wire
n. 电线, 电报, 电信, 铁丝网, 金属丝 vt. 用金属丝捆扎, 拍电报 vi. 打电报
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教材释义与例句
电线；金属丝；电报
thin metal in the form of a thread, or a piece of this
拍电报；给…装电线
to send money electronically
打电报
释义与例句
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Metal formed into a thin, even thread, now usually by being drawn through a hole in a steel die.
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铁丝
不可数 可数Holonyms: cable; wire rope; wiring harness; wire wool
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A piece of such material; a thread or slender rod of metal, a cable.
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A metal conductor that carries electricity.
电线
可数 不可数That wire powers the lamp.
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A fence made of usually barbed wire.
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A finish line of a racetrack.
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A telecommunication wire or cable.
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An electric telegraph; a telegram.
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A hidden listening device on the person of an undercover operative for the purposes of obtaining incriminating spoken evidence.
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A deadline or critical endpoint.
可数 非正式 不可数This election is going to go right to the wire
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Any of the system of wires used to operate the puppets in a puppet show; hence, the network of hidden influences controlling the action of a person or organization; strings.
可数 不可数to pull the wires for office
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A pickpocket, especially one who targets women.
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A covert signal sent between people cheating in a card game.
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A knitting needle.
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The slender shaft of the plumage of certain birds.
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Clipping of wire service and/or newswire.
可数 非正式 不可数 媒体Breaking news reports have just come in to us over the wire.
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A wire strung with beads and hung horizontally above or near the table which is used to keep score.
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To fasten with wire, especially with reference to wine bottles, corks, or fencing.
We need to wire that hole in the fence.
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To string on a wire.
wire beads
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To equip with wires for use with electricity.
Do you know how to wire a plug?
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To connect, embed, incorporate, or include (something) into (something else) by or as if by wires:
To add (something) into a system (especially an electrical system) by means of wiring.
I'll just wire your camera to the computer screen.
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To connect, embed, incorporate, or include (something) into (something else) by or as if by wires:
To add or connect (something) into a system as if with wires (for example, with nerves).
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To connect, embed, incorporate, or include (something) into (something else) by or as if by wires:
To connect, involve or embed (something) deeply or intimately into (something else, such as an organization or political scene), so that it is plugged in (to that thing) (“keeping up with current information about (the thing)”) or has insinuated itself into (the thing).
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To set or predetermine (someone's personality or behaviour, or an organization's culture) in a particular way.
比喻There's no use trying to get Sarah to be less excitable. That's just the way she's wired.
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To snare by means of a wire or wires.
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To send a message or monetary funds to another person through a telecommunications system, formerly predominantly by telegraph.
及物/不及物Urgent: please wire me another 100 pounds sterling.
The detective wired ahead, hoping that the fugitive would be caught at the railway station.
1923, Ernest Bramah, The Eyes of Max Carrados If the thing doesn't tempt you, say no more about it. If it does, just wire a time and I'll be at the station.
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To make someone tense or psyched up. See also adjective wired.
俚语Coffee late at night wires me good and proper.
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To install eavesdropping equipment.
俚语We wired the suspect's house.
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To place (a ball) so that the wire of a wicket prevents a successful shot.
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词源
From Middle English wir, wyr, from Old English wīr (“wire, metal thread, wire-ornament”), from Proto-Germanic *wīraz (“wire”), from Proto-Indo-European *weh₁iros (“a twist, thread, cord, wire”), from *weh₁y- (“to turn, twist, weave, plait”).
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