queue
noun/kjuː/
/kjuː/
Idioms - (British English)(North American English line)a line of people, cars, etc. waiting for something or to do something
（人、汽车等的）队，行列 - There were long queues at polling stations.
投票站排着长队。 - the bus queue
排队等候公共汽车的人 - the front/head/back/end of the queue
队伍的前面／头部／后面／尾部 - queue for something I had to join a queue for the toilets.
我只得排队等着上厕所。 - Patients face lengthy queues for treatment.
患者面临着排长队等待治疗。 - queue of somebody/something There was a queue of traffic waiting to turn right.
有一长列车辆等着右转弯。 - There's a queue of people trying to get in.
有一队人试图进去。 - in a queue How long were you in the queue?
你排多长时间队了？ - Shoppers had to wait in long queues.
购物者不得不排起长队等待。 - I have to stand in a queue at immigration.
我必须在入境处排队。 - I took my place in the queue.
我排进队伍中。
Homophones cue | queuecue queue/kjuː//kjuː/- cue noun
- I took this as my cue to leave.
我以此为离开的暗示。
- I took this as my cue to leave.
- queue noun
- There was a long queue at the ticket office.
售票处前排了很长的队。
- There was a long queue at the ticket office.
- queue verb
- I had to queue for ages before it was my turn.
我不得不排队很长时间才轮到我。
- I had to queue for ages before it was my turn.
Collocations ShoppingShoppingShopping- go/go out/be out shopping
- go to (especially British English) the shops/(especially North American English) a store/(especially North American English) the mall
- do (British English) the shopping/(especially North American English) the grocery shopping/a bit of window-shopping
- (North American English, informal) hit/hang out at the mall
- try on clothes/shoes
- indulge in some retail therapy
- go on a spending spree
- cut/cut back on/reduce your spending
- be/get caught shoplifting
- donate something to/take something to/find something in (British English) a charity shop/(North American English) a thrift store
- buy/sell/find something at (British English) a car boot sale/(British English) a jumble sale/a garage sale/(North American English) a yard sale
- find/get/pick up a bargain
- load/push/wheel (British English) a trolley/(North American English) a cart
- stand in/wait in (British English) the checkout queue/(North American English) the checkout line
- (North American English) stand in line/ (British English) queue at the checkout
- bag (especially North American English) (your) groceries
- pack (away) (especially British English) your shopping
- stack/stock/restock the shelves at a store (with something)
- be (found) on/appear on supermarket/shop shelves
- be in/have in/be out of/run out of stock
- deal with/help/serve customers
- run a special promotion
- be on special offer
- make/complete a purchase
- buy/purchase something online/by mail order
- make/place/take an order for something
- buy/order something in bulk/in advance
- accept/take credit cards
- pay (in) cash/by (credit/debit) card/(British English) with a gift voucher/(North American English) with a gift certificate
- enter your PIN number
- ask for/get/obtain a receipt
- return/exchange an item/a product
- be entitled to/ask for/demand a refund
- compare prices
- offer (somebody)/give (somebody)/get/receive a 30% discount
Extra ExamplesTopics Shoppingb1, Transport by car or lorryb1- Long queues are building up on the city's exit roads.
出城道路上排起了长长的队伍。 - More unemployed people are joining the dole queue each week.
每周都有越来越多的失业者加入领取救济金的行列。 - Please form an orderly queue.
请排成整齐的一队。 - The queue stretched for more than a mile.
队伍延伸至一英里开外。 - The queue's not moving at all.
队列一动不动。 - a long queue of shoppers
一长队购物者 - the country's soaring prices and growing food queues
该国飞涨的物价和越来越长的排队购买食品的队伍 - the queue for tickets
买票的队伍
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- endless
- long
- growing
- …
- form
- line up in
- join
- …
- form
- build up
- grow
- …
- in a/the queue
- queue for
- queue of
- …
- the back of the queue
- the end of the queue
- the front of the queue
- …
- There were long queues at polling stations.
- (computing) a list of items of data stored in a particular order
（存储的数据）队列
Word Originlate 16th cent. (as a heraldic term denoting the tail of an animal): from French, based on Latin cauda ‘tail’. Compare with cue ‘long stick used for playing billiards, pool and snooker’. Sense (1) dates from the mid 19th cent.
Idioms
jump the queue (British English)
(US English jump the line)
- to go to the front of a line of people without waiting for your turn
插队；加塞儿；不按次序排队