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[N-COUNT 可数名词]管子;管;管状物 A
tube is a long hollow object that is usually round, like a pipe.
He is fed by a tube that enters his nose.
他靠鼻饲管进食。
...a cardboard tube.
纸卷芯
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[N-COUNT 可数名词](内盛膏状物等的)管状容器 A
tube of something such as paste is a long, thin container which you squeeze in order to force the paste out.
...a tube of toothpaste.
一管牙膏
...a small tube of moisturizer.
一小管保湿液
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[N-COUNT 可数名词]管状器官;管;道 Some long, thin, hollow parts in your body are referred to as
tubes .
The lungs are in fact constructed of thousands of tiny tubes.
肺实际上由上千条细微的气管构成。
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[N-SING 单数名词](伦敦的)地铁 The tube is the underground railway system in London.
I took the tube then the train and came straight here...
我先乘地铁,然后坐火车直奔这里。
He travelled by tube.
他乘地铁旅行。
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[N-COUNT 可数名词]电视机 You can refer to the television as
the tube .
[the N]
[AM 美]
[INFORMAL 非正式]
The only baseball he saw was on the tube.
他看过的唯一一场棒球赛是在电视上看的。
in BRIT, use 英国英语用 the box
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[PHRASE 短语](公司、经济、机构)完全垮掉,彻底崩溃,告吹 a business, economy, or institution
goes down the tubes or
goes down the tube, it fails or collapses completely.
[V inflects]
[mainly AM 主美]
[INFORMAL 非正式]
The country was going down the tubes economically...
该国经济正在彻底崩溃。
When I was dieting, that was when my social life started going down the tube.
我节食的时候,也就切断了一切社交生活。
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See also:bronchial tube
;
cathode-ray tube
;
fallopian tube
;
inner tube
;
test tube
;