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单词 countdown
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countdowncount‧down /ˈkaʊntdaʊn/ noun [countable usually singular] Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • NASA has stopped the countdown for the space shuttle mission because of technical problems.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • As the countdown reaches the two-minute mark, the room seems to tremble.
  • Four seperate police forces are monitoring every traveller's vehicle in the four day countdown to midsummer.
  • So the election countdown has effectively begun, though the poll probably will not be until May or June next year.
  • The chart countdown, performed yesterday by Bruno Brookes, is one of Radio One's most popular shows.
  • The progress of time is paced by weekly fire and boat drills and the countdown of dive days remaining.
  • The shuttle's tanks have been filled by the time that the countdown reaches the 3 hours mark.
1the period of time before something happens, such as a spacecraft being launched, when someone counts backwards until the event happens2the period of time before an important event, when people become more and more excited about itcountdown to the countdown to the World Cup
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