quartered

英 [ˈkwɔːtəd]

美 [ˈkwɔːrtərd]

v.  把…切成(或分成)四部分; 给…提供食宿
quarter的过去分词和过去式

柯林斯词典

• FRACTION 四分之一
  Aquarteris one of four equal parts of something.
  1. A quarter of the residents are over 55 years old...
     1/4的居民年龄在55岁以上。
  2. I've got to go in a quarter of an hour...
     一刻钟以后我就得走了。
  3. Prices have fallen by a quarter since January...
     1月份以来，价格已经下跌了25%。
  4. Cut the peppers into quarters.
     将辣椒切为4瓣。
  5. Quarteris also a predeterminer.
     
  6. The largest asteroid is Ceres, which is about a quarter the size of the moon.
     最大的小行星是谷神星，体积约为月球的1/4。
  7. Quarteris also an adjective.
     
  8. ...the past quarter century...
     过去的25年
  9. He closed his door and started the quarter-mile walk down the hill.
     他关上门，踏上了1/4英里长的下山路。
• N-COUNT 季度;季
  Aquarteris a fixed period of three months. Companies often divide their financial year into four quarters.
  1. The group said results for the third quarter are due on October 29.
     该集团表示第三季度的结果将于10月29日公布。
• N-UNCOUNT 一刻钟；十五分钟
  When you are telling the time, you usequarterto talk about the fifteen minutes before or after an hour. For example, 8.15 isquarter pasteight, and 8.45 isquarter tonine. In American English, you can also say that 8.15 is aquarter aftereight and 8.45 is aquarter ofnine.
  1. It was a quarter to six...
     当时是6点差一刻。
  2. See you about quarter to nine...
     8点45分左右再见。
  3. I got a call at quarter of seven one night...
     一天晚上6点45分时，我接到了一个电话。
  4. Nobody else turned up till a quarter past ten...
     直到10点一刻，其他人才露面。
  5. The time was recorded at a quarter after five.
     时间显示是5点15分。
• VERB 把…分成四等份
  If youquartersomething such as a fruit or a vegetable, you cut it into four roughly equal parts.
  1. Chop the mushrooms and quarter the tomatoes.
     把蘑菇切成丁，再把西红柿切成四瓣。
• VERB 把…降至原先的四分之一;把…减少四分之三
  If the number or size of somethingis quartered, it is reduced to about a quarter of its previous number or size.
  1. The doses I suggested for adults could be halved or quartered.
     我之前建议成人服用的剂量可以降到1/2或者1/4。
• N-COUNT (美国或加拿大的)25分硬币
  Aquarteris an American or Canadian coin that is worth 25 cents.
  1. I dropped a quarter into the slot of the pay phone.
     我向付费电话的投币孔里投了一枚25分硬币。
• N-COUNT (城镇中某一类人群生活或工作的)区，地区
  A particularquarterof a town is a part of the town where a particular group of people traditionally live or work.
  1. Look for hotels in the French Quarter.
     在法国人居住区寻找旅馆。
• N-COUNT (做出反应或行动的)某位人士，某个团体
  To refer to a person or group you may not want to name, you can talk about the reactions or actions from a particularquarter.
  1. Help came from an unexpected quarter...
     援助来自于一个意想不到的团体。
  2. There are fears in some quarters that the republic would have little chance of surviving on its own.
     某些人士担心共和国独立支撑下去的希望很渺茫。
• N-PLURAL (军人、水手、仆人的)住处，宿舍，营房
  The rooms provided for soldiers, sailors, or servants to live in are called theirquarters.
  1. Mckinnon went down from deck to the officers' quarters.
     麦金农走下甲板，来到军官们的住处。
• VERB 为…提供临时住所
  If peopleare quarteredsomewhere, they are provided with accommodation for a short time, usually while they are working away from home.
  1. Our soldiers are quartered in Peredelkino.
     我们的士兵在佩列杰利基诺扎营。
• PHRASE 近距离地;近在咫尺；接近地
  If you do somethingat close quarters, you do it very near to a particular person or thing.
  1. You can watch aircraft take off or land at close quarters...
     你可以近距离观察飞机的起降。
• PHRASE 不仁慈；不宽恕
  If you say that someone was givenno quarter, you mean that they were not treated kindly by someone who had power or control over them.
  1. This is not war as you learned it. It is brutal work, with no quarter given.
     这并不是你所了解的战争。它残酷无情，对人没有半点怜悯。

双语例句

• If he wandered off he quartered back and forth until he was on the gravel again.
  一旦走偏，它就摸索着直至再走回石子道上来。
• Before he became popular, he quartered in that shabby place.
  成名之前，他就蜗居在那个简陋的地方。
• The soldiers were quartered with local villagers during the war.
  在战争期间，士兵们住在当地的村民家里。
• Several thousand were quartered on the main square out in the open.
  有好几千人露宿在主要的广场上。
• The teenager was drawn and quartered for wrecking the family's only car. He will want to avoid both severe punishment and a ruined reputation.
  少年因损坏了家中唯一的汽车而遭到严厉的惩罚他不想接受严厉的惩罚，或是使自己的声誉遭到破坏。
• He quartered his troops in the villages.
  他安置他的军队驻扎在村中。
• Had we lost the war, they would have been hanged, beheaded, drown and quartered.
  如果我们输掉战争，他们就会被绞死，被砍头，被溺死或者被五马分尸。
• Its parliament is hung, but Australia is far from being drawn and quartered.
  尽管议会中没有一个多数党派，但澳大利亚也远未因此而饱受折磨。
• A more remote area where the camels were quartered.
  一个更为偏僻的驼群投宿地。
• Once he quartered himself like this on an old schoolmate of his, named Brown, who had got married and steady and settled down.
  一次，他就像这样住进了他的一个老同学布朗的家里，布朗已经结婚安家，过着稳定的生活。