corner的中文翻译是什么意思

N-COUNT角

A corner is a point or an area where two or more edges, sides, or surfaces of something join.

• He saw the corner of a magazine sticking out from under the blanket...

  他看见杂志的一角从毯子下露了出来。

• Write 'By Airmail' in the top left hand corner.

  在左上角写上“航空邮递”。

N-COUNT角;墙角;壁角

The corner of a room, box, or similar space is the area inside it where its edges or walls meet.

• ...a card table in the corner of the living room...

  起居室角落里的牌桌

• The ball hurtled into the far corner of the net...

  球飞进了球网的远角。

N-COUNT（嘴）角;（眼）角

The corner of your mouth or eye is the side of it.

• She flicked a crumb off the corner of her mouth...

  她擦掉嘴角的面包屑。

• Out of the corner of her eye she saw that a car had stopped.

  她用眼角的余光瞥见一辆车停了下来。

N-COUNT街角;拐角

The corner of a street is the place where one of its sides ends as it joins another street.

• She would spend the day hanging round street corners...

  她会整天在街角附近游荡。

• We can't have police officers on every corner...

  不可能每个街角都派驻警察。

N-COUNT(道路的)转弯处

A corner is a bend in a road.

• ...a sharp corner...

  急转弯

• The road is a succession of hairpin bends, hills, and blind corners.

  这条路上急转弯、坡道和死拐角一个接一个。

N-COUNT(遥远或难以到达的)角落，偏远处

If you talk about the corners of the world, a country, or some other place, you are referring to places that are far away or difficult to get to.

• Buyers came from all corners of the world...

  买主来自世界各地。

• The group has been living in a remote corner of the Cambodian jungle.

  该部落一直居住在柬埔寨的丛林深处。

N-COUNT(足球、曲棍球等的)角球

In football, hockey, and some other sports, a corner is a free shot or kick taken from the corner of the pitch.

VERB将…逼入死角；使走投无路

If you corner a person or animal, you force them into a place they cannot escape from.

• A police motorcycle chased his car twelve miles, and cornered him near Rome...

  一辆摩托警车跟在他的车后追了12英里，最后在快到罗马时将他截住。

• He was still sitting huddled like a cornered animal.

  他还像一头困兽一样蜷缩着坐在那儿。

VERB截住…与其说话

If you corner someone, you force them to speak to you when they have been trying to avoid you.

• Golan managed to corner the young producer-director for an interview.

  戈兰设法截住了那位兼任制片人的年轻导演，对其进行了采访。

VERB垄断

If a company or place corners an area of trade, they gain control over it so that no one else can have any success in that area.

• This restaurant has cornered the Madrid market for specialist paellas...

  这家餐馆垄断了马德里的特色肉菜饭市场。

• Zurich's affluence came initially from cornering a sizeable chunk of the 14th Century silk trade.

  苏黎世的富足最初来自于14世纪对丝绸贸易的高度垄断。

VERB转弯；拐弯

If a car, or the person driving it, corners in a particular way, the car goes round bends in roads in this way.

• Peter drove jerkily, cornering too fast and fumbling the gears.

  彼得转弯太急，换挡不利索，车开得一颠一颠的。

PHRASE即将发生

If you say that something is around the corner, you mean that it will happen very soon. In British English, you can also say that something is round the corner .

• The Chancellor of the Exchequer says that economic recovery is just around the corner.

  财政大臣说经济即将复苏。

PHRASE在附近;在近处

If you say that something is around the corner, you mean that it is very near. In British English, you can also say that something is round the corner .

• My new place is just around the corner.

  我的新家就在附近。

PHRASE图省事;走捷径

If you cut corners, you do something quickly by doing it in a less thorough way than you should.

• Take your time, don't cut corners and follow instructions to the letter.

  慢慢来，不要图省事，要严格按照说明去做。

PHRASE天涯海角;世界各个角落

You can use expressions such as the four corners of the world to refer to places that are a long way from each other.

• They've combed the four corners of the world for the best accessories...

  为了找到最好的配件，他们寻遍了每个地方。

• Young people came from the four corners of the nation.

  全国各地的年轻人都来到这里。

PHRASE身处困境

If you are in a corner or in a tight corner, you are in a situation which is difficult to deal with and get out of.

• The government is in a corner on interest rates...

  政府在利率问题上陷入了困境。

• He appears to have backed himself into a tight corner.

  他似乎已把自己逼入了困境。