英语单词 | bottleneck |
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英美音标 | 英 ['bɒtlnek] 美 ['bɑːtlnek] |
中文释义 | n.瓶颈 v.阻塞;妨碍 adj.狭窄的 |
英语例句 | (1) TV talk show has entered a bottleneck period, gradually chug. |
中文例句 | (1) 目前电视谈话节目已经进入了一个瓶颈期,问题逐渐彰显。 |
vocabulary简明 | A bottleneck is a type of traffic jam, when cars get stuck or slowed down in a narrow part of the roadway. You might leave work two hours later than usual to avoid a bottleneck. |
vocabulary扩展 | Anything that gets stalled in a narrow area, whether it's auto traffic or pedestrians, can be called a bottleneck. Information can also get stuck in a kind of bottleneck, if the system itself creates a delay. The term comes from the shape of an actual bottleneck, or the narrow neck or mouth of a bottle. |
柯林斯解释 | 1 [N-COUNT 可数名词]瓶颈路段;狭窄路段;交通拥堵地段 A bottleneck is a place where a road becomes narrow or where it meets another road so that the traffic slows down or stops, often causing traffic jams. 2 [N-COUNT 可数名词](阻碍进展的)瓶颈,障碍 A bottleneck is a situation that stops a process or activity from progressing.
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