pits的中文翻譯是什麼意思

N-COUNT煤礦；礦井

A pit is a coal mine.

• It was a better community then when all the pits were working.

  所有的煤礦都在開工的那個時候，這個社羣的情況要更好一些。

N-COUNT（地面的）坑，窪；（地下的）穴，洞

A pit is a large hole that is dug in the ground.

• Eric lost his footing and began to slide into the pit.

  埃裡克一腳踩空，開始往坑裡滑。

N-COUNT（挖出沙礫或黏土後留下的）坑，窯

A gravel pit or clay pit is a very large hole that is left where gravel or clay has been dug from the ground.

• This area of former farmland was worked as a gravel pit until 1964.

  這塊過去曾是農田的地1964年前一直被用作沙礫坑。

VERB使相鬥；使對立；使競爭

If two opposing things or people are pitted against one another, they are in conflict.

• You will be pitted against people who are every bit as good as you are...

  你將和與你勢均力敵的對手展開競爭。

• This was one man pitted against the universe.

  這是一個人挑戰整個宇宙。

N-PLURAL（賽車道旁的）檢修加油站

In motor racing, the pits are the areas at the side of the track where drivers stop to get more fuel and to repair their cars during races.

• He moved quickly into the pits and climbed rapidly out of the car.

  他迅速進入檢修加油站，飛快地爬出賽車。

N-PLURAL極糟糕的情況

If you describe something as the pits, you mean that it is extremely bad.

• Mary Ann asked him how dinner had been. 'The pits,' he replied.

  瑪麗·安問他晚餐怎麼樣，他回答說：“糟透了。”

N-COUNT（水果或蔬菜的）核

A pit is the stone of a fruit or vegetable.

PHRASE與…鬥智

If you pit your wits against someone, you compete with them in a test of knowledge or intelligence.

• I'd like to pit my wits against the best.

  我希望同最優秀的對手鬥智。

PHRASE胸口；心窩

If you have a feeling in the pit of your stomach, you have a tight or sick feeling in your stomach, usually because you are afraid or anxious.

• I had a funny feeling in the pit of my stomach.

  我心頭有種怪怪的感覺。