closed

Word family noun close closure closing adjective closed closing verb close

closed /kləʊzd $ kloʊzd/ S3 adjectiveadj

1 not open 关闭的 SYN shut OPP open

Make sure all the windows are closed.

一定要把所有的窗户都关好。

She kept her eyes tightly closed.

她双目紧闭。

2 SHUT/CLOSE[not before noun] if a shop, public building etc is closed, it is not open and people cannot enter or use it 〔商店、公共建筑等〕关门的，不开放的 SYN shut OPP open

The shops here are closed on Sundays.

这里的商店星期天关门。

closed to the public/visitors etc

The castle is closed to visitors in winter.

这座城堡冬天不对游客开放。

3 LIMITrestricted to a particular group of people 只限于特定人群的 OPP open

The golf club has closed membership.

该高尔夫球俱乐部限定会员资格。

a closed meeting

只有特定人员参加的会议

The police have a closed circle of suspects.

警方锁定了一群人，将其列为嫌疑犯。

4 STRICTnot willing to accept new ideas or influences 闭关自守的，不受外来影响的 OPP open

You’re facing this situation with a closed mind.

你在这件事上思想太守旧了。

closed society/world/way of life

Venetian art in this period was a closed world.

这一时期的威尼斯艺术是一个封闭的世界。

5 behind closed doors SECRETif something happens behind closed doors, it happens in private and the public are not allowed in 不公开地，秘密地

It seems that the deal was made behind closed doors.

这笔交易似乎是秘密达成的。

Football authorities ordered the club to play its next two games behind closed doors after the riots in February.

2 月份的骚乱发生后，足球管理机构责令该俱乐部在接下来的两场比赛中禁止球迷入场。

Examples from the Corpus

behind closed doors• And, unlike most other House panels, the ethics committee conducts virtually all of its business behind closed doors.• Real's punishment was to play subsequent matches behind closed doors.• Schmoke spent most of his time behind closed doors.• We think, but we don't really know what they were saying to each other behind closed doors.• Although America is a democracy, a lot of key decisions are made behind closed doors by unelected advisers.• The hearings are behind closed doors, Newsweek says, and it has not discovered the names of the companies implicated.• As the jurors deliberated behind closed doors, the judge huddled with lawyers from both sides in his chambers.• The board members met behind closed doors to discuss the deal.

6 a closed book (to somebody) NOT KNOWa subject or problem that someone does not know about or understand （某人）一无所知[毫不理解]的学科[问题]

Mathematics has always been a closed book to me.

我对数学向来一窍不通。

Examples from the Corpus

a closed book (to somebody)• I can not believe that it can be right that this late in the game Poetry is still a closed book.• The kitchenette is a closed book.• The Shoah will never be a closed book.• I tell myself it's a closed book, but my cover story becomes an old man's compensation.• But your own past can be a closed book, even at fourteen.• He is holding a closed book, signifying a mystery, possibly a stage in the alchemical process.• The highly organised St Stephen's Society programme which she now leads was at that time a closed book to her!• Linear preoccupation in the past remains a closed book to modern understanding.

7 a closed set (of something) a restricted group, or a group that cannot change or grow 一成不变的某物

The law is not a closed set of rules and principles.

法律并不是一套不可改变的规定和原则。

→ in closed session at session(2)

Examples from the Corpus

closed• The Macintosh, on the other hand, uses the Motorola 68000 and was designed as a closed architecture.• Her eyes kept flickering shut, though, and they finally stayed closed as she gently snoozed.• Again, you will have a closed circle of suspects.• We think, but we don't really know what they were saying to each other behind closed doors.• Community leaders are having a closed meeting with the mayor.• Stepping towards the opponent's closed side provides fewer targets, though it does succeed in preventing an immediate, effective counter.• During the period of the Cold War, many Communist countries were virtually closed societies.• Many social scientists have found the closed world of political extremists to be an exotic topic of study.

tightly closed• He drew in the horse's reins and waited silently, his eyes momentarily tightly closed.• The baby was sleeping, its lids tightly closed and its little face red and perfect at the same time.• But neither its strength nor her tightly closed eyes could shut out horror.• If you do not want to scent everything in your refrigerator, keep any ripe melons in a tightly closed plastic bag.• The video also shows McCovery, eyes tightly closed, singing hymns in church or dripping wet after her baptism last August.• She lay rigid for a count of ten, eyes tightly closed, then very slowly opened them again.• When the cake cools, cover tightly with foil and store in a tightly closed tin.

closed to the public/visitors etc• But whoever the mystery buyer is, the manor will remain closed to the public.• Still being restored, over half the Catherine Palace is closed to the public.• The carpets were laid on a Sunday when the Palace is closed to the public.• Those roads, built for management and law-enforcement purposes, are closed to the public.• The meeting was closed to the public, and journalists watched the proceedings on closed-circuit television.• Greenwich Park is closed to the public, but there is limited car parking around Blackheath.• Althorp is closed to the public until further notice.• The office run by Oxfordshire county council was closed to the public while police carried out forensic investigations.

closed meeting• An initial suggestion: no closed meetings.• In a closed meeting in the home of John Cotton, the ministers asked why she attacked them.• Craxi vehemently denied the allegations and refused to resign at a closed meeting of the party executive on Dec. 17.

closed mind• Mirth is one of the gifts of men for it is an opener of the closed mind.• That's the number one defence of the closed mind.• What is vital is that no employer should approach disciplinary problems with a closed mind.• What we seek is merely evidence that Pound didn't go to Sicily with a closed mind.• Openmindedness Open up to the possibility of how closed your mind is A closed mind is a small mind!• A closed mind is when you believe that your way of making profit is superior to everyone else's.• A closed mind is when you consistently believe that you're right and the other person is wrong.• It is from closed minds that so many social evils flow.

From Longman Business Dictionary

closedclosed /kləʊzdkloʊzd/ adjectiveadj

not open for business

The markets were closed on Monday and Tuesday for the Christmas holiday.

单词	closed
释义	closed Word family noun close closure closing adjective closed closing verb close closed /kləʊzd $ kloʊzd/ ●●● S3 adjectiveadj 1 not open 关闭的 SYN shut OPP open Make sure all the windows are closed. 一定要把所有的窗户都关好。 She kept her eyes tightly closed. 她双目紧闭。 2 SHUT/CLOSE[not before noun] if a shop, public building etc is closed, it is not open and people cannot enter or use it 〔商店、公共建筑等〕关门的，不开放的 SYN shut OPP open The shops here are closed on Sundays. 这里的商店星期天关门。 closed to the public/visitors etc The castle is closed to visitors in winter. 这座城堡冬天不对游客开放。 3 LIMITrestricted to a particular group of people 只限于特定人群的 OPP open The golf club has closed membership. 该高尔夫球俱乐部限定会员资格。 a closed meeting 只有特定人员参加的会议 The police have a closed circle of suspects. 警方锁定了一群人，将其列为嫌疑犯。 4 STRICTnot willing to accept new ideas or influences 闭关自守的，不受外来影响的 OPP open You’re facing this situation with a closed mind. 你在这件事上思想太守旧了。 closed society/world/way of life Venetian art in this period was a closed world. 这一时期的威尼斯艺术是一个封闭的世界。 5 behind closed doors SECRETif something happens behind closed doors, it happens in private and the public are not allowed in 不公开地，秘密地 It seems that the deal was made behind closed doors. 这笔交易似乎是秘密达成的。 Football authorities ordered the club to play its next two games behind closed doors after the riots in February. 2 月份的骚乱发生后，足球管理机构责令该俱乐部在接下来的两场比赛中禁止球迷入场。 Examples from the Corpus behind closed doors• And, unlike most other House panels, the ethics committee conducts virtually all of its business behind closed doors.• Real's punishment was to play subsequent matches behind closed doors.• Schmoke spent most of his time behind closed doors.• We think, but we don't really know what they were saying to each other behind closed doors.• Although America is a democracy, a lot of key decisions are made behind closed doors by unelected advisers.• The hearings are behind closed doors, Newsweek says, and it has not discovered the names of the companies implicated.• As the jurors deliberated behind closed doors, the judge huddled with lawyers from both sides in his chambers.• The board members met behind closed doors to discuss the deal. 6 a closed book (to somebody) NOT KNOWa subject or problem that someone does not know about or understand （某人）一无所知[毫不理解]的学科[问题] Mathematics has always been a closed book to me. 我对数学向来一窍不通。 Examples from the Corpus a closed book (to somebody)• I can not believe that it can be right that this late in the game Poetry is still a closed book.• The kitchenette is a closed book.• The Shoah will never be a closed book.• I tell myself it's a closed book, but my cover story becomes an old man's compensation.• But your own past can be a closed book, even at fourteen.• He is holding a closed book, signifying a mystery, possibly a stage in the alchemical process.• The highly organised St Stephen's Society programme which she now leads was at that time a closed book to her!• Linear preoccupation in the past remains a closed book to modern understanding. 7 a closed set (of something) a restricted group, or a group that cannot change or grow 一成不变的某物 The law is not a closed set of rules and principles. 法律并不是一套不可改变的规定和原则。 → in closed session at session(2) Examples from the Corpus closed• The Macintosh, on the other hand, uses the Motorola 68000 and was designed as a closed architecture.• Her eyes kept flickering shut, though, and they finally stayed closed as she gently snoozed.• Again, you will have a closed circle of suspects.• We think, but we don't really know what they were saying to each other behind closed doors.• Community leaders are having a closed meeting with the mayor.• Stepping towards the opponent's closed side provides fewer targets, though it does succeed in preventing an immediate, effective counter.• During the period of the Cold War, many Communist countries were virtually closed societies.• Many social scientists have found the closed world of political extremists to be an exotic topic of study. tightly closed• He drew in the horse's reins and waited silently, his eyes momentarily tightly closed.• The baby was sleeping, its lids tightly closed and its little face red and perfect at the same time.• But neither its strength nor her tightly closed eyes could shut out horror.• If you do not want to scent everything in your refrigerator, keep any ripe melons in a tightly closed plastic bag.• The video also shows McCovery, eyes tightly closed, singing hymns in church or dripping wet after her baptism last August.• She lay rigid for a count of ten, eyes tightly closed, then very slowly opened them again.• When the cake cools, cover tightly with foil and store in a tightly closed tin. closed to the public/visitors etc• But whoever the mystery buyer is, the manor will remain closed to the public.• Still being restored, over half the Catherine Palace is closed to the public.• The carpets were laid on a Sunday when the Palace is closed to the public.• Those roads, built for management and law-enforcement purposes, are closed to the public.• The meeting was closed to the public, and journalists watched the proceedings on closed-circuit television.• Greenwich Park is closed to the public, but there is limited car parking around Blackheath.• Althorp is closed to the public until further notice.• The office run by Oxfordshire county council was closed to the public while police carried out forensic investigations. closed meeting• An initial suggestion: no closed meetings.• In a closed meeting in the home of John Cotton, the ministers asked why she attacked them.• Craxi vehemently denied the allegations and refused to resign at a closed meeting of the party executive on Dec. 17. closed mind• Mirth is one of the gifts of men for it is an opener of the closed mind.• That's the number one defence of the closed mind.• What is vital is that no employer should approach disciplinary problems with a closed mind.• What we seek is merely evidence that Pound didn't go to Sicily with a closed mind.• Openmindedness Open up to the possibility of how closed your mind is A closed mind is a small mind!• A closed mind is when you believe that your way of making profit is superior to everyone else's.• A closed mind is when you consistently believe that you're right and the other person is wrong.• It is from closed minds that so many social evils flow. From Longman Business Dictionary closedclosed /kləʊzdkloʊzd/ adjectiveadj not open for business The markets were closed on Monday and Tuesday for the Christmas holiday.
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