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line APPROACH TO SUBJECTlaInn [C]a way of dealing with or thinking about something or someone路线,方式,做法The government's official line has always been to refuse to negotiate with terrorists.政府的官方做法一直是拒绝与恐怖分子谈判。The courts should take a tougher line with (= punish more severely) sex offenders.法院应更严厉地对性犯罪者进行判罚。Several Labour MPs disagree with their party's line on taxation.几位工党议员不同意他们党在税收问题上的政策。What sort of line (= method of arguing) do you think we should take in the pay negotiations?你认为我们在工资谈判中应采取哪种策略?The police are confident that this new line of inquiry will lead them to the murderer.警方相信新的审讯策略将会使他们发现凶手。You'll have to try a different line of questioning if you want to get any answers out of him.如果你想从他身上得到任何回答的话就必须采用不同的提问方法。His line of argument was impossible to follow.他论证的思路令人费解。A somewhat complicated line of reasoning led me to this conclusion.一个有点复杂的推理过程使我得出这个结论。It seems inevitable that the country will be divided along ethnic lines.看来该国将不可避免地按照种族区域加以划分。My sister works in publishing and I'm hoping to do something along the same lines (= something similar).我姐姐在出版社工作,我希望能从事相似的行业。I don't know exactly what she said to him, but it was something along the lines that (= something like) he would lose his job if he didn't work harder.我并不确切知道她对他都说了些什么,但大致是说如果他不努力的话将被辞退。They're campaigning for the electoral system to be reformed along the lines of (= so that it becomes similar to) the one in Germany.他们正在发起一场运动以促使选举能按德国的方式进行改革。Do you think this approach to the problem is on the right lines (= a suitable method and likely to be successful)?你认为这种处理问题的方法合适吗?If you get a line on someone, esp. someone you do not yet know, you find out information about them.得到消息Can you give me a line on the professor who's visiting us tomorrow?你能告诉我有关明天来访的教授的情况吗?I've been trying to get a line on this guy they've nominated for president, but I can't find out anything about him.我一直在想了解他们提名为总统候选人的消息,但我一无所获。
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