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- a long, slender, rounded piece of wood or metal, typically used with one end placed in the ground as a support for something竿, 杆, 支杆：
a tent pole.
帐篷支杆。
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- Athletics a long, slender, flexible rod of wood or fibreglass used by a competitor in pole-vaulting【田径】（撑竿跳用的）撑竿。
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- a young tree with a straight slender trunk and no lower branches直干幼树。
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- a wooden shaft fitted to the front of a cart or carriage drawn by animals and attached to their yokes or collars车辕。
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- a simple fishing rod简易鱼竿。
短语
under bare poles
- Sailing with no sail set【航海】不张帆地。
up the pole
informal <非正式>
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- Brit. mad〈英〉疯的：
taxes can be enough to drive you up the pole.
税收足以把你逼疯。
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- chiefly Irish〈主爱尔兰〉pregnant怀孕的。
词源
late Old English pāl (in early use without reference to thickness or length), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch paal and German Pfahl, based on Latin palus 'stake'.
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- either of the two locations (North Pole or South Pole) on the surface of the earth (or of a celestial object) which are the northern and southern ends of the axis of rotation地极, 地极区域; （天体的）极。参见MAGNETIC POLE.
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- Geometry either of the two points at which the axis of a circle cuts the surface of a sphere【几何】（球体的）轴极。
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- Geometry a fixed point to which other points or lines are referred, e.g. the origin of polar coordinates or the point of which a line or curve is a polar【几何】（极坐标的）极点。
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- Biology an extremity of the main axis of a cell, organ, or part【生】（细胞、器官、身体部分的）极。
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- each of the two opposite points on the surface of a magnet at which magnetic forces are strongest磁极。
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- figurative one of two opposed or contradictory principles or ideas〈喻〉（相对立或矛盾的原则或观点的）极端：
Miriam and Rebecca represent two poles in the argument about transracial adoption.
米丽娅姆和丽贝卡在有关跨种族领养的争论上代表了两个极端。
短语
be poles apart
- have nothing in common截然不同, 大相径庭。
派生词
poleward
adjectivepolewards
adjective & adverb词源
late Middle English: from Latin polus 'end of an axis', from Greek polos 'pivot, axis, sky'.
- short for POLE POSITION.POLE POSITION的简称。