windows

英 [ˈwɪndəʊz]

美 [ˈwɪndoʊz]

n.  窗; 窗户; 窗口; 窗玻璃; (计算机屏幕的)窗口，视窗; 墙上(或信封等上)开的窗形的口; 透明窗口
window的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 窗;窗户
  Awindowis a space in the wall of a building or in the side of a vehicle, which has glass in it so that light can come in and you can see out.
  1. He stood at the window, moodily staring out...
     他站在窗前，忧郁地凝视着外面。
  2. The room felt very hot and she wondered why someone did not open a window...
     房间里感觉很热，她纳闷怎么没人开窗子。
  3. ...my car window.
     我的车窗
• N-COUNT (商店的)玻璃橱窗，陈列窗
  Awindowis a large piece of glass along the front of a shop, behind which some of the goods that the shop sells are displayed.
  1. I stood for a few moments in front of the nearest shop window.
     我在最近的一家商店的橱窗前站了一会儿。
• N-COUNT (银行、邮局、火车站、博物馆等处柜台的)窗口
  Awindowis a glass-covered opening above a counter, for example in a bank, post office, railway station, or museum, which the person serving you sits behind.
  1. The woman at the ticket window told me that the admission fee was $17.50.
     售票窗口那个女的告诉我入场费是17.50美元。
• 窗口;视窗
  On a computer screen, awindowis one of the work areas that the screen can be divided into.
• N-COUNT (日程安排等中的)空当，空隙
  If you have awindowin your diary for something, or if you can make awindowfor it, you are free at a particular time and can do it then.
  1. Tell her I've got a window in my diary later on this week.
     告诉她我这周晚些时候有空儿。
• See also:French windowpicture windowrose window
• PHRASE 消失殆尽;烟消云散;化为乌有
  If you say that something such as a plan or a particular way of thinking or behavinghas gone out of the windoworhas flown out of the window, you mean that it has disappeared completely.
  1. By now all logic had gone out of the window...
     到这时根本就不讲什么逻辑了。
  2. When he went, our happiness and our security flew out of the window.
     他走后，我们幸福安稳的好日子便到头了。
• PHRASE 转瞬即逝的机会;稍纵即逝的机会
  If you say that there is awindow of opportunityfor something, you mean that there is an opportunity to do something but that this opportunity will only last for a short time and so it needs to be taken advantage of quickly.
  1. The king said there was now a window of opportunity for peace.
     国王说现在有寻求和平的短暂机会。

英英释义

noun

• (trademark) an operating system with a graphical user interface

双语例句

• As the water came in the windows, all the lights went off.
  随着水从窗子漫进来，灯全部熄灭了。
• You could even order windows from a catalogue — a sort of mail order stained glass service
  你甚至可以根据目录订购窗户——可以说是一种邮购彩色玻璃的业务。
• The can exploded, wrecking the kitchen and bathroom and blowing out windows
  罐子爆炸了，不但炸毁了厨房和浴室，还把窗户炸飞了。
• I loitered away the time in looking through the shop windows.
  我以观看商店橱窗来消磨时光。
• All up and down the street the windows bang shut
  整条街的窗户都砰然关上了。
• Gangs rioted last night, breaking storefront windows and hurling rocks and bottles.
  几个帮派昨晚聚众闹事，他们打碎商店临街的玻璃窗，并投掷石块和瓶子。
• Shopkeepers have boarded up their windows.
  店主们把窗户都封上了。
• The windows and the views beyond them are major determinants of a room's character.
  窗户和窗外的景色是决定一个房间特色的主要因素。
• If you closed the windows you baked
  如果把窗户关上，你会热死的。
• They put plastic sheeting on the insides of our windows.
  他们在我们的窗子里面贴了层塑料薄膜。