corners

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◎ 单词释义

n.角落;转角;困境

v.将 ... 逼入困境;转弯;垄断

adj.位于角落的

过去式: cornered 过去分词: cornered 现在分词: cornering 第三人称单数: corners

n.(名词)

    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

    v.(动词)

      使陷于绝境,逼入困境,使走投无路,把…难住

      使有棱角

      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

      n.(名词)

        [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

        v.(动词)

          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

          Noun:

            a place off to the side of an area;

            "he tripled to the rightfield corner"
            "the southeastern corner of the Mediterranean"

            the point where two lines meet or intersect;

            "the corners of a rectangle"

            an interior angle formed by two meeting walls;

            "a piano was in one corner of the room"

            the intersection of two streets;

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

            the point where three areas or surfaces meet or intersect;

            "the corners of a cube"

            a small concavity

            a temporary monopoly on a kind of commercial trade;

            "a corner on the silver market"

            a predicament from which a skillful or graceful escape is impossible;

            "his lying got him into a tight corner"

            a projecting part where two sides or edges meet;

            "he knocked off the corners"

            a remote area;

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

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

            Verb:

              gain control over;

              "corner the gold market"

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

              turn a corner;

              "the car corners"

              n.(名词)

              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”。

              v.(动词)

              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。

              ☆ 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。

              以上就是本站详细整理的词语corners是什么意思的翻译解释,供大家参考一下。

corners的用法及例句:

用作名词(n.)

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。

用作动词(v.)

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。

用作名词 (n.)

动词+~

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

形容词+~

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

名词+~

street corner街角

介词+~

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

~+介词

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

用作动词 (v.)

~+名词

corner the thief堵住小偷corner the witness为难证人corner wheat囤积小麦

~+副词

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

~+介词

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

The corners of the mouth.