queues是什么意思？

queues

• n. （人或车辆）行列，长队( queue的名词复数 )，（贮存的数据）队列；
• v. （人、车等）排队等候( queue的第三人称单数 )，（使）排队，列队等待；

例句

• Their health-care system suffers from queues, shortages and ropey equipment. 他们的医疗体系有很多不足：要排队等候，资源短缺，设备陈旧。
• ...long queues at tills that make customers angry. 收银台前令顾客恼火的长队
• The food queues have become a daily occurrence across the country. 排队购买食品的长龙已成了全国各地每日可见的景象。
• There are already long queues of vehicles at petrol pumps. 加油泵边车辆已经排起了长队。
• The queues at the door wound around the building. 门口的队伍绕了大楼一圈。
• In Darlington, queues formed at some polling booths. 在达灵顿，有些投票站前排起了队。

英语六级真题

Whether the security checks would create long queues at peak hours.
出自-2012年12月听力原文

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-COUNT
  (等候的)一列人，一队车辆
  A queue is a line of people or vehicles that are waiting for something.
  例句
  I watched as he got a tray and joined the queue... 我看着他拿了个托盘排起了队。 She waited in the bus queue... 她排队等公共汽车。
• N-COUNT
  (为得到某机会而等待的)长列，长队
  If you say there is a queue of people who want to do or have something, you mean that a lot of people are waiting for an opportunity to do it or have it.
  例句
  Manchester United would be at the front of a queue of potential buyers... 在众多潜在的买家中，曼彻斯特联队将排在最前列。 Single parents got priority in the housing queue... 单亲父母在申请住房时享有优先权。
• VERB
  排队(等候)
  When people queue, they stand in a line waiting for something.
  例句
  I had to queue for quite a while. 我不得不排一会儿队。 ...a line of women queueing for bread. 一列排队买面包的女人
• N-COUNT
  队列(指等待计算机处理的任务列表)
  A queue is a list of computer tasks which will be done in order.
  例句
  Your print job has been sent to the network print queue. 你的打印任务已经发送到了网络打印列表中。
• VERB
  使(待处理任务)成队列
  To queue a number of computer tasks means to arrange them to be done in order.