window
n
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(a) opening in the wall or roof of a building, car, etc to let in light (and often air), usu filled with glass in a frame 窗戶
Please open the window. 請把窗戶打開.
I saw them through the window.我透過窗戶看見他們了.
He prefers to travel in a seat near the window. 他坐車、 船、 飛機都喜歡坐靠窗戶的座位. =>illus at App 1 見附錄1插圖, pages vi, xii.
(b) opening that resembles this 窗狀開口
There is a little window in the cassette case so that you can see the tape.盒式音像帶上有個小窗, 能看見里面的磁帶.
the window of an envelope, ie the transparent part in which an address can be read 信封上的透明窗(有的信封上的透明部分, 可露出信紙上的收信人地址).
(c) piece of glass in the frame of a window 窗玻璃
The ball smashed a window. 那個球把一塊窗玻璃打碎了.
(d) space behind the window of a shop where goods are displayed for sale (商店的)櫥窗
I saw the vase in the window of an antique shop. 我在一家古玩店的櫥窗里看見了那個花瓶.
[attrib 作定語]
a window display 櫥窗陳列.
2 (computing 計) screen of a visual display unit regarded as a means of displaying part of a drawing, etc stored in a computer; part of a drawing, etc chosen for display 視窗(視頻顯示器的熒屏, 用以顯示儲存在計算機中的部分圖象等); 顯示出的部分圖象等.
3 (idm 習語) fly/go out of the `window (infml 口) be no longer considered; disappear 不再被考慮; 消失
With the failure of the peace talks all hopes of a swift end to the war have flown out of the window. 和談失敗後, 迅速結束戰爭的希望都已化為烏有. a window on the `world means of observing and learning about people, esp those of other countries 世界之窗(觀察和了解人民, 尤指他國人民的手段)
International news broadcasts provide a window on the world. 國際新聞廣播節目給大家提供了一個了解他國人民的世界之窗.