新东方-柯林斯雅思备考词典

bar

英 [bɑː]

[NOUN, PREP, VERB]

词汇频率：

NOUN. 名词

bars
1. [C 可数名词] 酒吧
A bar is a place where you can buy and drink alcoholic drinks.
双语例句
例：
Devil's Herd, the city's most popular country and western bar.
“魔鬼群”，全城最受欢迎的西部乡村酒吧。
2. [C 可数名词] （旅馆等的）酒吧间
A bar is a room in a hotel or other establishment where alcoholic drinks are served.
双语例句
例：
Last night in the hotel there was some talk in the bar about drugs.
昨天晚上，在旅馆的酒吧间里有人谈起了毒品。
3. [C 可数名词] 吧台
A bar is a counter on which alcoholic drinks are served.
双语例句
例：
Michael was standing alone by the bar when Brian rejoined him.
布赖恩回来的时候，迈克尔正独自站在吧台旁。
4. [C 可数名词] 金属棒
A bar is a long, straight, stiff piece of metal.
双语例句
例：
a brick building with bars across the ground-floor windows.
一楼窗户装有铁栅的砖砌楼房。
5. [C 可数名词] （长方形的）条
A bar of something is a piece of it which is roughly rectangular.
双语例句
例：
What is your favourite chocolate bar?
你最喜爱的巧克力棒是什么？
6. [C 可数名词] 障碍
If something is a bar to doing a particular thing, it prevents someone from doing it.
双语例句
例：
One of the fundamental bars to communication is the lack of a universally spoken, common language.
沟通的根本障碍之一就是缺乏一种通用的共同语言。
7. [SING 单数型名词] 律师职业
The bar is used to refer to the profession of any kind of lawyer in the United States, or of a barrister in England.
双语例句
例：
Less than a quarter of graduates from the law school pass the bar exam on the first try.
不到1/4的法学院毕业生能一次就通过律师考试。
8. [C 可数名词] （音乐的）小节
In music, a bar is one of the several short parts of the same length into which a piece of music is divided.
双语例句
例：
She sat down at the piano and played a few bars of a Chopin Polonaise.
她坐在钢琴边弹奏了肖邦的波洛奈兹舞曲的几个小节。

PHRASE. 习语

behind bars
1. 在狱中
If you say that someone is behind bars, you mean that they are in prison.
双语例句
例：
Fisher was behind bars last night, charged with attempted murder.
由于被指控犯有谋杀未遂罪，费希尔昨晚进了监狱。

PREP. 介词

1. 除…外
You can use bar when you mean 'except'. For example, all the work bar the laundry means all the work except the laundry.
近义词
save
双语例句
例：
Bar a plateau in 1989, there has been a rise in inflation ever since the mid-1980s.
自20世纪80年代中期以来，除了1989年稳定之外，通货膨胀一直在增长。

VERB. 动词

bars , barring , barred
1. [T 及物动词] 闩（门）
If you bar a door, you place something in front of it or a piece of wood or metal across it in order to prevent it from being opened.
双语例句
例：
For added safety, bar the door to the kitchen.
为了更加安全，把厨房的门闩上。
2. [T 及物动词] 挡（路）
If you bar someone's way, you prevent them from going somewhere or entering a place, by blocking their path.
近义词
block
双语例句
例：
Harry moved to bar his way.
哈里挪过去挡住了他的路。
3. [T 及物动词] 禁止
If someone is barred from a place or from doing something, they are officially forbidden to go there or to do it.
近义词
ban
双语例句
例：
Amnesty workers have been barred from the country since 1982.
自1982年以来特赦的工人被禁止进入该国。