及物动词

名词

夜生活

1. 四分之一
A quarter is one of four equal parts of something.

2. 季度;季
A quarter is a fixed period of three months. Companies often divide their financial year into four quarters.

3. 一刻钟；十五分钟
When you are telling the time, you use quarter to talk about the fifteen minutes before or after an hour. For example,
8. 15 is quarter past eight, and
8. 45 is quarter to nine. In American English, you can also say that
8. 15 is a quarter after eight and
8. 45 is a quarter of nine.

4. 把…分成四等份
If you quarter something such as a fruit or a vegetable, you cut it into four roughly equal parts.

5. 把…降至原先的四分之一;把…减少四分之三
If the number or size of something is quartered, it is reduced to about a quarter of its previous number or size.

6. (美国或加拿大的)25分硬币
A quarter is an American or Canadian coin that is worth 25 cents.

7. (城镇中某一类人群生活或工作的)区，地区
A particular quarter of a town is a part of the town where a particular group of people traditionally live or work.

8. (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 particular quarter .

9. (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 their quarters .

10. 为…提供临时住所
If people are quartered somewhere, they are provided with accommodation for a short time, usually while they are working away from home.

11. 近距离地;近在咫尺；接近地
If you do something at close quarters, you do it very near to a particular person or thing.

12. 不仁慈；不宽恕
If you say that someone was given no quarter, you mean that they were not treated kindly by someone who had power or control over them.

1. clemency or mercy shown to a defeated opponent

e.g. he surrendered but asked for quarter

2. piece of leather that comprises the part of a shoe or boot covering the heel and joining the vamp

3. the rear part of a ship

Synonym: sternafter partpooptail

4. a district of a city having some distinguishing character

e.g. the Latin Quarter

5. an unspecified person

e.g. he dropped a word in the right quarter

6. a United States or Canadian coin worth one fourth of a dollar

e.g. he fed four quarters into the slot machine

7. a quarter of a hundredweight (28 pounds)

8. a quarter of a hundredweight (25 pounds)

9. one of four equal parts

e.g. a quarter of a pound

Synonym: one-fourthfourthone-quarterfourth parttwenty-five percentquartern

10. one of the four major division of the compass

e.g. the wind is coming from that quarter

11. a fourth part of a year
three months

e.g. unemployment fell during the last quarter

12. one of four periods into which the school year is divided

e.g. the fall quarter ends at Christmas

13. a unit of time equal to 15 minutes or a quarter of an hour

e.g. it's a quarter til 4
a quarter after 4 o'clock

14. (football, professional basketball) one of four divisions into which some games are divided

e.g. both teams scored in the first quarter