英语释义

1. to provide what is wanted or needed by (someone or something)
The inn caters exclusively to foreign tourists. The library caters to scientists. That store caters for middle-class taste. (disapproving) As a child he was spoiled by parents who catered to his every need.

片语

pander to迎合；取悦

play up to迎合；讨好；给…当配角

cater for meet满足

Cater for sth迎合

cater for meet satisfy满足

cater for a party为聚会提供餐饮服务

cater for sb替某人办酒席

cater r for供应伙食

cater for tourists为旅游者提供膳食

英汉例句

• even in small towns a number of theatres have been built in the last few years to cater for the local population.

  即使在小城镇，过去几年内也已建了一批剧院来满足当地人们的需求。

• auto manufacturers try to cater for all the social levels, producing both super expensive and super cheap cars.

  汽车制造商试图满足所有社会阶层，同时生产超昂贵和超低价汽车。

• even to an untrained eye, it is immediately obvious that the city is struggling to cater for its growing number of cyclists.

  即使没有专业训练的眼光来看，这城市正在满足日益增多的骑自行的人这点也一目了然。

• the urban pioneers are followed by the young start-ups that cater for them, the coffee shops and bars, and then by the estate agents and the yuppies.

  追随着那些城市先锋的脚步，咖啡馆、酒吧等新兴的生活方式应运而生，房地产经纪人及年轻的中产阶层也加入其中。

• the creation of extra rules in the system is to cater for the wrongly classified cases.

  可以在系统中创建额外的规则来解决错误分类的案例。

• religious houses ran the earliest true inns to cater for pilgrims and knights on their way to the crusades in the holy land.

  隐修院经营着最早的真正客栈，为参加十字军东征前往巴勒斯坦的朝圣者和骑士提供饮食。

• retailers also have to cater for very different tastes around the country.

  零售商们还必须迎合中国人之间差异巨大的口味偏好。

• medical college student wang zheyan is frustrated because she has to work out a diet plan to cater for her holiday weight.

  就读于医学院的学生王哲燕（音译）现在心情很沮丧，因为假期她长胖了不少，所以不得不实施减肥计划。

• dubai -owned airline emirates said it would build one of the world「s tallest hotels to cater for growing numbers of tourists to the gulf arab emirate.

  迪拜所有的阿联酋航空公司表示，它将修建一座世界上最高的旅馆，以容纳海湾国家阿联酋日益增长的观光客。

• 「it is first and foremost intended to provide or to cater for detainees held in prisons or in other detention facilities that have also been hit by the cyclone nargis,」 said marcel izard.

  他说：“最重要的是向关押在监狱或其它拘留设施中的犯人提供救济，他们也受到纳尔吉斯强热带风暴的袭击。

• shanzhaiji are the cheap, but distinctive, phones produced by many small-scale manufacturers that have sprung up in the past year to cater for the mainland」s love of mobiles.

  过去一年来，山寨机做为一种价格低廉特色鲜明的手机如雨后春笋般涌现，众多小规模工厂都在造这种手机。 它的出现迎合了大陆人对手机的狂热爱好。

• the measures have been taken solely against the protestant churches, which cater for refugees from sudan and iraq and expatriate workers, as well as for syrians.

  此类行政手段只针对新教教会，该教派为苏丹、伊拉克难民和外国工作者，当然也包括叙利亚当地人，提供食宿。

• unilever and procter & gamble started selling shampoo and washing powder in small sachets more than two decades ago to cater for customers with cramped living spaces and even more cramped budgets.

  联合利华和宝洁公司早在二十多年前就开始以小袋的形式出售香波和洗衣粉，来吸引那些生活空间狭小甚至生活费用较少的消费者。

• 「it「s very, very important that we have a minimum wage that can cater for the basic needs of people in this country where there is a lot of inflation,」 added anyansi.

  他说：“保障最低工资是非常重要的，这样尼日利亚人民就能应付基本的需要，尼日利亚有严重的通货膨胀。

• this website tries to cater for the full range in the following ways.

  本网站尝试以以下方式满足全方位的需要。

• shops cater for the do-it-yourself craze not only by running special advisory services for novices, but by offering consumers bits and pieces which they can assemble at home.

  为了满足自己动手热的需要，商店不仅为初学者提供专门的咨询服务，而且为顾客準备了各种零件，供他们买回家去安装。

• since 1991, university research schools have been founded to cater for young researchers and to centralize research activities.

  自1991年，在大学中成立了研究学院，以满足年轻学者的需要和聚集研究力量。

• we must seize this moment to cater for the poorest of the world, including that young mexican girl i spoke of yesterday, who dreams of a world without desperate poverty.

  我们必须抓住时机为全世界最贫困的人民谋福利，其中也包括我昨天见过的墨西哥小姑娘，她梦想着一个没有极端贫困的世界。

• alternatives had to be introduced (presumably to cater for those who preferred a life of servitude).

  引入备选方案是必要的（可能为了迎合那些更喜欢过屈从式生活的人）。

• while the majority of producers of resources and oer projects are located in english-speaking countries in the developed world, promising initiatives like cater for a global development.

  虽然这些资源的制作者和oer项目的大多数都居住在发达世界的说英语国家，有希望的创举一样要迎合全球发展的需要。

• present-day concern with music is shown by the existence of something like a hundred summer schools in music, which cater for all grades of musicians, from the mere beginner to the skilled performer.

  目前对音乐的关注表现在一百所夏季音乐学校的存在，这些学校满足各个级别的音乐者，从初学者到熟练的表演家。

• in mumbai, india」s financial capital, new luxury apartment blocks are being built throughout the city to cater for the fast-growing number of super-rich.

  孟买，印度的金融首都，奢华公寓楼如雨后春笋一般出现在城市各处，满足了快速增加的超级富豪需求。

• some businesses are already adjusting their ranges to cater for the grey market.

  为了关注这块银发市场，一些商店已经调整了他们的业务范围。

• to cater for the aversion to red meat, and a new-found need for omega-3 fatty acids, fish dishes are on every menu, even in steak houses.

  为迎合讨厌红肉的人和新发现的对欧米伽3脂肪酸的需要，鱼菜上了每一份菜单，甚至是在牛排餐馆里。

• fifty years from now, according to some projections, each hectare will have to cater for 43.

  据预测，50年后每公顷稻田将必须为43个人供应口粮。

• when companies try to cater for older customers, they do not always get it right.

  当公司试着迎合老年客户，他们并不总是做得正确。