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Umbrella Protect Sun Group Rain Things Smaller People

英语单词 umbrella
英美音标 英 [ʌm'brelə] 美 [ʌm'brelə]
中文释义 n.伞;雨伞;庇护
英语例句 (1) The wind blew my umbrella inside out.
(2) You should take an umbrella just as a precaution.
(3) Can you identify your umbrella among this lot?
(4) She was holding up an umbrella.
(5) An umbrella will protect you from the rain.
(6) Those small states are under the umbrella of the super power.
中文例句 (1) 风把我的伞吹得翻过去了。
(2) 你该带把伞,有备无患。
(3) 你能在这些伞中认出你自己的伞吗?
(4) 她打着雨伞。
(5) 雨伞可以保护你不致雨淋。
(6) 那些小国在超级大国的庇护之下。
vocabulary简明 An umbrella is the gizmo used to protect yourself from rain or sun. An umbrella can also be something that groups similar things, like an umbrella organization that protects and serves many smaller organizations.
vocabulary扩展 An umbrella is that lightweight, collapsible cover that’s handy on a rainy day. People also use umbrellas to protect themselves from the sun. Since an umbrella covers people and things, umbrella is also a metaphor for something that brings unity. An umbrella agency brings together other smaller and related agencies. An umbrella term can be applied to many concepts. To bring things together in this way is to umbrella, as in “The merger umbrellas several companies.”
柯林斯解释
1
[N-COUNT 可数名词]伞;雨伞;阳伞 An umbrella is an object which you use to protect yourself from the rain or hot sun. It consists of a long stick with a folding frame covered in cloth.
  • Harry held an umbrella over Dawn.

    哈里为唐打着伞。

2
[N-SING 单数名词]综合团体;总称;统称 Umbrella is used to refer to a single group or description that includes a lot of different organizations or ideas.
  [usu N of n]
  • Does coincidence come under the umbrella of the paranormal?...

    巧合属于超自然现象吗?

  • Within the umbrella term 'dementia' there are many different kinds of disease.

    “痴呆”这一统称里包括多种不同的疾病。

  • ...Socialist International, an umbrella group comprising almost a hundred Social Democrat parties...

    社会党国际,一个包括近百个社会民主党的综合团体

3
[N-SING 单数名词]保护伞(指保护某个国家或群体的体制或协议) Umbrella is used to refer to a system or agreement which protects a country or group of people.
  [N of n]
  • The major powers have chosen to act under the moral umbrella of the United Nations...

    世界主要大国都选择在联合国的道义框架下行事。

  • Britain cannot avoid being under the US nuclear umbrella, whether it wants to or not.

    不管愿不愿意,英国都免不了要处于美国的核保护伞之下。

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