1.~ to/towards sth.~ to do sth旨在；适合于designed or organized to achieve a particular purpose, or to be suitable for a particular group of people
The programme is geared to preparing students for the world of work.本计划旨在为学生进入职场做准备。
The resort is geared towards children.这个旅游胜地适合儿童玩耍。
2.~ up (for sth).~ up (to do sth)（为…）做好准备，准备好prepared and ready for sth
We have people on board geared up to help with any problems.我们已让船上的人做好准备帮助解决任何问题。
I was all geared up to have an argument over this issue with her.
我已作好了与她辩论这个问题的准备。
Specializing in manufacturing candy machines, the company is geared to the service for clients all over the world.
公司面向全世界的客户，专业生产糖果机械。
The party is all geared up for the forthcoming election campaign.
该党为即将来临的竞选活动做好了准备。
Everything afterwards was just a great increase in energy and confidence geared towards obtaining more of the drug.
以后所要做的事情就是不断花费精力、加大胆量去获得更多的毒品。
Fleischer said he wanted to leave the hard-driving job before Bush's re - election campaign geared up.
弗莱舍说他想在布什总统开始新一轮总统竞选开始之前离开这一艰难的工作岗位。
The resulting profits represent a relatively hidden form of support for banks, and Wall Street has geared up to take advantage.
由此获得的利润，为银行提供了某种相对隐性的支撑，华尔街因此做好准备充分利用这种机会。
He said government efforts have been geared toward the possibility of a "catastrophic event. "
他说，政府以可能出现“灾难性事件”而进行努力的。
The driver geared down as he came into the corner.
司机拐弯时换了慢档。
Male brains are also programmed to concentrate efficiently on one thing at a time, while female brains are geared to be able to multitask.
男性的大脑也被设计成在某一时刻更有效率地集中于某一件事情，女性的则能够承担多项事务。
eHarmony has not travelled as well, in part, because its research is so geared to the American marriage experience.
eHarmony没有涉足国外，部分原因是其研究与美国人的婚姻经历高度相关。
In the absence of a clear-cut direction, each agency developed its own options geared to its own more or less parochial concerns.
既然没有一个明确的指导，每个单位就各自拟定出或多或少局限自己眼光的选择方案。
The CMS experiment is one of two geared for a variety of tasks, including finding the elusive Higgs boson.
CMS的实验是二分之一的各种任务，包括寻找希格斯玻色子的难以捉摸的面向。
I was all geared up to go on holiday, and now it's cancelled.
我兴致勃勃地做好去度假的准备，可是现在吹了。
In order to turn it into a strategy which is geared toward developing your compassion, as well as a way of becoming more patient.
我这样做是为了将它变为一种策略，以帮助你变得更具同情心，更具耐心。
A: Id love to be able to take several executive seminars on financial management that arent geared toward financial experts.
答：我希望能参加几次不针对金融专家的有关金融管理的行政研讨会。
The party is all geared up for the primary election that is just getting started.
该政党已为即将到来的初选作好了充分准备。
"I think everyone was geared up to get off to a good start after the bad ones we've had in the previous couple of seasons, " says Giggs.
“我想每一个人都不想重复我们前几个赛季初糟糕的表现，所以为了有一个良好的开局我们齐心协力。”吉格斯说到。
What to Do: Ask each person to help with a specific task geared to his talents, personality, and availability.
该做的：让每个人完成一项最适合他们个人才华、个性和时间的具体任务。
Most articles are geared towards intermediate to advanced developers who put a strong emphasize on standards-compliant designs.
这个网站从1999年就开始发表关于CSS的文章，其中大部分文章都是面向那些更注重符合标准设计的中级到高级设计师。
The bounded set of annotations that do depend on an EJB3 container are geared specifically for that environment.
的确依赖于EJB3容器的一组有限的注释则是专用于那个环境的。
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