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角
A corner is a point or an area where two or more edges, sides, or surfaces of something join.
例句
He saw the corner of a magazine sticking out from under the blanket...
他看見雜志的一角從毯子下露了出來。
Write 'By Airmail' in the top left hand corner.
在左上角寫上“航空郵遞”。
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角;墻角;壁角
The corner of a room, box, or similar space is the area inside it where its edges or walls meet.
例句
...a card table in the corner of the living room...
起居室角落里的牌桌
The ball hurtled into the far corner of the net...
球飛進了球網的遠角。
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（嘴）角;（眼）角
The corner of your mouth or eye is the side of it.
例句
She flicked a crumb off the corner of her mouth...
她擦掉嘴角的面包屑。
Out of the corner of her eye she saw that a car had stopped.
她用眼角的余光瞥見一輛車停了下來。
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街角;拐角
The corner of a street is the place where one of its sides ends as it joins another street.
例句
She would spend the day hanging round street corners...
她會整天在街角附近游蕩。
We can't have police officers on every corner...
不可能每個街角都派駐警察。
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(道路的)轉彎處
A corner is a bend in a road.
例句
...a sharp corner...
急轉彎
The road is a succession of hairpin bends, hills, and blind corners.
這條路上急轉彎、坡道和死拐角一個接一個。
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(遙遠或難以到達的)角落，偏遠處
If you talk about the corners of the world, a country, or some other place, you are referring to places that are far away or difficult to get to.
例句
Buyers came from all corners of the world...
買主來自世界各地。
The group has been living in a remote corner of the Cambodian jungle.
該部落一直居住在柬埔寨的叢林深處。
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(足球、曲棍球等的)角球
In football, hockey, and some other sports, a corner is a free shot or kick taken from the corner of the pitch.
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VERB
將…逼入死角；使走投無路
If you corner a person or animal, you force them into a place they cannot escape from.
例句
A police motorcycle chased his car twelve miles, and cornered him near Rome...
一輛摩托警車跟在他的車后追了12英里，最后在快到羅馬時將他截住。
He was still sitting huddled like a cornered animal.
他還像一頭困獸一樣蜷縮著坐在那兒。
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截住…與其說話
If you corner someone, you force them to speak to you when they have been trying to avoid you.
例句
Golan managed to corner the young producer-director for an interview.
戈蘭設法截住了那位兼任制片人的年輕導演，對其進行了采訪。
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壟斷
If a company or place corners an area of trade, they gain control over it so that no one else can have any success in that area.
例句
This restaurant has cornered the Madrid market for specialist paellas...
這家餐館壟斷了馬德里的特色肉菜飯市場。
Zurich's affluence came initially from cornering a sizeable chunk of the 14th Century silk trade.
蘇黎世的富足最初來自于14世紀對絲綢貿易的高度壟斷。
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轉彎；拐彎
If a car, or the person driving it, corners in a particular way, the car goes round bends in roads in this way.
例句
Peter drove jerkily, cornering too fast and fumbling the gears.
彼得轉彎太急，換擋不利索，車開得一顛一顛的。
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PHRASE
即將發生
If you say that something is around the corner, you mean that it will happen very soon. In British English, you can also say that something is round the corner .
例句
The Chancellor of the Exchequer says that economic recovery is just around the corner.
財政大臣說經濟即將復蘇。
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在附近;在近處
If you say that something is around the corner, you mean that it is very near. In British English, you can also say that something is round the corner .
例句
My new place is just around the corner.
我的新家就在附近。
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圖省事;走捷徑
If you cut corners, you do something quickly by doing it in a less thorough way than you should.
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Take your time, don't cut corners and follow instructions to the letter.
慢慢來，不要圖省事，要嚴格按照說明去做。
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天涯海角;世界各個角落
You can use expressions such as the four corners of the world to refer to places that are a long way from each other.
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They've combed the four corners of the world for the best accessories...
為了找到最好的配件，他們尋遍了每個地方。
Young people came from the four corners of the nation.
全國各地的年輕人都來到這里。
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身處困境
If you are in a corner or in a tight corner, you are in a situation which is difficult to deal with and get out of.
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The government is in a corner on interest rates...
政府在利率問題上陷入了困境。
He appears to have backed himself into a tight corner.
他似乎已把自己逼入了困境。