词组 | discovery |
释义 | discovery /dɪsˈkʌvəri/ noun something that is discovered, or the act of discovering somethingadjectivesa scientific/medical etc discovery The book covers the major scientific discoveries of the last century.an important/significant/major discovery The archaeologists had made an important discovery.a great discovery The truly great discoveries are the ones that are perfectly obvious after someone has pointed them out to us.an exciting/interesting discovery The existence of a new planet was a very exciting discovery.a remarkable/amazing discovery It was a remarkable discovery.a surprising/unexpected/startling discovery Their work led to some surprising discoveries. | When they examined the virus, they made a startling discovery.a new discovery New discoveries are being made all the time.an accidental/chance discovery (=happening by chance) All these were chance discoveries by scientists working on other things.a grim discovery (=an unpleasant and sad discovery such as finding a dead body) Police made the grim discovery while they were searching the house.verbsmake a discovery He made some interesting discoveries in the course of his research.lead to a discovery It was pure chance that led to the discovery.prepositionsthe discovery of sth I’m reading a book about the discovery of America. |
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