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 device, powered by Android, will square off against a series of new models released by Apple, Nokia and HTC Corp.
  该新款机型为安卓系统，将与苹果，诺基亚和HTC公司新上市的系列新产品展开强有力的竞争。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 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。