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n.金属丝,电线,电报,电信,铁丝网 vt.用金属丝卷起,拍电报 vi.打电报 adj.金属丝制的

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wire为高中词汇   词频:2913

词形变化:

动词过去式:wired 过去分词:wired 现在分词:wiring 第三人称单数:wires 形容词:wirable

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wire


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n
1 (a) [C, U] (piece or length of) metal that has been formed into a thin flexible threadlike rod 金属丝; 金属线
*a (coil of) copper wire (一卷)铜丝
* barbed `wire 刺钢丝.
(b) [C, U] (piece or length of) wire used to carry electric current or signals 电线; 导线
*`fuse wire 保险丝
* `telephone wires 电话线.
(c) [U, sing] barrier, framework, fence, etc made from wire 金属丝制成的障碍物、构架、栅栏等
*The hamster had got through the wire at the front of its cage. 仓鼠从其笼子前部的栅栏处钻出去了.
2 [C] (infml 口 esp US) telegram电报
*send sb a wire 给某人发电报.
3 (idm 习语) get one's `wires crossed (infml 口) be mistaken or confused about what sb is saying or has said 误解或弄不清某人说的话
*We seem to have got our wires crossed. I thought you were coming yesterday. 我们大概误会了. 我还以为你昨天来呢. a live wire => live1. pull (the) strings/wires => pull2.

v
1 (a) [Tn.pr, Tn.p] ~ A (on) to B; ~ A and B together fasten or join one thing to another with wire 用金属丝将一物与另一物连结在一起
*A handle had been wired (on) to the box. 已经用金属丝把一个把手绑在箱子上了.
* The two pieces of wood were wired together. 这两块木头已用金属丝捆在一起了.
(b) [Tn esp passive 尤用于被动语态] put wire(s) in or on (sth), eg to strengthen it 在(某物)的里面或上面加上金属丝(如用以加固)
*The fabric was displayed on a wired stand. 那种织物陈列在金属制的架子上.
2 [Tn, Tn.pr, Tn.p] ~ sth (up); ~ sth (for sth) connect sth to a supply of electricity by means of wires 用导线将某物与电源接通
*The house is not wired for electricity yet. 这所房子还没有铺设好电线.
* The studio is being wired for sound. 这个播音室正在安装音响设备用的电线.
* As soon as the equipment is wired up, you can use it. 这个设备一接通电源你就能用了.
3 (a) [Tn, Tf, Dn.f, Dpr.f, Dn.t, Dpr.t] (infml 口 esp US) send (sb) a message by telegram 给(某人)发电报
*He wired (to) his brother to send some money. 他给他哥哥打了个电报要求寄些钱来.
* She wired (us) that she would be delayed. 她给我们打来电报说她得晚到.
(b) [Dn.n, Dn.pr] ~ sth to sb (infml 口 esp US) send sth to sb by means of a telegram 用电报将某物传送给某人
*wire money to sb, ie instruct a bank by telegram to give money to sb 给某人电汇.
1. Each of the four cables contains 26,108 lengths of wire.
    这四根缆索。 每一根都包含有26,108根钢丝。

2. Each of the four cables contains 26,108 lengths of wire.
    4根钢缆中的每根由26,108股钢绳组成。

3. The jacket was torn to shreds by the barbed wire.
    那件甲克让铁丝网给挂碎了.

4. That was probably a good thing because most electricity masters did not think a voice could be sent over a wire.
    这或许是件好事,因为大多数电气专家认为声音无法通过电线传送。

5. Lasers shooting light through glass fiber can transmit 250,000 times as much data as a standard telephone wire, or tens of thousands of paragraphs such as this one every second.
    射过玻璃纤维的激光可以传送高达标准电话线25万倍的数据,或者说,每秒可传送几万段像这样的文字。

6. In a way, China's backwardness is an advantage, because the expansion occurs just as new technologies are becoming cheaper than copper wire systems.
    从某种意义上说,中国的落后成了一种有利因素,因为这一发展正好发生在新技术比铜线电缆系统更便宜的时候。

7. I was looking into a 6-meter-high cylinder(圆柱体) of netting with a wire net floor.
    我的前方是一个六米高的网状圆柱形空间,底部是金属丝编成的网。

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