square off

英 [skweə(r) ɒf]

美 [skwer ɔːf]

把…加工成方形; 摆好架势; 准备迎战

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 把…弄成方形
  If yousquaresomethingoff, you alter it so that it has the shape of a square.
  1. Peel a thick-skinned orange and square off the ends with a sharp knife.
     剥开一只厚皮橙子，用锋利的刀将两端削去使它呈方形。
  2. ...white modern buildings that look like squared-off wedding cakes.
     看起来像是方形结婚蛋糕的白色现代建筑
• PHR-V-RECIP 摆好打斗的架势;准备迎战
  If one group or personsquares off againstorwithanother, they prepare to fight them.
  1. In Florida, farmers are squaring off against cities for rights to groundwater...
     在佛罗里达州，农民正摆好架势，准备和城市争夺地下水的使用权。
  2. French soldiers squared off with a gunman at a road checkpoint...
     在一个公路检查站法国士兵摆开架势，准备迎战一名持枪者。
  3. The Los Angeles Lakers and the Chicago Bulls square off for the first game of the series.
     洛杉矶湖人队和芝加哥公牛队摆好了架势，准备进行总决赛的第一场对决。

英英释义

verb

• settle conclusively
  1. We finally settled the argument
  Synonym:settlesquare updetermine

双语例句

• We must square off before the professor comes to give a lecture.
  在教授来讲课前把一切准备好。
• Less than a day after Martin Scorsese gave a hometown crowd an early glimpse at his upcoming Hugo, James Cameron dropped by Times Square to show off 17 minutes from his ongoing 3-D conversion of Titanic.
  在不到一天的时间内，继导演马丁斯克塞斯给家乡人民预先一瞥即将上映的影片《雨果卡布里特的发明》后，詹姆斯卡梅隆又来到时代广场放映了17分钟还在制作中的3D《泰坦尼克号》片段。
• Case study for the treatment of precast square pile joint's falling off
  预制方桩接头脱落处理实例
• In Florida, farmers are squaring off against cities for rights to groundwater
  在佛罗里达州，农民正摆好架势，准备和城市争夺地下水的使用权。
• Square the page off with your ruler.
  用尺在这页纸上打上方格。
• The gentrification of Times Square made for a unique social experiment: What happens to sex workers when they are pushed off the streets and into the outer boroughs?
  时代广场的中产阶级化有利于单一的社会试验：当性工作者走出街巷进入到外面的街区时会发生什么？
• Digital control is used to create a square wave, a signal switched between on and off.
  数字控制被用来创建一个方波，信号在开和关之间切换。
• The device, powered by Android, will square off against a series of new models released by Apple, Nokia and HTC Corp.
  该新款机型为安卓系统，将与苹果，诺基亚和HTC公司新上市的系列新产品展开强有力的竞争。
• We'd like to see the two candidates square off on camera.
  我们愿意看到两位候选人在摄影机前面辩护。
• The KL side will not be in action today but will square off against Sabah tomorrow.
  吉隆坡方将不会在今天的行动，但会方对沙巴假。