單詞
turn-off
['t?:n,?f]
基本信息
- n. 岔路；[電] 斷開
詞態變化
復數:?turn-offs;
英文詞源
- turn-off (n.)
- "something that dampens one's spirits" recorded by 1971 (said to have been in use since 1968), from verbal phrase turn off "stop the flow of" (1850), from turn (v.) + off (adv.). Turn-off (n.) as "place where one road diverges from another" is from 1881.
雙語例句
- 1. For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?
- 我們活著是為了什么？不就是給鄰居當笑柄，再反過來笑他們。
來自《傲慢與偏見》
- 2. He said they should turn their fire on the Conservative Party instead.
- 他說他們應該掉轉槍口，向保守黨開火。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. Today I might hesitate to turn in a burglar.
- 現在讓我把入室竊賊送交警方，我可能會有所顧慮。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. Sometimes things don't turn out the way we think they're going to.
- 有時事情并不像我們認為的那樣發展。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. The river widens considerably as it begins to turn east.
- 河流轉向東流時河道大幅度變寬。
來自柯林斯例句
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