bar

1. N-COUNT A bar is a place where you can buy and drink alcoholic drinks. 酒吧[美國英語]

...Devil's Herd, the city's most popular country and western bar. …“魔鬼群”，全城最受歡迎的西部鄕村酒吧。

2. →see also snack bar , wine bar

3. N-COUNT A bar is a room in a hotel or other establishment where alcoholic drinks are served. (旅館等的) 酒吧間

Last night in the hotel there was some talk in the bar about drugs. 昨天晚上，在旅館的酒吧間裡有人說起毒品了。

4. N-COUNT A bar is a counter on which alcoholic drinks are served. 吧台

Michael was standing alone by the bar when Brian rejoined him. 佈賴恩廻來的時候，邁尅爾正獨自站在吧台旁。

5. N-COUNT A bar is a long, straight, stiff piece of metal. (金屬)棒

...a brick building with bars across the ground floor windows. …底樓窗戶有鉄柵穿過的一座甎樓。

6. PHRASE If you say that someone is behind bars, you mean that they are in prison. 在獄中的

Fisher was behind bars last night, charged with attempted murder. 由於被指控犯有謀殺未遂罪，費希爾昨晚進了監獄。

7. N-COUNT A bar of something is a piece of it which is roughly rectangular. (長方形的) 條

What is your favourite chocolate bar?

你最喜愛的巧尅力棒是什麽？

8. V-T 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. 閂 (門)

For added safety, bar the door to the kitchen. 爲了更加安全，把廚房的門閂上。

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

Harry moved to bar his way. 哈裡挪過去擋住了他的路。

10. V-T 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]

Amnesty workers have been barred from the country since 1982. 自1982年以來特赦的工人被禁止進入該國。

11. N-COUNT If something is a bar to doing a particular thing, it prevents someone from doing it. 障礙

One of the fundamental bars to communication is the lack of a universally spoken, common language. 溝通的根本障礙之一就是缺乏一種通用的共同語言。

12. PREP 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[英國英語]

Bar a plateau in 1989, there has been a rise in inflation ever since the mid-1980s. 自20世紀80年代中期以來，除了1989年穩定之外，通貨膨脹一直在增長。

13. →see also barring

14. N-SING Thebar is used to refer to the profession of any kind of lawyer in the United States, or of a barrister in England. 律師職業[oft N n]

Less than a quarter of graduates from the law school pass the bar exam on the first try. 不到1/4的法學院畢業生能一次就通過律師考試。

15. N-COUNT In music, a bar is one of the several short parts of the same length into which a piece of music is divided. (音樂的) 小節

She sat down at the piano and played a few bars of a Chopin Polonaise. 她坐在鋼琴邊彈奏了肖邦的波洛奈玆舞曲的幾個小節。

16. N-COUNT a cgs unit of pressure equal to 106 dynes per square centimetre. 1 bar is equivalent to 105 newtons per square metre 巴(壓強單位)

17. N-COUNT immunity from being caught or otherwise penalized in a game (法律上或比賽中的)豁免權[Southwest English] [DIALECT]