首页英语词典cornercorner的意思

corner

英 ['kɔːnə] 美['kɔrnɚ]

英英释义同义词辨析词组搭配考试真题实用场景例句

近义词hole end tight impasse jam dead spot bind stalemate trap pickle

n. 角落，拐角处；地区，偏僻处；困境，窘境
vi. 囤积；相交成角
vt. 垄断；迫至一隅；使陷入绝境；把…难住
n. (Corner)人名；(法)科尔内；(英)科纳

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词态变化

复数: corners;第三人称单数: corners;过去式: cornered;过去分词: cornered;现在分词: cornering;

中文词源

corner 角落

词源同horn, 角，引申义转角，角落。

英英释意

1. a place off to the side of an area;: "he tripled to the rightfield corner"; "he glanced out of the corner of his eye"

2. the point where two lines meet or intersect;: "the corners of a rectangle"

3. an interior angle formed be two meeting walls;: "a piano was in one corner of the room"

4. the intersection of two streets;: "standing on the corner watching all the girls go by"

5. the point where three areas or surfaces meet or intersect;: "the corners of a cube"

6. a small concavity

7. a temporary monopoly on a kind of commercial trade;: "a corner on the silver market"

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

9. a projecting part that is corner-shaped;: "he knocked off the corners"

10. a remote area;: "in many corners of the world they still practice slavery"

11. (architecture) solid exterior angle of a building; especially one formed by a cornerstone

英文词源

corner: corner: [13] The idea underlying corner is of a ‘projecting part’ or ‘point’. It came via Anglo- Norman corner from Vulgar Latin *cornārium, a derivative of Latin cornū ‘point’ (‘point’ was in fact a secondary sense, developed from an original ‘horn’ – and Latin cornū is related to English horn). Other English descendants of cornū are corn ‘hard skin’, cornea [14], cornet [14], originally a diminutive form, and cornucopia [16], literally ‘horn of plenty’.
=> cornea, cornet, horn
corner (n.): late 13c., from Anglo-French cornere (Old French corniere), from Old French corne "horn, corner," from Vulgar Latin *corna, from Latin cornua, plural of cornu "projecting point, end, horn," from PIE *ker- (1) "horn; head, uppermost part of the body" (see horn (n.)). Replaced Old English hyrne. As an adjective, from 1530s. To be just around the corner in the extended sense of "about to happen" is by 1905.
corner (v.): late 14c., "to furnish with corners," from corner (n.). Meaning "to turn a corner," as in a race, is 1860s; meaning "drive (someone) into a corner" is American English from 1824. Commercial sense is from 1836. Related: Cornered; cornering.

同义词辨析

angle, corner

这两个名词都有"角"之意。

angle：几何学上的用词，指两条直线相交而成的角。也可引申指看问题的方面或角度。

corner：多指物体的棱角或房间、街道的角落。

考试真题

In 1972, for instance, the Soviets, recognizing their poor harvest early, quietly cornered the world wheat market.

The kind of shopping—where you hand over notes and count out change in return—now happens only in the most minor of our retail encounters, like buying a bar of chocolate or a pint of milk from a corner shop.

Instead of digging through pieces of paper and peering into corners, we move our fingers left and right.

This reminds me unpleasantly of Sunnyhill School in Streatham, with its harsh tarmac, where I used to hang about in corners fantasising about wildlife.

On the corner, there's a Starbucks and a 7-Eleven—all of the international brands that you see all over the world nowadays.

The train was coming around the corner as I lifted the baby from the tracks.

Budget reduction in around the corner.

Actually, there's something interesting to see in every corner of Paris: the old buildings, neighborhoods, and the historical monuments.

Gin spent five months in early 2015 exploring the most remote corners of this area, which sits on the edge of the Amazon rainforest, with half its population of only 250, 000 living in its capital, Cayenne.

Many graphs, including bar graphs and line graphs, have two axes that form a corner, usually these axes are the left side and the bottom of the graph.

Pahlsson and her husband searched the kitchen, checking every corner, but turned up nothing.

The city of brussels was covered in snowmen—an impressive scene that told stories on every street corner.

Even American newspapers, which inhabit the most troubled corner of the global industry, have not only survived but often returned to profit.

However, a true cashless society is probably not around the corner.

词组搭配

(just) around (或round) the corner

very near

很近的

there's a chemist round the corner.
附近有一家药店。

fight one's corner

defend one's position or interests

维护某人的地位（或利益）

we need someone in the cabinet to fight our corner.
我们需要内阁有人维护我们的利益。

in someone's corner

on someone's side; giving someone support and encouragement

在某人一方；支持（或鼓励）某人

on (或 at 或 in) every corner

everywhere

到处；处处

there are Gaultier shops on every corner.
到处都有戈蒂埃商店。

see someone/thing out of (或 from) the corner of on

see someone or something at the edge of one's field of vision

斜着眼睛偷看

实用场景例句

the four corners of a square: 正方形的四个角

Write your address in the top right-hand corner of the letter.: 把你的地址写在信的右上角。

I hit my knee on the corner of the table.: 我的膝盖撞到桌子角上了。

A smile lifted the corner of his mouth.: 他的嘴角挂着微笑。

a speck of dirt in the corner of her eye: 她眼角里的一点灰尘

He appears to have backed himself into a tight corner.: 他似乎已把自己逼入了困境。

The government is in a corner on interest rates...: 政府在利率问题上陷入了困境。

Young people came from the four corners of the nation.: 全国各地的年轻人都来到这里。

They've combed the four corners of the world for the best accessories...: 为了找到最好的配件，他们寻遍了每个地方。

Take your time, don't cut corners and follow instructions to the letter.: 慢慢来，不要图省事，要严格按照说明去做。

My new place is just around the corner.: 我的新家就在附近。

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.: 她用眼角的余光瞥见一辆车停了下来。

She would spend the day hanging round street corners...: 她会整天在街角附近游荡。

We can't have police officers on every corner...: 不可能每个街角都派驻警察。

...a sharp corner...: 急转弯

The road is a succession of hairpin bends, hills, and blind corners.: 这条路上急转弯、坡道和死拐角一个接一个。

Buyers came from all corners of the world...: 买主来自世界各地。

The group has been living in a remote corner of the Cambodian jungle.: 该部落一直居住在柬埔寨的丛林深处。

A police motorcycle chased his car twelve miles, and cornered him near Rome...: 一辆摩托警车跟在他的车后追了12英里，最后在快到罗马时将他截住。

He was still sitting huddled like a cornered animal.: 他还像一头困兽一样蜷缩着坐在那儿。

Golan managed to corner the young producer-director for an interview.: 戈兰设法截住了那位兼任制片人的年轻导演，对其进行了采访。

This restaurant has cornered the Madrid market for specialist paellas...: 这家餐馆垄断了马德里的特色肉菜饭市场。

Zurich's affluence came initially from cornering a sizeable chunk of the 14th Century silk trade.: 苏黎世的富足最初来自于14世纪对丝绸贸易的高度垄断。

Peter drove jerkily, cornering too fast and fumbling the gears.: 彼得转弯太急，换挡不利索，车开得一颠一颠的。

The Chancellor of the Exchequer says that economic recovery is just around the corner.: 财政大臣说经济即将复苏。

The ball hurtled into the far corner of the net...: 球飞进了球网的远角。

He saw the corner of a magazine sticking out from under the blanket...: 他看见杂志的一角从毯子下露了出来。

Write 'By Airmail' in the top left hand corner.: 在左上角写上“航空邮递”。

...a card table in the corner of the living room...: 起居室角落里的牌桌