belts是什么意思？

belts

• n. 腰带( belt的名词复数 )，区域，传送带，带状物；

例句

• If food is scarce it's no use complaining; we shall just have to pull in our belts. 如果食物短缺, 抱怨也没有用, 我们只能勒紧裤腰带。
• The terrible injuries I saw in that accident really rammed home for me the importance of wearing seat belts. 我看到了那场车祸中当事人受伤的惨状之后，真正明白了系安全带的重要性。
• We’ll have to tighten our belts if we want to save any money for our holidays this year. 我们要想攒点钱今年去度假，就得勒紧腰带。
• In wartime everyone has to tighten their belts. 战争时期大家都必须省吃俭用。
• Belts of mountains are cause by movements in the earths crust. 山丘带是由地壳移动而形成的.
• Pompous doormen in immense coats, shiny brass belts and buttons, waited in front of expensive salesrooms. 神气十足的看门人,身着宽大的外套, 配着闪闪发光的铜钮扣和铜腰带, 侍立在高档商店的门前.
• When they tighten their belts, austerity ripples out and chokes growth. 当他们束紧裤腰带, 简朴生活会波及到经济增长.
• Fasten your seat belts. 系好安全带。
• We've all seen enough dummies catapulting through windscreens in TV warnings to know the dangers of not wearing seat belts. 在电视里，假人穿过挡风玻璃飞出去的警示镜头我们见得多了，知道不系安全带的危险。
• Bags and Luggage - Leather, Leather Goods and Accessories Leather Goods: - Belts, Handbags, Backpacks. 采购产品袋子和行李 - 皮革, 皮具货物和配件,皮革货物: - 带子, 手提包, 背包.

英语六级真题

They had to tighten their belts.
出自-2012年12月阅读原文

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-COUNT
  腰带；裤带；皮带
  A belt is a strip of leather or cloth that you fasten round your waist.
  例句
  He wore a belt with a large brass buckle. 他系着一条带大铜扣的腰带。
• N-COUNT
  （机器的）皮带，输送带
  A belt in a machine is a circular strip of rubber that is used to drive moving parts or to move objects along.
  例句
  The turning disc is connected by a drive belt to an electric motor. 转盘由一根传动带与电机相连。
• N-COUNT
  地带；带状区域
  A belt of land or sea is a long, narrow area of it that has some special feature.
  例句
  Miners in Zambia's northern copper belt have gone on strike... 赞比亚北部铜矿带的矿工已经罢工了。 Behind him was a belt of trees, and behind the trees hills and fields. 在他身后是一片树林，树林后面是小山和田地。
• VERB
  抽打；痛打
  If someone belts you, they hit you very hard.
  例句
  'Is it right she belted old George in the gut?' she asked. “她真的把老乔治痛打了一顿？”她问。
• VERB
  飞奔；疾驰
  If you belt somewhere, you move or travel there very fast.
  例句
  We belted down Iveagh Parade to where the motor was. 我们沿着艾维格大街一路飞奔到汽车那儿。
• N-COUNT
  （表示柔道或空手道级别的）段，带
  If someone is or has a belt of a particular colour in judo or karate, they have reached the standard which that colour represents.
  例句
  He is a black belt in karate. 他是空手道黑带选手。
• PHRASE
  残酷而不公正的
  Something that is below the belt is cruel and unfair.
  例句
  Do you think it's a bit below the belt what they're doing? 你觉得他们的做法是不是有点儿不太光明正大？ ...this kind of below-the-belt discrimination. 这种不公正的歧视
• PHRASE
  勒紧裤腰带；紧缩开支；节衣缩食
  If you have to tighten your belt, you have to spend less money and manage without things because you have less money than you used to have.
  例句
  Clearly, if you are spending more than your income, you'll need to tighten your belt. 明摆着，要是你入不敷出，你就得省着点了。
• PHRASE
  已经取得（或完成）
  If you have something under your belt, you have already achieved it or done it.
  例句
  Clare is now a full-time author with six books, including four novels, under her belt. 克莱尔现在是全职作家，著有6本书，其中有4部小说。