switch
柯林斯词典
1. N-COUNT A switch is a small control for an electrical device which you use to turn the device on or off. 开关
Leona put some detergent into the dishwasher, shut the door, and pressed the switch. 利昂娜在洗碗机里放了些清洁剂,关上门,然后按下开关。
2. N-PLURAL On a railway track, the switches are the levers and rails at a place where two tracks join or separate. The switches enable a train to move from one track to another. 转辙器[美国英语]
3. V-T/V-I If you switch to something different, for example to a different system, task, or subject of conversation, you change to it from what you were doing or saying before. 转向
Estonia is switching to a market economy. 爱沙尼亚正在向市场经济转变。
The law would encourage companies to switch from coal to cleaner fuels. 法律会鼓励各公司从用煤转向使用更清洁的燃料。
4. N-COUNT Switch is also a noun. 转变[usu with supp]
The spokesman implicitly condemned the United States policy switch. 这位发言人含蓄地谴责了美国政策上的转变。
5. PHRASAL VERB Switch over means the same as . 转变
Within a few years the whole country will switch over to digital television. 几年内全国将会换上数字电视。
6. V-T/V-I If you switch your attention from one thing to another or if your attention switches, you stop paying attention to the first thing and start paying attention to the second. 转移 (注意力)
My mother's interest had switched to my health. 我母亲的兴趣已转移到我的健康上来了。
7. V-T If you switch two things, you replace one with the other. 调换
In half an hour, they'd switched the tags on every cable. 半个小时内,他们换了每根电缆的标签。
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switch /swɪtʃ/ (switching,switched,switches)
剑桥词典
- You turn the television on by flipping the switch at the side .
- Mysteriously, the light came on, although no one was near the switch.
- An additional power switch for the radio is handily located next to the steering wheel .
- She flicked the on-off switch.
- All these machines operate at the flick of a switch.
switch noun (DEVICE)
[ 可数名词:有复数形式的名词 ]a small device , usually pushed up or down with your finger , that controls and turns on or off an electric current
开关
a light switch 电灯开关
Can you flip the switch? 你能打开那个开关吗?
switches [ 名词的复数形式 ] US (mainly UK points)
a place on a railway track where the rails (= metal bars on which the trains travel ) can be moved to allow a train to change from one track to another
(铁路的)道岔,转辙器
The train rattled as it went over the switches. 火车哐啷哐啷驶过道岔。
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switch noun (CHANGE)
[ 可数名词:有复数形式的名词 ]a sudden or complete change , especially of one person or thing for another
突然改变,彻底改变;调换;转换 返回 switch