英语单词 | queue |
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英美音标 | 英 [kjuː] 美 [kjuː] |
中文释义 | n.长队;行列;辫子 v.排队 |
英语例句 | (1) People had to stand in a queue for hours to buy a ticket. (2) At the head of the queue was an old woman. (3) We queued up for the bus. (4) People are queuing to buy tickets. |
中文例句 | (1) 人们买票得排几小时的队。 (2) 在队列的前面有一个老妇人。 (3) 我们排队等公共汽车。 (4) 人们正排队买票。 |
vocabulary简明 | A queue is a line of things, usually people. If you go to the store on a big sale day, there will probably be a long queue at the check-out. |
vocabulary扩展 | Queue comes from the Latin cauda, for tail. Outside the United States it means a line of people or vehicles waiting their turn, so if your English friend talks about queuing up for the movies, that means getting in line for a ticket. We also use it in computing to mean an order of messages to be sent. In a big office, you send documents to the printer queue, and they're printed in the order they are sent. |
柯林斯解释 | Queueing can also be used as the continuous form. 进行式亦可用queueing 。 1 [N-COUNT 可数名词](等候的)一列人,一队车辆 A queue is a line of people or vehicles that are waiting for something. [oft N [mainly BRIT 主英]
in AM, usually use 美国英语通常用 line 2 [N-COUNT 可数名词](为得到某机会而等待的)长列,长队 If you say there is a queue of people who want to do or have something, you mean that a lot of people are waiting for an opportunity to do it or have it. [usu sing] [mainly BRIT 主英]
in AM, usually use 美国英语通常用 line 3 [VERB 动词]排队(等候) When people queue, they stand in a line waiting for something. [V] [V [V P] [V P [mainly BRIT 主英]
in AM, usually use 美国英语通常用 line up 4 [N-COUNT 可数名词]队列(指等待计算机处理的任务列表) A queue is a list of computer tasks which will be done in order. [COMPUTING 计算机]
5 [VERB 动词]使(待处理任务)成队列 To queue a number of computer tasks means to arrange them to be done in order. [COMPUTING 计算机]
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