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 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• In Japan, Square Enix is having Aya's voice actress change the tone of her battle shouts and cries based off the costume.
  史克威尔公司要求日版声优根据服装的不同调整战斗时的叫喊声。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。