一、详细释义:


n.


例句:

He saw the corner of a magazine sticking out from under the blanket.

他看见杂志的一角从毯子下露了出来。


例句:

The glass hit the corner of the table and broke on impact.

玻璃杯碰到桌子角上,撞了个粉碎。


例句:

I met her at an English [Corner] sometime ago.

我们是不久前在“英语角”的活动中认识的。


墙角,角落


例句:

The ball hurtled into the far corner of the net.

球飞进了球网的远角。


例句:

Winston sat in his usual corner, gazing into an empty glass.

温斯顿坐在他惯常坐的角落里,对着一只空杯子发呆。


街角,拐角


例句:

The wind was blowing round the street-corner.

风正吹过街角。


例句:

He waited until the man had turned a corner.

他一直等到那个男人拐过街角。


区域,地区


例句:

The group has been living in a remote corner of the Cambodian jungle.

该部落一直居住在柬埔寨的丛林深处。


例句:

Buyers came from all corners of the world.

买主来自世界各地。


转弯处


例句:

Remember to throttle down before you go round a sharp corner.

务必记住,急转弯前要减速。


例句:

There's a sharp corner.

发生了一个急转弯。


困境,窘境


例句:

He appears to have backed himself into a tight corner.

他似乎已把自己逼入了困境。


例句:

Washington has effectively boxed itself into an intellectual corner.

华盛顿也已经陷入了困境,怎么办呢?


角球


例句:

Let me take the corner kick.

让我来发角球吧。


例句:

The Newtown school team has a corner kick.

新城学校获得一个角球。


(嘴)角,(眼)角


例句:

The corner of a small catalog stung the corner of his mouth.

一本小册子的书角砸在他的嘴角上。


例句:

She flicked a crumb off the corner of her mouth.

她擦掉嘴角的面包屑。


v.

使陷入绝境,把…难住 [T]


例句:

The police finally cornered the thief.

警察最后把盗贼逼得走投无路。


例句:

This question cornered me.

这个问题把我难住了。


截住…与其说话 [T]


例句:

Golan managed to corner the young producer-director for an interview.

戈兰设法截住了那位兼任制片人的年轻导演,对其进行了采访。


囤积,垄断 [I,T]


例句:

Their firm has cornered the wheat market.

他们的公司垄断了小麦市场。


例句:

This restaurant has cornered the Madrid market for specialist paellas.

这家餐馆垄断了马德里的特色肉菜饭市场。


转弯,拐弯 [I]


例句:

Our new car corners beautifully.

我们的新车拐起弯来可真灵。


例句:

Peter drove jerkily, cornering too fast and fumbling the gears.

彼得转弯太急,换挡不利索,车开得一颠一颠的。


二、词义辨析:


angle,corner

这两个名词都有“角”之意。 angle几何学上的用词,指两条直线相交而成的角。也可引申指看问题的方面或角度。 corner多指物体的棱角或房间、街道的角落。


三、相关短语:


chimney corner

n. 炉角


corner kick

n. 角球


corner post

角柱


amen corner

教堂的右前部座位; (会议等场合)支持发言者的人的座位


corner man

流氓 n. 流氓


四、参考例句:


Let me take the corner kick.

让我来发角球吧。


The uncovered bucket in the corner stank.

角落里那只未盖盖子的桶散发着臭味。


He was slighted in the corner.

他被冷落在屋里的角落。


Round the corner came a milk van.

一辆牛奶车从拐角处转过来。


The corner of a small catalog stung the corner of his mouth.

一本小册子的书角砸在他的嘴角上。


The corner of a small catalog stung the corner of his mouth.

一本小册子的书角砸在他的嘴角上。


The bank around the corner was knocked over last night.

昨天夜里位于拐角的那家银行被抢了。


His heroic deeds were celebrated in every corner of India.

他的英勇事迹在印度各地广为传颂。


Facing the earthquake, we should turn the corner together!

面对地震,我们应该团结在一起度过难关!


I heaped these leaves in a corner of my garden.

我把这些树叶堆在我的花园的一个角落里。