-
N-COUNT
門
A door is a piece of wood, glass, or metal, which is moved to open and close the entrance to a building, room, cupboard, or vehicle.
例句
I knocked at the front door, but there was no answer...
我敲了敲前門，沒有人應。
The policeman opened the door and looked in...
警察打開門朝里面看。
-
N-COUNT
門口;出入口
A door is the space in a wall when a door is open.
例句
She looked through the door of the kitchen. Her daughter was at the stove.
她從廚房門口朝里看，發現女兒站在爐子旁。
-
N-COUNT
(商店、賓館、戲院等的)進口，入口
The door is the entrance to a large building such as a shop, hotel, or theatre.
例句
He entered Harrods by the main door...
他從正門進入了哈羅德商場。
The queues at the door wound around the building.
門口的隊伍繞了大樓一圈。
-
N-PLURAL
住戶;人家
Doors is used in expressions such as a few doors down or three doors up to refer to a place that is a particular number of buildings away from where you are.
例句
Mrs Cade's house was only a few doors down from her daughter's apartment.
凱德夫人的房子和她女兒的公寓就隔了幾戶人家。
-
PHRASE
應門;去開門
When you answer the door, you go and open the door because a visitor has knocked on it or rung the bell.
例句
Carol answered the door as soon as I knocked.
我一敲門，卡蘿爾就來開了。
-
PHRASE
偷偷摸摸地;背地里地;不正當地
If you say that someone gets or does something by the back door or through the back door, you are criticizing them for doing it secretly and unofficially.
例句
The government would not allow anyone to sneak in by the back door and seize power by force...
政府不會允許任何人偷偷混進來并用暴力攫取政權。
They claim the Government is privatising dentistry through the back door.
他們聲稱政府正通過不正當的手段將牙醫業私有化。
-
PHRASE
不再想;不再做;拒…于門外
If someone closes the door on something, they stop thinking about it or dealing with it.
例句
We never close the door on a successful series.
我們從不把成功的系列節目拒之門外。
-
PHRASE
秘密地;背地里地
If people have talks and discussions behind closed doors, they have them in private because they want them to be kept secret.
例句
...decisions taken in secret behind closed doors.
背地里秘密作出的決定
-
PHRASE
挨家挨戶
If someone goes from door to door or goes door to door, they go along a street calling at each house in turn, for example selling something.
例句
They are going from door to door collecting money from civilians.
他們挨家挨戶地向百姓收錢。
...a door-to-door salesman...
上門推銷員
-
PHRASE
從開始到目的地
If you talk about a distance or journey from door to door or door to door, you are talking about the distance from the place where the journey starts to the place where it finishes.
例句
...tickets covering the whole journey from door to door...
全程票
Flying out on Friday from Gatwick it took seven hours door-to-door.
星期五從蓋特威克起飛全程需要 7 個小時。
-
PHRASE
（通常指難以成功的領域中）邁向目標的第一步，成功的開端
If you say that something helps someone to get their foot in the door or their toe in the door, you mean that it gives them an opportunity to start doing something new, usually in an area that is difficult to succeed in.
例句
The bondholding may help the firm get its foot in the door to win the business...
債券的持有可能是有助于該公司贏得業務的第一步。
The Philips deal also gives Sparc a foot in the door of a new market — consumer electronics.
與飛利浦公司的交易也使斯巴克得以進入一個新市場——消費類電子產品。
-
PHRASE
拒絕同…談話;拒絕向…透露信息
If someone shuts the door in your face or slams the door in your face, they refuse to talk to you or give you any information.
例句
Did you say anything to him or just shut the door in his face?
你跟他說什么了嗎，還是直接給了他個閉門羹？
-
PHRASE
把…歸咎于
If you lay something at someone'sdoor, you blame them for an unpleasant event or situation.
例句
I'm notsure his death can be laid at medicine's door alone...
我不確信他的死亡單單是藥物所致。
The blame is generally laid at the door of the government.
通常譴責的矛頭都會指向政府。
-
PHRASE
介紹(新思想或新情況);使…成為可能
If someone or something opens the door to a good new idea or situation, they introduce it or make it possible.
例句
This book opens the door to some of the most exciting findings in solid-state physics...
這本書介紹了固態物理中一些最激動人心的發現。
Researchers are pushing back the frontiers and opening doors to reveal why things happen and how things work.
研究者們拓展了其研究領域，介紹并揭示了事物發生的原因和機理。
-
PHRASE
在戶外;露天
When you are out of doors, you are not inside a building, but in the open air.
例句
The weather was fine enough for working out of doors.
天氣太好了，適合戶外工作。
-
PHRASE
送(客人)到門口
If you see someone to the door, you go to the door with a visitor when they leave.
-
PHRASE
叫…滾蛋;對…下逐客令
If someone shows you the door, they ask you to leave because they are angry with you.
例句
Would they forgive and forget — or show him the door?
他們會既往不咎嗎——還是會對他下逐客令呢？