Both strains quickly invaded local hospitals when needle sharing and other unhealthy practices ensured the rapid spreading of the infection by bringing people into contact with contaminated body fluids.
出自-2013年6月聽力原文
In mature, fully developed countries such as the UK, more-efficient farming practices and better transport, storage and processing facilities ensure that a larger proportion of the food produced reaches markets and consumers
出自-2013年12月閱讀原文
These should discourage retailers from wasteful practices that lead to the rejection of food on the basis of cosmetic characteristics, and losses in the home due to excessive purchasing by consumers.
出自-2013年12月閱讀原文
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通常做法；常規；慣例
You can refer to something that people do regularly as a practice .
例句
Some firms have cut workers' pay below the level set in their contract, a practice that is illegal in Germany...
一些公司把工人薪水減至低于合同規定的水平，這種做法在德國是非法的。
Gordon Brown has demanded a public inquiry into bank practices.
戈登·布朗已要求對銀行的慣例做法進行公開調查。
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練習；訓練
Practice means doing something regularly in order to be able to do it better. A practice is one of these periods of doing something.
例句
She was taking all three of her daughters to basketball practice every day...
她每天都帶3個女兒進行籃球訓練。
...the hard practice necessary to develop from a learner to an accomplished musician...
從初學者成長為有造詣的音樂家所必需的艱苦訓練
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（醫生或律師的）業務活動，工作；宗教活動
The work done by doctors and lawyers is referred to as the practice of medicine and law. People's religious activities are referred to as the practice of a religion.
例句
...the practice of internal medicine...
內科業務
I eventually realized I had to change my attitude toward medical practice.
我終于認識到自己不得不改變對醫務工作的看法。
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診所；律師事務所
A doctor's or lawyer's practice is his or her business, often shared with other doctors or lawyers.
例句
The new doctor's practice was miles away from where I lived...
新開的診所離我住的地方有幾英里遠。
My law practice isn't the most important thing in my life, you know.
你知道，我的律師事務所不是我生活里最重要的事情。
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事實上；實際上
What happens in practice is what actually happens, in contrast to what is supposed to happen.
例句
...the difference between foreign policy as presented to the public and foreign policy in actual practice...
公布于眾的外交政策和實際外交政策的區別
In practice, workers do not work to satisfy their needs.
事實上，工人工作并不是為了滿足本身的需要。
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慣例；常規；一般做法
If something such as a procedure is normal practice or standard practice, it is the usual thing that is done in a particular situation.
例句
It is normal practice not to reveal details of a patient's condition...
不透露患者病情的細節是慣常的做法。
The transcript is full of codewords, which is standard practice in any army.
抄本上全是密碼，這種做法是所有軍隊的慣例。
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疏于練習；荒疏；荒廢
If you are out of practice at doing something, you have not had much experience of it recently, although you used to do it a lot or be quite good at it.
例句
'How's your German?' — 'Not bad, but I'm out of practice.'
“你的德語如何？”——“還行，只是長時間沒練習了。”
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PHRASE
熟能生巧
If you say 'practice makes perfect ', you mean that it is possible to learn something or develop a skill if you practise enough. People often say this to encourage someone to keep practising.
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實施；實行；實踐
If you put a belief or method into practice, you behave or act in accordance with it.
例句
Now that he is back, the prime minister has another chance to put his new ideas into practice...
既然首相又掌權了，他就重新有機會實施他的新想法。
We weren't allowed to put into practice in our daily lives the teachings we received.
我們不能夠將所受的教義在日常生活中付諸實踐。