英语单词 | abut |
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英美音标 | 英 [ə'bʌt] 美 [ə'bʌt] |
中文释义 | v.邻接;毗连 |
英语例句 | (1) His land abuts on mine. (2) Can't. I have to go and see a man abut a horse, Ask you mother to listen to you. |
中文例句 | (1) 他的土地和我的土地相毗连。 (2) 我不能,我有点事得出去,请你妈妈听你弹吧。 |
vocabulary简明 | When something borders something else, it is said to abut it. The term is often used in real estate to refer to a lot line. Wouldn’t it be nice to have your back yard abut a forest preserve or park? |
vocabulary扩展 | The Old French word but meant "end" — think of "butt" for a crude way to remember that! — and it was joined to a-, from the Latin ad- "near to." The result was abuter, which meant "to touch at an end." The word eventually became abouter, meaning "to join at the ends, or border on." The idea of abut suggesting a common boundary comes from the late Middle English, and today we use the word when anything touches something else. |
柯林斯解释 | 1 [VERB 动词]邻接;毗连;紧靠 When land or a building abuts something or abuts on something, it is next to it. [V [V n] [FORMAL 正式]
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