单词 | nowhere |
释义 | no·where /ˈnəʊweə $ ˈnoʊwer/ ●●● S2 adverb 1 LOSE/CAN'T FINDPLACEnot in any place or to any place 什么地方都不,无处nowhere to go/live/sit etc I have no job and nowhere to live. 我没有工作,也没有地方住。 Nowhere is drug abuse more of a problem than in the US. 没有什么地方的吸毒问题比美国更严重。2 get/go nowhere FAILPROGRESSto have no success or make no progress 没有结果;没有进展 The proposal went nowhere in the Senate. 该提议在参议院毫无结果。get nowhere with somebody/something He was getting nowhere with the Bentley case. 他在本特利案件上没有获得任何进展。get somebody nowhere A negative attitude will get you nowhere. 消极的态度会让你一无所成。 I soon realized that being tough was getting me nowhere fast (=was not helping me achieve anything). 我很快就意识到态度强硬只会一无所获。3 be nowhere to be seen/found (also be nowhere in sight) to not be in a place, or not be seen or found there 哪儿也见不到/找不到 Typical – another street crime and the police are nowhere to be seen. 总是这样,又一宗街头罪案,而警察却不见踪影。4 nowhere near a) FARa long way from a particular place 离〔某地方〕很远 He swore he was nowhere near her house on the night she died. 他发誓说在她死的当夜,他根本不在她家附近。 b) NOTnot at all 远没有,远不及nowhere near ready/full/finished etc The building’s nowhere near finished. 这大楼完工还早着呢。 She’s nowhere near as pretty as you are. 她远没有你漂亮。5 out of/from nowhere SUDDENLYhappening or appearing suddenly and without warning 突然发生;突然出现 In the last few seconds, Gunnell came from nowhere to win another gold medal. 在最后几秒钟里,甘内尔突然发力,又赢得了一枚金牌。 From out of nowhere he asks me to marry him! 他竟突然间向我求婚!5 GRAMMAR 语法• Do not use nowhere with another negative word (eg ‘not’). Use anywhere . 如果有其他否定词(如not),不要用nowhere,而要用anywhereYou can’t smoke anywhere ( NOT 不说 can’t smoke nowhere ) in the building.这大楼里任何地方都不能吸烟。n GRAMMAR: NegativesDon’t use nowhere with another negative word such as ‘not’. Use anywhere. You say: You must not smoke anywhere in the building. ✗Don’t say: You must not smoke nowhere in the building.Examples from the Corpusnowhere• It's laid waste to nowhere.• Louis Cardinals out in Bloomington, and getting nowhere.• The image will seem to magically appear on screen from nowhere.• When the cold hit, there was nowhere for them to go.• And that's the worst, not having a job, nowhere to go and nowhere to live.• And we had nowhere to go if we had been found unworthy.• There was no respite from them, nowhere to hide from them.• Since 1988, the number of applications from people who say they have nowhere to live has soared from 160 to 629.• Giant amphipods, the size of rats, appear out of nowhere to nibble on the remains.nowhere to go/live/sit etc• Dot waited and waited in the long brown corridor with nowhere to sit.• Far more numerous are those with nothing to do, with nowhere to go.• They did not move because there was nowhere to go.• And that's the worst, not having a job, nowhere to go and nowhere to live.• Since 1988, the number of applications from people who say they have nowhere to live has soared from 160 to 629.• And we had nowhere to go if we had been found unworthy.• We had nowhere to go, nothing to do, all our plans were suspended.no·where adverb →5 GRAMMAR1 →n GRAMMAR2LDOCE OnlineChineseSyllable Corpus place not in or any any place to |
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