| 单词 | queue |
| 释义 | queueWord family adjectivequeuednounqueuerqueuingqueuequeue-jumping Computers queue1 /kjuː/ ●●○ S3 noun [countableC] → cue1 LINEWAIT British EnglishBrE a line of people waiting to enter a building, buy something etc, or a line of vehicles waiting to move 〔人或车辆为等候而排的〕队，行列 SYN American English line be/stand/wait in a queue We stood in a queue for half an hour. 我们排了半个小时的队。 You’ll have to join the queue. 你得排队。 queue of a queue of people waiting for the bus 一队等公共汽车的人 queue for the queue for the toilets 排队上厕所的人 queue to do something There was a long queue to get into the cinema. 人们排长队进入电影院。 the front/head/back/end of a queue At last we got to the front of the queue. 我们终于排到了队伍的前面。 2 British EnglishBrE all the people who are waiting to have or get something 〔为得到某物而〕等待的人群 You’ll have to join the housing queue. 你得排队等待住房分配。 queue for the queue for kidney transplant operations 排队等待做肾脏移植手术的患者 It is possible to jump the queue (=get something before people who have been waiting longer) if you are prepared to pay for your treatment. 你要是愿意自费看病，可以不用排队。 3 technicalTD a list of jobs that a computer has to do in a particular order 队列〔计算机必须按一定顺序处理的一系列工作〕 the print queue 打印队列 4. a number of telephone calls to a particular number that are waiting to be answered 呼叫队列 → the dole queue at dole1(2)n COLLOCATIONS verbs stand/wait in a queue She stood in the queue at the checkout. be in a queue I've been in this queue for fifteen minutes. form a queue Other passengers for the train were forming a queue. join a queue He went back inside to join the queue for the toilets. take your place in a queue (=join it) I walked to the bus stop and took my place in the queue. jump the queue (=go to the front rather than joining the end of a queue) An argument developed when she tried to jump the queue. a queue forms A queue had formed outside the shop. a queue stretches somewhere adjectivesThe queue stretched the full length of the building. long/big Already a long queue had formed outside the concert hall There was a big queue. small There was a small queue of people waiting to see the doctor. an orderly queue (=with no bad behaviour or pushing in front of other people) phrasesShe told the children to form an orderly queue. the front/head of the queue He pushed his way to the front of the queue. the back/end of the queue Get to the back of the queue! be first in a queue I wanted to be first in the queue when the doors opened. Examples from the Corpus queue• The women who were waiting outside the toilets began to form a queue.• There was a queue of about fifteen people at the bus stop.• Before long, lengthy queues began to form before opening time.• There was a long queue for the toilets.• Three girls lost two weeks for talking in the medicine queue whilst waiting for doses.• If you're heading for the Paris Disney during the Easter holidays, how can you beat the queues?• Meredith, recalling her brief conversation with Deanes in the queue, felt compelled to defend him.• Excuse me, are you in the queue?• I joined the queue for a taxi.• Another person joined the queue and the old lady immediately behind him began to look restive.• Credit-checking agencies, credit-card processors and other heavy telecoms users have been at the front of the queue.• At one point the queue stretched four deep for more than a quarter of mile.• The queue went right round the block. be/stand/wait in a queue• No-one walked the corridors or stood in queues and the Headmaster almost seemed friendly, if this is possible to believe. jump the queue• Why not save money - and jump the queue today.• Rayleen helped too, or rather her uniform did, giving us a pseudo-official status which meant we could jump the queue.• We can not jump the queue. queue2 ●○○ verb (also queue up) [intransitiveI] British EnglishBrE 1 LINEWAITto form or join a line of people or vehicles waiting to do something or go somewhere 排队〔等候〕 SYN American English line up queue for Some of the people queuing for tickets had been there since dawn. 购票队伍中有些人天刚亮就来了。 queue (up) to do something We had to queue up for ages to get served. 得排很长时间队才会有人给我们上菜。 2 if people are queuing up to do something, they all want to do it very much 竞相，抢着〔做某事〕 queue up to do something The school is one of the best, and parents are queuing up to send their children there. 这是最好的学校之一，父母都争先恐后地送子女到那里上学。 queue up for something Actresses are queuing up for the part. 女演员都在竞相争取这个角色。 Examples from the Corpus queue• One of the other passengers who was queueing to get on the train suddenly had a heart attack.• The Caf Gandoplhi is Glasgow's cooling stream bit, assuming you don't mind queuing.• They are just queuing at the door, waiting to be let in.• We had to queue for hours in the rain.• Everyone would be trying to use the lift at that point - probably queuing for it.• He had half expected a divine pre-emptive strike, a thunderbolt maybe, as he queued for the body and blood.• Thousands queued for tickets to see the final.• Game players every where are now queuing up for a copy of this excellent graphical game with breathtaking colours. queue (up) to do something• Kylesku was notorious, and approaching cars raced to be in the front of the queue to avoid a frustrating wait.• After the show, there was a queue to buy the clothes and last year's total was doubled.• People are queuing up to join the voluntary scheme.• Cars stack up behind every bus, while passengers queue to pay their fares.• The Khan boys were queuing up to play me.• For days the queue to sign the Condolence Book in the embassy lobby had stretched twice around Grosvenor Square.• There's even a queue to stroke the police horse.• Sometimes they were queuing to telephone him. queue up to do something• But, like turkeys looking forward to Christmas, industry heavyweights queued up to be part of the action.• But don't fantasise about everyone at a party queuing up to chat to you.• Manufacturers queue up to claim their machines are upgradeable; but some stand out as truly modular.• People are queuing up to join the voluntary scheme.• The Khan boys were queuing up to play me.• Canteen antagonisms ... getting heavily antagonized while you're queuing up to purchase a doughnut.• There is a long catalogue of people who will queue up to write the Secretary of State's epitaph. From Longman Business Dictionary queuequeue1 /kjuː/ noun [countableC] 1British EnglishBrE a line of people waiting to enter a building, buy something etcSYN AmE line There may be long queues outside stores at sale times. 2COMPUTING a list of jobs that a computer has to do in a particular order the number of jobs in the batch queue queuequeue2 verb (past tensepst and past participlepp queued, present participle queuing or queueing) British EnglishBrE 1[intransitiveI] (also queue up) to form or join a line of people or vehicles waiting to do something or go somewhere Customers queued for hours to buy the new toy. I queued up at the travel centre to pick up my tickets. 2[transitiveT]COMPUTING if a computer queues a job, it puts it in a list of jobs that are to be done in a particular order Input or output requests to a file are queued by the operating system. (1500-1600) French “tail”, from Latin cauda, coda |
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