switch
n. (電路的)開關,閘,轉換器; 改變,轉變
v. 改變,轉變; 交換,調換; 調班
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.
利昂娜將一些清潔劑放入洗碗機,關上門後按了開始鍵。
...a light switch.
電燈開關
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...
愛沙尼亞正在向市場經濟轉軌。
The law would encourage companies to switch from coal to cleaner fuels...
該法律將鼓勵企業轉而使用比煤更加清潔的能源。
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...
母親轉而關注起我的健康來。
As the era wore on, she switched her attention to films.
隨著這個時代慢慢過去,她把目光投向了電影業。
If you switch two things, you replace one with the other.
In half an hour, they'd switched the tags on every cable...
半個小時內,他們就給每根電纜都換了標籤。
The ballot boxes have been switched.
投票箱被人調換了。
1. control consisting of a mechanical or electrical or electronic device for making or breaking or changing the connections in a circuit
2. an event in which one thing is substituted for another;
3. hairpiece consisting of a tress of false hair; used by women to give shape to a coiffure
4. railroad track having two movable rails and necessary connections; used to turn a train from one track to another or to store rolling stock
5. a flexible implement used as an instrument of punishment
6. a basketball maneuver; two defensive players shift assignments so that each guards the player usually guarded by the other
7. the act of changing one thing or position for another;
1. change over, change around, or switch over
2. exchange or give (something) in exchange for
3. lay aside, abandon, or leave for another;
4. make a shift in or exchange of;
5. cause to go on or to be engaged or set in operation;
6. flog with or as if with a flexible rod
7. reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)
switch something off
關上電器
switch something on
開啟電器
switch off 【非正式用語】
不再注意;失去興趣
Benjamin fumbled for the light switch.
本傑明手忙腳亂地找電燈開關.
Switch that fellow off!
別讓那個傢伙再講下去!
First you should switch the machine on.
你得先把機器開啟.
He decided to switch tactics.
他決定改變策略.
The heater is on a timer switch.
加熱器連在一個定時開關上.