bar是什么意思

详细释义

• 0 a place where drinks, especially alcoholic drinks, are sold and drunk, or the area in such a place where the person serving the drinks stands -- 酒吧；酒吧的吧台

  • They noticed him going into the hotel bar. 他們看見他走進飯店的酒吧裡。

  • There weren't any free tables, so I sat at the bar. 沒有空位了，我只好坐在吧台旁。

  • Why don't you ask the guy behind the bar (= serving drinks there)? 你怎麼不問一問吧台裡的那個服務員？

• 1 a long, thin, straight piece of metal or wood -- 鐵柵欄

  • The gorilla rattled the bars of its cage. 大猩猩把籠子的鐵柵欄弄得吱嘎吱嘎地響。

  • a bar of soap 一塊肥皂

  • a chocolate bar 一條巧克力棒

• 2 one of the small equal parts into which a piece of music is divided, containing a fixed number of beats -- （音樂的）小節；樂譜的小節線

  • Waltzes have three beats in/to the bar (= in each bar). 華爾滋每小節有三拍。

• 3 a stripe (ON UNIFORM) -- 條紋，斑紋

• 4 something that prevents a particular event or development from happening -- 阻礙某事發生或發展的東西

  • A lack of formal education is no bar to becoming rich. 沒有接受正規教育並不是致富的障礙。

• 5 to prevent something or someone from doing something or going somewhere, or to not allow something -- 阻擋，阻撓；防止，禁止

  • The centre of the town was barred to football supporters. 球迷不得進入城鎮中心。

  • The incident led to him being barred from the country/barred from entering the country. 這事件導致他被禁止進入該國。

  • I tried to push past her but she barred my way/path (= stood in front of me and prevented me from getting past). 我試圖從她旁邊擠過去，但她還是擋住了我的去路。

• 6 to put bars across something, especially to keep it closed -- 閂上；使緊閉

  • We barred the door to stop anyone getting into the room. 我們把門閂上以防有人進入房間。

• 7 except -- 除…外

  • Everyone is leaving the village, bar the very old and ill. 除了年老體弱者，其他人都要離開村莊。

  • They're the best songwriters of this century, bar none (= no one else is better). 他們是本世紀最優秀的作曲家，無人能比。

• 8 lawyers who are allowed to argue a case in a higher court -- （能出席高級法庭的）大律師