['kwɔtə(r)s]
quarters
n. 营房,住处

例句与用法:

  1. `Hear with one's ears' and `divide into four quarters' are pleonasms.
    `用耳朵听'和`分成四个四分之一'是赘述.
  2. The minister's speech is interpreted in some quarters (ie by some people) as an admission that the Government was wrong.
    部长的讲话有人认为是承认政府错了.
  3. The wind blew from all quarters.
    风从四面八方吹来.
  4. Cut the apple into quarters.
    把苹果切成四瓣儿.
  5. The clock strikes the hours, the half-hours and the quarters.
    这个钟在正点、半点和一刻钟都打点。
  6. The soldiers grappled with the enemy at close quarters.
    士兵短兵相接地同敌人格斗。
  7. His living quarters were two small rooms on the second floor of the store.
    他的住处是那家店铺二楼上的两个小房间。
  8. Married quarters are houses where soldiers live with their families.
    已婚人员营房是军人与其眷属所住的宿舍。

英英解释:

名词 quarters:

  1. housing available for people to live in
  2. 同义词:living quarters

名词 quarter:

  1. one of four equal parts
  2. 同义词:one-fourth, fourth, quarter, fourth part, twenty-five percent, quartern
  3. a district of a city having some distinguishing character
  4. 同义词:quarter
  5. one of four periods of play into which some games are divided
  6. 同义词:quarter
  7. a unit of time equal to 15 minutes or a quarter of an hour
  8. 同义词:quarter
  9. one of four periods into which the school year is divided
  10. 同义词:quarter
  11. a fourth part of a year; three months
  12. 同义词:quarter
  13. one of the four major division of the compass
  14. 同义词:quarter
  15. a quarter of a hundredweight (25 pounds)
  16. 同义词:quarter
  17. a quarter of a hundredweight (28 pounds)
  18. 同义词:quarter
  19. a United States coin worth one fourth of a dollar
  20. 同义词:quarter
  21. an unspecified person
  22. 同义词:quarter
  23. the rear part of a ship
  24. 同义词:stern, after part, quarter, poop, tail
  25. piece of leather that comprises the part of a shoe or boot covering the heel and joining the vamp
  26. 同义词:quarter
  27. clemency or mercy shown to a defeated opponent
  28. 同义词:quarter

动词 quarter:

  1. provide housing for (military personnel)
  2. 同义词:quarter, billet, canton
  3. pull (a person) apart with four horses tied to his extremities, so as to execute him
  4. 同义词:draw, quarter, draw and quarter
  5. divide into quarters
  6. 同义词:quarter
  7. divide by four; divide into quarters
  8. 同义词:quarter