square off

英 [skweə(r) ɒf]

美 [skwer ɔːf]

把…加工成方形; 摆好架势; 准备迎战

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 把…弄成方形
  If yousquaresomethingoff, you alter it so that it has the shape of a square.
  1. Peel a thick-skinned orange and square off the ends with a sharp knife.
     剥开一只厚皮橙子，用锋利的刀将两端削去使它呈方形。
  2. ...white modern buildings that look like squared-off wedding cakes.
     看起来像是方形结婚蛋糕的白色现代建筑
• PHR-V-RECIP 摆好打斗的架势;准备迎战
  If one group or personsquares off againstorwithanother, they prepare to fight them.
  1. In Florida, farmers are squaring off against cities for rights to groundwater...
     在佛罗里达州，农民正摆好架势，准备和城市争夺地下水的使用权。
  2. French soldiers squared off with a gunman at a road checkpoint...
     在一个公路检查站法国士兵摆开架势，准备迎战一名持枪者。
  3. The Los Angeles Lakers and the Chicago Bulls square off for the first game of the series.
     洛杉矶湖人队和芝加哥公牛队摆好了架势，准备进行总决赛的第一场对决。

英英释义

verb

• settle conclusively
  1. We finally settled the argument
  Synonym:settlesquare updetermine

双语例句

• Carol: That star of the television show "Square Off".
  卡罗：电视剧《清算》中的明星。
• French soldiers squared off with a gunman at a road checkpoint
  在一个公路检查站法国士兵摆开架势，准备迎战一名持枪者。
• The curvilinear outer skin comes to life with U-GLASS, and the square mass is expressed with wood ( IPE) that relates to the nature off books, paper, and bookshelves.
  曲线形外表皮采用U形玻璃，更显活泼生动，而方形结构采用重蚁木表达出与图书、文献和书架之间的区别。
• In Florida, farmers are squaring off against cities for rights to groundwater
  在佛罗里达州，农民正摆好架势，准备和城市争夺地下水的使用权。
• Less than a day after Martin Scorsese gave a hometown crowd an early glimpse at his upcoming Hugo, James Cameron dropped by Times Square to show off 17 minutes from his ongoing 3-D conversion of Titanic.
  在不到一天的时间内，继导演马丁斯克塞斯给家乡人民预先一瞥即将上映的影片《雨果卡布里特的发明》后，詹姆斯卡梅隆又来到时代广场放映了17分钟还在制作中的3D《泰坦尼克号》片段。
• Peel a thick-skinned orange and square off the ends with a sharp knife.
  剥开一只厚皮橙子，用锋利的刀将两端削去使它呈方形。
• Tonight's talk: Variable and Constant square off over data storage.
  今晚的谈话：对数据存储的变量和常量平方米。
• Ewan McGregor is in talks to square off against Tom Hanks in "Angels& Demons," Columbia's prequel to" The Da Vinci Code "being directed by Ron Howard and produced by Brian Grazer and John Calley.
  伊万·麦克格雷格正在沟通与汤姆·汉克斯出演《天使与魔鬼》一片事宜。该片是哥伦比亚制作公司拍摄的《达芬奇密码》的前传，由朗·霍华德导演，布莱恩·格雷泽和约翰·卡利制作。
• They dragged him to the village square and chopped his head off.
  他们将他拖到村里的广场上，把他的头砍了下来。
• The gentrification of Times Square made for a unique social experiment: What happens to sex workers when they are pushed off the streets and into the outer boroughs?
  时代广场的中产阶级化有利于单一的社会试验：当性工作者走出街巷进入到外面的街区时会发生什么？