bottleneck
n. 瓶颈 [经] 瓶颈, 增产障碍
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词形变化
释义与例句
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1.
The narrow portion that forms the pouring spout of a bottle; the neck of a bottle.
瓶颈
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2.
The narrow portion that forms the pouring spout of a bottle; the neck of a bottle.
A portion of a bottleneck placed on the finger and used as a guitar slide.
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3.
In traffic, any narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay.
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The part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome.
耽误
引申义It is easy to create entries; processing the paperwork is the bottleneck.
The bottleneck in this computer program is the inefficient sorting process; we should replace it with a faster one.
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To slow by causing a bottleneck.
及物The merge bottlenecked the traffic every morning.
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To form a bottleneck.
不及物The traffic bottlenecked at the merge every morning.
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词源
From bottle + neck.
来源：wiktionary