switches

n.

v.

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  • 词典例句

1. N-COUNT (电路的)开关,闸,转换器 A switch is a small control for an electrical device which you use to turn the device on or off. 
  • Leona put some detergent into the dishwasher, shut the door and pressed the switch.

    利昂娜将一些清洁剂放入洗碗机,关上门后按了开始键。

  • ...a light switch.

    电灯开关

2. VERB 转换;改变;转变 If you switch to something different, for example to a different system, task, or subject of conversation, you change to it from what you were doing or saying before. 
  • Estonia is switching to a market economy...

    爱沙尼亚正在向市场经济转轨。

  • The law would encourage companies to switch from coal to cleaner fuels...

    该法律将鼓励企业转而使用比煤更加清洁的能源。

  • The encouragement of a friend spurred Chris into switching jobs.

    在一位朋友的鼓励下,克理斯换了工作。

  • Switch is also a noun.
    • New technology made a switch to oil possible...

      新技术使得转而使用石油成为可能。

    • The spokesman implicitly condemned the United States policy switch.

      发言人含蓄地谴责了美国政策上的转变。

  • Switch over means the same as switch .switch over 同 switch
    • ...a professional man who started out in law but switched over to medicine.

      开始学法律后转而从医的专业人士

3. V-ERG 转移(注意力);(注意力)转变 If you switch your attention from one thing to another or if your attention switches, you stop paying attention to the first thing and start paying attention to the second. 
  • My mother's interest had switched to my health...

    母亲转而关注起我的健康来。

  • As the era wore on, she switched her attention to films.

    随着这个时代慢慢过去,她把目光投向了电影业。

4. VERB 交换;调换;对调 If you switch two things, you replace one with the other. 
  • In half an hour, they'd switched the tags on every cable...

    半个小时内,他们就给每根电缆都换了标签。

  • The ballot boxes have been switched.

    投票箱被人调换了。

相关词组:
switch off  switch on  switch over 
1. This button switches the current on.
这个电钮接通电流。

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