bar /bɑː/ star4 CET4 TEM4 (barring,barred,bars)

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  N-COUNT（可数名词） A bar is a place where you can buy and drink alcoholic drinks. 酒吧 [美国英语]

  例：

  ...Devil's Herd, the city's most popular country and western bar.

  …“魔鬼群”，全城最受欢迎的西部乡村酒吧。

• 2.  

  （） → see also snack bar, wine bar
• 3.  

  N-COUNT（可数名词） A bar is a room in a hotel or other establishment where alcoholic drinks are served. (旅馆等的) 酒吧间

  例：

  Last night in the hotel there was some talk in the bar about drugs.

  昨天晚上，在旅馆的酒吧间里有人说起毒品了。

• 4.  

  N-COUNT（可数名词） A bar is a counter on which alcoholic drinks are served. 吧台

  例：

  Michael was standing alone by the bar when Brian rejoined him.

  布赖恩回来的时候，迈克尔正独自站在吧台旁。

• 5.  

  N-COUNT（可数名词） A bar is a long, straight, stiff piece of metal. (金属)棒

  例：

  ...a brick building with bars across the ground floor windows.

  …底楼窗户有铁栅穿过的一座砖楼。

• 6.  

  PHRASE（习语） If you say that someone is behind bars, you mean that they are in prison. 在狱中的

  例：

  Fisher was behind bars last night, charged with attempted murder.

  由于被指控犯有谋杀未遂罪，费希尔昨晚进了监狱。

• 7.  

  N-COUNT（可数名词） A bar of something is a piece of it which is roughly rectangular. (长方形的) 条

  例：

  What is your favourite chocolate bar?

  你最喜爱的巧克力棒是什么？

• 8.  

  V-T（及物动词） If you bar a door, you place something in front of it or a piece of wood or metal across it in order to prevent it from being opened. 闩 (门)

  例：

  For added safety, bar the door to the kitchen.

  为了更加安全，把厨房的门闩上。

• 9.  

  V-T（及物动词） If you bar someone's way, you prevent them from going somewhere or entering a place, by blocking their path. 挡 (路)

  例：

  Harry moved to bar his way.

  哈里挪过去挡住了他的路。

• 10.  

  V-T（及物动词） If someone is barred from a place or from doing something, they are officially forbidden to go there or to do it. 禁止 [usu passive]

  例：

  Amnesty workers have been barred from the country since 1982.

  自1982年以来特赦的工人被禁止进入该国。

• 11.  

  N-COUNT（可数名词） If something is a bar to doing a particular thing, it prevents someone from doing it. 障碍

  例：

  One of the fundamental bars to communication is the lack of a universally spoken, common language.

  沟通的根本障碍之一就是缺乏一种通用的共同语言。

• 12.  

  PREP（介词） You can use bar when you mean "except." For example, all the work bar the laundry means all the work except the laundry. 除…外 [英国英语]

  例：

  Bar a plateau in 1989, there has been a rise in inflation ever since the mid-1980s.

  自20世纪80年代中期以来，除了1989年稳定之外，通货膨胀一直在增长。

• 13.  

  （） → see also barring
• 14.  

  N-SING（单数型名词） Thebar is used to refer to the profession of any kind of lawyer in the United States, or of a barrister in England. 律师职业 [oft N n]

  例：

  Less than a quarter of graduates from the law school pass the bar exam on the first try.

  不到1/4的法学院毕业生能一次就通过律师考试。

• 15.  

  N-COUNT（可数名词） In music, a bar is one of the several short parts of the same length into which a piece of music is divided. (音乐的) 小节

  例：

  She sat down at the piano and played a few bars of a Chopin Polonaise.

  她坐在钢琴边弹奏了肖邦的波洛奈兹舞曲的几个小节。

• 16.  

  N-COUNT（可数名词） a cgs unit of pressure equal to 106 dynes per square centimetre. 1 bar is equivalent to 105 newtons per square metre 巴(压强单位)
• 17.  

  N-COUNT（可数名词） immunity from being caught or otherwise penalized in a game (法律上或比赛中的)豁免权 [Southwest English][DIALECT]