practise

1. V-T/V-I If you practise, or practise something, you keep doing it regularly in order to be able to do it better. 练习

She practised the piano in the primary school basement. 她在小学的地下室里练习弹钢琴。

2. →see also practised

3. V-T When people practise something such as a custom, craft, or religion, they take part in the activities associated with it. 遵循; 信奉; 从事

Her parents had yearned to be free to practise their religion. 她父母曾渴望能自由信奉他们的宗教。

He was brought up in a family that practised traditional Judaism. 他在一个信奉传统犹太教的家庭里长大。

4. practisingADJ 信奉的[ADJ n]

And he was more or less a practising Muslim throughout his life. 而他差不多一生都是个信奉穆斯林的人。

5. V-T If something cruel is regularly done to people, you can say that it is practised on them. 施行[usu passive]

Female circumcision is practised on 2 million girls a year. 每年有2百万个女孩被施行女性割礼手术。

6. V-T/V-I Someone who practises medicine or law works as a doctor or a lawyer. 从事 (医药、法律等工作)

He doesn't practise medicine for the money. 他不为赚钱而行医。

...the obligations of my licence to practise as a lawyer. …我的律师从业执照规定的义务。