orient

英 [ˈɔːrient]

美 [ˈɔːrient]

v. 朝向; 面对; 确定方向; 使适应; 确定方位; 认识方向; 熟悉; 适应

过去式：oriented　过去分词：oriented　现在分词：orienting　第三人称单数：orients　

Collins.1 / BNC.10266 / COCA.6514

牛津词典

verb

朝向；面对；确定方向；使适应
to direct sb/sth towards sth; to make or adapt sb/sth for a particular purpose
1. Our students are oriented towards science subjects.
  我们教的学生都是理科方向的。
2. We run a commercially oriented operation.
  我们经营一个商业性的企业。
3. profit-orientated organizations
  以赢利为目的的机构
4. Neither of them is politically oriented (= interested in politics) .
  他们两人都无意涉足政治。
5. policies oriented to the needs of working mothers
  针对职业母亲的需要而制订的政策
确定方位；认识方向
to find your position in relation to your surroundings
1. The mountaineers found it hard to orient themselves in the fog.
  登山者在大雾中很难辨认方向。
熟悉；适应
to make yourself familiar with a new situation
1. It took him some time to orient himself in his new school.
  他经过了一段时间才熟悉新学校的环境。

VERB 使适应，使熟悉（新的环境或行为方式）
When youorient yourself toa new situation or course of action, you learn about it and prepare to deal with it.
1. You will need the time to orient yourself to your new way of eating.
  你还需要一些时间才能适应新的饮食方式。
2. ...orienting students to new ways of thinking about their participation in classroom learning...
  使学生熟悉参与课堂教学的新思维方式
3. Anxiety comes from not being able to orient yourself in your own existence.
  不能适应生活便会产生焦虑。
VERB 使确立方位；使辨清方向
When youorient yourself, you find out exactly where you are and which direction you are facing in.
1. She lay still for a few seconds, trying to orient herself.
  她静静地躺了一会儿，试图弄清自己的方位。
See also:oriented

noun

the hemisphere that includes Eurasia and Africa and Australia
Synonym:eastern hemisphere

verb

adjust to a specific need or market
1. a magazine oriented towards young people
2. tailor your needs to your surroundings
Synonym:tailor
familiarize (someone) with new surroundings or circumstances
1. The dean of students tries to orient the freshmen
determine one's position with reference to another point
1. We had to orient ourselves in the forest
Synonym:orientate
cause to point
1. Orient the house towards the West
be oriented
1. The weather vane points North
2. the dancers toes pointed outward
Synonym:point

I was able to develop a new course on Intercultural Communications to orient our students.
我得以开设了关于跨文化交际的一门新的课程来引导我们的学生。
Once we land to board the Orient express, you are free to go.
一旦我们登上了东方快车，你就自由了。
We must orient our ideas to new conditions.
我们必须使我们的观念适应新环境。
Her famous books include Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile etc.
她最著名的作品有《东方快车谋杀案》和《尼罗河上的惨案》等。
Introduced into United States from the Orient; larvae feed on roots of sugarcane and other grasses.
从东方传入美国；幼虫吃甘蔗和其它植物的根部。
You can orient yourself by remembering that the hill is due north.
只要记住这座小山位于正北方，你就能确定你所在的方位了。
This time, I want to portray a cute Oriental girls, a unique beauty of the Orient.
这一次，我想描绘一个东方的可爱女孩，一种独特的东方美感。
San Francisco is generally known as the U.S. “ gateway to the Orient ”.
旧金山是美国“通向东方的大门”。
Into the hall to ask the next screening, Orient Today is in another door.
进大厅问了下安检，东方今报在另外一个门。
We all killed her, in east and west, Orient and Occident, north and south.
我们都杀了她，在东方和西方，北方和南方。