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Definition of redline in English: redlineverbˈrɛdlʌɪnˈrɛdˌlaɪn [with object]North American informal 1Drive with (a car engine) at or above its rated maximum revolutions per minute. （汽车）全速（或超速）行驶（指发动机以最高安全转速或更高情况下行驶） both his engines were redlined now 现在他的两个发动机都达到了最高安全转速。 Example sentencesExamples - Bored by the long drive, Willy and Grecs decided to pass the time by redlining an already heated engine with high speed in low gear.
- Due to the very long stroke and alloy conrods, the motor is redlined at 7,000 and will definitely explode if persistently over-revved.
- I redlined my A4's four-banger as we came up on the depot.
2Refuse (a loan or insurance) to someone because they live in an area deemed to be a poor financial risk. 拒绝（向住在财政风险大的地区者）提供（贷款或保险） banks have redlined loans to buyers Example sentencesExamples - The white people have fled the urban center and the tax districts have been structured so that the affluent areas benefit themselves and the struggling areas get kind of redlined.
- War on Poverty planners had argued that poverty persisted in distressed areas partly because banks and other businesses redlined them, starving them of the investment they needed to revive by refusing to do business there.
- When black families found a way to buy homes in white neighborhoods, such as Riverside Terrace along Houston's Brays Bayou, the FHA would redline the area as high-risk.
- Private banks, and the Federal Housing and Veterans administrations, favored homeowner loans to single-family dwellings in the ‘new homogeneous’ neighborhoods sprouting to the west, and redlined older areas of the city.
- 2.1 Cancel (a project)
勾销，取消（计划） this is not the time for the district to redline capital projects Synonyms call off, abandon, scrap, drop
nounˈrɛdlʌɪnˈrɛdˌlaɪn North American informal 1The maximum number of revolutions per minute for a car engine. （汽车发动机）最高每分钟安全转速 just over halfway to its 5200 rpm redline Example sentencesExamples - At that point, the turbocharger begins to take over and carries on to the redline.
- It settles to a hum at idle, but then just zings straight up to the redline with turbine-like smoothness.
- The instrumentation has been massively improved and includes an arced rev counter with the redlines at 9,000.
- Thanks in part to the advent of electronic controls, engineers are trimming losses, perfecting combustion, boosting volumetric efficiency and raising redlines.
- As the light turned green, I punched the throttle, and shifted quickly, dumping the clutch at the Audi's seven thousand RPM redline.
- The ‘manual’ shifts are quick, and top marks to Honda for not incorporating automatic upshifts when the 7000 rpm redline is reached.
- That is seriously fast, and on one daring high speed run, it proved to be stable too, as long as you get it out of fourth gear well before hitting redline.
- Acceleration is perfectly adequate up to about 80 mph, but the engine screams at redline when it's time to merge into highway traffic.
- For a car that lives life on the redline, you might expect more dramatic looks.
- The second hint is the prodigious torque output and low engine redline.
2A boundary or limit which should not be crossed. Example sentencesExamples - It's a clear indication that Labour's European stance, with all its talk on redlines and so on, has little credibility with the British people.
OriginFrom the use of red as a limit marker, in sense 2 of the verb a limit marked out by ringing a section of a map. Rhymesbreadline, deadline, headline Definition of redline in US English: redlineverbˈredˌlīnˈrɛdˌlaɪn [with object]North American informal 1Drive with (a car engine) at or above its rated maximum rpm. （汽车）全速（或超速）行驶（指发动机以最高安全转速或更高情况下行驶） both his engines were redlined now 现在他的两个发动机都达到了最高安全转速。 Example sentencesExamples - Bored by the long drive, Willy and Grecs decided to pass the time by redlining an already heated engine with high speed in low gear.
- I redlined my A4's four-banger as we came up on the depot.
- Due to the very long stroke and alloy conrods, the motor is redlined at 7,000 and will definitely explode if persistently over-revved.
2Refuse (a loan or insurance) to someone because they live in an area deemed to be a poor financial risk. 拒绝（向住在财政风险大的地区者）提供（贷款或保险） Example sentencesExamples - Private banks, and the Federal Housing and Veterans administrations, favored homeowner loans to single-family dwellings in the ‘new homogeneous’ neighborhoods sprouting to the west, and redlined older areas of the city.
- The white people have fled the urban center and the tax districts have been structured so that the affluent areas benefit themselves and the struggling areas get kind of redlined.
- War on Poverty planners had argued that poverty persisted in distressed areas partly because banks and other businesses redlined them, starving them of the investment they needed to revive by refusing to do business there.
- When black families found a way to buy homes in white neighborhoods, such as Riverside Terrace along Houston's Brays Bayou, the FHA would redline the area as high-risk.
- 2.1 Cancel (a project).
勾销，取消（计划） Synonyms call off, abandon, scrap, drop
nounˈredˌlīnˈrɛdˌlaɪn North American informal The maximum number of revolutions per minute for a car engine. （汽车发动机）最高每分钟安全转速 Example sentencesExamples - The ‘manual’ shifts are quick, and top marks to Honda for not incorporating automatic upshifts when the 7000 rpm redline is reached.
- The second hint is the prodigious torque output and low engine redline.
- At that point, the turbocharger begins to take over and carries on to the redline.
- That is seriously fast, and on one daring high speed run, it proved to be stable too, as long as you get it out of fourth gear well before hitting redline.
- Acceleration is perfectly adequate up to about 80 mph, but the engine screams at redline when it's time to merge into highway traffic.
- Thanks in part to the advent of electronic controls, engineers are trimming losses, perfecting combustion, boosting volumetric efficiency and raising redlines.
- For a car that lives life on the redline, you might expect more dramatic looks.
- As the light turned green, I punched the throttle, and shifted quickly, dumping the clutch at the Audi's seven thousand RPM redline.
- The instrumentation has been massively improved and includes an arced rev counter with the redlines at 9,000.
- It settles to a hum at idle, but then just zings straight up to the redline with turbine-like smoothness.
OriginFrom the use of red as a limit marker, in redline (sense 2 of the verb) a limit marked out by ringing a section of a map. |