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英[ˈkɔːnə(r)]

美[ˈkɔːrnər]

高中 CET4 CET6

基本释义

n.角，角落; 转弯处; 角球
v.转弯; 垄断; 将…逼入死角; 截住…与其说话

词性变化

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

实用例句

the four corners of a square

正方形的四个角

牛津词典

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

把你的地址写在信的右上角。

牛津词典

I hit my knee on the corner of the table.

我的膝盖撞到桌子角上了。

牛津词典

A smile lifted the corner of his mouth.

他的嘴角挂着微笑。

牛津词典

a speck of dirt in the corner of her eye

她眼角里的一点灰尘

牛津词典

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...

政府在利率问题上陷入了困境。

Young people came from the four corners of the nation.

全国各地的年轻人都来到这里。

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

为了找到最好的配件，他们寻遍了每个地方。

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

慢慢来，不要图省事，要严格按照说明去做。

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.

她用眼角的余光瞥见一辆车停了下来。

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

她会整天在街角附近游荡。

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

不可能每个街角都派驻警察。

...a sharp corner...

急转弯

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

这条路上急转弯、坡道和死拐角一个接一个。

Buyers came from all corners of the world...

买主来自世界各地。

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

该部落一直居住在柬埔寨的丛林深处。

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

一辆摩托警车跟在他的车后追了12英里，最后在快到罗马时将他截住。

He was still sitting huddled like a cornered animal.

他还像一头困兽一样蜷缩着坐在那儿。

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

戈兰设法截住了那位兼任制片人的年轻导演，对其进行了采访。

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

这家餐馆垄断了马德里的特色肉菜饭市场。

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

苏黎世的富足最初来自于14世纪对丝绸贸易的高度垄断。

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

彼得转弯太急，换挡不利索，车开得一颠一颠的。

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

财政大臣说经济即将复苏。

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

球飞进了球网的远角。

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

他看见杂志的一角从毯子下露了出来。

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

在左上角写上“航空邮递”。

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

起居室角落里的牌桌

真题例句

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

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

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月阅读原文

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

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

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月阅读原文

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月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

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

2016年12月四级真题（第二套）听力 Section B

Budget reduction in around the corner.

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

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

2017年高考英语浙江卷（11月）听力原文

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年高考英语四川卷阅读理解阅读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年高考英语浙江卷阅读理解阅读B 原文

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

2017年高考英语浙江卷（6月）语法填空原文

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

2015年高考英语上海卷阅读理解阅读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年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

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

2013年考研真题（英语二）完形填空 Section Ⅰ

英英释义

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