bank是什么意思

详细释义

• 0 an organization where people and businesses can invest or borrow money, change it to foreign money, etc., or a building where these services are offered -- 銀行

  • The big banks have been accused of exploiting small firms. 大型銀行被指責剝削小企業。

  • I need to go to the bank at lunchtime. 我要利用午飯時間去一趟銀行。

  • I had to take out a bank loan to start my own business. 為了創辦自己的公司，我不得不從銀行借款。

• 1 sloping raised land, especially along the sides of a river -- 堤，岸

  • By the time we reached the opposite bank, the boat was sinking fast. 當我們到達對岸時，船正在快速地下沉。

  • These flowers generally grow on river banks and near streams. 這些花通常開在河堤上和溪流附近。

• 2 a pile or mass of earth, clouds, etc. -- 一堆，一團（泥、雲等）

  • A dark bank of cloud loomed on the horizon. 天際隱約出現一大片黑雲。

• 3 a row of similar things, especially machines or parts of machines -- 一排，一列，一組（尤指機器或機器零件）

  • a bank of switches 一排開關

• 4 A bank of something, such as blood or human organs for medical use, is a place that stores these things for later use. -- （儲藏血液、器官等的）庫

  • a blood bank 血庫

  • a sperm bank 精子庫

• 5 to keep your money in a particular bank, or to put money into a bank -- 把錢存入銀行，在某銀行存款

  • I used to bank with Lloyd's. 我過去常把錢存在勞埃德銀行。

  • She banked £500 in tips that day! 那天她賺了500英鎊的小費！

• 6 (of an aircraft) to fly with one wing higher than the other when turning -- （飛機）傾斜著飛行

  • We felt the plane bank steeply as it changed direction. 我們感覺到飛機改變方向時傾斜得很厲害。

• 7 to collect in or form into a mass, or to make something do this -- （使）堆積

  • The snow had banked up in the corner of the garden. 雪堆積在園子的角落裡。

  • We banked up the fire (= put more coal on it) to keep it burning all night. 我們把爐火封好，這樣就可以整晚不滅。