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基本釋義

n.
四分之一; 季度; 一刻鐘; 25分硬幣; 地區(qū); 群體; 營(yíng)房; 半圓的月相; 一節(jié); 夸特; 慈悲; 住處
v.
把…分成四等份; 為…提供臨時(shí)住所

詞性變化

實(shí)用例句

a quarter of a mile

四分之一英里

牛津詞典

The programme lasted an hour and a quarter.

這個(gè)節(jié)目歷時(shí)一小時(shí)十五分鐘。

牛津詞典

Cut the apple into quarters.

把蘋果切成四瓣。

牛津詞典

The theatre was about three quarters full.

劇場(chǎng)大約坐了四分之三的人。

牛津詞典

(North American English also)It's quarter of four now─I'll meet you at quarter after.

現(xiàn)在是三點(diǎn)四十五分,我將在四點(diǎn)十五分和你碰面。

牛津詞典

It's (a) quarter to four now─I'll meet you at (a) quarter past.

現(xiàn)在是差一刻四點(diǎn),我會(huì)在四點(diǎn)一刻和你碰面。

牛津詞典

the Latin quarter

拉丁區(qū)

牛津詞典

the historic quarter of the city

具有歷史意義的城區(qū)

牛津詞典

Support for the plan came from an unexpected quarter.

支持這一計(jì)劃的是沒(méi)料想到的一方。

牛津詞典

The news was greeted with dismay in some quarters .

有一部分人對(duì)這條消息感到泄氣。

牛津詞典

We were moved to more comfortable living quarters .

我們搬進(jìn)了較舒適的住處。

牛津詞典

married quarters

已婚軍人宿舍

牛津詞典

The moon is in its first quarter.

月亮正處于上弦。

牛津詞典

His rivals knew that they could expect no quarter from such a ruthless adversary.

他的競(jìng)爭(zhēng)者明白,不能期望如此殘忍的對(duì)手發(fā)善心。

牛津詞典

She peeled and quartered an apple.

她削去蘋果皮,把它切成四瓣。

牛津詞典

A quarter of the residents are over 55 years old...

1/4的居民年齡在55歲以上。

I've got to go in a quarter of an hour...

一刻鐘以后我就得走了。

The group said results for the third quarter are due on October 29.

該集團(tuán)表示第三季度的結(jié)果將于10月29日公布。

It was a quarter to six...

當(dāng)時(shí)是6點(diǎn)差一刻。

See you about quarter to nine...

8點(diǎn)45分左右再見(jiàn)。

Chop the mushrooms and quarter the tomatoes.

把蘑菇切成丁,再把西紅柿切成四瓣。

The doses I suggested for adults could be halved or quartered.

我之前建議成人服用的劑量可以降到1/2或者1/4。

I dropped a quarter into the slot of the pay phone.

我向付費(fèi)電話的投幣孔里投了一枚25分硬幣。

Look for hotels in the French Quarter.

在法國(guó)人居住區(qū)尋找旅館。

Help came from an unexpected quarter...

援助來(lái)自于一個(gè)意想不到的團(tuán)體。

There are fears in some quarters that the republic would have little chance of surviving on its own.

某些人士擔(dān)心共和國(guó)獨(dú)立支撐下去的希望很渺茫。

Mckinnon went down from deck to the officers' quarters.

麥金農(nóng)走下甲板,來(lái)到軍官們的住處。

Our soldiers are quartered in Peredelkino.

我們的士兵在佩列杰利基諾扎營(yíng)。

You can watch aircraft take off or land at close quarters...

你可以近距離觀察飛機(jī)的起降。

This is not war as you learned it. It is brutal work, with no quarter given.

這并不是你所了解的戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)。它殘酷無(wú)情,對(duì)人沒(méi)有半點(diǎn)憐憫。

真題例句

A quarter of this year's American grain harvest will be used to produce bio-fuel for cars.

出自-2016年6月閱讀原文

Marriott had its worst quarter ever, with revenues per room falling by 25%.

出自-2013年6月閱讀原文

reduced his revenues to a quarter of normal years

出自-2013年6月閱讀原文

Mm, I think 16, but 3 quarters of them are women.

出自-2012年12月聽(tīng)力原文

The company spent the last five years developing solar panels that are only about a quarter of an inch thick and are strong enough to stand up to heavy highway traffic without breaking or making the roads more slippery.

2017年12月四級(jí)真題(第二套)聽(tīng)力 Section A

This prompted the company to cut its forecasts for the full fourth quarter.

出自-2017年6月閱讀原文

More than a quarter of children live in single-parent households—a historic high, according to Pew—and these children are three times as likely to live in poverty as those who live with married parents.

出自-2017年6月閱讀原文

Less than an hour away by snowmobile, Chinese labourers have updated the Great Wall Station, a vital part of China's plan to operate five bases on Antarctica, complete with an indoor badminton court and sleeping quarters for 150 people.

出自-2016年12月閱讀原文

A study of employees at health insurance provider Aetna revealed that roughly one quarter of those taking in-office yoga and mindfulness classes reported a 28% reduction in their stress levels and a 20% improvement in sleep quality.

出自-2016年12月閱讀原文

According to the Centre for Strategic and International Studies,about three quarter of energy we use to move things, including ourselves, accomplishes no useful work.

出自-2015年12月聽(tīng)力原文

That same study found that randomly assigned interracial roommates at Ohio State broke up before the end of the quarter about twice as often as same-race roommates.

出自-2012年6月聽(tīng)力原文

We've had more people booking in the first quarter of this year than last," says Hubert Moineau, founder of Tselana Travel, which is planning to introduce a new program of longer adventure trips, including polar expeditions and cruises in the Galápagos.

出自-2011年6月聽(tīng)力原文

The fact that there is an iced coffee on the market with over a quarter of a woman's daily calories allowance is alarming," Dr Rachel Thompson, science programme manager at London-based WCRF, said in a widely-reported statement.

出自-2010年12月聽(tīng)力原文

4 million working days were lost to work related stress last year, a jump of nearly a quarter.

2019年12月六級(jí)真題(第二套)聽(tīng)力 Section C

A quarter of students report that their use of digital devices during class causes their grades to suffer .

2018年12月六級(jí)真題(第二套)閱讀

A study of employees at health insurance provider Aetna revealed that roughly one quarter of those taking in-office yoga and mindfulness classes reported a 28% reduction in their stress levels and a 20% improvement in sleep quality.

2016年12月六級(jí)真題(第一套)閱讀 Section B

It has consequences: South Africa's ongoing drought—the worst in three decades—will cost at least a quarter of its com crop this year.

2018年6月六級(jí)真題(第一套)閱讀 Section B

More than 20 years after the internet was opened to commerce, the Census Bureau tells us that brick and mortar sales accounted for 92.3 percent of retail sales in the first quarter of 2016.

2019年6月六級(jí)真題(第一套)閱讀 Section B

Sure enough, the Census Bureau just released data showing that online retail sales surged 15.2 percent between the first quarter of 2015 and the first quarter of 2016.

2019年6月六級(jí)真題(第一套)閱讀 Section B

The report finds more than a quarter of the countries experienced flat or falling monthly wages in real terms.

2016年6月六級(jí)真題(第二套)聽(tīng)力 Section B

During my first quarter at university of California, riverside ucr, I thought that I wanted to study political science with its focus on international affairs, so that's what I applied for.

2016年高考英語(yǔ)浙江卷(6月) 閱讀理解 七選五 原文

During my first quarter, I spoke directly to the chancellor, asking him for support towards my initiatives, met with the vice chancellors.

2016年高考英語(yǔ)浙江卷(6月) 閱讀理解 七選五 原文

If they tell you otherwise, they're lying and will probably change what they want to purse within the first quarter of attendance.

2016年高考英語(yǔ)浙江卷(6月) 閱讀理解 七選五 原文

It's much faster, for example, to shop for groceries at a quarter to three than to stand in line during the after-work rush.

2016年高考英語(yǔ)浙江卷(10月) 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文

That's a quarter-hour more you could be sleeping if you bought a coffee maker with a timer.

2017年高考英語(yǔ)全國(guó)卷3 閱讀理解 七選五 原文

Of all the changes that have taken place in English-language newspapers during the past quarter-century,perhaps the most far-reaching has been the inexorable decline in the scope and seriousness of their arts coverage.

出自-2010年考研閱讀原文

In the third quarter, CEO turnover was down 23% from a year ago as nervous boards stuck with the leaders they had, according to Liberum Research.

出自-2011年考研閱讀原文

A quarter of America’s public-sector workers have a university degree.

出自-2012年考研閱讀原文

The State, War, and Navy Building, as it was originally known, housed the three Executive Branch Departments most intimately associated with formulating and conducting the nation's foreign policy in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the first quarter of the twentieth century-the period when the United States emerged as an international power.

出自-2018年考研閱讀原文

During the 2016 presidential campaign, nearly a quarter of web content shared by Twitter users in the politically critical state of Michigan was fake news, according to the University of Oxford.

出自-2018年考研閱讀原文

A quarter of America's public-sector workers have a university degree.

2012年考研真題(英語(yǔ)一)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

About a quarter of all Italian immigrants, for example, eventually returned to Italy for good.

2013年考研真題(英語(yǔ)二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

During the 2016 presidential campaign, nearly a quarter of web content shared by Twitter users in the politically critical state of michigan was fake news, according to the University of Oxford.

2018年考研真題(英語(yǔ)一)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

nitrogen-oxide emissions during the cruising portions of the flight fell by around a quarter.

2010年考研真題(英語(yǔ)二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

The State, War, and Navy Building, as it was originally known, housed the three Executive Branch Departments most intimately associated with formulating and conducting the nation's foreign policy in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the first

2018年考研真題(英語(yǔ)一)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

英英釋義

Noun
  • 1. one of four equal parts;

    "a quarter of a pound"

  • 2. a district of a city having some distinguishing character;

    "the Latin Quarter"

  • 3. one of four periods of play into which some games are divided;

    "both teams scored in the first quarter"

  • 4. a unit of time equal to 15 minutes or a quarter of an hour;

    "it's a quarter til 4"

    "a quarter after 4 o'clock"

  • 5. one of four periods into which the school year is divided;

    "the fall quarter ends at Christmas"

  • 6. a fourth part of a year; three months;

    "unemployment fell during the last quarter"

  • 7. one of the four major division of the compass;

    "the wind is coming from that quarter"

  • 8. a quarter of a hundredweight (25 pounds)

  • 9. a quarter of a hundredweight (28 pounds)

  • 10. a United States coin worth one fourth of a dollar;

    "he fed four quarters into the slot machine"

  • 11. an unspecified person;

    "he dropped a word in the right quarter"

  • 12. the rear part of a ship

  • 13. piece of leather that comprises the part of a shoe or boot covering the heel and joining the vamp

Verb
  • 1. provide housing for (military personnel)

  • 2. pull (a person) apart with four horses tied to his extremities, so as to execute him;

    "in the old days, people were drawn and quartered for certain crimes"

  • 3. divide into quarters;

    "quarter an apple"

  • 4. divide by four; divide into quarters

同義詞辨析

district, region, area, section, zone, belt, quarter, neighbourhood

這些名詞均有"地區(qū)"之意。

  • district: 多指由政府等機(jī)構(gòu)出于行政管理等目的而明確劃分的地區(qū)。
  • region: 普通用詞,常指地球上、大氣中具有自然分界線的區(qū)域,特指按照氣候、人體或其他特征鮮明、自成一體的地區(qū)。
  • area: 普通用詞,指整體中較大的,界線不分明的一部分。
  • section: 普通用詞,指城市、國(guó)家或天然界線形成的地區(qū)。
  • zone: 科技用詞,指圓形或弧形地帶,尤指地圖上按溫度劃分的五個(gè)地帶。用作一般意義時(shí),也可指具有某種特征的其它地區(qū)。
  • belt: 從本義"帶,帶狀物"引申而指任何廣闊的長(zhǎng)條地帶,也可指種植某種作物的地區(qū)。
  • quarter: 指城市里具有相同性質(zhì)或獨(dú)特風(fēng)味的地區(qū),比section范圍小,但劃分更精確。
  • neighbourhood: 指比section的劃定更清楚,范圍更小。具體指城市中的住宅區(qū),也可指附近一帶。

同義詞

n.四分之一,一季度,一刻鐘

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