scope
noun OPAL W
/skəʊp/
/skəʊp/
[uncountable]- the opportunity or ability to do or achieve something
（做或实现某事的）机会，能力 - scope for something There's still plenty of scope for improvement.
还有很大的改进余地。 - Her job offers very little scope for promotion.
干着那样的工作，她几乎没有机会得到提拔。 - scope (for somebody) (to do something) The extra money will give us the scope to improve our facilities.
有了这笔额外资金，我们就能把设备加以改进了。 - within somebody's scope First try to do something that is within your scope.
你先试着做一件自己力所能及的事。
- There is limited scope for creativity in my job.
我的工作发挥创造力的空间有限。 - These courses give students more scope for developing their own ideas.
这些课程给学生提供了更多机会来完善自己的想法。
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- full
- ample
- considerable
- …
- have
- allow (somebody)
- give somebody
- …
- scope for
- scope for something There's still plenty of scope for improvement.
- the range of things that a subject, an organization, an activity, etc. deals with
（题目、组织、活动等的）范围 - The police are broadening the scope of their investigation.
警方正在扩大调查的范围。 - in scope Our powers are limited in scope.
我们的权限不大。 - beyond the scope of something This subject lies beyond the scope of our investigation.
这一问题超出了我们的调查范围。 - outside the scope of something These issues were outside the scope of the article.
这些问题不属本文论述范围。
- This is a novel of epic scope and grand passions.
这部小说场面宏大，气势磅礴。 - These disputes fall within the scope of the local courts.
处理这些纠纷属于地方法院的职权范围。 - These criteria were used to determine the scope of the curriculum.
这些标准用以确定课程范围。 - The survey is too limited in (its) scope.
调查的范围太窄了。 - The sheer scope of the project was impressive.
项目的宏大规模令人惊叹。 - The scope of the exhibition is disappointingly narrow.
展品的范围很窄，令人失望。 - The geographical scope of product markets has widened since the war.
战后产品市场的地理范围扩大了。
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- broad
- wide
- epic
- …
- broaden
- enlarge
- expand
- …
- broaden
- expand
- extend
- …
- beyond the scope of
- outside the scope of
- in (something’s) scope
- …
- The police are broadening the scope of their investigation.
- -scope(in nouns
构成名词 …镜（观察仪器） - microscope
显微镜 - telescope
望远镜
- microscope
词源noun senses 1 to 2 mid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘target for shooting at’): from Italian scopo ‘aim’, from Greek skopos ‘target’, from skeptesthai ‘look out’. noun sense 3 early 17th cent. from modern Latin -scopium, from Greek skopein ‘look at’. The verb dates from the 1970s.