名词晌午; 正午，中午; 全盛期，顶点; 〈古〉午夜

1. 正午;中午
Noon is twelve o'clock in the middle of the day.

e.g. The long day of meetings started at noon...
会议接连不断的漫长一天从中午开始。
e.g. Our branches are open from 9am to 5pm during the week and until 12 noon on Saturdays.
我们的分行每周一至周五上午9点到下午5点营业，周六营业到中午12点。

2. 正午的;中午的
Noon means happening or appearing in the middle part of the day.

e.g. The noon sun was fierce...
正午的阳光火辣辣的。
e.g. He expected the transfer to go through by today's noon deadline.
他希望转账在今天中午的最后期限之前完成。

3. morning, noon, and night - see morning

名词钱; 款项; 财富; 薪水

1. 钱;金钱
Money is the coins or bank notes that you use to buy things, or the sum that you have in a bank account.

e.g. A lot of the money that you pay at the cinema goes back to the film distributors...
你在电影院消费的一大部分钱都会回到电影发行商手里。
e.g. Players should be allowed to earn money from advertising...
应该允许运动员拍广告挣钱。

2. 款项;钱款
Monies is used to refer to several separate sums of money that form part of a larger amount that is received or spent.

e.g. We drew up a schedule of payments for the rest of the monies owed.
我们起草了一份剩余欠款的还款计划。
e.g. ...the investment and management of monies by pension funds.
养老基金对资金的投资与管理

3. see also: blood money;pocket money

4. 有花不完的钱;钱多得烫手;钱多得烧包
If you say that someone has money to burn, you mean that they have more money than they need or that they spend their money on things that you think are unnecessary.

e.g. He was a high-earning broker with money to burn.
他是高收入的经纪人，有花不完的钱。

5. 非常有钱的;手头宽裕的
If you are in the money, you have a lot of money to spend.

e.g. If you are one of the lucky callers chosen to play, you could be in the money.
如果你有幸成为其中一个被选中参加表演的来电者，就可能会赚大钱。

6. 挣钱;赚钱
If you make money, you obtain money by earning it or by making a profit.

e.g. They couldn't find work or make money in the cities.
他们在城市找不到工作，也赚不到钱。
e.g. ...the only bit of the firm that consistently made money.
公司唯一一直赚钱的一小块业务

7. 用行动证明自己的话；说到做到;说给钱就给钱
If you say that you want someone to put their money where their mouth is, you want them to spend money to improve a bad situation, instead of just talking about improving it.

e.g. The government might be obliged to put its money where its mouth is to prove its commitment.
政府也许会被迫付出行动，以兑现承诺。

8. (因掌握内情而下的)高明赌注
If you say that the smart money is on a particular person or thing, you mean that people who know a lot about it think that this person will be successful, or this thing will happen.

e.g. With England not playing, the smart money was on the Germans...
英格兰队没有参赛，所以人们看好德国队应该会赢。

9. 金钱万能;有钱能使鬼推磨
If you say that money talks, you mean that if someone has a lot of money, they also have a lot of power.

e.g. The formula in Hollywood is simple—money talks.
好莱坞的生存规则很简单，就是金钱万能。

10. 白白扔钱;花冤枉钱
If you say that someone is throwing money at a problem, you are critical of them for trying to improve it by spending money on it, instead of doing more thoughtful and practical things to improve it.

e.g. The Australian government's answer to the problem has been to throw money at it.
澳大利亚政府对这个问题的解决方案一直就是大把往里扔钱。

11. 花钱填无底洞;继续砸钱
If you say that someone is throwing good money after bad, you are critical of them for trying to improve a bad situation by spending more money on it, instead of doing more thoughtful or practical things to improve it.

e.g. Further heavy intervention would be throwing good money after bad.
进一步加大干预的力度只会是继续白扔钱。

12. 钱花得值;物有所值；没白忙活
If you get your money's worth, you get something which is worth the money that it costs or the effort you have put in.

e.g. The fans get their money's worth.
粉丝们的钱没白花。

13. to see the colour of someone's money - see colour
a licence to print money - see licence
to be rolling in money - see rolling
money for old rope - see rope
to give someone a run for their money - see run

名词四分之一; 一刻钟; 地区; （美式足球的）一节

及物动词把…四等分; 供…住宿; 使（士兵）驻扎

1. 四分之一
A quarter is one of four equal parts of something.

e.g. A quarter of the residents are over 55 years old...
1/4的居民年龄在55岁以上。
e.g. I've got to go in a quarter of an hour...
一刻钟以后我就得走了。

2. 季度;季
A quarter is a fixed period of three months. Companies often divide their financial year into four quarters.

e.g. The group said results for the third quarter are due on October 29.
该集团表示第三季度的结果将于10月29日公布。

3. 一刻钟；十五分钟
When you are telling the time, you use quarter to talk about the fifteen minutes before or after an hour. For example, 8.15 is quarter past eight, and 8.45 is quarter to nine. In American English, you can also say that 8.15 is a quarter after eight and 8.45 is a quarter of nine.

e.g. It was a quarter to six...
当时是6点差一刻。
e.g. See you about quarter to nine...
8点45分左右再见。

4. 把…分成四等份
If you quarter something such as a fruit or a vegetable, you cut it into four roughly equal parts.

e.g. Chop the mushrooms and quarter the tomatoes.
把蘑菇切成丁，再把西红柿切成四瓣。

5. 把…降至原先的四分之一;把…减少四分之三
If the number or size of something is quartered, it is reduced to about a quarter of its previous number or size.

e.g. The doses I suggested for adults could be halved or quartered.
我之前建议成人服用的剂量可以降到1/2或者1/4。

6. (美国或加拿大的)25分硬币
A quarter is an American or Canadian coin that is worth 25 cents.

e.g. I dropped a quarter into the slot of the pay phone.
我向付费电话的投币孔里投了一枚25分硬币。

7. (城镇中某一类人群生活或工作的)区，地区
A particular quarter of a town is a part of the town where a particular group of people traditionally live or work.

e.g. Look for hotels in the French Quarter.
在法国人居住区寻找旅馆。

8. (做出反应或行动的)某位人士，某个团体
To refer to a person or group you may not want to name, you can talk about the reactions or actions from a particular quarter .

e.g. Help came from an unexpected quarter...
援助来自于一个意想不到的团体。
e.g. There are fears in some quarters that the republic would have little chance of surviving on its own.
某些人士担心共和国独立支撑下去的希望很渺茫。

9. (军人、水手、仆人的)住处，宿舍，营房
The rooms provided for soldiers, sailors, or servants to live in are called their quarters .

e.g. Mckinnon went down from deck to the officers' quarters.
麦金农走下甲板，来到军官们的住处。

10. 为…提供临时住所
If people are quartered somewhere, they are provided with accommodation for a short time, usually while they are working away from home.

e.g. Our soldiers are quartered in Peredelkino.
我们的士兵在佩列杰利基诺扎营。

11. 近距离地;近在咫尺；接近地
If you do something at close quarters, you do it very near to a particular person or thing.

e.g. You can watch aircraft take off or land at close quarters...
你可以近距离观察飞机的起降。

12. 不仁慈；不宽恕
If you say that someone was given no quarter, you mean that they were not treated kindly by someone who had power or control over them.

e.g. This is not war as you learned it. It is brutal work, with no quarter given.
这并不是你所了解的战争。它残酷无情，对人没有半点怜悯。

形容词慢的; 迟钝的; 温和的; 慢于…的

副词慢慢地; 缓慢地

及物/不及物动词（使）缓行，（使）减速

不及物动词变慢; 变萧条

及物动词放慢; 阻碍

1. 慢的;缓慢的
Something that is slow moves, happens, or is done without much speed.

e.g. The traffic is heavy and slow...
交通拥挤，车流缓慢。
e.g. Electric whisks should be used on a slow speed.
使用自动搅拌器时应该选用慢挡。