tubes

英 [tjuːbz]

美 [tubz]

n.  (金属、塑料、橡胶等制成的)管，管子; 管状物; (由软金属或塑料制成的带盖的、盛膏状物的)软管
v.  给…装上管子; 插管（以助呼吸); 用管道运输
tube的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 管子;管;管状物
  Atubeis a long hollow object that is usually round, like a pipe.
  1. He is fed by a tube that enters his nose.
     他靠鼻饲管进食。
  2. ...a cardboard tube.
     纸卷芯
• N-COUNT (内盛膏状物等的)管状容器
  Atube ofsomething such as paste is a long, thin container which you squeeze in order to force the paste out.
  1. ...a tube of toothpaste.
     一管牙膏
  2. ...a small tube of moisturizer.
     一小管保湿液
• N-COUNT 管状器官;管;道
  Some long, thin, hollow parts in your body are referred to astubes.
  1. The lungs are in fact constructed of thousands of tiny tubes.
     肺实际上由上千条细微的气管构成。
• N-SING (伦敦的)地铁
  The tubeis the underground railway system in London.
  1. I took the tube then the train and came straight here...
     我先乘地铁，然后坐火车直奔这里。
  2. He travelled by tube.
     他乘地铁旅行。
• N-COUNT 电视机
  You can refer to the television asthe tube.
  1. The only baseball he saw was on the tube.
     他看过的唯一一场棒球赛是在电视上看的。

in BRIT, use 英国英语用 the box


• PHRASE （公司、经济、机构）完全垮掉，彻底崩溃，告吹
  a business, economy, or institutiongoes down the tubesorgoes down the tube, it fails or collapses completely.
  1. The country was going down the tubes economically...
     该国经济正在彻底崩溃。
  2. When I was dieting, that was when my social life started going down the tube.
     我节食的时候，也就切断了一切社交生活。
• See also:bronchial tubecathode-ray tubefallopian tubeinner tubetest tube

双语例句

• It is very distressing to see your baby attached to tubes and monitors
  看见自己宝宝身上连着各种管子和监视器，心里会非常痛苦。
• In this paper, the forming process of the thin walled helical tubes is analyzed.
  分析了薄壁螺旋管的成型过程，阐述其自动成型机的原理及结构。
• We have an inquiry for steel tubes.
  我们有一份钢管询价单。
• An annular combustor with evaporation tubes was designed for certain micro-turbojet engine.
  为某微型涡喷发动机设计了一个蒸发管环形燃烧室。
• She washed the test tubes and she dried them.
  她清洗了试管，并把它们弄干了。
• This is a good indication that the tubes and rods may have to be replaced with longer ones.
  这是一个良好的迹象标明，管和棒能够需求更长的取代。
• More rarely, the tubes have been malformed from birth.
  这些管状器官先天畸形的现象更加少见。
• After a massive heart attack, he was strapped to a bed, with tubes in every orifice.
  经历了一次严重的心脏病发作之后，他被绑在床上，全身都插着导管。
• These tubes are not necessarily of circular cross-section.
  这些毛细管不一定具有圆形断面。
• Life is being created in laboratories and test tubes.
  生命在实验室和试管里被创造了出来。