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corner

英 ['kɔːnə] 美['kɔrnɚ]

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n. 角落，拐角处；地区，偏僻处；困境，窘境
vi. 囤积；相交成角
vt. 垄断；迫至一隅；使陷入绝境；把…难住
n. (Corner)人名；(法)科尔内；(英)科纳

考试真题

In 1972, for instance, the Soviets, recognizing their poor harvest early, quietly cornered the world wheat market.

The kind of shopping—where you hand over notes and count out change in return—now happens only in the most minor of our retail encounters, like buying a bar of chocolate or a pint of milk from a corner shop.

Instead of digging through pieces of paper and peering into corners, we move our fingers left and right.

This reminds me unpleasantly of Sunnyhill School in Streatham, with its harsh tarmac, where I used to hang about in corners fantasising about wildlife.

On the corner, there's a Starbucks and a 7-Eleven—all of the international brands that you see all over the world nowadays.

The train was coming around the corner as I lifted the baby from the tracks.

Budget reduction in around the corner.

Actually, there's something interesting to see in every corner of Paris: the old buildings, neighborhoods, and the historical monuments.

Gin spent five months in early 2015 exploring the most remote corners of this area, which sits on the edge of the Amazon rainforest, with half its population of only 250, 000 living in its capital, Cayenne.

Many graphs, including bar graphs and line graphs, have two axes that form a corner, usually these axes are the left side and the bottom of the graph.

Pahlsson and her husband searched the kitchen, checking every corner, but turned up nothing.

The city of brussels was covered in snowmen—an impressive scene that told stories on every street corner.

Even American newspapers, which inhabit the most troubled corner of the global industry, have not only survived but often returned to profit.

However, a true cashless society is probably not around the corner.