entrain
verb uk/ɪnˈtreɪn/ us/ɪnˈtreɪn/
(GET ON TRAIN)
[ I ] formal上火车
to get on a train
On 2nd May we entrained for Dieppe. 5月2日我们踏上了开往迪耶普的火车。
The night of the next day, we entrained. 第二天晚上，我们上了火车。
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- Every winter season he and Olive would entrain for the Saundersons homeland.
- The next day we entrained for Hanover, where I gave a seminar.
(CAUSE)
[ T or I ] formal产生，导致
to cause something to happen, or to be caused by something
September 11 entrained a kind of moral crash worldwide. 9.11事件在世界范围内引发了一场道德崩溃。
The argument had entrained from an experiment that went horribly wrong. 这场争论源于一次带来可怕后果的实验。
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- She plays a widow who entrains a legal battle when her new neighbour orders her tree to be uprooted.
- The Bolsheviks had entrained their ignoble withdrawal.
(CARRY)
[ T ]（流体）带走（微粒等），夹带
to make something part of a liquid or flow of something and carry it along
A depression over Biscay entrained a blast of cold air to western areas. 比斯开上空的低气压把一股冷空气带到了西部地区。
A spray of water droplets from the splash becomes entrained in the airflow. 溅起的水形成的水雾会被夹带入气流中。
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- The formula gives a rough estimate of the amount of water that could have been entrained by this fireball.
- Millions of tons of this entrained water sinks, circulating back down to the south along the sea bottom.
(COPY PATTERN)
[ T or I ] biology specialized（使）（节奏等）成同步，导引
to make something have the same pattern or rhythm as something else
Daily injections of melatonin given at 3.30 each afternoon entrained the rats to a 24 hour cycle. 每天下午3点半给这些大鼠注射褪黑素，使它们进入同步的24小时周期。
I believe that the harp has a particular influence on the nervous system so that we entrain to it more strongly than, say, the violin. 我相信竖琴对神经系统有特别的影响，所以人体对其节奏的同步性比小提琴更强。
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- The music is to entrain the heart rate, blood pressure and respiration of the person in order to help calm them.
- Melatonin has both a soporific effect and an ability to entrain the sleep-wake rhythm.
- The time-cues are not strong enough to entrain the body clock to a 24-hour period.
- Experimental animals deprived of their pineal gland are slower to entrain.