英语释义

1. to devise or contrive often with craft or skill plot
" … persons … who have compassed my destruction … "
— Charles Dickens

2. encompass
a lake compassed by mountains

3. bring about, achieve
… none can compass more than they intend …
— Alexander Pope

4. to get into one's possession or power obtain
He compassed a vast estate.

5. comprehend
could not compass the seriousness of the problem

6. boundary, circumference
within the compass of the city walls

7. a circumscribed space
crammed into a narrow compass

8. range, scope
the compass of my voice

9. a curved or roundabout course
… a compass of seven days' journey …
— 2 Kings 3:9 (King James Version)

10. a device for determining directions by means of a magnetic needle or group of needles turning freely on a pivot and pointing to the magnetic north

11. any of various nonmagnetic devices that indicate direction

12. an instrument for describing circles or transferring measurements that consists of two pointed branches joined at the top by a pivot —usually used in plural — called also pair of compasses

13. direction sense 6c
his moral compass

14. forming a curve curved
a compass timber

15. a device that is used to find direction by means of a needle that always points north

16. something that helps a person make choices about what is right, effective, etc.

17. a tool that consists of two pointed sticks joined at the top and that is used for measuring distances

18. a device having a magnetic needle that indicates direction on the earth's surface by pointing toward the north

19. an instrument for drawing circles or marking measurements consisting of two pointed legs joined at the top by a pivot —usually used in pl.

20. range entry 1 sense 2, scope
He is within the compass of my voice.

片语

elliptic compasses椭圆规

triangular compasses三角规

drop compasses小圆规

magnetic compass[航][水运] 磁罗盘，[航][水运] 磁罗经

Liquid compasses磁力罗盘仪

spherical compasses曲线形两脚规

compasses construction圆规作图

within the compass of在…的范围内

compass needle[航][水运] 罗盘针，罗针；罗经磁针

reduction compasses比例规

compass rose方位圈；[航][水运] 罗盘刻度盘；罗经盘

bearing compasses方位罗盘

circinus compasses圆规座

英汉例句

• now, use your compasses to measure the attitude of the two limbs of the anticline.

  现在用你们的罗盘去测量一下那个背斜两翼的产状。

• i bought a pair of compasses in the shop.

  我在这家商店买了一副圆规。

• the teacher asked his students to use their compasses to draw circles .

  老师要求学生们用圆规画圆。

• dr ropars suspects it was being used as a sunstone because the magnetic compasses of the day were thrown out of kilter by iron cannon.

  罗帕斯博士怀疑它曾经被当做太阳石使用，因为在白天，磁性罗盘会因为铸铁的大炮失去平衡。

• what「s more, these compasses would be small and would consume very little energy.

  另外，这些新型罗盘将小巧玲珑并且能耗极低。

• so it」s not only about your own moral compass, but the moral compasses of other people that you don't know.

  所以这不仅仅关系到你自己的道德标準，还有一些你并不认识的其他人的道德标準。

• tell me, does the magnetic virtue of the needles of the compasses of all those ships attract them thither ?

  你说吧，是不是那些船只的罗盘指针的磁力把他们吸引来的？

• these compasses were south pointing and were primarily used on land as divination tools and direct finders.

  这些罗盘指向南方，主要在陆地上使用，作为占卜工具和方向的寻找。

• photons provide the electromagnetic force that does everything from pointing compasses north to stopping solid objects collapsing in on themselves.

  光子提供了电磁相互作用力，这种力广泛存在，从决定指南针的指向到阻止固体物质因吸引而坍塌。

• the boy liked to draw a cicrl with compasses and the girl liked to swim in the swimming pool used in common.

  男孩喜欢用圆规画圆，女孩喜欢在共用游泳池游泳。

• recently, highly sensitive compasses guided engineers as they drilled relief wells in the gulf of mexico after the deepwater horizon blowout.

  就在最近，在墨西哥湾的深海鉆井平台爆炸之后，高敏感罗盘指引着工程师们进行了鉆凿减压井的工作。

• although this kind of method can involve certain frame-up compasses measure, but proper use is no problem.

  虽然这种方法会涉及到一定的不正规手段，但是适当的使用是没问题的。

• to the position consumption undertakes corresponding guiding and compasses make a when should become governmental regulation to make new field.

  对地位消费进行相应的引导和规制应成为政府规制的一个新领域。

相似词

accomplish完成；实现；达到

achieve达到预期的目的，实现预期的结果，如愿以偿

carry off夺去；获得；使丧命；成功地处理

carry out执行，实行；贯彻；实现；完成

commit忠于（某个人、机构等）；承诺

doaux. 与动词连用构成否定句和疑问句；用于构成疑问尾句；用于避免重复某一动词；用于强调主要动词；用于祈使句中表示礼貌；用于肯定或否定回答；用在倒装句中

execute实行；执行；处死

make制造；构造；性情

negotiate谈判，交涉

perform执行，机器运转；表演

perpetrate犯（罪）；做（恶）

prosecute起诉；告发；作检察官

pull off赢得；脱下；努力实现

put through接通；完成；使穿过；使从事，使经受