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 advantage [əd'væntɪdʒ]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 优点, 便利, 好处, 优势

vt. 有助于


  1. Earthenware has an advantage over wood in being more easily kept clean.
    陶器的优点在于比木器更容易保持清洁。
  2. Her rich experience gave her an advantage over other applicants for the job.
    她丰富的经验使她比其他求职者具有有利条件。
  3. He took advantage of her good nature.
    他利用了她脾气好这个特点。


advantage
[ noun ]
  1. the quality of having a superior or more favorable position

  2. <noun.attribute>
    the experience gave him the advantage over me
  3. (tennis) first point scored after deuce

  4. <noun.quantity>
  5. benefit resulting from some event or action

  6. <noun.attribute>
    it turned out to my advantage
    reaping the rewards of generosity
[ verb ]
  1. give an advantage to

  2. <verb.social>
    This system advantages the rich


Advantage \Ad*van"tage\ (?; 61, 48), n. [OE. avantage,
avauntage, F. avantage, fr. avant before. See {Advance}, and
cf. {Vantage}.]
1. Any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means,
particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end;
benefit; as, the enemy had the advantage of a more
elevated position.

Give me advantage of some brief discourse. --Shak.

The advantages of a close alliance. --Macaulay.

2. Superiority; mastery; -- with of or over.

Lest Satan should get an advantage of us. --2 Cor.
ii. 11.

3. Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit;
gain; profit; as, the advantage of a good constitution.

4. Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth
in the baker's dozen). [Obs.]

And with advantage means to pay thy love. --Shak.

{Advantage ground}, vantage ground. [R.] --Clarendon.

{To have the advantage of} (any one), to have a personal
knowledge of one who does not have a reciprocal knowledge.
``You have the advantage of me; I don't remember ever to
have had the honor.'' --Sheridan.

{To take advantage of}, to profit by; (often used in a bad
sense) to overreach, to outwit.

Syn: {Advantage}, {Advantageous}, {Benefit}, {Beneficial}.

Usage: We speak of a thing as a benefit, or as beneficial,
when it is simply productive of good; as, the benefits
of early discipline; the beneficial effects of
adversity. We speak of a thing as an advantage, or as
advantageous, when it affords us the means of getting
forward, and places us on a ``vantage ground'' for
further effort. Hence, there is a difference between
the benefits and the advantages of early education;
between a beneficial and an advantageous investment of
money.


Advantage \Ad*van"tage\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Advantaged}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Advantaging}.] [F. avantager, fr. avantage. See
{Advance}.]
To give an advantage to; to further; to promote; to benefit;
to profit.

The truth is, the archbishop's own stiffness and
averseness to comply with the court designs, advantaged
his adversaries against him. --Fuller.

What is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world,
and lose himself, or be cast away? --Luke ix. 25.

{To advantage one's self of}, to avail one's self of. [Obs.]

Turn \Turn\, v. i.
1. To move round; to have a circular motion; to revolve
entirely, repeatedly, or partially; to change position, so
as to face differently; to whirl or wheel round; as, a
wheel turns on its axis; a spindle turns on a pivot; a man
turns on his heel.

The gate . . . on golden hinges turning. --Milton.

2. Hence, to revolve as if upon a point of support; to hinge;
to depend; as, the decision turns on a single fact.

Conditions of peace certainly turn upon events of
war. --Swift.

3. To result or terminate; to come about; to eventuate; to
issue.

If we repent seriously, submit contentedly, and
serve him faithfully, afflictions shall turn to our
advantage. --Wake.

4. To be deflected; to take a different direction or
tendency; to be directed otherwise; to be differently
applied; to be transferred; as, to turn from the road.

Turn from thy fierce wrath. --Ex. xxxii.
12.

Turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways. --Ezek.
xxxiii. 11.

The understanding turns inward on itself, and
reflects on its own operations. --Locke.

5. To be changed, altered, or transformed; to become
transmuted; also, to become by a change or changes; to
grow; as, wood turns to stone; water turns to ice; one
color turns to another; to turn Mohammedan.

I hope you have no intent to turn husband. --Shak.

Cygnets from gray turn white. --Bacon.

6. To undergo the process of turning on a lathe; as, ivory
turns well.

7. Specifically:
(a) To become acid; to sour; -- said of milk, ale, etc.
(b) To become giddy; -- said of the head or brain.

I'll look no more;
Lest my brain turn. --Shak.
(c) To be nauseated; -- said of the stomach.
(d) To become inclined in the other direction; -- said of
scales.
(e) To change from ebb to flow, or from flow to ebb; --
said of the tide.
(f) (Obstetrics) To bring down the feet of a child in the
womb, in order to facilitate delivery.

8. (Print.) To invert a type of the same thickness, as
temporary substitute for any sort which is exhausted.

{To turn about}, to face to another quarter; to turn around.


{To turn again}, to come back after going; to return. --Shak.

{To turn against}, to become unfriendly or hostile to.

{To turn aside} or {To turn away}.
(a) To turn from the direct course; to withdraw from a
company; to deviate.
(b) To depart; to remove.
(c) To avert one's face.

{To turn back}, to turn so as to go in an opposite direction;
to retrace one's steps.

{To turn in}.
(a) To bend inward.
(b) To enter for lodgings or entertainment.
(c) To go to bed. [Colloq.]

{To turn into}, to enter by making a turn; as, to turn into a
side street.

{To turn off}, to be diverted; to deviate from a course; as,
the road turns off to the left.

{To turn on} or {To turn upon}.
(a) To turn against; to confront in hostility or anger.
(b) To reply to or retort.
(c) To depend on; as, the result turns on one condition.


{To turn out}.
(a) To move from its place, as a bone.
(b) To bend or point outward; as, his toes turn out.
(c) To rise from bed. [Colloq.]
(d) To come abroad; to appear; as, not many turned out to
the fire.
(e) To prove in the result; to issue; to result; as, the
crops turned out poorly.

{To turn over}, to turn from side to side; to roll; to
tumble.

{To turn round}.
(a) To change position so as to face in another direction.
(b) To change one's opinion; to change from one view or
party to another.

{To turn to}, to apply one's self to; have recourse to; to
refer to. ``Helvicus's tables may be turned to on all
occasions.'' --Locke.

{To turn to account}, {profit}, {advantage}, or the like, to
be made profitable or advantageous; to become worth the
while.

{To turn under}, to bend, or be folded, downward or under.

{To turn up}.
(a) To bend, or be doubled, upward.
(b) To appear; to come to light; to transpire; to occur;
to happen.

  1. "I came up with the Star Wars Deli idea to take advantage of the area _ that's the hot thing going on here.
  2. Food shares were mostly higher on continued speculation that Japan will be forced to make concessions to the U.S. on the agricultural trade issue, allowing food companies to take advantage of cheaper imported agricultural products.
  3. The yield advantage of mortgage issues above Treasurys has moved to the narrowest level since March 1987.
  4. Eyeing the general election, he hopes to reinforce the "traditional values" advantage that GOP candidates have enjoyed over Democrats for a generation.
  5. An advantage to such an approach is flexibility.
  6. European Community officials recently ordered Renault and other French companies to pay back hundreds of millions of dollars of state aid which was ruled to give them an unfair advantage over companies from other EC members.
  7. And for all who have suffered, it has destroyed the once clear financial advantage of buying one's own home. Redundancy is equally responsible for preventing people moving home.
  8. Strongly capitalized West German and British banks generally appear to be in the best position among those in the EC nations to take advantage of the new rules.
  9. Bush, after leading strongly in public opinion polls in New Hampshire, saw his advantage melt away after he finished third in the Iowa caucuses Feb. 8, beaten by Dole and former television evangelist Pat Robertson.
  10. Nonetheless, both interest and exchange rates have worked to the company's advantage, he said.
  11. The plan also calls for doubling the savings and loans' level of capital, which would take away an advantage they have over banks.
  12. The labor-cost advantage that Western European factory owners held over their U.S. counterparts as recently as two years ago is shrinking, a government report says.
  13. The Senate recommendations also advise Salinas to take advantage of Mexico's strategic location next to the United States to expand trade with Pacific rim countries and Europe.
  14. Craig Fuller, co-chairman of Bush's transition team, said on the CNN program that Bush has the advantage, when compared to Reagan, of his long year in Washington including two terms in the House.
  15. Some buying buffeted the fall as regional brokerage firms such as Edward D. Jones & Co. in St. Louis advised clients to take advantage of the market drop.
  16. Why? Because she says they cheated her out of royalties from the original "Mickey Mouse Club." Darlene Gillespie is accusing Disney of taking advantage of her in 1955 when the then 14-year-old Mouseketeer-to-be signed a contract.
  17. Republicans have long contended that one reason the Democrats hang on to the House is that, decade after decade, they gerrymander the districts to their advantage.
  18. But much of the government's case collapsed after the defense asserted that the documents at issue were available to many others, and prosecutors acknowledged that the GTE unit didn't enjoy an unfair advantage in competing for contracts.
  19. "I've never taken advantage of the shareholders.
  20. Minnesota's Republican auditor has jumped into the governor's race, taking advantage of allegations the regular GOP nominee invited teen-age girls to take a nude dip with him nine years ago.
  21. One big advantage at the moment is the company's success in updating its range of models, including the new 3series, which accounts for 58% of BMW's sales.
  22. Fighting slackened Saturday, and thousands of hungry, exhausted residents took advantage of the lull to evacuate their homes, carrying small children and packages of belongings.
  23. The trick in a business like insurance is to be in a position to take advantage when the cycle turns.
  24. The bonds are expected to have a term of between seven and 10 years to take advantage of interest in these maturities.
  25. Most of the companies are smaller producers hoping to increase sales and market shares by promoting an environmental advantage over major brands.
  26. For the past few years, corporate treasurers have "captured" income by trading in and out of high-yield stocks to take advantage of a low tax rate on dividends.
  27. Somehow, they must retain that advantage, while increasing efficiency.
  28. "The world really is changing and we're working to take advantage of it," Wolfowitz said near the end of the discussion.
  29. They also allow investors to take advantage of profit opportunities world-wide.
  30. Some that don't take advantage of it instantly will catch it later." In his first opinion as a federal appeals judge, A. Raymond Randolph ruled against the administration that had just chosen him.
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