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 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。
• The gentrification of Times Square made for a unique social experiment: What happens to sex workers when they are pushed off the streets and into the outer boroughs?
  时代广场的中产阶级化有利于单一的社会试验：当性工作者走出街巷进入到外面的街区时会发生什么？
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Square the page off with your ruler.
  用尺在这页纸上打上方格。
• 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
• 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。
• 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。