Terminal Illness Computer End Terminally Piece Noun [Usu
Terminal can be an adjective meaning "fatal, incurable, late-stage" (for illnesses) or "terminally ill, dying" (for patients). It can also be a noun referring to a "terminal" (for vehicles, passengers, or goods), a "terminal or terminal machine" (for computers), or an "end, terminal, or connection point" (for circuits).
[ADJ 形容词](疾病)致命的，不治的，晚期的 A terminal illness or disease causes death, often slowly, and cannot be cured.
[usu ADJ n]
...terminal cancer.
晚期癌症
...his illness was terminal.
他的病没治了。
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The patient is terminally ill.
那个病人患了不治之症。
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[ADJ 形容词](病人)患绝症的，晚期的，病危的 A terminal patient is dying of a terminal illness or disease.
[usu ADJ n]
They have started a hospice for terminal patients.
他们为身患绝症的病人开办了一个安养所。
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[N-COUNT 可数名词](车辆、乘客、货物的)集散地，起点站，终点站 A terminal is a place where vehicles, passengers, or goods begin or end a journey.
[usu supp N]
Plans are underway for a fifth terminal at Heathrow airport.
正在制定在希思罗机场修建第 5 航站楼的计划。
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[N-COUNT 可数名词]终端；终端机 A computer terminal is a piece of equipment consisting of a keyboard and a screen that is used for putting information into a computer or getting information from it.
[COMPUTING 计算机]
Carl sits at a computer terminal 40 hours a week.
卡尔每周在电脑终端前坐 40 个小时。
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[N-COUNT 可数名词](电路的)端头，端子，线接头 On a piece of electrical equipment, a terminal is one of the points where electricity enters or leaves it.
...the positive terminal of the battery.
电池的阳极
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ter·min·alAWL/ˈtɜːmɪnl; NAmEˈtɜːrmɪnl/
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terminalterminalsnoun1a building or set of buildings at an airport where air passengers arrive and leave 航空站；航空终点站◆A second terminal was opened in 2008.第二个航空站是 2008 年开始运营的。2a place, building or set of buildings where journeys by train, bus or boat begin or end （火车、公共汽车或船的）终点站◆a railway/bus/ferry terminal铁路╱公共汽车终点站；渡船码头3( computing 计) a piece of equipment, usually consisting of a keyboard and a screen that joins the user to a central computer system 终端；终端机4( technical 术语) a point at which connections can be made in an electric circuit（电路的）端子，线接头◆a positive/negative terminal正极╱负极端子adjective1(of an illness or a disease 疾病)that cannot be cured and will lead to death, often slowly 晚期的；不治的；致命的◆He has terminal lung cancer.他患有晚期肺癌。◆The illness is usually terminal.这种病通常为不治之症。◆( figurative) She's suffering from terminal (= very great)boredom. 她现在感到烦得要死。2(of a person 人)suffering from an illness that cannot be cured and will lead to death 病危的；临终的；晚期的◆a terminal patient晚期病人3certain to get worse and come to an end 不可救药的；无可挽回的◆The industry is in terminal decline.这个行业每况愈下，一蹶不振。4[only before noun ]( formalortechnical 术语) at the end of sth 末端的；末梢的◆a terminal branch of a tree树顶枝条◆terminal examinations (= at the end of a course, etc.)期终考试▶ter·min·al·ly/ˈtɜːmɪnəli; NAmEˈtɜːrmɪnəli/adverb◆a hospice for the terminally ill临终病人安养所◆a terminally dull film索然寡味的影片ter·min·al/ˈtɜːmɪnl; NAmEˈtɜːrmɪnl/ter·min·al·ly/ˈtɜːmɪnəli; NAmEˈtɜːrmɪnəli/
1a big building where people wait to get onto planes, buses, or ships, or where goods are loaded: the airport’s passenger terminalferry/bus terminal2a piece of computer equipment consisting of at least a keyboard and a screen, that you use for putting in or taking out information from a large computer3one of the points at which you can connect wires in an electrical circuitpositive/negative terminal
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terminal2 adjective
terminalter‧mi‧nal2 ●●○AWL adjective
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1a terminal illness cannot be cured, and causes death → fatal: terminal cancer2(in) terminal decline British English in a state of becoming worse and worse and never getting better: The once great industry is now in terminal decline.—terminally adverb: terminally ill patients