新东方-柯林斯雅思备考词典

bar

英  [bɑː]
    

[NOUN, PREP, VERB]

    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。

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