process /ˈprəʊsɛs/ star5 CET4 TEM4 (processing,processed,processes)

• 1.  

  N-COUNT（可数名词） A process is a series of actions which are carried out in order to achieve a particular result. 过程

  例：

  There was total agreement to start the peace process as soon as possible.

  全体同意尽快启动和平进程。

• 2.  

  N-COUNT（可数名词） A process is a series of things that happen naturally and result in a biological or chemical change. 进程

  例：

  It occurs in elderly men, apparently as part of the aging process.

  作为衰老进程的一部分，它明显发生在老年男性身上。

• 3.  

  V-T（及物动词） When raw materials or foods are processed, they are prepared in factories before they are used or sold. 加工

  例：

  ...fish which are processed by the best methods: from freezing to canning and smoking.

  …用从冷冻到装罐和熏制等最好的方法加工的鱼。

• 4.  

  N-COUNT（可数名词） Process is also a noun. 过程

  例：

  ...the cost of reengineering the production process.

  …重新设计生产过程的成本。

• 5.  

  N-UNCOUNT（不可数名词） processing 加工 [usu with supp]

  例：

  America sent cotton to England for processing.

  美国把棉花运到英格兰加工。

• 6.  

  V（动词） to subject to a routine procedure; handle 工艺流程; 处理
• 7.  

  V-T（及物动词） When people process information, they put it through a system or into a computer in order to deal with it. 处理

  例：

  ...facilities to process the data, and the right to publish the results.

  …处理数据的设备和公布结果的权利。

• 8.  

  N-UNCOUNT（不可数名词） processing 处理

  例：

  ...data processing.

  …数据处理。

• 9.  

  （） → see also word processing
• 10.  

  V-T（及物动词） When people are processed by officials, their case is dealt with in stages and they pass from one stage of the process to the next. 按程序处理 [usu passive]

  例：

  Patients took more than two hours to be processed through the department.

  病人们花了两个多小时才走完那个科室程序。

• 11.  

  V（动词） to proceed in or as if in a procession 列队行进
• 12.  

  PHRASE（习语） If you are in the process of doing something, you have started to do it and are still doing it. 在…过程中

  例：

  The administration is in the process of drawing up a peace plan.

  该政府正在起草一项和平计划。

• 13.  

  PHRASE（习语） If you are doing something and you do something else in the process, you do the second thing as part of doing the first thing. 在此过程中

  例：

  You have to let us struggle for ourselves, even if we must die in the process.

  你得让我们自己去奋斗，即使在此过程中我们必须死亡。