slates

英 [sleɪts]

美 [sleɪts]

n.  板岩; 石板; (盖房顶的)石板瓦; (选举中的)候选人名单
v.  (尤指在报纸上)批评，抨击; 预定; 计划; 安排; 推举; 选定
slate的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 板岩;石板
  Slateis a dark grey rock that can be easily split into thin layers. Slate is often used for covering roofs.
  1. ... a stone-built cottage, with a traditional slate roof.
     传统石板瓦屋顶的石屋
• (盖房顶用的)石板瓦
  Aslateis one of the small flat pieces of slate that are used for covering roofs.
• N-COUNT 候选人名单;提名名单
  Aslateis a list of candidates for an election, usually from the same party.
  1. The leadership want to present a single slate of candidates to be approved in an open vote.
     领导层打算只提交一份供公开投票表决通过的候选人名单。
• V-PASSIVE 预定;计划;安排
  If somethingis slated tohappen, it is planned to happen at a particular time or on a particular occasion.
  1. Bromfield was slated to become U.S. Secretary of Agriculture...
     布罗姆菲尔德被确定为美国农业部长。
  2. Controversial energy measures are slated for Senate debate within days.
     几项颇受争议的能源措施定于几天后提交参议院讨论。
• VERB 严厉批评;猛烈抨击
  If somethingis slated, it is criticized very severely.
  1. Arnold Schwarzenegger's new restaurant has been slated by a top food critic...
     阿诺德·施瓦辛格的新餐馆受到了一位顶级食评家的恶评。
  2. Slated by critics at the time, the film has since become a cult classic.
     尽管在当时备受评论家的非议，这部影片后来却成了一部有关异端邪教的经典之作。
• PHRASE 从头开始;改过自新
  If you startwith a clean slate, you do not take account of previous mistakes or failures and make a fresh start.
  1. The proposal is to pay everything you owe, so that you can start with a clean slate.
     建议你还清所有的债务，这样你就能够重新开始了。
• PHRASE 一笔勾销;既往不咎
  If youwipe the slate clean, you decide to forget previous mistakes, failures, or debts and to start again.
  1. Why not wipe the slate clean and start all over again?
     为什么不洗心革面、从头来过呢？

双语例句

• The jury all wrote down on their slates, 'SHE doesn't believe there'san atom of meaning in it,' but none of them attempted to explain the paper.
  陪审员都在纸板上写下：她相信这些诗没有任何意义。但是他们中没有一个试图解释一下这些诗。
• Exhale rough sweetness against the starry slates.
  把粗糙的甜味吐向闪烁的板岩。
• The twelve jurors were all writing very busily on slates.
  十二位陪审员全都在纸板上忙着写什么。
• Apple used its buying power and dominant position in the tablet market to hit competitors like Microsoft, whose partners are preparing to launch an array of Windows 8 Metro slates later this year.
  苹果利用其粉丝的购买力和其在平板市场的主导地位给了竞争对手强力一击，比如微软，后者准备在年底与合作伙伴推出一系列预装Windows8Metro界面的平板电脑。
• Study on strength characteristics of slates based on Hoek-Brown criterion
  基于Hoek-Brown准则的板岩强度特征研究
• UNICEF, a United Nations agency, slates British parents for encouraging "compulsive consumerism" in their children.
  联合国的儿童基金会组织批评英国父母给小孩子积极灌输强迫性消费。
• 'Write that down,'the King said to the jury, and the jury eagerly wrote down all three dates on their slates, and then added them up, and reduced the answer to shillings and pence.
  “记下来。”国王对陪审员说，陪审员急忙在纸板上写下了这三个日期，然后把它们加起来，再把半数折算成先令和便士。
• Two inmates hurled slates at prison officers spraying them with a hose
  两名囚犯朝着用水管向他们喷水的狱警们扔石板瓦。
• The main products: various kinds of regular slabs, tumbled stones, honed stones, square tiles, sidestep stone, kerb stones, wall tiles, slates and etc.
  晨光公司主要产品：各种规格板材、仿古石、亚光、广场块石、台阶石、路边石、墙壁石、栏板石等十大系列300余种产品。
• The contract specifies red tiles, not slates, for the roof.
  合同规定屋顶用红瓦，并非石板瓦。