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

• We must square off before the professor comes to give a lecture.
  在教授来讲课前把一切准备好。
• 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。
• With a lot of those solutions today, you do have a square card reader hanging off the iPad.
  在这些解决方案中，许多都需要在iPad下挂上一个Square读卡器。
• 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。
• These places are cabined without inflexible square, can cast off the oppressive feeling of the box temporarily.
  这些地方没有呆板的方形拘束，可以暂时摆脱盒子的压迫感。
• 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。
• S eller Oh, I live in the east of the Municipal Square, you can walk through Taiyuan Street, and take the221bus and get off the bus at the Municipal Intermediate Court.
  卖主哦，我家住在市政府广场的东侧，你可以穿过太原街步行街，乘坐221路公交车到沈阳市中级法院下车。
• The search has so far covered 18,600 square kilometres of ocean off Western Australia, where the aircraft is presumed to have ditched after running out of fuel.
  到目前为止，搜寻已经覆盖了澳大利亚以西1.86万平方公里的海域。客机被认为在燃油耗尽后坠入了这片海域。
• 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。