tube

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n. 管, 软管, 隧道 vt. 把...装管, 使通过管子 [计] 管子

发音

UK /tuːb/
UK /tuːb/
AU /tuːb/

词形变化

tubes 复数 tubes tubed tubes 三单 tubing tubing 现在分词 tubed 过去式 tubed 过去分词

教材释义与例句

名词

管;电子管;隧道;电视机

a round pipe made of metal, glass, rubber etc, especially for liquids or gases to go through

动词

使成管状;把…装管;用管输送

动词

乘地铁;不及格

释义与例句

n. B1 Oxf 3000
  1. 1.

    Anything that is hollow and cylindrical in shape.

  2. 2.

    An approximately cylindrical container, usually with a crimped end and a screw top, used to contain and dispense semiliquid substances.

    A tube of toothpaste.

  3. 3.

    The London Underground railway system, originally referred to the lower level lines that ran in tubular tunnels as opposed to the higher ones which ran in rectangular section tunnels. (Often the tube.)

    非正式

    I took the tube to Waterloo and walked the rest of the way.

    He took the tube to Westminster and disappeared.

  4. 4.

    The London Underground railway system, originally referred to the lower level lines that ran in tubular tunnels as opposed to the higher ones which ran in rectangular section tunnels. (Often the tube.)

    One of the tubular tunnels of the London Underground.

    非正式 废旧
  5. 5.

    A tin can containing beer.

    澳大利亚 俚语

    Beer is also available from bottleshops (or bottle-o's) in cases (or 'slabs') of 24-36 cans (‘tinnies' or ‘tubes') or bottles (‘stubbies') of 375ml each.

  6. 6.

    A wave which pitches forward when breaking, creating a hollow space inside.

    体育
  7. 7.

    A television. Compare cathode ray tube and picture tube.

    加拿大 美国 非正式
  8. 8.

    An idiot.

    苏格兰 俚语
  9. 9.

    Short for speaking tube.

    1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados A hundred yards before they reached the house he had given an order to his chauffeur to drop into the lowest speed and they were leisurely drawing past when a discovery by Mr Carlyle modified their plans. […] Carrados picked up the tube again. A couple of sentences passed and the car stopped by the roadside, a score of paces past the limit of the garden.

v.
  1. 1.

    To supply with, or enclose in, a tube.

    及物

    She tubes lipstick in the cosmetics factory.

  2. 2.

    To ride an inner tube.

    及物

    They tubed down the Colorado River.

  3. 3.

    To intubate.

    非正式 及物 医学

    The patient was tubed.

词汇关系

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词源

From Middle French tube, from Latin tubus (“tube, pipe”), related to tuba (“long trumpet; war-trumpet”), of obscure ultimate origin, but possibly connected to tībia (“shinbone, reed-pipe”); see there. Doublet of tubus.

来源:wiktionary