| vocabulary扩展 |
The key to a corner is that it leads in two directions: when you look at the corner of a room, you could hang a picture to the right or left of the corner, but not in the corner itself. A street corner usually has a street sign and sometimes a bus stop, too. A square table has four corners, but a round table doesn't have any corner. Notice how when you look straight at a corner, there's nowhere to go? That's why corner is also a verb. If you say, "I cornered him," it means you trapped him and gave him nowhere to turn. Whenever we don't see a lot of options, we feel cornered. |
| 柯林斯解释 |
1 [N-COUNT 可数名词]角 A corner is a point or an area where two or more edges, sides, or surfaces of something join. 2 [N-COUNT 可数名词]角;墙角;壁角 The corner of a room, box, or similar space is the area inside it where its edges or walls meet. ...a card table in the corner of the living room... 起居室角落里的牌桌 The ball hurtled into the far corner of the net... 球飞进了球网的远角。 Finally I spotted it, in a dark corner over by the piano. 最后我在钢琴旁的阴暗角落里发现了它。
3 [N-COUNT 可数名词](嘴)角;(眼)角 The corner of your mouth or eye is the side of it. 4 [N-COUNT 可数名词]街角;拐角 The corner of a street is the place where one of its sides ends as it joins another street. 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。 He waited until the man had turned a corner. 他一直等到那个男人拐过街角。
5 [N-COUNT 可数名词](道路的)转弯处 A corner is a bend in a road. 6 [N-COUNT 可数名词](遥远或难以到达的)角落,偏远处 If you talk about the corners of the world, a country, or some other place, you are referring to places that are far away or difficult to get to. 7 [N-COUNT 可数名词](足球、曲棍球等的)角球 In football, hockey, and some other sports, a corner is a free shot or kick taken from the corner of the pitch. 8 [VERB 动词]将…逼入死角;使走投无路 If you corner a person or animal, you force them into a place they cannot escape from. 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。
9 [VERB 动词]截住…与其说话 If you corner someone, you force them to speak to you when they have been trying to avoid you. 10 [VERB 动词]垄断 If a company or place corners an area of trade, they gain control over it so that no one else can have any success in that area. 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。
11 [VERB 动词]转弯;拐弯 If a car, or the person driving it, corners in a particular way, the car goes round bends in roads in this way. 12 [PHRASE 短语]即将发生 If you say that something is around the corner, you mean that it will happen very soon. In British English, you can also say that something is round the corner . 13 [PHRASE 短语]在附近;在近处 If you say that something is around the corner, you mean that it is very near. In British English, you can also say that something is round the corner . 14 [PHRASE 短语]图省事;走捷径 If you cut corners, you do something quickly by doing it in a less thorough way than you should. [V inflects] [disapproval] 15 [PHRASE 短语]天涯海角;世界各个角落 You can use expressions such as the four corners of the world to refer to places that are a long way from each other. 16 [PHRASE 短语]身处困境 If you are in a corner or in a tight corner, you are in a situation which is difficult to deal with and get out of. |