详细释义
- 困境,窘境
- 角,包角,街角,壁角,角落,墙角
- 地区,区域
- 偏僻处
- 【足】角球
- 垄断,囤积
- 走捷径
- (街道)拐角(处)
- 边缘
- 使陷于绝境,逼入困境,使走投无路,把…难住
- 使有棱角
- <美>位于角上
- 垄断,囤积居奇
- 拐弯,转弯
- 使落入圈套
- 硬要走近想与(某人)说话
- 相交成角,形成角
- [C]角,角落 a place where two lines, walls or roads meet
- [C]遥远的地区 area far away
- [U][C]困境 difficult or awkward situation
- vi. 驾车转弯 drive a car round a corner
- vt. 垄断,囤积 gain control of the buying, selling or production of goods
- vt. 难住 put into a difficult position
英英释义
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a place off to the side of an area;
"he tripled to the rightfield corner"
"the southeastern corner of the Mediterranean"
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the point where two lines meet or intersect;
"the corners of a rectangle"
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an interior angle formed by two meeting walls;
"a piano was in one corner of the room"
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the intersection of two streets;
"standing on the corner watching all the girls go by"
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the point where three areas or surfaces meet or intersect;
"the corners of a cube"
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a small concavity
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a temporary monopoly on a kind of commercial trade;
"a corner on the silver market"
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a predicament from which a skillful or graceful escape is impossible;
"his lying got him into a tight corner"
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a projecting part where two sides or edges meet;
"he knocked off the corners"
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a remote area;
"in many corners of the world they still practice slavery"
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(architecture) solid exterior angle of a building; especially one formed by a cornerstone
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gain control over;
"corner the gold market"
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force a person or an animal into a position from which he cannot escape
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turn a corner;
"the car corners"
双语例句
- 1. Claire stared after him until he disappeared around a corner.
- 克莱尔一直注视着他,直到他消失在拐角。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. She flicked a crumb off the corner of her mouth.
- 她擦掉嘴角的面包屑。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. The man with the umbrella turned the corner again.
- 拿伞的人又拐进了拐角处。
来自柯林斯例句
- 4. He volleyed the ball spectacularly into the far corner of the net.
- 他一脚漂亮的凌空抽射,把球踢进了球门的远角。
来自柯林斯例句
- 5. He appears to have backed himself into a tight corner.
- 他似乎已把自己逼入了困境。
来自柯林斯例句
- The news soon spread to the farthest corner.
消息很快传到最远的角落。 - She sat in the corner, watching my every move.
她坐在角落里注视著我的一举一动。 - She waved to me as she turned the corner.
她拐弯时向我挥了挥手。 - There's a grocer's at the corner of the street.
在街道的转弯处有一个食品杂货店。 - I'm in a tight corner at present.
我眼下的处境十分不妙。 - The interviewer had driven her into a corner.
面试主持人把她追问得很窘。 - Don't try to corner your spouse.
不要让你的爱人为难。 - It's rather dangerous to corner at speed.
高速转弯是相当危险的。 - He wants to corner the beer market.
他想垄断啤酒市场。 - Our goal is to corner the market nationwide.
我们的目标是要垄断全国市场。 - She bought a box of chocolates at the corner store.
她在街头小店购得一盒巧克力。
- The cube has eight corners.
立方体有八个角。 - He hit his knee on the corner of the table.
他的膝盖撞到了桌子角上了。 - Come along, let's push it to the corner.
加把劲儿,我们把它推到角落里去吧。 - Go on until you get to the next corner and then turn left.
一 直往前走到第一个拐角,再向左转弯。 - Our little corner shop is no longer a paying concern.
我们这个街头小店已赚不到钱了。 - As we turned the corner we came on a group of men who were waiting for the public house to open.
我们转过屋角时碰到一群人等着店开门。 - He rounded a corner and walked into a narrow street.
他拐过弯,走进一条狭窄的街道。 - The Greens deal with the butcher at the corner of the street.
格林家通常在街角处的肉铺子里买肉。 - Mother was a witness of the accident at the street corner.
母亲是发生在马路拐角处那次事故的目击者。 - We knocked into each other at the street corner.
我们在街道拐角处相撞。 - She glanced shyly at him out of the corners of her eyes.
她羞答答地瞟了他一眼。 - The delegates came from all corners of the country.
代表们来自这个国家的各个地区。 - They were chatting in the corner.
他们在屋角里闲聊。 - The old woman was spinning in the corner of the room.
老妇人在屋内一角纺线。 - There is a chair which accommodates its shape to a person's position in the corner of the room.
在房间的墙角有一把可根据人的位置调节形状的椅子。 - The two friends sat in a corner and chatted about the weather.
两个朋友坐在一个角落里,闲谈天气。 - That man sitting in the corner reminds me of your uncle Joe.
坐在角落里的人使我想起你的叔叔乔来。 - The money was hidden in corners all over the house.
那笔钱被藏在屋里的各个角落。 - He numbered the pages in the bottom corner.
他把页码写在角底。 - I saw him disappear round the corner.
我看见他转过拐角不见了。 - There is a bookstore round the corner.
拐过弯去有一家书店。 - His huge bulk appeared round the corner of the street.
他那庞大的身躯出现在街角处。 - The interviewer had driven her into a corner.
面试主持人把她追问得很窘。 - They have forced me into a corner, so I'm going to have to give them what they want.
他们把我逼得走投无路,因此他们现在要什么我就得给他们什么。 - We are certainly in a tight corner, but with perseverance we shall manage to get out of it.
我们肯定已处于困境,但只要坚持住,我们就定能摆脱困境。 - Unless he gets some money, soon he will be in a tight corner.
除非他马上搞到钱,不然他就会陷入困境。 - His car corners well.
他的车转弯性能良好。 - My car corners well even in bad weather.
我的汽车即使在坏天气时转弯也很好。 - He was cornering at 60 miles an hour.
他以每小时六十英里的速度拐弯。 - Some speculators have tried to corner wheat.
有几个投机者曾试图囤积小麦。 - They've cornered all the business.
他们已控制了所有的买卖。 - The question cornered me.
那个问题把我难住了。 - He cornered the witness with clever questions.
他机敏的提问使证人无言可对。
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- The thief was cornered in a blind alley.
窃贼被逼进一条死胡同。 - The wolf was cornered by the hunters.
狼被猎人围住,无路可逃。 - The escaped prisoner was cornered at last.
那逃犯终于被逼入了困境。
用法讲解
- corner的基本意思是“角”,是可数名词,指两条线或两条路相交处; 也可作“遥远的地方,天涯海角”解,此时常用复数形式; 引申可指“困境,窘况”,此时可用作可数名词,也可用作不可数名词。
- corner接介词in,表示“在角落里”; 接介词on或at,表示“在拐角处”; 接介词round〔around〕,表示“拐过弯去”。
- corner的基本意思是“驾车转弯”,作此解时,是不及物动词。
- corner可引申指“囤积”,即把有意要买东西的人置于无可选择的境地中,使其按要价付钱。用作及物动词时,后可接如小麦、商品等名词作宾语。
- corner还可引申指“难住,走投无路”,即把其人逼入角落里。用作及物动词时,主语可以是人,也可以是物,宾语一定是人。可用于被动结构。
- angle,corner
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- 这两个名词都有“角”之意。
- angle几何学上的用词,指两条直线相交而成的角。也可引申指看问题的方面或角度。
- corner多指物体的棱角或房间、街道的角落。
词源解说
- ☆ 13世纪晚期进入英语,直接源自古法语的corniere;最初源自古典拉丁语的cornua,意为角,突起物。
- cut corners 走近路,节约
- cut off a corner 抄近路
- drive sb into a corner 逼得某人走投无路
- keep a corner 保留一个角落
- round a corner 拐过街角
- turn a corner 拐过街角
- turn the corner 摆脱困境
- blind corner 看不见的拐角
- left corner 左角
- neglected corner 被忽视的角落,死角
- quiet corner 安静的角落
- right corner 右角
- sharp corner 急转弯
- tight corner 窘境,困境
- top left-hand corner 左上角
- around the corner 在拐角处,在近处,即将来到
- at the corner 街口
- in the corner 在拐角上
- on the corner 在拐角上
- corners of one's lips 嘴角
- far corners of the country 该国的边远地区
- all corners of the earth 世界各地
- corner of the room 房间的角
- corner the thief 堵住小偷
- corner the witness 为难证人
- corner wheat 囤积小麦
- corner fast 快速转弯
- corner well 转弯很稳
- corner beautifully (车)转弯灵活
- corner finally 最终无路可逃
- corner politically 政治上陷入困境
- corner safely 安全转弯
- corner in 在…难住
- corner in commodities 囤积商品
- corner sb with 反驳某人
- corner with stone 用石头砌成
相关词汇
- angle 角度
- place 地方
- bend 弯曲
- turn 翻转
- crook 钩
- area 面积
- spot 地点
- nook 角落
- trap 圈套
- hole 洞
- impasse 僵局
- cul-de-sac 死路
- bind 捆绑
- jam 果酱
- pickle 腌汁
- squeeze 挤压
- stalemate 僵局
- region 地区
- edge 边缘
- margin 边缘
- monopoly 垄断
- part 部分
- section 部分
- district 地区
- brink 边缘
- quarter 四分之一
- hem 褶边
- rim 边
- brim 边
- verge 接近
- periphery 周边
- border 边界
- brow 前额
- niche 壁龛
- tree 树
- perimeter 周长
- convergence 收敛
- convergency 会合
- meeting 会议
- junction 连接
- intersection 交集
- juncture 时刻
- crossroads 交叉路口
- turning 旋转
- curve 曲线
- catch 赶上
- pin down 确定
- surround 包围
- tight spot 紧要关头
- confront 对抗
- restrict 限制
- detain 扣留
- waylay 伏击
- accost 搭话
- crossing 人行横道
- dead end 到达尽头
- end 结束
- tight 紧的
- dead 死的
- bring to bay 围困(穷追
- corner 角落
- private 私人的
- to 对于
- street corner 街角
- secret 秘密
- recess 休息
- turning point 转折点
- quoin 隅角
- recession 后退
- box 盒子
- oneself 自己
- on 在 ... 之上
- keep 保持
- all 所有的
- the 那
- market 市场
- a 英语字母表的第一个字母...
- bring 带来
- into 到 ... 里
- bay 海湾
- back 后面
- push 推