| 单词 | sub |
| 释义 | sub (sʌb ) Word forms: subs 1. countable noun In team games such as football, a sub is a player who is brought into a match to replace another player. [informal] We had a few injuries and had to use youth team kids as subs. 2. countable noun A sub is the same as a submarine. [informal] 3. plural noun A fixed amount of money that you pay regularly in order to be a member of a club or society is called your subs. [British, old-fashioned] Subs will be raised as from next year. sub- (sʌb- ) 1. prefix Sub- is used at the beginning of words that have 'under' as part of their meaning. The waters were rising about the rock and would soon submerge it. ...a nuclear-powered submarine. 2. prefix Sub- is added to the beginning of nouns in order to form other nouns that refer to things that are part of a larger thing. ...a subcommittee on family values and individual rights. ...the subdivision of farms into smallholdings. 3. prefix Sub- is added to the beginning of adjectives in order to form other adjectives that describe someone or something as inferior, for example inferior to normal people or to normal things. The cold has made already substandard living conditions even worse. Collocations: nuclear sub High-tech gadgets purify sea water and manufacture oxygen, so this nuclear sub need never come up for air. The Sun By coincidence, a full house will tally numerically with the hundred-plus seamen aboard a nuclear sub. Times, Sunday Times I am surprised we don't have one nuclear sub and aircraft carrier for each continent in case we are involved in more than one conflict at a time. The Sun Swimming by his nuclear sub one day - with fresh water at a premium, that's how submariners wash themselves - he bumps up against a shark. Times, Sunday Times At the height of the conflict, we provided 32 planes, four ships and a nuclear sub. The Sun |
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