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单词 reorient
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Definition of reorient in English:

reorient

verb riːˈɔːrɪɛntriːˈɒrɪɛntˌriˈɔriənt
[with object]
  • 1Change the focus or direction of.

    重定(方向,重点),再调整

    the country began reorienting its economic and social policies in 1988
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Theoretically, this angle can lengthen a contracted scar by about 75 percent and reorient the direction of the central wound by 90 degrees.
    • He is also reorienting acquisition policy toward individual works, as opposed to the absorption of entire collections, which typically arrive with strings attached.
    • Hollywood and the media promote positive images of older people, but it would be surprising if society's stereotypes of beauty were to be reoriented towards images of old age.
    • It is imperative to reorient the German political model more firmly toward the middle classes, the active, relatively well-educated and well-situated majority.
    • Changes in governmental policies and initiatives and a severe economic crisis may have reoriented motivations toward altruistic or mutually beneficial agreements.
    • This in turn requires doing everything possible to attract inward investment and to reorient economic activity towards production for export.
    • Taken together, these developments led to a debate at the time of this research regarding the need to reorient the forest service toward a public service role with a constituency that would prominently include small farmers.
    • Having won the ‘lunar race,’ the Americans reoriented their space program toward creation and operation of long-term orbital stations.
    • They prayed towards Jerusalem, until Muhammad had a revelation reorienting the faithful towards Mecca.
    • Would it be friendly to the United States and willing to reorient foreign policy in a Western direction, or would nationalism resurface?
    • By then the Editorial Board had been reoriented towards other countries and transport modes, although traditional topics and Britain remained central.
    • Now he just had to reorient the craft toward the lab, and wait for twenty minutes.
    • It is important that we rethink the roles and missions of the Guard and reorient them towards being more helpful and fuller partners in this effort of providing homeland security.
    • Changes in training have to be made to reorient the focus of both disciplines.
    • The social worker at the centre provides the input for reorienting their lives.
    • Reducing access to credit as a means of preventing overextension, of course, risks reorienting policy towards the paternalistic practices of the past.
    • With the shift of the film industry's attention away from serving the party as its propaganda tool to surviving in the commercial marketplace, the film industry had to reorient its production toward the sources of profits.
    • Higher education was reoriented toward the socialist bloc, and students went to study in Vietnam, the Soviet Union, and other Eastern Bloc countries.
    • The lack of opposition to the establishment of sea control has permitted the few large and powerful navies to reorient their focuses in a landward direction.
    • Therefore, the United States and the international community may have to rethink their policies, reorienting them toward Africa in a way that reflects the current security dynamics in the region.
    1. 1.1reorient oneself Find one's position again in relation to one's surroundings.
      重新找到自己的位置
      slowly they advanced, stopping every so often and then reorienting themselves

      他们慢慢地前行,不时停下来重新确定他们所在的方位。

Derivatives

  • reorientate

  • verb riːˈɔːrɪənteɪtriːˈɒrɪənteɪtˌriˈɔriənˌteɪt
    British
    • another term for reorient
      During the Second World War the statue was removed for safe keeping, but on its return the bow was fixed pointing to the south, and then again wrongly reorientated after the road junction was upgraded in the 1990s.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • In its remodelled form it was reorientated round a central peristyle garden.
      • Those security institutions that have been set up under the US led occupation will also have to be disbanded or reorientated to support an independent Iraqi government.

Definition of reorient in US English:

reorient

verbˌriˈɔriəntˌrēˈôrēənt
[with object]
  • 1Change the focus or direction of.

    重定(方向,重点),再调整

    the country began reorienting its economic and social policies in 1988
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Would it be friendly to the United States and willing to reorient foreign policy in a Western direction, or would nationalism resurface?
    • Now he just had to reorient the craft toward the lab, and wait for twenty minutes.
    • Changes in training have to be made to reorient the focus of both disciplines.
    • Theoretically, this angle can lengthen a contracted scar by about 75 percent and reorient the direction of the central wound by 90 degrees.
    • He is also reorienting acquisition policy toward individual works, as opposed to the absorption of entire collections, which typically arrive with strings attached.
    • Having won the ‘lunar race,’ the Americans reoriented their space program toward creation and operation of long-term orbital stations.
    • By then the Editorial Board had been reoriented towards other countries and transport modes, although traditional topics and Britain remained central.
    • It is imperative to reorient the German political model more firmly toward the middle classes, the active, relatively well-educated and well-situated majority.
    • Reducing access to credit as a means of preventing overextension, of course, risks reorienting policy towards the paternalistic practices of the past.
    • It is important that we rethink the roles and missions of the Guard and reorient them towards being more helpful and fuller partners in this effort of providing homeland security.
    • The lack of opposition to the establishment of sea control has permitted the few large and powerful navies to reorient their focuses in a landward direction.
    • Changes in governmental policies and initiatives and a severe economic crisis may have reoriented motivations toward altruistic or mutually beneficial agreements.
    • The social worker at the centre provides the input for reorienting their lives.
    • Therefore, the United States and the international community may have to rethink their policies, reorienting them toward Africa in a way that reflects the current security dynamics in the region.
    • Hollywood and the media promote positive images of older people, but it would be surprising if society's stereotypes of beauty were to be reoriented towards images of old age.
    • They prayed towards Jerusalem, until Muhammad had a revelation reorienting the faithful towards Mecca.
    • Higher education was reoriented toward the socialist bloc, and students went to study in Vietnam, the Soviet Union, and other Eastern Bloc countries.
    • This in turn requires doing everything possible to attract inward investment and to reorient economic activity towards production for export.
    • Taken together, these developments led to a debate at the time of this research regarding the need to reorient the forest service toward a public service role with a constituency that would prominently include small farmers.
    • With the shift of the film industry's attention away from serving the party as its propaganda tool to surviving in the commercial marketplace, the film industry had to reorient its production toward the sources of profits.
    1. 1.1reorient oneself Find one's position again in relation to one's surroundings.
      重新找到自己的位置
      slowly they advanced, stopping every so often and then reorienting themselves

      他们慢慢地前行,不时停下来重新确定他们所在的方位。

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