quarter

英[ˈkwɔːtə(r)]美[ˈkwɔːrtər]

n. 四分之一，季度，一刻钟，25分硬币，地区，群体，营房，半圆的月相，一节，夸特，慈悲，住处；

v.把…分成四等份，为…提供临时住所；

复数：quarters;

第三人称单数：quarters;

过去式：quartered;

过去分词：quartered;

现在分词：quartering;

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They walked a quarter of a mile down the mountainside.他们沿山坡下行了四分之一英里的路程。

A quarter of the local workforce is unemployed.本地劳动力中有四分之一失业。

He declined to make projections about the next quarter’s earnings.他拒绝对下一季度的盈利作出预测。

Please subtract a quarter of the money for your own use.请从你的零用钱中扣除四分之一。

We should quarter a pineapple.我们应该把这个菠萝分成四等份。

The city has a busy Chinese quarter.这个城市有个热闹的华人区。

In the first week the moon is in its first quarter, in the third week it is in its last quarter.第一个星期月亮处于上弦月的状态, 第三个星期月亮处于下弦月的状态。

The output value in the first quarter was 10 percent over the same period of last year.第一季度产值比去年同期高出百分之十。

It'll cost you a quarter.你得花两角五分钱。

You will have a bad quarter of an hour of it, I assure you.我敢保证, 你准得受一刻钟的罪。

英语六级真题

This prompted the company to cut its forecasts for the full fourth quarter.

More than a quarter of children live in single-parent households—a historic high, according to Pew—and these children are three times as likely to live in poverty as those who live with married parents.

Less than an hour away by snowmobile, Chinese labourers have updated the Great Wall Station, a vital part of China's plan to operate five bases on Antarctica, complete with an indoor badminton court and sleeping quarters for 150 people.

A study of employees at health insurance provider Aetna revealed that roughly one quarter of those taking in-office yoga and mindfulness classes reported a 28% reduction in their stress levels and a 20% improvement in sleep quality.

According to the Centre for Strategic and International Studies,about three quarter of energy we use to move things, including ourselves, accomplishes no useful work.

That same study found that randomly assigned interracial roommates at Ohio State broke up before the end of the quarter about twice as often as same-race roommates.

We've had more people booking in the first quarter of this year than last," says Hubert Moineau, founder of Tselana Travel, which is planning to introduce a new program of longer adventure trips, including polar expeditions and cruises in the Galápagos.

The fact that there is an iced coffee on the market with over a quarter of a woman's daily calories allowance is alarming," Dr Rachel Thompson, science programme manager at London-based WCRF, said in a widely-reported statement.

4 million working days were lost to work related stress last year, a jump of nearly a quarter.

A quarter of students report that their use of digital devices during class causes their grades to suffer .

A study of employees at health insurance provider Aetna revealed that roughly one quarter of those taking in-office yoga and mindfulness classes reported a 28% reduction in their stress levels and a 20% improvement in sleep quality.

It has consequences: South Africa's ongoing drought—the worst in three decades—will cost at least a quarter of its com crop this year.

More than 20 years after the internet was opened to commerce, the Census Bureau tells us that brick and mortar sales accounted for 92.3 percent of retail sales in the first quarter of 2016.

Sure enough, the Census Bureau just released data showing that online retail sales surged 15.2 percent between the first quarter of 2015 and the first quarter of 2016.

The report finds more than a quarter of the countries experienced flat or falling monthly wages in real terms.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

FRACTION

四分之一

A quarter is one of four equal parts of something.

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N-COUNT

季度;季

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

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N-UNCOUNT

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.

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VERB

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.

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VERB

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.

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N-COUNT

(美国或加拿大的)25分硬币

A quarter is an American or Canadian coin that is worth 25 cents.

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N-COUNT

(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.

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N-COUNT

(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 .

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N-PLURAL

(*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 .

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VERB

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.

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PHRASE

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.

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PHRASE

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.

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英汉词典释义

n.

四分之一

每小时之前或之后的一刻钟, 第十五分钟

两角五分的硬币; 四分之一元;（美国和加拿大的） 25 分硬币

三个月, 一个季度

上弦[下弦]; 月球周期的四分之一;半圆的月相

方向; 地区; 城镇的一部分

(住处; 营房;士兵、服务人员等的）营房，宿舍，住房

人, 团体,（尤指能提供帮助、信息或做出反应的）个人，群体

（美式足球的）一节，一*

夸特（重量单位，英国为 28 磅，美国为 25 磅；四分之一英担）

（对掌控中的敌人或对手的）怜悯，仁慈，慈悲，同情

vt.

把…四等分, 把…切成（或分成）四部份

使(士兵)驻扎, 供…住宿, 给…提供食宿

英英词典释义

Noun

1. one of four equal parts;

2. a district of a city having some distinguishing character;

3. one of four periods of play into which some games are divided;

4. a unit of time equal to 15 minutes or a quarter of an hour;

5. one of four periods into which the school year is divided;

6. a fourth part of a year; three months;

7. one of the four major division of the compass;

8. a quarter of a hundredweight (25 pounds)

9. a quarter of a hundredweight (28 pounds)

10. a United States coin worth one fourth of a dollar;

11. an unspecified person;

12. the rear part of a ship

13. piece of leather that comprises the part of a shoe or boot covering the heel and joining the vamp

Verb

1. provide housing for (military personnel)

2. pull (a person) apart with four horses tied to his extremities, so as to execute him;

3. divide into quarters;

4. divide by four; divide into quarters

行业词典

体育： 船侧后半部；船的后部；船尾部；

医学： 蹄边部：马蹄跟与趾间的部分；

法律： 地区；

物理学： 波片；quarter-wave plate；

航海科技： 艉舷；

金融： 付款季度；按季度付的款项；