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小知识
Corners are everywhere. Two perpendicular lines form a corner. Rooms and streets have corners too. If a child misbehaves in class, the teacher might make him stand in the corner.
The key to a corner is that it leads in two directions: when you look at the corner of a room, you could hang a picture to the right or left of the corner, but not in the corner itself. A street corner usually has a street sign and sometimes a bus stop, too. A square table has four corners, but a round table doesn't have any corner. Notice how when you look straight at a corner, there's nowhere to go? That's why corner is also a verb. If you say, “I cornered him,” it means you trapped him and gave him nowhere to turn. Whenever we don't see a lot of options, we feel cornered.
实用短语
常用短语
单词用法
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。
[单词解说1]corner的基本意思是“角”,是可数名词,指两条线或两条路相交处;也可作“遥远的地方,天涯海角”解,此时常用复数形式;引申可指“困境,窘况”,此时可用作可数名词,也可用作不可数名词。
corner接介词in,表示“在角落里”;接介词on或at,表示“在拐角处”;接介词round(around〕,表示“拐过弯去”。
english corner英语角
around the corner adv.在拐角处;即将来临
at the corner在拐角处(外)
同义词辨析
同义词
hole / end / tight / impasse / jam / dead / cul-de-sac / spot / squeeze / bind / stalemate / trap / pickle
meeting / convergency / convergence / intersection / junction / juncture / crossroads
同根词
词根:corn
adj.cornered有角的;被困得走投无路的
corned腌制的
n.corn(美)玉米;(英)谷物;[皮肤] 鸡眼
v.corned腌;使成颗粒(corn的过去时和过去分词)
vt.corn腌;使成颗粒
cornered把…逼入绝境(corner的过去式)