1、practice

通常做法；常規；慣例

Some firms have cut workers' pay below the level set in their contract, a practice that is illegal in Germany.

一些公司把工人薪水減至低于合同規定的水平，這種做法在德國是非法的。

Gordon Brown has demanded a public inquiry into bank practices.

戈登·布朗已要求對銀行的慣例做法進行公開調查。

練習；訓練

She was taking all three of her daughters to basketball practice every day.

她每天都帶3個女兒進行籃球訓練。

the hard practice necessary to develop from a learner to an accomplished musician.

從初學者成長為有造詣的音樂家所必需的艱苦訓練

診所；律師事務所

The new doctor's practice was miles away from where I lived.

新開的診所離我住的地方有幾英里遠。

My law practice isn't the most important thing in my life, you know.

你知道，我的律師事務所不是我生活里最重要的事情。

2、universe

宇宙

Einstein's equations showed the Universe to be expanding.

愛因斯坦的方程式表明宇宙正在膨脹。

Early astronomers thought that our planet was the centre of the universe.

早期的天文學家認為我們的星球是宇宙的中心。

經驗領域

Good writers suck in what they see of the world, recreating their own universe on the page.

優秀的作家從他們眼中的世界汲取體驗，然后在紙上重塑自己的天地。

They marked out the boundaries of our visual universe.

他們標出了我們視覺經驗領域的界限。

全天下，宇宙萬物中（最）

According to my friends I am the coolest, thinnest, cleverest, funniest journalist in the universe.

我的朋友說我是全天下最酷、最瘦、最聰明、最幽默的記者。