1the Orientliterary The countries of Asia, especially eastern Asia.

2The special luster of a pearl of the finest quality.

1. 2.1 A pearl of the finest quality.
   （优质珍珠的）光泽
   Example sentencesExamples

   • Henry II had a hawk-glove sewn with twelve rubies and fifty-two great orients.

1Situated in or belonging to the east; oriental.

1. 1.1 (of the sun, daylight, etc.) rising.
   （太阳等）冉冉升起的；（白昼的光亮等）渐渐变强的
   the orient moon

   伊斯兰初升的月亮。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • The orient sun through morning mist.
   • As when the orient sun upsprings and his pure beam on Meru flings.
   • A many-tinted, radiant Aurora, this fairest of Orient Light-bringers.
2. 1.2 (especially of precious stones) lustrous (with reference to fine pearls from the East).
   （尤指宝石）光彩夺目的（指来自东方的优质珍珠）
   Example sentencesExamples

   • These pearls are orient, but they yield in whiteness to your teeth.

1with object Align or position (something) relative to the points of a compass or other specified positions.

这些火堆与夏至时的日落点成一条直线。

1. 1.1orient oneself Find one's position in relation to new and strange surroundings.
   给自己定方向；确定自己所处方位
   there are no street names that would enable her to orient herself

   没有任何街名能使她确定自己身在何处。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • But the sun was shining and all felt well with the world, so I tucked in, whilst orienting myself with the city in my guide.
   • Hoa Hao followers say that like Muslims but unlike other Buddhists, they orient themselves in prayer in relation to a fixed point.
   • It's disconcerting, coming from a city where you orient yourself by the river.
   • It just felt nice to be a part (however fresh-faced and transitory) of a different city, orienting myself slowly, getting a feel for the grid system.
   • He groaned, and felt the bulkhead, slowly coming to his knees, and standing, trying to orient himself to his position on ‘B’ deck.
   • I stepped out of the tube, oriented myself and walked towards the place past Harrods.
   • This boy, while capable of orienting himself intellectually, is quite incapable of endowing these surroundings with an adequate emotion.
   • It is very difficult for him to orient himself in these new surroundings; he often needs help locating the kitchen or bathroom.
   • These days, most cognitive and visual scientists agree that men and women have slightly different ways of orienting themselves spatially.
   • Through the metallic coldness of a long distance phone connection, Mariza's voice crackles with warmth as we do Time Zone Math to orient ourselves in relation to each other on the planet.
   • The justification of such a setting rests exclusively on the fact that, by means of such concepts and mental relations between them, we are able to orient ourselves in the labyrinth of sense impressions.
   • She is your eyes as you operate the game's ‘look around’ function to orient yourself in a landscape or position yourself to jump off a cliff.
   • Your guidepost will work best if it's lined up directly with your destination, but it can be off to the side as long as you orient yourself accordingly.
   • Scientists surmise this allows the bacteria to orient themselves relative to Earth's magnetic field to guide their movement to desirable locations.
   • That is to say, the difference between Greenwich time and local time is a way of orienting oneself in space, of knowing where one is, and how one is heading.
   • It will introduce the sections of the exhibition, including a color-coded map to help visitors orient themselves in the visually crowded environment.
   • He suggested that the pineal organ might have been phototropic, helping the animal to orient itself relative to the surface of the water.
   • Perhaps that acute awareness of their natural surroundings explains why they are able to orient themselves with such great facility on modern graphic maps introduced by the researcher, the government agent, or the community mapper.
   • You can orient yourself by facing the mountains, your back to Kingston Harbour.
   • The population still able to walk around wandered about the smoking ruins in a bewildered daze, unable to find their loved ones, incapable of orienting themselves, as all landmarks had vanished.

   Synonyms

   find one's bearings, get one's bearings, get the lie of the land, establish one's location, feel one's way

   find one's bearings, get one's bearings, get the lie of the land, establish one's location, feel one's way, orient oneself
2. 1.2 Adjust or tailor (something) to specified circumstances or needs.
   使适应；调节（以适合环境，需要）；以…为方向
   magazines oriented to the business community

   迎合商业界需要的杂志。

   as adjective, in combination market-oriented economic reforms

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Perhaps it would have been a decision that was less business-oriented but a more popular decision.
   • For a business that claims to be so very customer-oriented, they really are not.
   • Business-oriented people constantly read about Apple's successes and products in their news sources.
   • We had three girls and I learned a lot from Marc because he's very detail-oriented, a genius in business, international.
   • For example, we are tailoring advanced individual training to make it assignment-oriented.
   • Practices of devoted listening to the Word teach us to recognize God's voice, to stay within earshot and to let the living mercy that is Jesus Christ orient our lives more fully to God.
   • Or maybe too much of the futures field is oriented around business to the extent it's lost sight of things that are truly radical.
   • To be fully marketing-oriented, a company would have to adapt its offering to meet the needs of each individual.
   • The company will set up a new export oriented formulations unit in Indore next year.
   • Because of the vast amounts of information, an object oriented approach may prove useful.
   • Sixteen years ago there was very little choice of family oriented venues in Pattaya.
   • The first one is oriented to the business world, and the second one is for all of us who enjoy using the computer for more than work.
   • I was always very detail- and result-oriented in my food business.
   • This is probably due once again to the service-oriented business models of the respondents to our survey.
   • The company's philosophy, says director of business development Ron Schlenker, is to take the strategic sourcing mentality and orient it toward product development.
   • Chen opened a number of politically oriented enterprises, including highly profitable correspondence schools.
   • The largely business-oriented crowd at the Downtown Hotel was quite vocally in favour of such a development, by whatever means.
   • The guy who used to run my team and lost a bundle of money, has moved over (ie spun off) a more sales-oriented business unit.
   • It seems your magazine is no longer content-oriented, it is now stuff-oriented.
   • The place was really trendy, yet the ambience was very family oriented.
3. 1.3 Guide (someone) physically in a specified direction.
   引导（某人）的方向
   Example sentencesExamples

   • When we arrived in Baton Rouge, I thought they'd have someone welcoming us or orienting us.
   • A patient care technician and RN greeted her and oriented her to the unit.
   • He also orients new employees on company values over pizza lunches and flew to Iraq to spend Christmas with his in-country expatriates.
   • It empirically orients the reader by including brief references throughout to some of history's highest profile episodes of mania and panic.
   • Teachers also help orient children to the future by asking them to consider the questions of what will be, or what they could become (future self).
   • Foster often thought of you and your colleagues as a compass for journalists, pointing us in the right directions, orienting us and reminding us of how to get home.
   • The Bible gives us guides whose stories orient us to a path they traveled long ago.
   • Accenting or highlighting serves to orient people and direct their vision so they look at the important things they need to spend time on, and less time on things that are not quite so critical.
   • The library's use of crayon-colored highlights adds drama and helps orient visitors by making essential features such as escalators and stairs easy to spot.
   • Humans are terrestrial born and bred, and the systems that orient us to up and down are designed to work when we are attached firmly to the ground, or return us to the ground in an upright position.
   • Eventually, in the typical modern situation, each individual comes to belong to many changing and intersecting groups each of which shapes and orients him/her in a certain way.
   • She leads me through areas piled high with furniture, guides me past coolers where meat, milk, and juice are on offer, then orients me past candy-bar stands.
   • In the early part of his career he was firmly oriented towards biomedical science.
   • As temps, we know you'll find the building a little confusing, but we're hoping that your tour today will orient you completely.
   • A perioperative nurse orients the patient to the unit.
   • The portholes bubble up elsewhere: In the stair tower, one frames the patio's water sculpture; another one on the landing orients visitors to the street.
   • ‘We want to orient them at a young age to the fun relationship to fitness as well as assist parents to interact with their kids,’ Barr says.
   • The wording of this statement is critical, because it orients the reader of 1 John to the way in which its author thinks, here and throughout.
   • The content orients patients and their families to the unit and provides a source for education individualized to each patient.
   • In these matters Brown's economic training and instincts will orient him toward the United States even while he tries to build British influence in the European Union.

2Adjust or tailor (something) to specified circumstances or needs.

迎合商业界需要的杂志。