square off

英 [skweə(r) ɒf]

美 [skwer ɔːf]

把…加工成方形; 摆好架势; 准备迎战

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 把…弄成方形
  If yousquaresomethingoff, you alter it so that it has the shape of a square.
  1. Peel a thick-skinned orange and square off the ends with a sharp knife.
     剥开一只厚皮橙子，用锋利的刀将两端削去使它呈方形。
  2. ...white modern buildings that look like squared-off wedding cakes.
     看起来像是方形结婚蛋糕的白色现代建筑
• PHR-V-RECIP 摆好打斗的架势;准备迎战
  If one group or personsquares off againstorwithanother, they prepare to fight them.
  1. In Florida, farmers are squaring off against cities for rights to groundwater...
     在佛罗里达州，农民正摆好架势，准备和城市争夺地下水的使用权。
  2. French soldiers squared off with a gunman at a road checkpoint...
     在一个公路检查站法国士兵摆开架势，准备迎战一名持枪者。
  3. The Los Angeles Lakers and the Chicago Bulls square off for the first game of the series.
     洛杉矶湖人队和芝加哥公牛队摆好了架势，准备进行总决赛的第一场对决。

英英释义

verb

• settle conclusively
  1. We finally settled the argument
  Synonym:settlesquare updetermine

双语例句

• The curvilinear outer skin comes to life with U-GLASS, and the square mass is expressed with wood ( IPE) that relates to the nature off books, paper, and bookshelves.
  曲线形外表皮采用U形玻璃，更显活泼生动，而方形结构采用重蚁木表达出与图书、文献和书架之间的区别。
• The gentrification of Times Square made for a unique social experiment: What happens to sex workers when they are pushed off the streets and into the outer boroughs?
  时代广场的中产阶级化有利于单一的社会试验：当性工作者走出街巷进入到外面的街区时会发生什么？
• In Florida, farmers are squaring off against cities for rights to groundwater
  在佛罗里达州，农民正摆好架势，准备和城市争夺地下水的使用权。
• Tonight's talk: Variable and Constant square off over data storage.
  今晚的谈话：对数据存储的变量和常量平方米。
• French soldiers squared off with a gunman at a road checkpoint
  在一个公路检查站法国士兵摆开架势，准备迎战一名持枪者。
• The monks'shoes on the square Because when chanting Buddhist scripts, the monks were required not to wear shoes, So they put off shoes and put them on the square in order to dry them.
  《僧侣们的鞋就晒在广场上》广场上晒着僧侣们的鞋子，因为听经时僧侣们是要脱掉鞋子的，顺便晒晒。
• Carol: That star of the television show "Square Off".
  卡罗：电视剧《清算》中的明星。
• The reality is that these "contracts" never produce the desired result; they simply define the battlefield on which opponents will square off as soon as things go wrong.
  实际情况是这些合同从来不会产生有意义的结果；他们只是在一旦出现问题时定义一个同对手作战的战场。
• Digital control is used to create a square wave, a signal switched between on and off.
  数字控制被用来创建一个方波，信号在开和关之间切换。
• The search has so far covered 18,600 square kilometres of ocean off Western Australia, where the aircraft is presumed to have ditched after running out of fuel.
  到目前为止，搜寻已经覆盖了澳大利亚以西1.86万平方公里的海域。客机被认为在燃油耗尽后坠入了这片海域。