quarter

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quarter 是什么意思

中文释义

n. 四分之一, 一刻钟, 季度, 地区

vt. 四等分, 肢解

vi. 驻扎, 住宿

英文释义

n. a district of a city having some distinguishing character

n. (football, professional basketball) one of four divisions into which some games are divided

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

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

quarter 的真实例句

以下例句摘自真实英文文章，看看 quarter 在自然语境里怎么用：

On its own, its growth covered a quarter of the rising demand for all forms of energy.

—— Global growth in solar "the largest ever observed for any source"

Axiom, meanwhile, hired French designer Philippe Starck for the interior of its station, which includes bubblelike padded walls for comfortable living quarters.

—— How to build a space hotel

Invisible "dark matter"—what cosmologists call the mysterious glue that holds everything together—is estimated to make up more than a quarter of the universe.

—— Simple ocean-based model forecasts a powerful El Niño, over 2 °C warmer than normal

Joseph Zada stars as young Haymitch, who is selected as one of the tributes for the 50th Hunger Games, aka the Second Quarter Quell.

—— Sunrise on the Reaping teaser brings us a Second Quarter Quell

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