shutter
名词 n.
动词 v.
英 /ˈʃʌtəː/|[ˈʃʰʌ̹tʰəː]
英文释义
名词 n.
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One who shuts or closes something.
— the openers and shutters of the sluices we believe are basic to the history of mind
- Each of a series of protective panels, usually wooden, placed over windows to block out the light.
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A similar screen used as an improvised stretcher to carry someone wounded or sick.
— [T]he other fiddler had been carried home, exhausted, on a shutter.
- The part of a camera, normally closed, that opens for a controlled period of time to let light in when taking a picture.
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Any other opening and closing device.
— A service hatch with sliding shutter is situated at the end of the kitchen next to the dining compartment. […] A shutter, in three parts, is fitted, which when lowered completely encloses the bar.
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A panel used to contain freshly poured concrete, which is usually removed when the concrete hardens.
— The vertical wall was poured in two lifts, using two pairs of steel shutters which were bolted tightly onto 9-in. long wooden spacers.
动词 v.
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To close shutters covering.
— Shutter the windows: there's a storm coming!
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To close up (a building) for a prolonged period of inoccupancy.
— It took all day to shutter the cabin now that the season has ended.
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To cancel or terminate.
— The US is seeking to get Iran to shutter its nuclear weapons program.
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To rain heavily.
— Mollie Wilson was a teenager living with her parents in Donaghmore in Tyrone, Northern Ireland [and said this]: 3rd September [1939] When Chamberlain made his declaration of war, there was violent thunder and lightning and rain shuttered down. I had always trusted rain too.
词汇关系
词源
词源 1
From shut + -er. Compare shuttle.
词源 2
From shut + -er. Compare shuttle.
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