switches
n. 转轨器,道岔; 开关( switch的名词复数 ); 改变; (铁路的)转辙器; (电路的)闸
v. 转变,改变( switch的第三人称单数 ); 转换; 挥动(棍棒、鞭子等); 迅速转动
A switch is a small control for an electrical device which you use to turn the device on or off.
Leona put some detergent into the dishwasher, shut the door and pressed the switch.
利昂娜将一些清洁剂放入洗碗机,关上门后按了开始键。
...a light switch.
电灯开关
If you switch to something different, for example to a different system, task, or subject of conversation, you change to it from what you were doing or saying before.
Estonia is switching to a market economy...
爱沙尼亚正在向市场经济转轨。
The law would encourage companies to switch from coal to cleaner fuels...
该法律将鼓励企业转而使用比煤更加清洁的能源。
If you switch your attention from one thing to another or if your attention switches, you stop paying attention to the first thing and start paying attention to the second.
My mother's interest had switched to my health...
母亲转而关注起我的健康来。
As the era wore on, she switched her attention to films.
随着这个时代慢慢过去,她把目光投向了电影业。
If you switch two things, you replace one with the other.
In half an hour, they'd switched the tags on every cable...
半个小时内,他们就给每根电缆都换了标签。
The ballot boxes have been switched.
投票箱被人调换了。
I was confronted with an array of knobs, levers, and switches.
我面对的是一大堆旋钮、控制杆和开关。
This button switches the current on.
这个电钮接通电流.
If you buy a drier, look for one with a sensor which switches off when clothes are dry.
你若要买烘干机,找一台带感应器的,可以在衣服干的时候自动断电。
The switches close the contacts and complete the circuit.
这些开关可使接触器接通电流形成回路.
Most people have the kind that switches over to batteries in emergency.
大多数人都有在紧急情况下换用蓄电池的那种装置.