词语释义

英 [tjuːb] 美 [tub]

n. 管；电子管；隧道；电视机

vt. 使成管状；把…装管；用管输送

vi. 乘地铁；不及格

单词分析：这些名词均可表示“地铁”之意。
underground一般用词，指城市中的地铁，主要用于英国。
subway指城市中的地铁或通道，主要用于美国。
tube主要用于英国口语中。

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英英释义

Noun:

conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gases

electronic device consisting of a system of electrodes arranged in an evacuated glass or metal envelope

a hollow cylindrical shape

(anatomy) any hollow cylindrical body structure

an electric railway operating below the surface of the ground (usually in a city);"in Paris the subway system is called the `metro" and in London it is called the `tube" or the `underground""

Verb:

provide with a tube or insert a tube into

convey in a tube;"inside Paris, they used to tube mail"

ride or float on an inflated tube;"We tubed down the river on a hot summer day"

place or enclose in a tube

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单词词源

中文词源

tube 管，管状物

来自拉丁语 tubus,管子，管道，词源同 tuba.

英语词源

tube

tube: [17] The ultimate origins of tube are unclear. It comes, probably via French tube, from Latin tubus ‘tube’. This was closely related to tuba ‘war trumpet’, source of English tuba [19], but what their joint ancestor might be is not known.
=> tuba

tube (n.)

1610s, from Middle French tube (15c.), from Latin tubus "tube, pipe," of unknown origin. The London subway was christened the Twopenny Tube (H.D. Browne, in the "Londoner" of June 30, 1900) before it even opened; tube for "cylindrical railway tunnel" is attested from 1847. The meaning "TV as a medium" is from 1959, short for cathode ray tube or picture tube. Tube top as a women's clothing style is attested from 1972. Tube steak is attested from 1963 as "frankfurter," slang meaning "penis" is recorded by mid-1980s.

词态变化

复数 tubes;

权威造句

1. The only baseball he saw was on the tube.

他看过的唯一一场棒球赛是在电视上看的。

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2. The secondary current sets up a magnetic field inside the tube.

二次电流在管子内部会产生磁场。

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3. That's Warwick Road, just opposite Earls Court tube station.

那是沃里克路，就在伯爵宫地铁站对面。

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4. He prefers travelling on the Tube to riding in a limousine.

他更愿意乘地铁出行，不愿坐豪华轿车。

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5. I took the tube then the train and came straight here.

我先乘地铁，然后坐火车直奔这里。

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近反义词

inner tube 内胎

bronchial tube 支气管直接内窥管...

Eustachian tube [解]耳咽管

test tube 试管

static tube 静压管

Bourdon tube 布尔顿管,波登管,布...

vacuum tube 真空管

flexible tube 柔性管,挠性管,软管...

nixie tube 数码管,数字管...

rubber tube 橡皮管

Fallopian tube [解]输卵管

draft tube 通风管

discharge tube 放电

pneumatic tube 气动导管

boiler tube 锅炉管

image tube 移象摄象管

vortex tube 涡流管

picture tube 显像管

air tube 气管

fluorescent tube 荧光灯管

相似短语

the tube 电视机,显像管;地下铁路,地铁

by tube 乘地铁

AND tube “与”门管

test tube with side tube 带支管试管

tube in tube condenser 套管冷凝器，套管式冷凝器

tube holes on tube sheet 管板管口

tube in tube structure 筒中筒结构

tube detector 真空管检波器

alundum tube 刚玉管

circulation tube 循环管