is razed to the ground, you are emphasizing that it has been completely destroyed by fire.

24
PHRASE 共同看法；相同的立场
If two people or groups find common ground, they agree about something, especially when they do not agree about other things.

25
PHRASE 躲藏起来；潜伏起来
If you go to ground, you hide somewhere where you cannot easily be found.

26
PHRASE 中间立场；中间观点
The middle ground between two groups, ideas, or plans involves things which do not belong to either of these groups, ideas, or plans but have elements of each, often in a less extreme form.

27
PHRASE 开始；起步
If something such as a project gets off the ground, it begins or starts functioning.

28
PHRASE 在自己熟悉的领域里；在自己的地盘
If you are on your own ground, you are in a place or situation in which you feel confident because you are very familiar with it.

29
PHRASE 为…打下基础
If you prepare the ground for a future event, course of action, or development, you make it easier for it to happen.

30
PHRASE 改变立场；改变观点
If you shift your ground or change your ground, you change the basis on which you are arguing.

31
PHRASE 坚持主张；坚定立场
If you stand your ground or hold your ground, you continue to support a particular argument or to have a particular opinion when other people are opposing you or trying to make you change your mind.

32
PHRASE 坚守阵地；不退却
If you stand your ground or hold your ground, you do not run away from a situation, but face it bravely.

33
PHRASE （工作、衣服等）完全适合
If you say that something such as a job or piece of clothing suits someone down to the ground, you mean that it is completely suitable or right for them.

34
PHRASE 为数不多；数目少
If people or things of a particular kind are thin on the ground, there are very few of them.

35
to have one's ear to the ground→ see:ear