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run·ning1 /ˈrʌnɪŋ/ ●●● S3 noun [uncountableU] 
1 DSOthe activity or sport of running 跑，跑步；跑步运动 → jogging Did you go running this morning?
你今天早上去跑步了吗？
New facilities include a pool and a running track.
新设施包括一个游泳池和一条跑道。
running shoes
跑鞋
2 the running of something CONTROLthe process of managing or organizing a business, home, organization etc 对…的管理[经营]
Brian took over the day-to-day running of the company while his father was away.
父亲不在期间，布赖恩接手公司的日常管理。
He praised the smooth running of the election.
他称赞竞选组织得很顺利。
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smooth running• Food and medical supplies against an efficient and smooth running operation.• The Macclesfield partners alas, were not experiencing smooth running at Coniston.• Zips: a double zip which is smooth running with an inner draught baffle.• The lights flickered and dimmed as the blast from a nearby explosion momentarily disturbed the smooth running of the generator.• This is essential to facilitate the smooth running of a sale and to provide the client with regular written status reports.• As the man on the spot, he was responsible for the smooth running of everything that happened on the site.• They are, in a college like Vassar, a key element in the smooth running of the school.• An angry mob creates confusion and prevents the smooth running of its hunting sequence.
3 be in the running/out of the running WINto have some hope or no hope of winning a race or competition 〔在竞赛中〕有/没有希望取胜
Who’s in the running for the world title this year?
谁有希望获得今年的世界冠军称号？
4. make (all) the running British EnglishBrE informal to be the person who makes most of the suggestions in a relationship, plan, activity etc 〔在关系、计划、活动等中〕主动，带头
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make (all) the running• Collins made the running down the left and found Slater at the back-post.• Busy Martin Ling made the running.• Hodkinson, encouraged by his corner, was now making all the running.• When this is so, a visit will always go well if they are allowed to make the running.• As the race started, Dettori decided to make the running.• The wary fighter backs off from you and so must be encouraged to make all the running.• Painfully and in the open she had to make all the running.• That was precisely what women had done in the past - sit back and wait for men to make the running.
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running• An angry mob creates confusion and prevents the smooth running of its hunting sequence.
go running• He went running off after the boy down the tunnel, dodging people and cannoning into others.• Don't let him go running amok, Bill.• I shouldn't let him go running around like that.• Something had scared him enough to make him go running across rooftops in the early hours of the morning.• I go running to the phone..• I went running up there with my brothers.• My son went running to Irene's house to see what was the matter.• Do you want to go running with me?• We were friends, on Sunday afternoons we went running in the lower meadows.
running2 adjectiveadj [only before noun]
1 running water
a) DHHWATERif a house has running water, it has pipes which provide water to its kitchen, bath, toilet etc 自来水
b) DNWATERwater that is flowing or moving 流水，流动的水
the sound of running water
流水的声音
Rinse the vegetables thoroughly under running water.
用流水将蔬菜彻底冲洗干净。
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running water• They lived in a one-room trailer with no running water.• We hike up a little more than a mile and find running water.• The sound of running water could be heard like faint background music.• The village and ashram had no running water, electricity, fans, radio, or telephone.• In addition Drake set up artificial ecologies in aquaria and in running water for artificial stream ecologies.• A sophisticated technology brought running water into private homes, public bathhouses and imperial palaces.• They have no electricity, running water or school; their church collapsed years ago.• Somehow, over the running water, she finally heard the loud knocking on the cabin door.• We were looked at with the same sense of distrust that must have greeted the first plumber who installed running water there.• Although during the winter there had been no running water this had been restored at least in the centre of the town.
2 running commentary SAYa spoken description of an event, especially a race or game, made while the event is happening 〔对比赛或体育运动等事件的〕现场实况报道，现场描述
She gave us a running commentary on what was happening in the street.
她就街上的情况向我们作现场报道。
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running commentary• Don't keep up a running commentary.• Photos of Jack were shown, each thrown up on a large screen with a running commentary.• It becomes a running commentary from navigator to driver.• Hearing voices that keep up a running commentary in the head.• Attending is simply describing what the child is doing, rather like a running commentary on the activity.• This man provided a running commentary on the events on the screen, which were otherwise a fabulous mystery.• His running commentary was oft-repeated, I guess.
3 running total HMNTOTALa total that keeps being increased as new costs, amounts etc are added 不断增加的总数
Keep a running total of your expenses as you go along.
进行的同时记个开支流水账总数。
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running total• The cost will simply be kept for each project as a running total entered by hand in a cost ledger.• And you told me you've kept a running total in your head all the year.• Keep a running total of your expenses.
4. running battle/joke ARGUEan argument or joke that continues or is repeated over a long period of time 持久的争论/反复讲的笑话
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running battle/joke• The fighters quickly pursued them and eventually shot down every one in a running battle.• A man whose name is so synonymous with a suntan that it is a running joke in Doonesbury?• Police and demonstrators regularly engage in running battles near Mr Suharto's home in central Jakarta.• An even longer running battle was fought in the royal dockyards.• I was not told, when we left, that I should have to fight a running battle with four hundred horsemen.• As well as his running battle with Monkou, he left stud marks on defender Richard Hall.• In the resulting confrontation several hundred Mohawks armed with clubs and guns fought running battles with police.• They saw graffiti on important public memorials and they saw running battles with the police.
5. running sore MIa sore area on your skin that has liquid coming out of it 流脓的创口
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running sore• For Horace it might have been a short madness; in Frere it threatened to become a running sore.• In fact Meadowell is an Elastoplast name like Sizewell, invented in the 1970s to disguise what was already a running sore.• And Nat was like a running sore, crabby, miserable.• But finally, she would make of it an ulcer, a running sore that would never heal.• Such protestations ferment a running sore which breeds contempt for the authorities.
6. in running order WORKING/NOT BROKENa machine that is in running order is working correctly 〔机器〕运转正常的
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in running order• Keep the battery fully charged and the engine in running order.• Two isn't multiplicity and Castelfonte never was in running order, and now they were living in hotels.• A nightly news programme, involving late inclusions and enforced changes in running order, is bound to be frenetic.
7. the running order ORDER/SEQUENCEthe order in which the different parts of an event have been arranged to take place 〔活动的〕进行顺序
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the running order• There are a few changes in the running order for the teachers' conference.• So Jonathan set the running order up and I was really pleased.
8. take a running jump spoken used to tell someone to go away and stop annoying you 滚开〔用于告诉某人不要打扰你〕
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take a running jump• Or, as the Palace will no doubt be recommending to the duchess in due course ... take a running jump.
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running• The longest running rumour about the book started to spread soon after Frankfurt.
running3 adverbadv
three years/five times etc running CONTINUOUSfor three years etc without a change or interruption 连续三年/五次等 SYN in a row
She won the prize for the fourth year running.
她连续第四年获奖。
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running• Spender won the Cambridge Poetry Prize three years running.• This is the fourth time running you've been late.
From Longman Business Dictionary
runningrun·ning1 /ˈrʌnɪŋ/ noun
1the running of something the way in which an organization or system is managed or organized
He has little say in the running of the company.
2be in the running/out of the running to have some hope or no hope of winning something
be in the running/out of the running for
Two European aircraft builders are in the running for the contract.
runningrunning2 adjectiveadj
1running argument/battle/debate etc an argument etc that continues or is repeated over a long period of time
the running debate over taxes and growth
2running total a total that is continually increased as new costs, amounts etc are added
We have been keeping a running total of layoff announcements by major corporations.
3in running order a machine that is in running order is working correctly
They had failed to keep the crane in running order.
4the running order the order in which the different parts of an event have been arranged to take place
The running order had to be changed at the last minute.
5running repairs small repairs that you do to a machine to keep it working