首页英语词典boxbox的意思

box

英 [bɒks] 美[bɑks]

英英释义词组搭配考试真题实用场景例句

近义词hit fight

n. 箱，盒子；包厢；一拳
vi. 拳击
vt. 拳击；装…入盒中；打耳光
n. (Box)人名；(英、法、西)博克斯

CET4TEM4考研CET6中高频词基本词汇树

词态变化

复数: boxes;第三人称单数: boxes;过去式: boxed;过去分词: boxed;现在分词: boxing;

中文词源

box 箱子，黄杨木，拳击

1.箱子，来自拉丁词buxis, 黄杨木，后指黄杨木做的箱子。可能同bush.

2.拳击，拟声词。

英英释意

1. a (usually rectangular) container; may have a lid;: "he rummaged through a box of spare parts"

2. private area in a theater or grandstand where a small group can watch the performance;: "the royal box was empty"

3. the quantity contained in a box;: "he gave her a box of chocolates"

4. a predicament from which a skillful or graceful escape is impossible;: "his lying got him into a tight corner"

5. a rectangular drawing;: "the flowchart contained many boxes"

6. evergreen shrubs or small trees

7. any one of several designated areas on a ball field where the batter or catcher or coaches are positioned;: "the umpire warned the batter to stay in the batter's box"

8. the driver's seat on a coach;: "an armed guard sat in the box with the driver"

9. separate partitioned area in a public place for a few people;: "the sentry stayed in his box to avoid the cold"

10. a blow with the hand (usually on the ear);: "I gave him a good box on the ear"

英文词源

box: box: English has two distinct words box. The ‘receptacle’ [OE] probably comes from late Latin buxis, a variant of Latin pyxis (whence English pyx ‘container for Communion bread’ [14]). This was borrowed from Greek puxís, which originally meant not simply ‘box’, but specifically ‘box made of wood’; for it was a derivative of Greek púxos, which via Latin buxus has given English box the tree [OE]. Box ‘fight with the fists’ first appeared in English as a noun, meaning ‘blow’ [14], now preserved mainly in ‘a box round the ears’.

Its ancestry is uncertain: it may be related to Middle Dutch bōke and Danish bask ‘blow’, or it could simply be an obscure metaphorical extension of box ‘receptacle’.
=> pyx
box (n.1.): Old English box "a wooden container," also the name of a type of shrub, from Late Latin buxis, from Greek pyxis "boxwood box," from pyxos "box tree," which is of uncertain origin. See OED entry for discussion. German Büchse also is a Latin loan word.

Meaning "compartment at a theater" is from c. 1600. Meaning "pigeon-hole at a post office" is from 1832. Meaning "television" is from 1950. Slang meaning "vulva" is attested 17c., according to "Dictionary of American Slang;" modern use seems to date from c.World War II, perhaps originally Australian, on notion of "box of tricks." Box office is 1786; in the figurative sense of "financial element of a performance" it is first recorded 1904. Box lunch (n.) attested from 1899. The box set, "multiple-album, CD or cassette issue of the work of an artist" is attested by 1955.
box (n.2.): "a blow," c. 1300, of uncertain origin, possibly related to Middle Dutch boke, Middle High German buc, and Danish bask, all meaning "a blow," perhaps imitative.
box (v.1): "to put into storage, put into a box," mid-15c., from box (n.1). Related: Boxed; boxing.
box (v.2): "to beat or whip," late 14c., from box (n.2). Meaning "to fight with the fists" is from 1560s. Related: Boxed; boxing.

考试真题

The Greeks are always concerned about boxing themselves in, in terms of convictions ( ' , 信念 ), he says.

They're known as the black box.

When planes fall from the sky, as a Yemeni airliner did on its way to Comoros Islands in the India ocean June 30, 2009, the black box is the best bet for identifying what went wrong.

What does the author say about the black box?

What information could be found from the black box on the Yemeni airliner

Why was the black box redesigned in 1965?

Placed in an insulated (隔绝的) case and surrounded by a quarter-inch-thick panels of stainless steel, the boxes can withstand massive force and temperatures up to 2,000℉.

Experts believe the boxes from Air France Flight 447, which crashed near Brazil on June 1,2009, are in water nearly that deep, but statistics say they're still likely to turn up

In the approximately 20 deep-sea crashes over the past 30 years, only one plane's black boxes were never recovered.

Why did the Federal Aviation Authority require the black boxes be painted orange or yellow

What do we know about the black boxes from Air France Flight 447?

He got down off his box and rushed off, as if he was going to get the store manger.

As I came across a box that was up but with no house, I checked, and there was mail—outgoing mail—in it.

Moses called two local bee specialists who helped remove the bees by attracting them into a box.

The birds will be encouraged to clean the park through the use of a small box that delivers a small amount of bird food.

Enter the executive editor, who makes a suggestion requiring a more-than-modest rearrangement of the design and the addition of an information box.

Academic studies have found no evidence so far that older voters have used their power at the ballot box to push for policies that specifically benefit them, though if in future there are many more of them they might start doing so.

Well you could just initial that box there for the CDW.

And that box there to confirm you have known driving convictions, thank you, and then sign there

Then it is returned to the box.

The weight of the boxes moving across the stage.

victorians started putting women in a box, and they're still trying to crawl out of it.

A free schedule of events for each term is available by calling the box office at 556-4183.

According to the analysis of Babbitt's team, old desktop monitors and box TVs with cathode ray tubes are the worst devices with their energy consumption and contribution to greenhouse gas emissions more than doubling during the 1992 to 2007 window.

And he saw a date of 1973 on the back of the box.

As he was purchasing it, the salesgirl said, "oh, look, the game box hasn't even been opened yet.

Consider again the cell-phone, and imagine the mines that produced those metals, the factories needed to make the box and packaging (包装) It came in.

Desktop computers, basic mobile phones, and box-set TVs defined 1992.

Dr Dominoni, who is putting cameras inside nesting boxes to track sleeping patterns, said lack of sleep could put the birds' health at risk.

For this courier job, you're consciously aware than that box you're got something that is potentially going to save somebody's life.

It's not easy to carry around, especially when boxed inside a massive skull.

Peter examined the box and, sure enough, it was completely covered in factory-sealed plastic.

The Curse of the Were-Rabbit 2005 is the first full-length feature film made by directors nick Park and Steve Box with their amazing plasticine characters Wallace and Gromit.

The package will be packed with a medium box, am I right?

Wang believes traditions should not be sealed in glass boxes at museums.

When he went home, he sent Benjamin a box of paint and some brushes.

One inventor patented a technique for lifting a box.

The robot was the same size as a regular rat but resembled a simple plastic box on wheels.

词组搭配

be a box of birds

(Austral./NZ informal)be fine; be happy

(澳/新西兰，非正式)旺盛的士气；快乐

box of tricks

(informal)an ingenious gadget

(非正式)精巧的装置

all those magical effects were produced by this little box of tricks here.
所有这些魔术效应都是通过这个小玩意儿搞出来的。

out of the box

(Austral./NZ informal)unusually good. (see bandbox)

(澳/新西兰，非正式)非常好

the novel is nothing out of the box.
这本小说并不出色。

out of one's box

(Brit. informal)intoxicated with alcohol or drugs

(英，非正式)喝醉的；（因酒精或毒品的作用而）兴奋的

think outside the box

(informal)have ideas that are original, creative, or innovative

(非正式)创造性地思考；富有革新精神地思考；不受条条框框束缚地思考

box clever

(Brit. informal)act so as to outwit someone

(英，非正式)瞒骗；智胜

she had to box clever, let Adam think she had accepted what he said.
她不得不耍个花招，让亚当相信她已经接受了他的观点。

box someone's ears

slap someone on the side of the head as a punishment or in anger

打某人耳光

box the compass

To name the 32 points of the compass in proper order.

指出方位：按适当顺序说出罗盘的32个方位

To make a complete revolution or reversal.

彻底变更，彻底转变

in a box【非正式用语】

In a very difficult or restrictive situation.

处于困境：在一个非常困难或受限的处境

实用场景例句

She kept all the letters in a box.: 她把信件都保存在一只盒子里。

a money box: 钱匣

cardboard boxes: 纸板箱

a toolbox: 工具箱

a matchbox: 火柴盒

a box of chocolates/matches: 一盒巧克力 / 火柴

a box at the opera: 歌剧院的包厢

the witness/jury box: 证人 / 陪审团席

(British English)a telephone box: 岗亭；铁路信号所

(British English)a telephone box: 电话亭

I called him from the phone box on the corner.: 我在拐角处的电话亭打电话给他。

Put a cross in the appropriate box.: 在适当的长方格里打叉号。

to tick/check a box: 在方格里画钩 / 做核对记号

What's on the box tonight?: 今晚有什么电视节目？

Only traffic turning right may enter the box.: 只允许右拐的车辆进入交叉路口黄格区。

(British English)He was fouled in the box (= the penalty box).: 有人在禁区对他犯规。

Someone had parked behind us and boxed us in.: 有人把车停在我们后面，困住了我们。

She felt boxed in by all their petty rules.: 她觉得被他们的琐碎规章束缚住了手脚。

They sat on wooden boxes.: 他们坐在木箱子上。

He scored from the penalty spot after being brought down in the box.: 在罚球区内被违规撞倒后，他罚点球破门得分。

Do you watch it live at all or do you watch it on the box?: 你是在现场看还是在电视上看？

...Country Crafts, Box 111, Landisville.: 兰蒂斯维尔111号信箱，乡村工艺社

...box hedges.: 黄杨篱笆

At school I boxed and played rugby...: 在学校时我既打拳击又玩橄榄球。

The two fighters had previously boxed a 12-round match.: 这两位拳击手之前已经打了一场12回合的比赛。

He reached into the cardboard box beside him...: 他把手伸进身边的纸板盒里。

box