| 单词 | closed |
| 释义 | closed (kloʊzd ) 1. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] A closed group of people does not welcome new people or ideas from outside. It was to be a closed circle of no more than twelve women. It is a closed society in the sense that they've not been exposed to many things. 2. See also close1 3. a closed book phrase If you say that someone or something is a closed book, you mean that you do not know anything about them. Frank Spriggs was a very able man but something of a closed book. Economics was a closed book to him. 4. behind closed doors phrase B2 If people have talks and discussions behind closed doors, they have them in private because they want them to be kept secret. ...decisions taken in secret behind closed doors. Idioms: do something with your eyes closed to do something very easily He reassembled the gun quickly and expertly. It was something he could do with his eyes closed. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers do something behind closed doors [journalism] to do something in private because you want it to be kept secret The summer I was fourteen and Rita was twelve, our parents started having long talks behind closed doors. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers a closed book [British] something or someone that you know or understand very little about Economics were a closed book to him. It constituted a strange, illogical territory where two and two didn't always make four. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Collocations: closed container If you are storing them in a closed container when they aren't completely cooled, the cupcakes will create their own humidity which can cause the liners to start peeling off. ST They are mixed and stored in a closed container overnight for their flavours to blend. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 As the temperature of a gas in a closed container rises, the pressure also rises. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They do, however, have a lower chance of exploding in a closed container by means of spontaneous combustion. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The metal can be isolated through reduction of its oxide with lanthanum metal or by calcium reduction in a closed container. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Some of us, still blessed with our usual employment in a closed economy, are building up savings for the first time in our lives. Times,Sunday Times A closed economy will become a permanently low productivity economy, with low economic growth and stagnant living standards. Times, Sunday Times The pace of change highlights the challenge of opening up a closed economy after half a century. Times, Sunday Times But a closed economy tends to generate even greater pollution. Times, Sunday Times We were open to begin with but moved to closed economy later. Outlook India The young people, aged from ten to 20, were then sent for indoctrination programmes 'in a closed environment'. Times, Sunday Times These studies only measured honey production versus comb production; they did not account fully for bees' feeding in a closed environment. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 By identifying interpersonal barriers in a closed environment, a manager can work with all parties involved to address and resolve these problems. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Develop closed environment life support systems for space. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Intervention to maintain good water quality allows a larger number of shrimp to live in the open system than can survive in the relatively poor quality closed environment. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 What about the bright sun we experience as warmth on our closed eyes? Times,Sunday Times Self-conscious people may find it easier to relax with closed eyes or the lights off. Times, Sunday Times They did so not with closed eyes but with open eyes. The Times Literary Supplement I have pictures of it sitting there with little closed eyes. Times, Sunday Times But at the right dosage, under the right conditions - a comforting room, a pair of headphones for music, closed eyes - the spiritual effects were replicated. Times, Sunday Times Efforts continued to refinance the closed factory for another ten years. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This, regrettably, meant closed factories and job losses. Times, Sunday Times Many closed factories and plants lie unoccupied in the town. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Cook closed factories and warehouses, replacing them with contract manufacturers, causing the company's inventory to fall from months to days. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 His reasons for running included high unemployment and numerous closed factories, as well as the overall state of the country. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The production order was quashed and the procedure to use secret evidence at a closed hearing deemed 'unlawful'. Times, Sunday Times It was not clear why the discussions were held in a closed hearing. Times, Sunday Times Advocates — particularly when acting for the executive — had a duty to the court and to their clients to avoid closed hearings if possible, he added. Times, Sunday Times They want judges to be able to order closed hearings in civil trials. Times, Sunday Times Courts can already order closed hearings in criminal cases. Times, Sunday Times It's a closed meeting, but take a look at how the structure the week. Christianity Today It would be ideal to always get the exact number and names of people who either supported a particular point or dissented at a closed meeting. ST The players called a closed meeting and made a commitment to each other to turn their fortunes around. Globe and Mail It was clear by mid-afternoon that the closed meeting was turning ugly. Times, Sunday Times Of those that held closed meetings, almost 20 per cent did not make arrangements for shareholders to ask questions of the board. Times,Sunday Times I'd sit with a patient in a closed room without knowing if either of us had the virus. The Sun The two winners will then be shown to another closed room and left alone. Times, Sunday Times One witness described a meeting at which dozens of people, including the prime minister, spent more than an hour in a closed room. Times,Sunday Times We were ushered into a secret closed room and told that no questions were allowed. Times, Sunday Times Financial markets are therefore subject to waves of movement as if a closed room were suddenly to generate intense winds as the molecules rushed to and fro in unison. Times, Sunday Times What they reveal in front of the cameras, and what they might reveal in closed session, are two completely different things. Times, Sunday Times These 'introducing the band...' inserts only ever work in closed session. Times, Sunday Times Any further information was shared in a closed session. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In every case, courts should minimise the extent they go into closed session and, if they do, mitigate the consequences. Times, Sunday Times Its reasoning embraced acceptance of the evidence of the witnesses who had been heard in the closed session. Times, Sunday Times A blog gets beneath the skin of a closed society. Times, Sunday Times But the dangers of reporting inconvenient truths from a closed society are still strong in many parts of the world. Times, Sunday Times For it will open a window from their closed society on to the outside world. Times, Sunday Times The rulers of a closed society can never be clear about the state of public opinion. Times,Sunday Times The friends of the closed society are also hard at work. Times, Sunday Times The police also stormed urban railway carriages, firing gas into closed space. Times, Sunday Times Such a stand would be difficult to hang a wig on, and still more impractical for powdering it, an operation preferably undertaken in a closed space to trap the dust. Times, Sunday Times Opening up this previously closed space to visitors gives them another glimpse into the private lives of the royal couple. Times, Sunday Times It determines the time required to reduce a known vapor concentration existing in a closed space to a lower vapor concentration. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Above, hatched flies buzz around in the closed space. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Landlords of the closed stores will receive two lump-sum dividends in return for not receiving rent. Times, Sunday Times The retailer would pay empty property rates on the closed stores. Times, Sunday Times The lenders had said previously that they would not renew the facility unless the cost burden of the closed stores was removed. Times, Sunday Times Landlords of the closed stores agreed to give up their leases in return for six months' payment. Times, Sunday Times This particular year in the paintball industry (2005) saw the most closed stores, fields, and manufacturers than all previous years combined. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Mistaking the curtain behind him for the closed window, he lent back and fell from the first floor, landing on his back. Times, Sunday Times It got trapped on a tiny ledge after climbing up and trying to get in via a closed window. The Sun Behind her, partly drawn red curtains reveal an overcast sky seen through a closed window. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 That night, he sits alone in a hotel room, while a fly tries futilely to get out through a closed window and several others are shown trapped in flypaper. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Roused by spring warmth, they try to migrate back outside, only to find themselves on the wrong side of your closed windows. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 关闭的 Japanese: 閉まっている |
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