| 单词 | key |
| 释义 | key1 /ki:; ki/ n 1 metal instrument for moving the bolt of a lock: 钥匙： the key in the lock; 把钥匙放入锁中; turn the key. 转动钥匙。 the illus at bunch. 参看 bunch 之插图。 'master/'skel-eton key, one that will open several locks. 万能钥匙。 'keyhole n hole in a lock, door, etc, into which a key fits. 钥匙孔。 'key money n [U] extra payment (requested by some house agents, now illegal in GB) before completion of an agreement about renting a house, flat, etc, 房屋代理人于房屋租约完成前所索取的额外费用 (在英国现认为不合法) 。 'key-ring n (usu split) ring on which to keep keys. 钥匙环 (通常可裂开，将钥匙装上) 。 2 instrument for winding a clock or a watch by tightening the spring. (± 钟表发条的) 钟匙。 3 - (to), (fig) sth that provides an -answer (to a problem or mystery). (喻) (问题或神秘事物之) 解答; 关键。 4 set of answers to exercises or problems; translation of sth from a foreign language: 题解; 翻译： a key for the use of teachers only, eg to a book of problems in algebra. 专供敎师用的题解 (例如代数题解) 。 5 (also attrib) place which, from its position, gives control of a route or area: (亦作形容用法) 在地势上可控制一路线或地区的地方; 要冲： a key position. 险要的位置。 Gibraltar has been called the key to the Mediterranean. 直布罗陀一向被称作地中海的门户。 6 (attrib) essential: (形容用法) 基本的： key industry, one (eg coal-mining) that is essential to the carrying on of others; 基本工业 (例如煤矿工业); a key man/a man in a key position, one whose work is essential to the work of others. 重要人物; 中心人物。 'keystone n (archit) stone at the top of an arch locking the others into position; (fig) central principle on which everything depends. (建筑) 拱顶石; 枢石; 冠石; (喻) 根本原理; 主旨。点 the illus at window. 参看 window 之插图。 7 operating part (lever or button) of a typewriter, piano, organ, flute, etc pressed down by a finger. (打字机、钢琴、风琴、笛等之) 键。点 the illus here and at brass. 参看本字及 brass 之插图。 ,keyboard n row of such keys (on a piano, organ, typewriter). (钢琴、风琴、打字机之) 键盘。 8 (dot) usu one-seeded winged fruit of some trees, eg the ash and elm. (植物) (秦皮树和楡树等之) 翅果。 9 (music) scale of notes definitely related to each other and based on a particular note called the 'keynote: (音乐) 调： the key of C major; C 大调; (fig) tone or style of thought or expression: (喻) 思想或表达的格调： in a minor key, sadly; 忧郁地; (7 in the same key, monotonously, without expression; 单调地; 无表浦地; speak in a high/loyv key, urgently/not urgently. 用急切 (缓和) 的声调说话。 'keynote n a (music) note on which a key is based. (音乐) 主音。 b (fig) prevailing tone or idea: (舟主旨; 要旨： The keynote of the Minister's speech was the need for higher productivity. 该部长演说的要旨是更高生产力的需要。 keyless adj not having or needing a key, 无钥匙的; 无键的; 不需要钥匙的：不需要键的; (指钟表) 不需用钟匙上发条的。 |
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