英语释义

1. to be the cause of (something)
Greed lies behind the higher prices.

片语

be responsible for对……负责；是……的原因

英汉例句

• 「the more i get to know about the elegant scientific laws which lie behind the universe, the more i see them as a reflection of the faithful sustaining activity of a creator god, 」 wilkinson said.

  「当我越了解宇宙之中隐藏的玄妙科学规律，我就愈发地相信它们即是上帝守信而从不间断活动的真实反映，」威尔金森说道，「基督教所理解的创世并不是指上帝点燃了宇宙大爆炸的导火索后又退归至安全距离冷眼旁观；而是指上帝对全部科学发展的进程都了若指掌，使人们不仅对宇宙之美，还有科学之精妙都赞不绝口。

• two factors lie behind the continuing rise in prisoner numbers: high rates of pre-trial detention, which accounts for 35% of all those behind bars, and longer sentences.

  两个因素导致了不断增长的囚徒人数：高居不下的审前拘留，大约占总关押人数的35%，和较长的刑期。

• two things lie behind latin america’s renaissance.

  拉丁美洲的复兴背后有两点因素。

• then, reaching the last room, bathed in unexpected natural light, ms horn points through the window to a restored building outside, which used to lie behind the wall.

  此后，我们跨进最后一个房间，霍然就沐浴在了自然光之下。霍恩女士指向窗外一座重修过的建筑物，它之前就坐落在柏林墻之后。

• however, the europe union continues to lie behind united states and japan in terms of market share in east asia.

  然而，欧洲联盟仍然以美国和日本两国在亚洲所占有的市场分额这一理由进行谈判。

• misleading or ambiguous advertisements lie behind foreign fast foods「 trust problems in china.

  在中国，洋快餐的信任危机背后隐藏的是具有误导性或含糊不清的广告宣传。

• but if america reacts by turning in on itself-raising trade barriers and rejecting foreign investors-it risks exacerbating the economic troubles that lie behind its current funk.

  但是如果美国转身针对自己–提高贸易壁垒，拒绝外国投资者–它将冒着加剧存在于其当前恐慌背后的经济危机恶化的风险。

• the asset bust and unwinding of debt that lie behind the recession mean that eventual recovery is likely to be too weak to create jobs rapidly.

  而在衰退后存在的资产泡沫破灭及债务解约情况，则意味着经济最终恢复的可能性太小，而无法迅速创建工作岗位。

• a devaluation would spare them the grinding wage deflation needed to price the unemployed back into work (though it would not address the economic weaknesses that lie behind poor competitiveness).

  货币贬值将会使他们不需要降低失业者重回工作岗位的工资（尽管它将不会解决无力经济竞争后的经济衰弱问题）。

• several reasons lie behind america’s loss of potency.

  美国丧失权威的原因多种多样。

• you will start by modeling the business goals that lie behind the organization that you are targeting, and in particular from the goals that impact the business processes that you have described.

  您将首先对业务目标进行建模，尤其是那些对您已经描述过的业务处理过程产生影响的目标。

• dr heard suggested economic reasons might lie behind the new marriage story.

  赫德博士认为，经济因素可能是这一新婚姻现象背后的动力。

• it also offers clues to the psychological mechanisms that lie behind shifts in public mood—as happened most noticeably in america after the terrorist attacks of september 11th, 2001.

  该方法还为公众情绪变动的背后心理机制提供线索，公众情绪变动的最明显例子是在美国911恐怖攻击事件之后。

• in the files he states, "it is only since i left the mod (in 1977) that i have seriously tried to consider what may possibly lie behind the 」ufo phenomenon「.

  文件中指出：“只有在我离开了国防部（1977年），我才得以认真的思考‘ufo现象’背后可能隐藏的秘密。」

• but in a country that relies on coal for most of its electricity, powerful financial incentives lie behind unsafe mines.

  但是在一个大部分电力供应都要依赖煤炭的国家，不安全的煤矿背后是强大的财政收入刺激。

• people often talk about time in terms of space:of looking forward to a brighter tomorrow, of troubles that lie behind us.

  人们经常通过空间来谈论时间，比如：「期盼更光明的未来」，「我们身后的问题」。

• client programmers using this interface have no idea what implementation details lie behind the interface.

  使用这个接口的客户机程序员不知道接口背后的实现细节。

• yet the complexity and number of such instruments lie behind banks」 difficulties in knowing who will bear the ultimate exposure to defaults on american subprime mortgages.

  但是这些工具的复杂性和数量使的银行很难知道谁将承担额外的自于美国次级抵押贷款的违约风险。

• scientific reasons lie behind peoples’ inability to derive happiness from money, according to the study.

  人们不能从金钱中获取快乐是有科学原因的，这项研究认为。

• more recently, brain imaging is elucidating what neurological differences might lie behind these strengths.

  最近，脑成像正在阐明什么神经差异可能是这些强项的原因。

• although some people who cut do attempt suicide, it's usually because of the emotional problems and pain that lie behind their desire to self-harm, not the cutting itself.

  虽然有些自伤人是企图自杀，这通常是由于情绪问题和痛苦，这背后反映出来的愿望是自我伤害，而不是切割本身。

• two factors lie behind this change.

  这一变化下暗藏着两个因素。