wire
n. 金屬絲; 電線; 鐵絲網
v. 給…佈線; 打電報; 電匯(款)
A wire is a long thin piece of metal that is used to fasten things or to carry electric current.
...fine copper wire.
細銅絲
...gadgets which detect electrical wires, pipes and timbers in walls.
探測牆內電線、管道和木材的小裝置
A wire is a cable which carries power or signals from one place to another.
I ripped out the telephone wire that ran through to his office.
我把通到他辦公室的電話線拔掉了。
...the voltage of the overhead wires.
頭頂上方電線的電壓
If you wire something such as a building or piece of equipment, you put wires inside it so that electricity or signals can pass into or through it.
...learning to wire and plumb the house herself...
她學著自己給房子佈線走管
Lamps should be safely wired...
電燈佈線要安全穩妥。
A wire is the same as a telegram .
If you wire a person, you send them a telegram.
He wired the chairman immediately...
他馬上給主席發了電報。
They wired back a long list of books...
他們用電報發回了一長串書單。
If you wire an amount of money to a person or place, you tell a bank to send it to the person or place using a telegram message.
I'm wiring you some money...
我要給你匯些錢。
They arranged to wire the money from the United States...
他們安排從美國匯款。
If something goes to the wire, it continues until the last possible moment.
Negotiators again worked right down to the wire to reach an agreement.
談判人員又是直到最後時刻才達成了協議。
1. ligament made of metal and used to fasten things or make cages or fences etc
2. a metal conductor that carries electricity over a distance
3. the finishing line on a racetrack
4. a message transmitted by telegraph
1. provide with electrical circuits;
2. send cables, wires, or telegrams
3. fasten with wire;
4. string on a wire;
5. equip for use with electricity;
string, rope, line, cord, thread, wire
這些名詞均含"線"之意。
by wire
用電報,透過電報
down to the wire
(非正式)到最後一刻;直至最後;最終
get one's wires crossed
wire-to-wire
(北美,非正式)從起點到終點;自始至終
down to the wire【非正式用語】
堅持到最後:如賽跑或比賽中到最後一刻,最終
under the wire
&I{【體育運動】} 在終點線處
【非正式用語】 及時;在最後一刻
They will wire the new house for electricity.
他們將給新房屋安裝電線.
Don't let the wire rub up against the pipe.
別讓電線碰到管子上.
Let's wire in and finish the job.
讓我們加把勁,把工作做完吧.
He disconnected the wire from the clock.
他把時鐘的電源線斷開了.
Join those two ends of wire and you'll make a circuit.
把那兩個導線連線起來即構成一個電路.