relay
n
1 fresh set of people or animals taking the place of others who have finished a period of work 接班的人員或動物
Rescuers worked in relays to save the trapped miners. 救援人員輪班工作以營救遇難的礦工.
A new relay of horses was harnessed to the cart.用作輪換的馬都已套到了那輛馬車上. Cf 參看 shift2 2.2 (also `relay race) race between teams in which each member runs, swims, etc part of the total distance, the second, etc member starting when the first, etc finishes (賽跑、 游泳等的)接力賽
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a relay team, runner, etc 接力隊、 賽跑運動員等.
3
(a) (radio 無) electronic device for receiving signals and transmitting them again with greater strength, thus increasing the distance over which they are carried 中繼設(shè)備
[attrib作定語]
a relay station 中繼站.
(b) broadcast, programme or telegraph message sent out in this way 無線電轉(zhuǎn)播; 轉(zhuǎn)播的節(jié)目; 無線電中繼通訊
a relay from Radio Hamburg 漢堡廣播電臺的轉(zhuǎn)播.
relay v (pt, pp relayed) [Tn, Tn.pr]
~ sth (from...) (to...)
1 receive and pass on (eg a message) 收到并傳出(如信息)
relay the colonel's orders to the troops 向部隊傳達上校的命令.
2 (Brit) broadcast (sth) by passing signals through a transmitting station 轉(zhuǎn)播(某事)
a concert relayed live from the Royal Albert Hall 從皇家艾伯特大廳實況轉(zhuǎn)播的音樂會
The pop festival was relayed all round the world. 流行音樂會的實況已向全世界轉(zhuǎn)播.