每日一词152 -oriented

1. 认识这个词（基础篇）

词：-oriented

英英释义： designed to appeal to a certain kind of people

例句：LinkedIn is a career-oriented networking site, where you can connect with colleagues, work contacts, and potential employers, and employees.

2. 体会这个词 （进阶篇）

“oriented”可以作为形容词表示“以…为方向的”“重视…的”，它其实也经常被用作后缀表示同样的意思。这种写法可以让我们的表达更见简洁，也可以在一些语境中替换 be destined to 等类似表达。

当我们介绍一个公司或组织的核心方向、业务时就可以用得上 -oriented。比如 LinkedIn（领英）是一家职业社交网站，我们就可以这样介绍它：

LinkedIn is a career-oriented networking site, where you can connect with colleagues, work contacts, and potential employers, and employees.

我们国家一直在推进素质教育，就可以说成：

The government has been promoting quality-oriented education, encouraging students to go beyond exams.

《经济学人》中也经常这样用 -oriented，比如曾在一篇讲英国商业的特别报道中就多次用到：

A more market-oriented system of higher education can do much better than the state-dominated model.（这里的 market-oriented system 和 state-dominated model 完美呼应）

The more market-oriented model of higher education that has been pioneered in the United States, and is gradually spreading to much of the rest of the world, has four big advantages over the public model.

3. 从认识到会用（作业）

1）翻译下面的句子： 抖音是以年轻人为主的短视频应用程序，它声称有 2.5 亿每日活跃用户。

Douyin, a youth-oriented short video application, claimed it has 25 billion daily active users.

（参考翻译：Douyin is a youth-oriented short video app, claiming to boast more than 250m daily active users. ）

以年轻人为主的短视频应用程序：a youth-oriented short video app

2）结合自己的生活、学习、工作、兴趣等，想象在什么语境下会用到这个表达。先简要描述这个场景，再造句。

场景1：市场上的大多数教育公司都是营利性机构。

造句1：Most of the educational companies in the market are profit-oriented organizations.

场景2: 以健康为主的上班族都会进行有规律的锻炼身体。

造句2: Health-oriented workers do exercise regularly.