Corner

(noun.) the intersection of two streets; 'standing on the corner watching all the girls go by'.

(noun.) (architecture) solid exterior angle of a building; especially one formed by a cornerstone.

(noun.) an interior angle formed by two meeting walls; 'a piano was in one corner of the room'.

(noun.) the point where two lines meet or intersect; 'the corners of a rectangle'.

(noun.) a place off to the side of an area; 'he tripled to the rightfield corner'; 'the southeastern corner of the Mediterranean'.

(noun.) a remote area; 'in many corners of the world they still practice slavery'.

(noun.) the point where three areas or surfaces meet or intersect; 'the corners of a cube'.

(noun.) a projecting part where two sides or edges meet; 'he knocked off the corners'.

(noun.) a predicament from which a skillful or graceful escape is impossible; 'his lying got him into a tight corner'.

(noun.) a temporary monopoly on a kind of commercial trade; 'a corner on the silver market'.

(verb.) turn a corner; 'the car corners'.

(verb.) force a person or an animal into a position from which he cannot escape.

(verb.) gain control over; 'corner the gold market'.

安编辑

• Don't be afraid of me: you needn't squeeze yourself back into your corner like that. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• Their headquarters lay in the southwest corner of this district, near the crossing of two of the so-called Martian canals. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• He turned a corner suddenly, and Blucher went over his head. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• I merely intend to make myself entrancingly agreeable to every one I know, and to keep them in your corner as long as possible. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Because I saw it only looking out from under the blinds of a window in the house which stood on the corner where the arc light was. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Hundreds of People The quiet lodgings of Doctor Manette were in a quiet street-corner not far from Soho-square. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• This morning, ma'am, I found him at the corner of the town. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Lydgate did not speak, but tossed his head on one side, and twitched the corners of his mouth in despair. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• I think the corners of his mouth were dreadfully spiteful. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• The person of the house gave a weird little laugh here, and gave them another look out of the corners of her eyes. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• So saying, he pointed successively to two corners of the hut. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• The corners of the Sergeant's melancholy mouth curled up, and he looked hard in my face, just as he had looked in the garden. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Mr. Weller paused when he arrived at this point, and cast a comical look at his master out of the corners of his eyes. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• No packing down is needed except in the corners and along the walls; at these points we endeavor to firm the ensilage just as much as possible. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• At the old lodgings it was understood that he was summoned to Dover, and, in fact, he was taken down the Dover road and cornered out of it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• The contest in Europe from the fourteenth century onward therefore was a three-cornered contest. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• They do not plow with a sharpened stick, nor yet with a three-cornered block of wood that merely scratches the top of the ground. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• That dear, little, gentleman-like bow, on the little, _vielle cour_, three-cornered hat! 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• The Gould and Fisk crowd had cornered gold, and had run the quotations up faster than the indicator could follow. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Pray William, said his mother, why do you come to the Hoppera in that hodious round 'at, after giving such a price for a three-cornered one? 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• Couldn't you--didn't you--now, if it had rained sugar-plums, or three-cornered raspberry tarts, or anything of that sort! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• So soon as it was released from control, it ran naturally into speculation, cornering, and luxury production. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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