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elbow room

E 开头单词

音标发音

  • 英式音标 [ˈel.bəʊ ˌruːm]
  • 美式音标 [ˈel.boʊ ˌruːm]
  • 英式发音
  • 美式发音

基本解释

  • 能施展的地方或空间

同根派生

     

英汉例句

    双语例句

  • I need (some) more elbow-room.
    我需要大一些的活动空间。
  • One reason for elbow-room: 85 percent of water is used for agriculture.
    存在一个可能的回旋余地的原因是：农业用水占85%。
  • And for those of you at the very end of the alphabet, 1-190 we have a special room for you, 1-190, so everybody has some elbow room.
    而你在字母表的末尾，我们给准备了一个特别的房间，因此，每个人都有些活动空间。

    • 原声例句

  • And for those of you at the very end of the alphabet, 1-190 we have a special room for you, 1-190, so everybody has some elbow room.
    而你在字母表的末尾，我们给准备了一个特别的房间，因此，每个人都有些活动空间。
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    • 权威例句

  • The sci-fi fable might have been better served as a mini-series, or even as a full-blown television series, giving it the elbow room it deserved to explore each story line and each character throughout its time-spanning narrative.
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  • Millions of commuters with video-enabled phones in their pockets face tedious daily journeys on crammed commuter trains—with little elbow room for anything more than texting, playing video games or watching television on their phones.
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英英字典

    剑桥英英字典

  • space to move around in

    • 柯林斯英英字典

  • Elbow room is the freedom to do what you want to do or need to do in a particular situation.
  • If there is enough elbow room in a place or vehicle, it is not too small or too crowded.