corner n. 1.(桌等的)角,棱,隅。 2.天涯海角,僻遠地方;偏僻處,角落。 3.(街道)拐角,壁角;【數學】隅角;邊緣。 4.困境,絕境。 5.【商業】囤積居奇;【棒球】(本壘的)棱角〔投球員方面〕;(足球)踢角球。 meet a friend at the corner of a street 在馬路拐角地方遇見一位朋友。 a tight corner困境。 from every corner of the earth 由世界各地。 around the corner =〔英國〕 round the corner. cut corners 〔美國〕抄近路;節約(cut corners on production costs 節約生產費用)。 cut off a corner 抄近路。 do in a corner 秘密干。 drive into a corner 把…逼入死地,追究。 establish [make] a corner in (wheat) 壟斷[囤積](小麥)。 four corners 四隅;十字路口(the four corners of the earth 世界各處。 within the four corners of a document 文件的范圍)。 keep a corner 保住一角,占據一角。 on the corner 〔口語〕失業。 put [stand] (a child) in the corner (罰小孩)立壁角。 out of the corner of one's eyes 斜著眼睛偷(看)。 rough corners 粗魯。 round the corner 〔英國〕在拐角處;在附近。 the Corner 〔俚語〕倫敦 Tattersall's 馬市場和賽馬場。 turn the corner 拐過街角;(疾病等)有轉機;脫險。 vt. 1.使有棱[角];收在[放在]角內;角相接;轉角,拐彎。 2.(把)逼入絕境,緊逼,使無路可走。 3.壟斷,囤積居奇。 corner the market 壟斷市場。 vi. 1.位于(拐)角上 (on)。 2.形成一個角。 3.壟斷,囤積 (in)。 adj. 1.在拐角處的;適于拐角地方的。 2.(美式足球)翼衛的。 adj. -ed 有…角的。
As he is dreaming of the things he would do to possess her , she stops him at a street corner and asks if he would like to come upstairs with her 正當他夢想著怎樣才能得到這個女人的時候,她卻在一個街角留住了他,問他是不是愿意上樓到她家里去。
He lived in an out - of - the - way nook of the townlet , and in trying to find her course thither her eyes fell upon mr d urberville standing at a street corner 那個商人住在這個小鎮的偏僻角落里,她在尋路到商人屋子那兒去的時候,眼睛看見了站在街角處的德貝維爾先生。
At last , swooping at a street corner by a fountain , one of its wheels came to a sickening little jolt , and there was a loud cry from a number of voices , and the horses reared and plunged 最后,當它在一道泉水邊的街角急轉彎時,一個輪子令人惡心地抖了一下,幾條喉嚨同時發出了一聲大叫,幾匹馬前腿凌空一騰落下,隨即后臀一翹停下了。