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

• 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。
• In Japan, Square Enix is having Aya's voice actress change the tone of her battle shouts and cries based off the costume.
  史克威尔公司要求日版声优根据服装的不同调整战斗时的叫喊声。
• Ewan McGregor is in talks to square off against Tom Hanks in "Angels& Demons," Columbia's prequel to" The Da Vinci Code "being directed by Ron Howard and produced by Brian Grazer and John Calley.
  伊万·麦克格雷格正在沟通与汤姆·汉克斯出演《天使与魔鬼》一片事宜。该片是哥伦比亚制作公司拍摄的《达芬奇密码》的前传，由朗·霍华德导演，布莱恩·格雷泽和约翰·卡利制作。
• We must square off before the professor comes to give a lecture.
  在教授来讲课前把一切准备好。
• 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。
• The KL side will not be in action today but will square off against Sabah tomorrow.
  吉隆坡方将不会在今天的行动，但会方对沙巴假。
• 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。
• 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。
• Tonight's talk: Variable and Constant square off over data storage.
  今晚的谈话：对数据存储的变量和常量平方米。
• With a lot of those solutions today, you do have a square card reader hanging off the iPad.
  在这些解决方案中，许多都需要在iPad下挂上一个Square读卡器。