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单词 corner
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corner
(kɔːʳnəʳ )
Word forms: corners , cornering , cornered
1. countable noun A2
A corner is a point or an area where two or more edges, sides, or surfaces of something join.
He saw the corner of a magazine sticking out from under the blanket. [+ of]
Write 'By Airmail' in the top left-hand corner.
2. countable noun A2
The corner of a room, box, or similar space is the area inside it where its edges or walls meet.
...a card table in the corner of the living room. [+ of]
The ball hurtled into the far corner of the net. [+ of]
Finally I spotted it, in a dark corner over by the piano.
3. countable noun [usually singular]
The corner of your mouth or eye is the side of it.
She flicked a crumb off the corner of her mouth.
Out of the corner of her eye she saw that a car had stopped. [+ of]
4. countable noun A2
The corner of a street is the place where one of its sides ends as it joins another street.
She would spend the day hanging round street corners.
We can't have police officers on every corner.
He waited until the man had turned a corner.
Synonyms: bend, curve  
5. countable noun A2
A corner is a bend in a road.
...a sharp corner.
The road is a succession of hairpin bends, hills, and blind corners.
6. countable noun [with supplement, usually NOUN of noun]
If you talk about the corners of the world, a country, or some other place, you are referring to places that are far away or difficult to get to. [written]
Buyers came from all corners of the world.
The group has been living in a remote corner of the Cambodian jungle.
Synonyms: region, part, area, sector  
7. countable noun
In football, hockey, and some other sports, a corner is a free shot or kick taken from the corner of the pitch.
8. verb
If you corner a person or animal, you force them into a place they cannot escape from.
A police motor-cycle chased his car twelve miles, and cornered him near Rome. [VERB noun]
He was still sitting huddled like a cornered animal. [VERB-ed]
9. verb
If you corner someone, you force them to speak to you when they have been trying to avoid you.
Golan managed to corner the young producer-director for an interview. [VERB noun]
10. verb
If a company or place corners an area of trade, they gain control over it so that no one else can have any success in that area. [business]
This restaurant has cornered the Madrid market for specialist paellas. [VERB noun]
Zurich's affluence came initially from cornering a sizeable chunk of the 14th Century silk trade. [VERB noun]
Synonyms: monopolize, take over, dominate, control  
11. verb
If a car, or the person driving it, corners in a particular way, the car goes round bends in roads in this way.
Peter drove jerkily, cornering too fast and fumbling the gears. [VERB adverb/preposition]
12. around the corner phrase
If you say that something is around the corner, you mean that it will happen very soon. In British English, you can also say that something is round the corner.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer says that economic recovery is just around the corner.
13. around the corner/round the corner phrase
If you say that something is around the corner, you mean that it is very near. In British English, you can also say that something is round the corner.
My new place is just around the corner.
14. to cut corners phrase
If you cut corners, you do something quickly by doing it in a less thorough way than you should. [disapproval]
Take your time, don't cut corners and follow instructions to the letter.
15. the four corners of phrase
You can use expressions such as the four corners of the world to refer to places that are a long way from each other. [written]
They've combed the four corners of the world for the best accessories.
Young people came from the four corners of the nation.
16. in a corner/in a tight corner phrase
If you are in a corner or in a tight corner, you are in a situation which is difficult to deal with and get out of.
The government is in a corner on interest rates.
He appears to have backed himself into a tight corner.
Idioms:
turn the corner
to begin to recover from a serious illness or a difficult situation
At last, Joe turned the corner.
paint yourself into a corner or box yourself into a corner
to find yourself in a difficult situation where you have to act in a certain way
I've been watching her these last few years. She's painted herself into a corner. She is trapped.
just around the corner
about to happen
With summer just around the corner, there couldn't be a better time to treat your home to a bright new look.
in your corner
supporting you and helping you
Harry and I were encouraged. We felt we already had Bob in our corner.
in a tight corner or in a corner
in a situation which is difficult to deal with or escape from
I was horrified at what I had done and knew I was in a tight corner and that everything depended upon my keeping my head.
fight your corner [British]
to state your opinion openly and defend it strongly
At first I fought my corner because I still believed I was right.
Collocations:
clear a corner
Then, when another corner was not cleared , the striker fizzed a shot through a crowd of players.
The Sun (2012)
But the hosts blew their lead as they failed to clear a routine corner.
The Sun (2014)
The player forced the ball in from close range after the visitors had failed to clear a corner.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
corner of the mouth
The corner of his mouth turned up in a lopsided smile.
Times, Sunday Times
Injected muscles can become weak, which can result in droopy eyelids or drooling from the corner of the mouth.
Times, Sunday Times
Some fillers at the corner of the mouth to help turn that hint of a frown upside down, for instance.
Times, Sunday Times
A freshly lit cigarette was perched at the corner of his mouth.
Times, Sunday Times
I love the lines around your eyes, the little ones at the corner of your mouth.
Times, Sunday Times
corner office
He has a corner office on the top floor.
Times, Sunday Times
Instead, the watchmaker himself stands up and makes his way to the corner office.
Times, Sunday Times
Forget the corner office with the fabulous view and the company car.
Times, Sunday Times
It's nice to have the corner office, the personal assistant, the first-class travel.
Times, Sunday Times
Not the big boss in his corner office.
The Sun
corner room
Ask for a corner room for the best views.
Times, Sunday Times
There was a tiny corner room there that was hardly ever used.
Times, Sunday Times
We sit in a corner room, with glass walls on two sides.
Times, Sunday Times
He points to a corner room.
Times, Sunday Times
I had a corner room upstairs, with a choice of four bunks, each with a better view than the last.
Times, Sunday Times
corner the market
Reversing legislation to stop building societies offering commercial or buy-to-let mortgages would only hamper competition, allowing those with bad track records to corner the market.
Times, Sunday Times
Keen to corner the market, it started selling new releases and bestsellers at $9.99.
Times, Sunday Times
And when the penny finally dropped, they let the computer, not the music, industry corner the market.
Times, Sunday Times
Tenders will be opened today in what will be a massive programme to corner the market and gear up production.
Times,Sunday Times
He recommends combining it with peas, broad beans, olive oil and mint; just do it quick, before the plutocrats corner the market.
Times, Sunday Times
cosy corner
In the winter, or on chilly summer days, fireplaces keep cosy corners of the lounge warm.
Times, Sunday Times
It strikes the perfect balance between elegance and informality, with dozens of cosy corners to nestle in with a book.
Times, Sunday Times
Other nice touches include artworks from local galleries on the walls, and cosy corners where you can curl up on a sofa.
Times, Sunday Times
The bedrooms have jaunty stripes and floral fabrics; downstairs, there are loads of cosy corners for loved-up couples.
Times, Sunday Times
Stained-glass windows, brass chandeliers and lots of cosy corners.
Times, Sunday Times
dark corners
But the best way to open up dark corners is to change cultures, not invent new procedures.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Once again Unreported World shines a light into some of the darkest corners of the planet.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The music in his mind long ago gave way to the voices that crowd in from the darkest corners of his past.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
distant corner
There were more than 1,500 at the dock only five weeks ago, but yesterday only about 20 lounged in a distant corner of the dock.
Times, Sunday Times
If you're sitting among the away supporters, you don't notice it, but elsewhere silence falls while this comparatively tiny joyous din erupts in a distant corner.
Times, Sunday Times
While at a distant corner of the island, they again spot the pirates who originally drove them into the storm.
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They married quietly and the king gave them a hut in a distant corner of his courtyard.
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A thoroughly peculiar, demanding cast, cut and pasted from distant corners of the art-historical road map, has been brought together to act out a thoroughly puzzling pictorial drama.
Times, Sunday Times
dusty corner
This isn't some wheezy old engine they found lying around in a dusty corner of a factory somewhere.
The Sun
How could this dusty corner of a rarely visited kingdom possibly become a haven of smart villas and people in golf gear?
Times, Sunday Times
Sales have plummeted, there are warehouses full of secondhand instruments and many that still have homes have been banished to dusty corners.
Times, Sunday Times
I can almost feel the cogs in little-used, dusty corners of my brain whirring.
Times, Sunday Times
That's crucial because sadly many modern increases in longevity are spent quietly decaying in dusty corners of nursing homes.
Times, Sunday Times
far corner
I found a big colour television in Ben's study, a cosy bookshelf-lined room in the far corner of the house.
Tapply, William G A RODENT OF DOUBT (2002)
Instead, he lobbed it carefully into the far corner of the office.
Duncan Hamilton Provided You Don't Kiss Me: 20 Years with Brian Clough (2007)
He cut in from the left and his shot took a deflection before finding its way into the bottom far corner.
The Sun (2016)
Everyone expected a shot to the far corner but he buried it into the near one instead.
The Sun (2016)
Over in the far corner, near a blazing fire, two old men sat staring solemnly at a draughtboard.
Ian St James Awards AT THE STROKE OF TWELVE
fold a corner
Fold the corner over to encase the filling, creating a triangle shape.
Times, Sunday Times
Fold a corner of the pastry across, towards you, to make a triangle.
The Sun
Cut into 10cm-wide strips, place a large spoonful of filling into the corner and fold the corner across to create a triangle.
Times, Sunday Times
Put a teaspoon of the rice mix on to the pastry, then fold the corner up - keep folding until you have a triangular parcel.
The Sun
Fold the corners of the cloth over the yoghurt, top with a couple of plates, and leave overnight in the fridge to drain.
Times, Sunday Times
hidden corner
The treatment takes place in a 'hidden corner' of the lagoon, so you won't be videoed by hordes of tourists.
Times, Sunday Times
Don't try to cover the whole capital in a weekend - it's more rewarding to choose a hidden corner and settle into its sights and sounds.
The Sun
A complete beginner, he practices at first in a hidden corner of the park.
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The dark net and what the hidden corners of the web tell us about ourselves.
Times, Sunday Times
It's a curious spot for a weekend break, full of intrigue, superb old architecture, and hidden corners aplenty.
Times, Sunday Times
inner corner
Then do the same from the middle to the inner corner of the eye.
The Sun (2014)
The thin nest part of your liner should be at the inner corner of the eye.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
A dab of pale lilac or silver on the inner corner of the eye will make your eyes look whiter and brighter, giving an instant youth punch.
The Sun (2011)
left-hand corner
A computer-aided design survey showed a manhole at the back left-hand corner of the house, exactly where we want to build our kitchen extension.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
`Here's the chuckwalla in the left-hand corner, and in the right "She stopped speaking.
Keene, Carolyn THE SECRET OF THE FORGOTTEN CITY
I'd like to alter that bit in the left-hand corner.
Paige, Frances The Glasgow Girls (1994)
Simply turn the photos over and staple the left-hand corner a couple of times.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
He added a thumbtack to Saint Michaels and placed one in the lower left-hand corner, about where Spartina, Virginia, would be.
Laura Lippman THE LAST PLACE (2002)
northeast corner
On a hillside up above the northeast corner of the site stands a huge, floodlit cross.
Times, Sunday Times
And if you seek proof of this, inspect the northeast corner of the building, the riverside downstream end.
Times, Sunday Times
Together, they portray the northeast corner of the country as host to some older mode of being, one perhaps more authentic, and relatively untouched by all number of modern woes.
The Times Literary Supplement
Her bathhouse survives in the northeast corner.
Times, Sunday Times
A pleasant piazza has been opened up on the northeast corner of the site.
Times, Sunday Times
northwest corner
Yet something remarkable has been stirring in a tiny enclave in its northwest corner.
Times, Sunday Times
Set in a 16th-century watchtower in the northwest corner of the island, it has 45 rooms and 12 suites looking out onto manicured gardens that stretch down to the bay.
Times, Sunday Times
The park has a ballfield in the northwest corner of the property, which was once a parking area.
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He proposed that an eight-acre (8 acre) tract near the northwest corner of the village be acquired for a rural cemetery.
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It has a two-stage corner tower, containing a vestibule at the northwest corner.
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obscure corner
We met the guide in an obscure corner of the palace courtyard.
Times, Sunday Times
We find ourselves through no wish of our own on this slowly revolving planet in an obscure corner of a vast universe.
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He often chose some obscure corner from which to draw, which explains the interesting and unusual perspective of some of his paintings.
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The secret venues in obscure corners of the second largest ski region in the world — spread over 400sq miles — are hastily erected overnight.
The Sun
Blogs often shine a light on hitherto obscure corners of working life.
Times, Sunday Times
occupy a corner
They became shareholders, which enabled him to buy basic machinery, occupy a corner of someone else's workshop and increase production to a few hundred bikes.
Times, Sunday Times
She occupies a corner of the workshop, where the wooden shelves that line the walls sag with shoeboxes of bobbins and tubes of oil paint.
Times, Sunday Times
This area later contains a tennis court (datum 2012) and a small building or shed occupied a corner of the at the north-east.
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Four log cabins occupied the corners of the fort, with sheds, corrals, and a garden within the enclosure.
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A coffee shop occupied this corner from 2008-2010.
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opposite corner
He needs someone in the opposite corner capable of taking him a few rounds without being too dangerous.
The Sun
But the giant stopper only pawed the ball into the opposite corner of the net.
The Sun
So who will be lacing 'em up in the opposite corner?
The Sun
Suddenly they're lying in the opposite corner of the room.
The Sun
Looked like setting up a shock when he diverted a volley into the opposite corner and defended resolutely.
Times, Sunday Times
outer corner
Apply to eyelids and wipe off from the inner to the outer corner.
The Sun (2015)
To intensify the dark shade on the outer corner, take your grey eyeshadow and apply to the lower lid, keeping the intensity at the outer corner.
The Sun (2013)
outside corner
File from the outside corner to the middle, moving in one direction on each side.
The Sun
Try drawing a line of it from the outside corner of your eye up to your temple and then blending it in.
Times, Sunday Times
She suggested they 'lift' my eyes by placing just three false eyelashes on the outside corner of each eye.
The Sun
Position the lash by starting at the outside corner and working inwards.
Times, Sunday Times
Cone's slider was also a strikeout pitch to left-handed hitters, throwing it to curve back over the outside corner and catch the hitter looking.
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police corner
The police corner them in a railroad yard but wait for daylight to move in.
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Riot police cornering protesters in an underground train station and launching canisters of tear gas at them.
Times, Sunday Times
At 8.30am, police cornered five of the alleged attackers under a market stall.
Times, Sunday Times
quiet corner
In a quiet corner of the pub above the comedy club, having a drink, holding hands like they had done it before.
Tony Parsons MAN AND WIFE (2002)
They sat at a table in a quiet corner and she left the business of ordering to Frank.
O'Connor, Joe DESPERADOES (2001)
They shed outer garments, ordered coffee and waited for it in a quiet corner of the now half-empty lounge.
Low, Ona TO HIS JUST DESSERTS
We're sitting in a quiet corner of a photographic studio.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
We found a quiet corner and sat down to catch up.
The Sun (2007)
remote corner
Down in a remote corner of the educational wing, he saw a light and heard whistling.
Christianity Today
You'd have thought that these things were done in some dark, remote corner, but this was very much in the middle of an everyday street.
The Sun
Nor did it happen in some remote corner of the globe.
Times, Sunday Times
The problem was that it was located in a mountainous, remote corner of a desperately poor country prone to the odd military coup.
Times, Sunday Times
The official reception was held in a remote corner of the airport, barred to the public, with hundreds of police on duty.
Times, Sunday Times
right-hand corner
He should easily have cleared from near the right-hand corner flag.
The Sun (2013)
The midfielder curled home a superb shot from the edge of the area into the top right-hand corner.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Look in the upper right-hand corner of the prints, he told the defense lawyers.
Colin Beavan FINGERPRINTS: Murder and the Race to Uncover the Science of Identity (2002)
The secret to playing it well is to play to the front right-hand corner of the green and two putt or chip, and one putt from there.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
He crashed on a right-hand corner less than 50 miles from the finish.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
rounded corners
Rounded corners, it seems, are now available to all.
Times, Sunday Times
Frames with curved or rounded corners to soften your strong face shape.
Times, Sunday Times
The glossy console, 350, has rounded corners, five different-sized compartments and an open back to allow cables through.
Times, Sunday Times
Two cubes with rounded corners, linked by a hinge - you have to agree, it's an original idea.
Times, Sunday Times
The short, wide pectoral fins are roughly triangular, with rounded corners.
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secluded corner
He sent us heart-rending letters telling us how he had found a secluded corner in the grounds where he could cry undetected.
Times, Sunday Times
Then he runs off to a secluded corner and waits for her to join him.
Times, Sunday Times
Then, the two retreated to a secluded corner to get to know each other better.
canada.com
Perhaps a secluded corner of your garden, or a field during a romantic stroll.
The Sun
It didn't feel especially rural, either - unless the inspectors were referring to the creepy-crawlies that populated its more secluded corners.
Times, Sunday Times
shady corner
Maybe a fern in a shady corner, or a spiky libertia smack in the middle?
Times, Sunday Times
They cram into the only shady corner of the play-grounto watch the last solar panel being lifted into place.
Times, Sunday Times
Painted brightly, it will lift the gloom of a shady corner and not only lead the eye, but make sense of a new path leading to its door.
Times,Sunday Times
I inherited a thriving bay tree, growing in a sheltered but shady corner of a walled garden.
Times, Sunday Times
It's that time of year when you'll often see pots of spent spring bulbs in shady corners, looking ashamed.
Times, Sunday Times
sharp corner
Cracking appears, radiating outwards from the sharp corner of the groove.
Times, Sunday Times
Never take a sharp corner at full speed.
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Finally, highly polished gastroliths often show long microscopic hairline scratches, presumably caused by contact with a sharp corner of a freshly swallowed stone.
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They are mainly used in trouble spots on rural highways such as when approaching a sharp corner or a single-lane bridge.
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A diversion cuts a sharp corner between the third and fourth roundabouts.
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sheltered corner
I inherited a thriving bay tree, growing in a sheltered but shady corner of a walled garden.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
They'd sat down in a sheltered corner, the watery spring sunshine barely warm enough for outside drinking.
Val McDermid THE LAST TEMPTATION (2004)
It prefers a sheltered corner in sun or light shade and may lose some leaves in a very cold winter.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
southeast corner
In terms of average house price growth, a gap has developed between the southeast corner and the rest of the country.
Times, Sunday Times
The walk through the cavernous basement to the office dome in its southeast corner leads through a shopping mall with barely any occupants.
Times, Sunday Times
Then, walk half a mile to the southeast corner of the playa and watch very, very carefully.
Times, Sunday Times
In the southeast corner were gull-like birds.
Times, Sunday Times
Just 12 minutes later a total of 53 flats had been exposed to flames as the blaze passed around southeast corner column and spread downwards across the south face.
Times, Sunday Times
square corners
This resulted in the square corners disappearing and a more typical oval shape emerging.
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Sharp square corners may be uncomfortable and cause snagging on socks.
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The square corners can usually be shaved down.
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Each corner of the building (at the projecting wings) begins with square corners and then exhibits gradual chamfering to the roof corner of the wing.
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Wing window short with square corners.
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street corner
We had engineering works aplenty, foundries and huge employers on every street corner.
The Sun (2008)
We loved pho, a restoring noodle soup available on every street corner.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Galway loves live music, and you'll find a busker on almost every street corner.
The Sun (2018)
Here the sweet, thick smell of paco wafts out of almost every shack and from every street corner.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
We have two very large bins on each street corner.
The Sun (2008)
tiny corner
There was a tiny corner room there that was hardly ever used.
Times, Sunday Times
When his coach came back with a bar, the champion broke off one tiny corner, put it in his mouth, and let it melt.
Times, Sunday Times
But they soon realised it did not matter and headed for the tiny corner where their travelling army was gathered to join in the celebrations.
The Sun
But we realised that we'd only scratched a tiny corner of the map.
Times, Sunday Times
He was five years in arrears on his lease payments and only a tiny corner of the plantation was being cultivated.
Times, Sunday Times
top corner
The standard rig was a squareish, fore-and-aft sail with the top corner supported by a yard or sprit.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
He kept his cool to lash a second-half penalty into the top corner in emphatic fashion.
The Sun (2013)
A powerful header into the top corner.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
It pinged off my head into the top corner.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
The Austrian let fly from the edge of the box with a left-footed shot into the top corner.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
upper corner
Breathe out and reach to the upper corner of the room.
The Sun
The notes include raised dots in the upper corner to help blind and partially sighted people identify them and have security features including a hologram window.
Times, Sunday Times
The eyes were opened but fixed to the left upper corner.
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With 1972 by 1997 stand in left upper corner.
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The scapula had a large rectangular acromion, with a sharp upper corner, on the lower front edge.
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Translations:
Chinese: 角落, 使走投无路
Japanese: 場所, 追い詰める
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