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Jam Med   [V N Verb 动词 Traffic People

英语单词 jam
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
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[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]
  • ...home-made jam.

    自制果酱

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]
  • He picked his cap up off the ground and jammed it on his head...

    他从地上捡起帽子,猛地扣到头上。

  • Pete jammed his hands into his pockets.

    皮特使劲把手插进口袋里。

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[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]
  [be V-ed adj]
  [V-ed]
  [Also V n adj]
  • The second time he fired his gun jammed...

    他开第二枪时枪卡壳了。

  • A rope jammed the boat's propeller...

    一根绳子卡住了船的螺旋桨。

  • Cracks appeared in the wall and a door jammed shut...

    墙上出现了裂缝,一扇门卡住打不开了。

  • The intake valve was jammed open...

    进气阀卡住了,关不上。

  • Every few minutes the motor cut out as the machinery became jammed.

    机器老是卡住,马达隔不了几分钟就突然熄火。

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]
  • Hundreds of departing motorists jammed the roads.

    数百名打算驾车离开的司机堵住了道路。

Jam
is also a noun.
  • Trucks sat in a jam for ten hours waiting to cross the bridge.

    等待过桥的卡车堵了10个小时。

jammed
  • Nearby roads and the dirt track to the beach were jammed with cars.

    附近通往海滩的公路和土路全都堵满了汽车。

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 into n]
  • Hundreds of people jammed the boardwalk to watch...

    数百人挤在木板人行道上观看。

  • They jammed into buses provided by the Red Cross and headed for safety.

    他们挤上红十字会派来的巴士前往安全的地方。

jammed
  • The stadium was jammed and they had to turn away hundreds of disappointed fans.

    体育场里观众爆满,他们不得不将几百名失望的球迷拒之门外。

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]
  • They will try to jam the transmissions electronically.

    他们会试图用电子信号对发射进行干扰。

Jamming
  • The plane is used for electronic jamming and radar detection.

    这架飞机用于进行电子干扰和雷达探测。

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]
  • Hundreds of callers jammed the BBC switchboard for more than an hour...

    在一个多小时内,成百上千的来电使得英国广播公司的总机应接不暇。

  • The telephone exchange has been jammed all day with people wanting to buy season tickets.

    很多人想买季票,电话总机一天到晚忙个不停。

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[N-SING 单数名词]陷入困境 If someone is in a jam, they are in a very difficult situation.
  [in N]
  [INFORMAL 非正式]
  • They were in a real jam, Bob thought glumly.

    他们确实遇上麻烦了,鲍勃闷闷不乐地想。

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]
  • He was jamming with his saxophone.

    他在即兴吹奏萨克斯管。

Jam
is also a noun.
  • ...a free-form jazz jam.

    随性的爵士乐即兴演出

  • ...a jam session.

    即兴演奏环节

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See also:
traffic jam

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