英语单词 | jam |
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英美音标 | 英 [dʒæm] 美 [dʒæm] |
中文释义 | n.果酱 n.堵塞;拥挤;困境 v.塞满;挤;卡住;夹伤;干扰;猛压 |
英语例句 | (1) He spread some apple jam on the bread. (2) I reached across the table for the jam. (3) Traffic jams in the town happen everyday. (4) We were delayed in a traffic jam. (5) They detoured around the traffic jam by heading south. (6) How am I going to get out of this jam? (7) The holiday traffic is jamming the roads. (8) The key turned halfway and then jammed. (9) He got his finger jammed in the door. (10) The government tried to jam the guerrillas' telecommunication. (11) I had to jam an the brakes sharply to avoid hitting two children |
中文例句 | (1) 他在面包上涂上苹果酱。 (2) 我伸手到桌子那端去拿果酱。 (3) 城里的交通天天堵塞。 (4) 我们因交通拥挤而迟到了。 (5) 他们朝南绕过交通拥挤的人群。 (6) 我怎样才能摆脱困境呢? (7) 假日的车辆堵塞了交通。 (8) 钥匙转了一半就卡住了。 (9) 他的手指被门夹伤了。 (10) 政府设法干扰游击队的无线电通讯。 (11) 我必须猛地踩刹车,以免撞上两上孩子。 |
vocabulary简明 | To jam is to squeeze something tightly into a space, the way your friends might jam themselves into your tiny car. |
vocabulary扩展 | You might have to jam an extra row of books onto your bookshelf when you run out of room. Another way to jam is to get stuck, and a jam can be a dense bunch of stuck people or things, like a traffic jam. If you play a musical instrument, you might jam, or casually improvise, with other musicians. And of course the jam you spread on your toast is a delicious, sweet fruit preserve. |
柯林斯解释 | 1 [N-MASS 物质名词]果酱 Jam is a thick sweet food that is made by cooking fruit with a large amount of sugar, and that is usually spread on bread. [mainly BRIT 主英]
in AM, usually use 美国英语通常用jelly 2 [VERB 动词]硬推;硬塞;使劲放 If you jam something somewhere, you push or put it there roughly. [V n prep]
3 [V-ERG 及物/不及物动词](机器)卡住;使卡住;(使)不能运转 If something such as a part of a machine jams, or if something jams it, the part becomes fixed in position and is unable to move freely or work properly. [V] [V n] [V adj] [ [V-ed] [Also V n adj]
4 [VERB 动词](车辆)堵住,堵塞(道路) If vehicles jam a road, there are so many of them that they cannot move. [V n]
Jam is also a noun.
jammed
5 [VERB 动词](人)塞进,挤进 If a lot of people jam a place, or jam into a place, they are pressed tightly together so that they can hardly move. [V n] [V
jammed
6 [VERB 动词]干扰(无线电或电子信号) To jam a radio or electronic signal means to interfere with it and prevent it from being received or heard clearly. [V n]
Jamming
7 [VERB 动词]使(电话总机)应接不暇;使(电话线)过于繁忙 If callers are jamming telephone lines, there are so many callers that the people answering the telephones find it difficult to deal with them all. [V n] [V-ed]
8 [N-SING 单数名词]陷入困境 If someone is in a jam, they are in a very difficult situation. [ [INFORMAL 非正式]
9 [VERB 动词](爵士乐手或摇滚乐手)即兴演奏 When jazz or rock musicians are jamming, they are informally playing music that has not been written down or planned in advance. [V] [INFORMAL 非正式]
Jam is also a noun.
10 See also:traffic jam ; |
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