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peer

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vi. 凝视，盯着看；窥视
vt. 封为贵族；与…同等
n. 贵族；同等的人
n. (Peer)人名；(英、巴基)皮尔

考试真题

Instead of digging through pieces of paper and peering into corners, we move our fingers left and right.

But just before he reached the car door, he suddenly stopped, crouching ( ' , 蹲伏 ) down to peer at something on the sidewalk.

Peering into the future G) The sharing economy is a little like online shopping, which started in America 15 years ago

Risky Business We are each responsible for our own decisions, even if the decision, making process has been undermined by stress or peer pressure

The research argued that boys often perform badly in mixed schools because they become discouraged when their female peers do better earlier in speaking and reading skills.

Few white students like sharing a room with a black peer.

White students tend to look down upon their black peers.

Black students can compete with their white peers academically

Black students feel somewhat embarrassed among white peers during the freshman year.

Being surrounded by white peers motivates a black student to work harder to succeed

The effect was first noted in 1858 by William Farr, who wrote that widows and widowers (鳏夫) were at a much higher risk of dying than their married peers.

They lack consistent support from peers.

But just before he reached the car door, he suddenly stopped, crouching (蹲伏) down to peer at something on the sidewalk.

They do not often demonstrate risky behaviors as their peers.

They typically carry financial burdens that outweigh those of their peers, are more likely to work while attending school, and often require significant academic remediation ( ' , 补习 ).

They tend to have a sense of superiority over their peers.

The passive attitude we have to climate change as individuals can be altered by counting us in — and measuring us against - our peer group.

Tennessee State's overall graduation rate is a tiny 39 percent, but at least it has a smaller gap between the outcomes for first-generation students and those of their peers.

Like many first-generation students, he enrolled in a medium-sized state university many of his high school peers were also attending, received a Pell Grant, and took out some small federal loans to cover other costs.

Kids who are the first in their families to brave the world of higher education came on campus with little academic know- how and are much more likely than their peers to drop out before graduation.

It is actually about what their peers think of them, what their social norms are, what is seen as desirable in society.

First generation college students tend to have much heavier financial burdens than their peers.

Almost all said that their cell phone was the way they stayed in touch with peers, one-third had used the cell phone to help a peer in need, and about 80% said the phone made them feel safer.

Cell phonesfoster social connections with peers across time and space.

a parent, relative, friend, or doctor outside the family, had higher self-esteem, higher grades, and lower substance use than peers whose role models were sports figures, singers, or other media characters.

At certain stages of life, especially adolescence, the pressure to be seen as similar to peers is immense.

The university has poured resources into peer counseling to help students from inner-city schools adjust to the rigor (严格要求) and faster pace of a university classroom –and also to help minority students overcome the stereotype that they are less qualified.

John Rother, the AARP's head of policy and strategy, points to studies showing that other things being equal, people who remain at work have lower death rates than their retired peers.

she was overshadowed by her white peers

They are usually more motivated to compete with their peers.

"This study shows the importance of so-called non-cognitive' or soft skills in contributing to children's positive peer relationships, which, in turn, contribute to their academic success,"said Kenneth Dodge, director of the Duke Center for Child and Fami

Less inherently interpersonal subjects, such as math, could acquire a social aspect through team problem solving and peer tutoring.

That was confirmed in the early 1990s by the American Magellan orbiter which used radar to peer through the planet's thick clouds and mapped out a rich, varied and dynamic surface.

The passive attitude we have to climate change as individuals can be altered by counting us in—and measuring us against—our peer group.

The results highlight the need to develop effective early interventions to help those with attention on track academically and for educators to encourage positive peer relationships, the researchers said.

They worry that the adolescent peer group has the power to push its members into behavior that is foolish and even dangerous.

We should assure such students that risk, and even peer pressure, can be a good thing—as long as it happens in the classroom and not in the car.

In addition, the computer programs a company uses to estimate relationships may be patented and not subject to peer review or outside evaluation.

This is a subtle form of peer pressure: we unconsciously imitate the behavior we see every day.

There’s no doubt that our peer groups exert enormous influence on our behavior.

That whispered message, half invitation and half forcing, is what most of us think of when we hear the words peer pressure.

Rosenberg argues convincingly that public-health advocates ought to take a page from advertisers, so skilled at applying peer pressure.

Join the Club is filled with too much irrelevant detail and not enough exploration of the social and biological factors that make peer pressure so powerful.

In South Africa, an HIV-prevention initiative known as LoveLife recruits young people to promote safe sex among their peers.

Her critique of the lameness of many pubic-health campaigns is spot-on: they fail to mobilize peer pressure for healthy habits, and they demonstrate a seriously flawed understanding of psychology.

Far less certain, however, is how successfully experts and bureaucrats can select our peer groups and steer their activities in virtuous directions.

But in her new book Join the Club, Tina Rosenberg contends that peer pressure can also be a positive force through what she calls the social cure, in which organizations and officials use the power of group dynamics to help individuals improve their lives and possibly the word.

They do not fund peer-reviewed research.

They could distort the achievement-based system of peer-review-led research.

They could cement the status quo of peer-reviewed research.

The journalScienceis adding an extra round of statistical checks to its peer-review process, editor-in-chief Marcia McNutt announced today.

Manuscript will be flagged up for additional scrutiny by the journal’s internal editors, or by its existing Board of Reviewing Editors or by outside peer reviewers.

In Denmark, the United States, and a few other countries, it is trying to set voluntary standards for models and fashion images that rely more on peer pressure for enforcement.

But in her new book Join the Club, Tina Rosenberg contends that peer pressure can also be a positive force through what she calls the social cure, in which organizations and officials use the power of group dynamics to help individuals improve their li

Far less certain, however, is how successfully experts and bureaucrats can select our peer groups and steer their activities in virtuous directions.

Manuscript will be flagged up for additional scrutiny by the journal's internal editors, or by its existing Board of Reviewing Editors or by outside peer reviewers.

Other scientists perform the specialised work of peer review also for free, because it is a central element in the acquisition of status and the production of scientific knowledge.

There's no doubt that our peer groups exert enormous influence on our behavior.