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quarter

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英[ˈkwɔːtə(r)]
美[ˈkwɔːrtər]

基本释义

n.
四分之一; 季度; 一刻钟; 25分硬币; 地区; 群体; 营房; 半圆的月相; 一节; 夸特; 慈悲; 住处
v.
把…分成四等份; 为…提供临时住所

词性变化

实用例句

a quarter of a mile

四分之一英里

牛津词典

The programme lasted an hour and a quarter.

这个节目历时一小时十五分钟。

牛津词典

Cut the apple into quarters.

把苹果切成四瓣。

牛津词典

The theatre was about three quarters full.

剧场大约坐了四分之三的人。

牛津词典

(North American English also)It's quarter of four now─I'll meet you at quarter after.

现在是三点四十五分,我将在四点十五分和你碰面。

牛津词典

It's (a) quarter to four now─I'll meet you at (a) quarter past.

现在是差一刻四点,我会在四点一刻和你碰面。

牛津词典

the Latin quarter

拉丁区

牛津词典

the historic quarter of the city

具有历史意义的城区

牛津词典

Support for the plan came from an unexpected quarter.

支持这一计划的是没料想到的一方。

牛津词典

The news was greeted with dismay in some quarters .

有一部分人对这条消息感到泄气。

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We were moved to more comfortable living quarters .

我们搬进了较舒适的住处。

牛津词典

married quarters

已婚军人宿舍

牛津词典

The moon is in its first quarter.

月亮正处于上弦。

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His rivals knew that they could expect no quarter from such a ruthless adversary.

他的竞争者明白,不能期望如此残忍的对手发善心。

牛津词典

She peeled and quartered an apple.

她削去苹果皮,把它切成四瓣。

牛津词典

A quarter of the residents are over 55 years old...

1/4的居民年龄在55岁以上。

I've got to go in a quarter of an hour...

一刻钟以后我就得走了。

The group said results for the third quarter are due on October 29.

该集团表示第三季度的结果将于10月29日公布。

It was a quarter to six...

当时是6点差一刻。

See you about quarter to nine...

8点45分左右再见。

Chop the mushrooms and quarter the tomatoes.

把蘑菇切成丁,再把西红柿切成四瓣。

The doses I suggested for adults could be halved or quartered.

我之前建议成人服用的剂量可以降到1/2或者1/4。

I dropped a quarter into the slot of the pay phone.

我向付费电话的投币孔里投了一枚25分硬币。

Look for hotels in the French Quarter.

在法国人居住区寻找旅馆。

Help came from an unexpected quarter...

援助来自于一个意想不到的团体。

There are fears in some quarters that the republic would have little chance of surviving on its own.

某些人士担心共和国独立支撑下去的希望很渺茫。

Mckinnon went down from deck to the officers' quarters.

麦金农走下甲板,来到军官们的住处。

Our soldiers are quartered in Peredelkino.

我们的士兵在佩列杰利基诺扎营。

You can watch aircraft take off or land at close quarters...

你可以近距离观察飞机的起降。

This is not war as you learned it. It is brutal work, with no quarter given.

这并不是你所了解的战争。它残酷无情,对人没有半点怜悯。

真题例句

A quarter of this year's American grain harvest will be used to produce bio-fuel for cars.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

Marriott had its worst quarter ever, with revenues per room falling by 25%.

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

reduced his revenues to a quarter of normal years

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

Mm, I think 16, but 3 quarters of them are women.

出自-2012年12月听力原文

The company spent the last five years developing solar panels that are only about a quarter of an inch thick and are strong enough to stand up to heavy highway traffic without breaking or making the roads more slippery.

2017年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section A

This prompted the company to cut its forecasts for the full fourth quarter.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

More than a quarter of children live in single-parent households—a historic high, according to Pew—and these children are three times as likely to live in poverty as those who live with married parents.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

Less than an hour away by snowmobile, Chinese labourers have updated the Great Wall Station, a vital part of China's plan to operate five bases on Antarctica, complete with an indoor badminton court and sleeping quarters for 150 people.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

A study of employees at health insurance provider Aetna revealed that roughly one quarter of those taking in-office yoga and mindfulness classes reported a 28% reduction in their stress levels and a 20% improvement in sleep quality.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

According to the Centre for Strategic and International Studies,about three quarter of energy we use to move things, including ourselves, accomplishes no useful work.

出自-2015年12月听力原文

That same study found that randomly assigned interracial roommates at Ohio State broke up before the end of the quarter about twice as often as same-race roommates.

出自-2012年6月听力原文

We've had more people booking in the first quarter of this year than last," says Hubert Moineau, founder of Tselana Travel, which is planning to introduce a new program of longer adventure trips, including polar expeditions and cruises in the Galápagos.

出自-2011年6月听力原文

The fact that there is an iced coffee on the market with over a quarter of a woman's daily calories allowance is alarming," Dr Rachel Thompson, science programme manager at London-based WCRF, said in a widely-reported statement.

出自-2010年12月听力原文

4 million working days were lost to work related stress last year, a jump of nearly a quarter.

2019年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C

A quarter of students report that their use of digital devices during class causes their grades to suffer .

2018年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读

A study of employees at health insurance provider Aetna revealed that roughly one quarter of those taking in-office yoga and mindfulness classes reported a 28% reduction in their stress levels and a 20% improvement in sleep quality.

2016年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

It has consequences: South Africa's ongoing drought—the worst in three decades—will cost at least a quarter of its com crop this year.

2018年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

More than 20 years after the internet was opened to commerce, the Census Bureau tells us that brick and mortar sales accounted for 92.3 percent of retail sales in the first quarter of 2016.

2019年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

Sure enough, the Census Bureau just released data showing that online retail sales surged 15.2 percent between the first quarter of 2015 and the first quarter of 2016.

2019年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

The report finds more than a quarter of the countries experienced flat or falling monthly wages in real terms.

2016年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section B

During my first quarter at university of California, riverside ucr, I thought that I wanted to study political science with its focus on international affairs, so that's what I applied for.

2016年高考英语浙江卷(6月) 阅读理解 七选五 原文

During my first quarter, I spoke directly to the chancellor, asking him for support towards my initiatives, met with the vice chancellors.

2016年高考英语浙江卷(6月) 阅读理解 七选五 原文

If they tell you otherwise, they're lying and will probably change what they want to purse within the first quarter of attendance.

2016年高考英语浙江卷(6月) 阅读理解 七选五 原文

It's much faster, for example, to shop for groceries at a quarter to three than to stand in line during the after-work rush.

2016年高考英语浙江卷(10月) 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

That's a quarter-hour more you could be sleeping if you bought a coffee maker with a timer.

2017年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 七选五 原文

Of all the changes that have taken place in English-language newspapers during the past quarter-century,perhaps the most far-reaching has been the inexorable decline in the scope and seriousness of their arts coverage.

出自-2010年考研阅读原文

In the third quarter, CEO turnover was down 23% from a year ago as nervous boards stuck with the leaders they had, according to Liberum Research.

出自-2011年考研阅读原文

A quarter of America’s public-sector workers have a university degree.

出自-2012年考研阅读原文

The State, War, and Navy Building, as it was originally known, housed the three Executive Branch Departments most intimately associated with formulating and conducting the nation's foreign policy in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the first quarter of the twentieth century-the period when the United States emerged as an international power.

出自-2018年考研阅读原文

During the 2016 presidential campaign, nearly a quarter of web content shared by Twitter users in the politically critical state of Michigan was fake news, according to the University of Oxford.

出自-2018年考研阅读原文

A quarter of America's public-sector workers have a university degree.

2012年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

About a quarter of all Italian immigrants, for example, eventually returned to Italy for good.

2013年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

During the 2016 presidential campaign, nearly a quarter of web content shared by Twitter users in the politically critical state of michigan was fake news, according to the University of Oxford.

2018年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

nitrogen-oxide emissions during the cruising portions of the flight fell by around a quarter.

2010年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

The State, War, and Navy Building, as it was originally known, housed the three Executive Branch Departments most intimately associated with formulating and conducting the nation's foreign policy in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the first

2018年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

英英释义

Noun
  • 1. one of four equal parts;

    "a quarter of a pound"

  • 2. a district of a city having some distinguishing character;

    "the Latin Quarter"

  • 3. one of four periods of play into which some games are divided;

    "both teams scored in the first quarter"

  • 4. a unit of time equal to 15 minutes or a quarter of an hour;

    "it's a quarter til 4"

    "a quarter after 4 o'clock"

  • 5. one of four periods into which the school year is divided;

    "the fall quarter ends at Christmas"

  • 6. a fourth part of a year; three months;

    "unemployment fell during the last quarter"

  • 7. one of the four major division of the compass;

    "the wind is coming from that quarter"

  • 8. a quarter of a hundredweight (25 pounds)

  • 9. a quarter of a hundredweight (28 pounds)

  • 10. a United States coin worth one fourth of a dollar;

    "he fed four quarters into the slot machine"

  • 11. an unspecified person;

    "he dropped a word in the right quarter"

  • 12. the rear part of a ship

  • 13. piece of leather that comprises the part of a shoe or boot covering the heel and joining the vamp

Verb
  • 1. provide housing for (military personnel)

  • 2. pull (a person) apart with four horses tied to his extremities, so as to execute him;

    "in the old days, people were drawn and quartered for certain crimes"

  • 3. divide into quarters;

    "quarter an apple"

  • 4. divide by four; divide into quarters

同义词辨析

district, region, area, section, zone, belt, quarter, neighbourhood

这些名词均有"地区"之意。

  • district: 多指由政府等机构出于行政管理等目的而明确划分的地区。
  • region: 普通用词,常指地球上、大气中具有自然分界线的区域,特指按照气候、人体或其他特征鲜明、自成一体的地区。
  • area: 普通用词,指整体中较大的,界线不分明的一部分。
  • section: 普通用词,指城市、国家或天然界线形成的地区。
  • zone: 科技用词,指圆形或弧形地带,尤指地图上按温度划分的五个地带。用作一般意义时,也可指具有某种特征的其它地区。
  • belt: 从本义"带,带状物"引申而指任何广阔的长条地带,也可指种植某种作物的地区。
  • quarter: 指城市里具有相同性质或独特风味的地区,比section范围小,但划分更精确。
  • neighbourhood: 指比section的划定更清楚,范围更小。具体指城市中的住宅区,也可指附近一带。

同义词

n.四分之一,一季度,一刻钟

parttermfourthaquarteronequarter-hour

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