| 单词 | fixture |
| 释义 | fixture (fɪkstʃəʳ ) Word forms: fixtures 1. countable noun [usually plural] Fixtures are pieces of furniture or equipment, for example baths and sinks, which are fixed inside a house or other building and which stay there if you move. ...a detailed list of what fixtures and fittings are included in the purchase price. 2. countable noun A fixture is a sports event which takes place on a particular date. [British] City won this fixture 3-0 last season. 3. countable noun If you describe someone or something as a fixture in a particular place or occasion, you mean that they always seem to be there. She was a fixture in New York's nightclubs. [+ in] The cordless kettle may now be a fixture in most kitchens. [+ in] Collocations: light fixture From his perch on the bookcase, he sprang upward, caught the light fixture, and trapezed out into the room, dropping to the floor. Christianity Today Someone, perhaps taking his life into his hands, had connected electricity to the broken light fixture. Christianity Today I can't gaze upon my top sheet without envisioning it twisted and looped from the overhead light fixture, swinging, tempting me with its release. Times, Sunday Times The light fixture he installed started to leak. Times, Sunday Times The designated light fixture renewals officer. The Sun I do so hope she becomes a permanent fixture. Times, Sunday Times (2013) Meanwhile Fielding has become a permanent fixture on the party scene. The Sun (2009) Because most people in the area are passing through, you swiftly identify the other permanent fixtures, and they you. Times, Sunday Times (2007) Sports marketing experts say that it could — assuming the continuation of tax breaks for foreign athletes — become a regular fixture. Times, Sunday Times He was a regular fixture. The Sun The pest controller's van became a regular fixture in the driveway, as did being greeted in the morning by a mouse caught in a trap behind the washing machine. Times,Sunday Times It's becoming a regular fixture. Times, Sunday Times I become a regular fixture at the spa, where babymooners receive a 45-minute daily foot or shoulder rub. Times, Sunday Times The world has changed, but the ballgown remains a fixture on the catwalks. Times, Sunday Times The southern oceans leg of the journey was added in 2005-6 and has remained a fixture ever since. Times, Sunday Times He remained a fixture in the first-team for the remainder of the season often in a substitute's role. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It remains a fixture of the genre today. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 By early 1957 he was gone, but classical music remained a fixture at the station. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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