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

• The monks'shoes on the square Because when chanting Buddhist scripts, the monks were required not to wear shoes, So they put off shoes and put them on the square in order to dry them.
  《僧侣们的鞋就晒在广场上》广场上晒着僧侣们的鞋子，因为听经时僧侣们是要脱掉鞋子的，顺便晒晒。
• Digital control is used to create a square wave, a signal switched between on and off.
  数字控制被用来创建一个方波，信号在开和关之间切换。
• The KL side will not be in action today but will square off against Sabah tomorrow.
  吉隆坡方将不会在今天的行动，但会方对沙巴假。
• We'd like to see the two candidates square off on camera.
  我们愿意看到两位候选人在摄影机前面辩护。
• Case study for the treatment of precast square pile joint's falling off
  预制方桩接头脱落处理实例
• Carol: That star of the television show "Square Off".
  卡罗：电视剧《清算》中的明星。
• 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 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。
• 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 reality is that these "contracts" never produce the desired result; they simply define the battlefield on which opponents will square off as soon as things go wrong.
  实际情况是这些合同从来不会产生有意义的结果；他们只是在一旦出现问题时定义一个同对手作战的战场。