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基本釋義

n.
角,角落; 轉(zhuǎn)彎處; 角球
v.
轉(zhuǎn)彎; 壟斷; 將…逼入死角; 截住…與其說話

詞性變化

實用例句

the four corners of a square

正方形的四個角

牛津詞典

Write your address in the top right-hand corner of the letter.

把你的地址寫在信的右上角。

牛津詞典

I hit my knee on the corner of the table.

我的膝蓋撞到桌子角上了。

牛津詞典

A smile lifted the corner of his mouth.

他的嘴角掛著微笑。

牛津詞典

a speck of dirt in the corner of her eye

她眼角里的一點灰塵

牛津詞典

He appears to have backed himself into a tight corner.

他似乎已把自己逼入了困境。

The government is in a corner on interest rates...

政府在利率問題上陷入了困境。

Young people came from the four corners of the nation.

全國各地的年輕人都來到這里。

They've combed the four corners of the world for the best accessories...

為了找到最好的配件,他們尋遍了每個地方。

Take your time, don't cut corners and follow instructions to the letter.

慢慢來,不要圖省事,要嚴格按照說明去做。

My new place is just around the corner.

我的新家就在附近。

She flicked a crumb off the corner of her mouth...

她擦掉嘴角的面包屑。

Out of the corner of her eye she saw that a car had stopped.

她用眼角的余光瞥見一輛車停了下來。

She would spend the day hanging round street corners...

她會整天在街角附近游蕩。

We can't have police officers on every corner...

不可能每個街角都派駐警察。

...a sharp corner...

急轉(zhuǎn)彎

The road is a succession of hairpin bends, hills, and blind corners.

這條路上急轉(zhuǎn)彎、坡道和死拐角一個接一個。

Buyers came from all corners of the world...

買主來自世界各地。

The group has been living in a remote corner of the Cambodian jungle.

該部落一直居住在柬埔寨的叢林深處。

A police motorcycle chased his car twelve miles, and cornered him near Rome...

一輛摩托警車跟在他的車后追了12英里,最后在快到羅馬時將他截住。

He was still sitting huddled like a cornered animal.

他還像一頭困獸一樣蜷縮著坐在那兒。

Golan managed to corner the young producer-director for an interview.

戈蘭設(shè)法截住了那位兼任制片人的年輕導(dǎo)演,對其進行了采訪。

This restaurant has cornered the Madrid market for specialist paellas...

這家餐館壟斷了馬德里的特色肉菜飯市場。

Zurich's affluence came initially from cornering a sizeable chunk of the 14th Century silk trade.

蘇黎世的富足最初來自于14世紀對絲綢貿(mào)易的高度壟斷。

Peter drove jerkily, cornering too fast and fumbling the gears.

彼得轉(zhuǎn)彎太急,換擋不利索,車開得一顛一顛的。

The Chancellor of the Exchequer says that economic recovery is just around the corner.

財政大臣說經(jīng)濟即將復(fù)蘇。

The ball hurtled into the far corner of the net...

球飛進了球網(wǎng)的遠角。

He saw the corner of a magazine sticking out from under the blanket...

他看見雜志的一角從毯子下露了出來。

Write 'By Airmail' in the top left hand corner.

在左上角寫上“航空郵遞”。

...a card table in the corner of the living room...

起居室角落里的牌桌

真題例句

In 1972, for instance, the Soviets, recognizing their poor harvest early, quietly cornered the world wheat market.

出自-2016年6月閱讀原文

The kind of shopping—where you hand over notes and count out change in return—now happens only in the most minor of our retail encounters, like buying a bar of chocolate or a pint of milk from a corner shop.

出自-2015年12月閱讀原文

Instead of digging through pieces of paper and peering into corners, we move our fingers left and right.

出自-2015年12月閱讀原文

This reminds me unpleasantly of Sunnyhill School in Streatham, with its harsh tarmac, where I used to hang about in corners fantasising about wildlife.

出自-2010年12月閱讀原文

On the corner, there's a Starbucks and a 7-Eleven—all of the international brands that you see all over the world nowadays.

2019年12月四級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section B

The train was coming around the corner as I lifted the baby from the tracks.

2016年12月四級真題(第二套)聽力 Section B

Budget reduction in around the corner.

出自-2013年12月閱讀原文

Actually, there's something interesting to see in every corner of Paris: the old buildings, neighborhoods, and the historical monuments.

2017年高考英語浙江卷(11月) 聽力 原文

Gin spent five months in early 2015 exploring the most remote corners of this area, which sits on the edge of the Amazon rainforest, with half its population of only 250, 000 living in its capital, Cayenne.

2016年高考英語四川卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文

Many graphs, including bar graphs and line graphs, have two axes that form a corner, usually these axes are the left side and the bottom of the graph.

2015年高考英語浙江卷 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文

Pahlsson and her husband searched the kitchen, checking every corner, but turned up nothing.

2017年高考英語浙江卷(6月) 語法填空 原文

The city of brussels was covered in snowmen—an impressive scene that told stories on every street corner.

2015年高考英語上海卷 閱讀理解 閱讀A 原文

Even American newspapers, which inhabit the most troubled corner of the global industry, have not only survived but often returned to profit.

2011年考研真題(英語二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

However, a true cashless society is probably not around the corner.

2013年考研真題(英語二)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

英英釋義

Noun
  • 1. a place off to the side of an area;

    "he tripled to the rightfield corner"

    "he glanced out of the corner of his eye"

  • 2. the point where two lines meet or intersect;

    "the corners of a rectangle"

  • 3. an interior angle formed be two meeting walls;

    "a piano was in one corner of the room"

  • 4. the intersection of two streets;

    "standing on the corner watching all the girls go by"

  • 5. the point where three areas or surfaces meet or intersect;

    "the corners of a cube"

  • 6. a small concavity

  • 7. a temporary monopoly on a kind of commercial trade;

    "a corner on the silver market"

  • 8. a predicament from which a skillful or graceful escape is impossible;

    "his lying got him into a tight corner"

  • 9. a projecting part that is corner-shaped;

    "he knocked off the corners"

  • 10. a remote area;

    "in many corners of the world they still practice slavery"

  • 11. (architecture) solid exterior angle of a building; especially one formed by a cornerstone

Verb
  • 1. gain control over;

    "corner the gold market"

  • 2. force a person or an animal into a position from which he cannot escape

  • 3. turn a corner;

    "the car corners"

同義詞辨析

angle, corner

這兩個名詞都有"角"之意。

  • angle:幾何學(xué)上的用詞,指兩條直線相交而成的角。也可引申指看問題的方面或角度。
  • corner:多指物體的棱角或房間、街道的角落。

同義詞

n.角,棱,隅

angleturnbendcrook

n.角落,偏僻處

privateplacespotsecretnook

v.把...逼入絕境,緊逼

catchcornerabringintotrapbaybacktopush

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