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rectangle n.长方形；矩形 (1) 长方形开始流行了。(2) 他将报纸折成一个整整齐齐的长方形。(3) 一个矩形有四个直角。(4) 他在黑板上画了个矩形。 The rect in rectangle comes from the Latin rectus, which means "right" or "straight." Because of its right angles, a rectangle has straight sides. Another word with the same root is rectitude, which means moral uprightness. A morally upright person is someone who does the right thing, but doing the right thing doesn't make you a square — or a rectangle.

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英 ['rektæŋɡl] 美 ['rektæŋɡl] (1) Rectangle is coming into fashion.(2) He folded his newspaper into a neat rectangle.(3) A rectangle has four right angles.(4) He drew a rectangle on the blackboard. A rectangle is any shape with four sides and four right angles. All squares are rectangles but not all rectangles are squares (all the sides in a square have to be the same length). 1[N-COUNT 可数名词]长方形；矩形 A rectangle is a four-sided shape whose corners are all ninety degree angles. Each side of a rectangle is the same length as the one opposite to it.

英语单词	rectangle
英美音标	英 ['rektæŋɡl] 美 ['rektæŋɡl]
中文释义	n.长方形；矩形
英语例句	(1) Rectangle is coming into fashion. (2) He folded his newspaper into a neat rectangle. (3) A rectangle has four right angles. (4) He drew a rectangle on the blackboard.
中文例句	(1) 长方形开始流行了。 (2) 他将报纸折成一个整整齐齐的长方形。 (3) 一个矩形有四个直角。 (4) 他在黑板上画了个矩形。
vocabulary简明	A rectangle is any shape with four sides and four right angles. All squares are rectangles but not all rectangles are squares (all the sides in a square have to be the same length).
vocabulary扩展	The rect in rectangle comes from the Latin rectus, which means "right" or "straight." Because of its right angles, a rectangle has straight sides. Another word with the same root is rectitude, which means moral uprightness. A morally upright person is someone who does the right thing, but doing the right thing doesn't make you a square — or a rectangle.
柯林斯解释	1 [N-COUNT 可数名词]长方形；矩形 A rectangle is a four-sided shape whose corners are all ninety degree angles. Each side of a rectangle is the same length as the one opposite to it.

Rectangle Angles Shape Sides Squares Means 英 Rektæŋɡl] 美