square off

英 [skweə(r) ɒf]

美 [skwer ɔːf]

把…加工成方形; 摆好架势; 准备迎战

柯林斯词典

PHRASAL VERB 把…弄成方形
If yousquaresomethingoff, you alter it so that it has the shape of a square.
1. Peel a thick-skinned orange and square off the ends with a sharp knife.
  剥开一只厚皮橙子，用锋利的刀将两端削去使它呈方形。
2. ...white modern buildings that look like squared-off wedding cakes.
  看起来像是方形结婚蛋糕的白色现代建筑
PHR-V-RECIP 摆好打斗的架势;准备迎战
If one group or personsquares off againstorwithanother, they prepare to fight them.
1. In Florida, farmers are squaring off against cities for rights to groundwater...
  在佛罗里达州，农民正摆好架势，准备和城市争夺地下水的使用权。
2. French soldiers squared off with a gunman at a road checkpoint...
  在一个公路检查站法国士兵摆开架势，准备迎战一名持枪者。
3. The Los Angeles Lakers and the Chicago Bulls square off for the first game of the series.
  洛杉矶湖人队和芝加哥公牛队摆好了架势，准备进行总决赛的第一场对决。

英英释义

verb

settle conclusively
1. We finally settled the argument
Synonym:settlesquare updetermine

双语例句

Ewan McGregor is in talks to square off against Tom Hanks in "Angels& Demons," Columbia's prequel to" The Da Vinci Code "being directed by Ron Howard and produced by Brian Grazer and John Calley.
伊万·麦克格雷格正在沟通与汤姆·汉克斯出演《天使与魔鬼》一片事宜。该片是哥伦比亚制作公司拍摄的《达芬奇密码》的前传，由朗·霍华德导演，布莱恩·格雷泽和约翰·卡利制作。
You wanted to square yourself, get off probation.
你想证明你自己，取消留用察看。
Less than a day after Martin Scorsese gave a hometown crowd an early glimpse at his upcoming Hugo, James Cameron dropped by Times Square to show off 17 minutes from his ongoing 3-D conversion of Titanic.
在不到一天的时间内，继导演马丁斯克塞斯给家乡人民预先一瞥即将上映的影片《雨果卡布里特的发明》后，詹姆斯卡梅隆又来到时代广场放映了17分钟还在制作中的3D《泰坦尼克号》片段。
S eller Oh, I live in the east of the Municipal Square, you can walk through Taiyuan Street, and take the221bus and get off the bus at the Municipal Intermediate Court.
卖主哦，我家住在市政府广场的东侧，你可以穿过太原街步行街，乘坐221路公交车到沈阳市中级法院下车。
French soldiers squared off with a gunman at a road checkpoint
在一个公路检查站法国士兵摆开架势，准备迎战一名持枪者。
In Florida, farmers are squaring off against cities for rights to groundwater
在佛罗里达州，农民正摆好架势，准备和城市争夺地下水的使用权。
Case study for the treatment of precast square pile joint's falling off
预制方桩接头脱落处理实例
The KL side will not be in action today but will square off against Sabah tomorrow.
吉隆坡方将不会在今天的行动，但会方对沙巴假。
The monks'shoes on the square Because when chanting Buddhist scripts, the monks were required not to wear shoes, So they put off shoes and put them on the square in order to dry them.
《僧侣们的鞋就晒在广场上》广场上晒着僧侣们的鞋子，因为听经时僧侣们是要脱掉鞋子的，顺便晒晒。
Peel a thick-skinned orange and square off the ends with a sharp knife.
剥开一只厚皮橙子，用锋利的刀将两端削去使它呈方形。