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n. 计划；平面图
vt. 计划；设计；打算
vi. 计划；打算
n. (Plan)人名；(瑞典)普兰；(法)普朗

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You are not really going to be able to understand all of the dimensions of this plan.

You are not going to be able to control the dimensions of this plan.

Some parts of the world have seen successful implementation of family planning.

In effect, our plan is the new security budget.

But nobody greeted the daughter and mother when they arrived, though the visit has been planned; nobody introduced them to the other residents.

And what the Stoics say in general is simply this: There is a larger plan in life.

That's because he plans to ban tipping in favor of paying his servers an actual living wage.

New York State plans to shut off the thundering waters of NiagaraFalls again.

Last week, for example, Postmaster General Pat Donahoe announced plans to stop mail delivery on Saturdays, a move he says could save three billion dollars annually.

What, then, are the effects of thinking about time in these different ways? Does one make us more productive? Better at the tasks at hand? Happier? In experiments conducted by Tamar Avnet and Anne-Laure Sellier, they had participants organize different activities—from project planning, holiday shopping, to yoga—by time or to-do list to measure how they performed under clock time vs task time.

They combine clock-based and task-based planning.

Smart companies, they believe, will try to bake more task-based planning into their strategies.

It is said that all of us employ a mix of both these types of planning.

Mr Obama's plan to curb carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions (排放), though necessary, will be far from cost-free, whatever his sunny speeches on the subject might suggest.

According to the author, Obama's plan to limit carbon dioxide emissions will by no means be inexpensive

Although many other big firms resisted the temptation to over-borrow, developers borrowed heavily and built bigger and fancier hotels as if the whole world were planning a holiday in Las Vegas.

The Big Three American carmakers—General Motors, Ford and Chrysler—accumulated ruinous costs over the post-war years, such as gold-plated health plans and pensions for workers who retired as young as 48.

The government now backs up the domestic car industry, lending it money and overseeing its turnaround plans

spoiled his plans to build more hotels in Las Vegas

Why does the author plan to cancel his Facebook account?

The thefts are not the carefully planned burglaries(入室盗窃)that you see in movies.

Bishop describes the problem as simply a matter of priorities, which can be solved by encouraging people to prioritize other life goals and plans in place of time spent online.

So there wasn't any plan and there was no specific training.

Salary, promotion and plans for the coming year will also be discussed at the meeting.

Planning everything in advance.

And what are your plans for the future?

He decided to end the meeting with the conversation about the importance of the district managers to the company's plans

The urgency of implementing the company's plans.

However, its new 10-year plan makes clear it believes it still has a long way to go.

However, the plan was dropped due to lack of funds.

If teachers keep it form-free and student-led, it can still be tied to a curriculum and an educational plan.

In 1944, Congress passed a bill to upgrade the system, but did not fund the plan right away.

In 2014 City Hall developed a plan to knock down the building and replace it with affordable housing.

In the 1950s, the plan began to become a reality.

Indra Nooyi, PepsiCo chairman, said the plan to make its products healthier was important for the company's growth.

PepsicCo's plan for its foods and drinks is based on guidelines from the World Health Organization, which last week backed using taxes on sparkling drinks to reduce sugar consumption.

We will become the first nation in Europe to publish a national health and care workforce plan.

deprive colleges of the right to manage their facilitiesmake workers less motivated in performing dutiesrender a number of campus workers joblesslead to the privatization of campus facilitiesThe outsourcing plan is not yet finalized.

Workers' advocates have criticized Haslam's plan, saying it would mean some campus workers would lose their jobs or benefits.

The state officials are confident about the outsourcing plan.

The outsourcing plan will be implemented.

The company had previously announced the planned closures, but had not said which locations would be affected.

The college spending analysis justifies the outsourcing plan.

That letter, which includes several concerns Morgan has with the plan, was originally obtained by The Commercial Appeal in Memphis.

Morgan's comments on outsourcing mark the second time this month that he has come out against one of Haslam's plans for higher education in Tennessee.

It has plans to open more locations of Macy's Backstage, a newly-developed off-price concept which might help it better compete with ambitious T.J.Maxx.

It also plans to offer voluntary separation packages to 165 senior executives.

He opposed the governor's plan to reconstruct the college board system.

Haslam has said colleges would be free to opt in or out of the outsourcing plan, which has not been finalized.

Data on management expenses at the college system and in other state departments will be part of a business justification the state will use as officials deliberate the specifics of an outsourcing plan.

With a tax imposed on expensive health insurance plans, most employers will likely transfer money from health expenses into wages.

The final legislation might throw a public plan into the competition, but thanks to the fierce opposition of the insurance industry and Republican critics, it might not save much money.

The bills in both chambers would create health insurance exchanges on which small businesses and individuals could choose from an array of private plans and possibly a public option.

The Senate Finance bill would impose an excise tax ( ' , 消费税) on health insurance plans that cost more than $8,000 for an individual or $21,000 for a family.

Republicans and insurance industry are strongly opposed to the creation of a public insurance plan.

It would most likely cause insurers to redesign plans to fall beneath the threshold.

If private plans demanded similar productivity savings from providers, and refused to let providers shift additional costs to them, the savings could be much larger.

All the plans would have to provide standard benefit packages that would be easy to compare.

Turkey and Iran have announced plans to build bases, too.

Less than an hour away by snowmobile, Chinese labourers have updated the Great Wall Station, a vital part of China's plan to operate five bases on Antarctica, complete with an indoor badminton court and sleeping quarters for 150 people.

It opened its fourth station last year and is pressing ahead with plans to build a fifth.

Colombia said this year that it planned to join other South American nations with bases in Antarctica.

But the plan was suspended in July 2013.

At least three Russian stations are already operating in Antarctica, part of its effort to challenge the dominance of the American GPS, and new stations are planned for sites like the Russian base, in the shadow of the Orthodox Church of the Holy Trinity.

When you hear people speaking of making a rapid transition toward any type of energy, whether it is a switch from coal to nuclear power, or a switch from gasoline-powered cars to electric cars, or even a switch from an incandescent to a fluorescent light, understanding energy system inertia and momentum can help you decide whether their plans are feasible.

When investors put up money to build, say, a nuclear power plant, they expect to earn that money back over the planned life of the plant, which is typically between 40 and 60 years.

They asked both groups to generate questions about important issues needed to create recovery plans.

They argue that governments should persuade us into making better decisions - such as saving more in our pension plans - by changing the default options.

The researchers asked fifth graders and college students to create a recovery plan to protect bald eagles from extinction.

The Conservatives plan to adopt this strategy by making utility companies print the average local electricity and gas usage on people's bills.

Shockingly, the two groups came up with plans of similar quality ( ' , although the college students had better spelling skills).

But more recently, companies have begun to plan more affordable After being dogged by technical delays for years, Sir Richard Branson, Virgin Galactic's founder, had recently suggested that a SpaceShipTwo craft would carry its first paying customers as soon as February 2015.

Another type of momentum we have to think about when planning for changes in our energy systems is labor- pool momentum.

All the forecasts, plans, and anticipations cited above have failed so miserably because their authors and promoters thought the transitions they hoped to implement would proceed unlike all previous energy transitions, and that their progress could be accelerated in an unprecedented manner.

With money and careful planning, we can boost efficiency up to a point.

The agency createsadvertisements and develops a media plan, specifying which media will be used and in which proportions.

And we also need to plan ahead so that we're in a position to deal with the likely levels of climate change which are already inevitable and even more so too for the levels that are likely if we don't get those global agreements.

But more recently, companies have begun to plan more affordable " suborbital " flights — brief ventures just to the edge of space's vast darkness.

But the boost in investor confidence needed for the plan to work will take time, time that Rosen says still requires him to buy food and make monthly mortgage payments.

Data on management expenses at the college system and in other state departments will be part of a "business justification" the state will use as officials deliberate the specifics of an outsourcing plan.

For most of us, the best plan is to take in new information in the morning and then try to consolidate it into memory during the afternoon.

From the early 1960s, local authorities were required to plan health and welfare services.

It includes accounting for any piece of debris they plan to release over 5mm that might stay in orbit for 25 years or more.

Many European countries have been making the shift to electric vehicles and Germany has just stated that they plan to ban the sale of vehicles using gasoline and diesel as fuel by 2030.

Sommerkorn says a plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions blamed for global warming needs to come out of the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit in December.

They didn't really articulate any position regarding the actual business plan.

We have to plan it properly, and of course there'll be a few problems.

A better plan for sleep can help.

A little time planning ahead can save a lot of work later on.

According to a recent study, four out of ten people under 35 years old are planning to downshift from stressful jobs to a slower pace of life.

And at that moment, I made the decision: I will develop and follow a personal growth plan for my life.

And so our paying plan unfolded.

Art students making a good living with these statistics/data/analyses in mind, art students need not worry about their career and have an alternative plan.

As the end of school approaches, and school vacation reading lists loom ahead, parents might take this chance to step in and make their own summer reading list and plan a family trip to the library or bookstore.

Before people retire, they usually plan to do a lot of great things, which they never had time to do while working.

Biologist Kristin says the plan is to see how the birds respond to the multi-colored road this summer.

Bradford sold the building and land to a local development firm, which plans to build a shopping complex on the land where the theater is located.

Depending on the kind of race you plan to enter, you can set up a timetable for the remaining weeks before the race.

Empowerment and delegation mean new forms of management control to ensure that the overall business plan is being followed, and that operations become more profitable under the new organization, rather than less.

He was also a major player in training others in the art of canal planning and building.

Here are some ways to turn your home into part of your diet plan.

However, these plans were abandoned because of financial problems.

I hear that Bob is planning to study abroad.

If you are a student studying the arts, chances are you have been ill-advised to have a plan b.

If you are planning to do exercise regularly, or you're doing it now, then listen up! working out in the morning provides additional benefits beyond being physically fit.

I'm planning a trip to memphis with my family this summer.

In Lucy Grant's opinion, why does downsgifting require a lot of thoughts and planning?

In order to pass the class, among other criteria, we had to write a paper on how we plan to apply what we would learn in class to our future professions and eventually to our lives.

In the early afternoon, when he was planning to go home, a fierce snowstorm swept into the area.

In the first move of its kind, all travelers will be forced to stand on both sides of escalators on the London underground as part of a plan to increase capacity at the height of the rush hour.

It is also popular with 35 to 54-year-olds, 12% of whom are making plans to downshift, 6% hoping to have done so in the next 2 years.

Make plans for the new term.

Make sure that you plan for these difficulties at the time of setting your goals.

Many farmers opposed the plan because they feared that wolves would kill their farm animals or pets.

Many people are working hard to preserve these ponies, and trying to come up with plans to find a sustainable future for one of dartmoor's most financially-troubled elements.

May Day is a traditional day for celebrations, but the 2, 000 english villagers of stilton must be the only people in the world who include cheese rolling in their annual plans.

My eyes ran across the title, Amos, the Beagle with a Plan.

Nome's town officials came up with an plan.

Not everyone knows clearly how to build personal savings, but a savings plan started on a website has helped many put away a nice tidy sum.

Office designers' response to this change has been to move open-plan areas to more desirable locations within the office and crate fewer formal private offices.

Picking up her "lifetime achievement" award, proud Irene declared she had no plans to retire from her 36-year-old business.

Several others checked the instructions and made something according to one of the model plans provided.

She has turned down several invitations to star at shows in order to concentrate on her studies after school she plans to take a year off to model full time before going to university to get a degree in engineering or architecture.

She plans to start a foundation for homeless children and wants to build a community centre in Waterhouse.

So it's something that requires a lot of thought and planning to get right.

The government spent nearly 30 years coming up with a plan to reintroduce the wolves.

The plan, a world-first, will start on 19 April and run for a year.

The youngsters admitted planning trips around potential photo-opportunities and then messaging friends — and friends of friends — to demand "likes" for their online posts.

Then go outside and work out a plan to translate your childhood memories into your grown-up garden.

There are probably decades in which to plan for the arrival of super intelligent machines.

They planned to keep the budget low by living on boiled noodles, with the occasional hamburger shop treat.

This may help you and your doctor find out the cause and then plan your treatment.

We just have to plan for it.

When people try to interrupt you, have set hours planned and let them know to come back during that time or that you'll find them then.

When planning Encyclopaedia Britannica, I had to create a table of contents based on the topics of its articles.

While we were eating, Kurt asked me, " John, what is your plan for personal growth?"

You have to know where you're going if you are to plan the best way of getting there.

You will surely need to overcome some difficulties, some planned, but most unplanned.

The IASB says it does not want to act without overall planning, but the pressure to fold when it completes it reconstruction of rules later this year is strong.

America’s new plan to buy up toxic assets will not work unless banks mark assets to levels which buyers find attractive.

As boards scrutinize succession plans in response to shareholder pressure, executives who don’t get the nod also may wish to move on.

In Arizona v.United States,the majority overturned three of the four contested provisions of Arizona's controversial plan to have state and local police enforce federal immigration law.

Two- and three-dimensional maps are helpful tools in planning excavations, illustrating how sites look, and presenting the results of archaeological research.

The Conservatives’ planning reform explicitly gives rural development priority over conservation, even authorising “off-plan” building where local people might object.

Labour likewise wants to discontinue local planning where councils oppose development.

Half a century of town and country planning has enabled it to retain an enviable rural coherence, while still permitting low-density urban living.

Development should be planned, not let rip.

At issue is the TMT’s planned location on Mauna Kea, a dormant volcano worshiped by some Hawaiians as the piko , that connects the Hawaiian Islands to the heavens.

Now comes word that everyone involved---Democrats, Republicans, the Postal Service, the unions and the system's heaviest users --as finally agreed on a plan to fix the system.

In December of 1869, Congress appointed a commission to select a site and prepare plans and cost estimates for a new State Department Building.

America's new plan to buy up toxic assets will not work unless banks mark assets to levels which buyers find attractive.

California's plan, which is expected to be finalized by the governor next year, should serve as a model.

Impulsive spending isn't an option, so plan your week's menu in advance, making shopping lists for your ingredients in their exact quantities.

Negotiated by USFWS and the states, the plan requires individuals and businesses that damage habitat as part of their operations to pay into a fund to replace every acre destroyed with 2 new acres of suitable habitat .

Now comes word that everyone involved—Democrats, Republicans, the Postal Service, the unions and the system's heaviest users—has finally agreed on a plan to fix the system.

Some Congress members are trying to block the plan, and at least a dozen industry groups, four states, and three environmental groups are challenging it in federal court.

Still, the administration's plan has divided privacy rights activists.

The state's proposed Forest Carbon Plan aims to double efforts to thin out young trees and clear brush in parts of the forest.

tim Harford, author of Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives, points to a study in the early 1980s that divided undergraduates into two groups: some were advised to set out monthly goals and study activities; others were told to plan activit

Under the plan, for example, the agency said it would not prosecute landowners or businesses that unintentionally kill, harm, or disturb the bird, as long as they had signed a range-wide management plan to restore prairie chicken habitat.