quartering
n. 四等分,军营或其他住所的分配
adj. 从斜后侧方向吹来的
A quarter is one of four equal parts of something.
A quarter of the residents are over 55 years old...
1/4的居民年龄在55岁以上。
I've got to go in a quarter of an hour...
一刻钟以后我就得走了。
A quarter is a fixed period of three months. Companies often divide their financial year into four quarters.
The group said results for the third quarter are due on October 29.
该集团表示第三季度的结果将于10月29日公布。
When you are telling the time, you use quarter to talk about the fifteen minutes before or after an hour. For example, 8.15 is quarter past eight, and 8.45 is quarter to nine. In American English, you can also say that 8.15 is a quarter after eight and 8.45 is a quarter of nine.
It was a quarter to six...
当时是6点差一刻。
See you about quarter to nine...
8点45分左右再见。
If you quarter something such as a fruit or a vegetable, you cut it into four roughly equal parts.
Chop the mushrooms and quarter the tomatoes.
把蘑菇切成丁,再把西红柿切成四瓣。
If the number or size of something is quartered, it is reduced to about a quarter of its previous number or size.
The doses I suggested for adults could be halved or quartered.
我之前建议成人服用的剂量可以降到1/2或者1/4。
A quarter is an American or Canadian coin that is worth 25 cents.
I dropped a quarter into the slot of the pay phone.
我向付费电话的投币孔里投了一枚25分硬币。
A particular quarter of a town is a part of the town where a particular group of people traditionally live or work.
Look for hotels in the French Quarter.
在法国人居住区寻找旅馆。
To refer to a person or group you may not want to name, you can talk about the reactions or actions from a particular quarter .
Help came from an unexpected quarter...
援助来自于一个意想不到的团体。
There are fears in some quarters that the republic would have little chance of surviving on its own.
某些人士担心共和国独立支撑下去的希望很渺茫。
The rooms provided for soldiers, sailors, or servants to live in are called their quarters .
Mckinnon went down from deck to the officers' quarters.
麦金农走下甲板,来到军官们的住处。
If people are quartered somewhere, they are provided with accommodation for a short time, usually while they are working away from home.
Our soldiers are quartered in Peredelkino.
我们的士兵在佩列杰利基诺扎营。
If you do something at close quarters, you do it very near to a particular person or thing.
You can watch aircraft take off or land at close quarters...
你可以近距离观察飞机的起降。
If you say that someone was given no quarter, you mean that they were not treated kindly by someone who had power or control over them.
This is not war as you learned it. It is brutal work, with no quarter given.
这并不是你所了解的战争。它残酷无情,对人没有半点怜悯。
1. a coat of arms that occupies one quarter of an escutcheon; combining four coats of arms on one shield usually represented intermarriages
2. living accommodations (especially those assigned to military personnel)
3. dividing into four equal parts
The bombers had conducted a 300 - mile search, quartering and requartering the area.
轰炸机在那地区上空一次又一次地来回执行三百英里搜索.
He swam quartering upstream, but still was swept downward rather faster than he had expected.
他向上游游去, 可是河水老是要把他往下游冲,流速比他想象的要快得多.
They were not even quartering on the scent.
它们竟然不用到处来回搜索这臭迹.
When he had pulled a mile above the village, he started quartering stoutly to his work.
他划离了村子有一英哩时, 调转船头,全力以赴,冲着对岸径直划过去.