queen

英 [kwiːn] 美 [kwiːn]

• n. 王后；女王

双解释义

n. (名词)

1. [C]女王,女酋长,女首领

   female ruler of an independent state

2. [C]王后

   wife of a king

3. [C]出众的女性〔地方、事物〕

   woman, place or thing regarded as best or most important in some way

4. [C]蜂王,蚁王

   fertile female insect that produces eggs for the whole group

5. [C]棋后,(纸牌的)王后

   (in chess) the most powerful piece on the board, used for attack and defence; (in a pack of playing cards) any of the four cards with the picture of queen on

6. [C]男性同性恋者

   a male homosexual

v. (动词)

1. vt. & vi. (使…)升为后

   (in chess) change (a pawn) into a queen by moving it across the board to the opponent's end; be changed in this way

详尽释义

n. 名词

1. 王后，女王，皇后
2. 酋长夫人，女酋长
3. （权利、地位或相貌等）出众的女人
4. 出类拔萃的女子，选美比赛中的王后
5. 受崇拜的女子，女神
6. （同类事物中）首屈一指者，胜地，首邑
7. <口>爱妻，情妇，心上人，女友
8. 【棋】王后
9. 【牌】皇后
10. <俚>同性恋男子
11. （蜂、蚁等的）后，（育种的）母猫

v. 动词

1. 使成为女王或王后，当女王
2. 【棋】使兵变后
3. 女王或王后般行事，摆女王的架子

英英释义

Noun:

1. the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs

2. a female sovereign ruler

3. the wife or widow of a king

4. something personified as a woman who is considered the best or most important of her kind;

   "Paris is the queen of cities"
   "the queen of ocean liners"
   

5. a competitor who holds a preeminent position

6. offensive term for an openly homosexual man

7. one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen

8. (chess) the most powerful piece

9. an especially large mole rat and the only member of a colony of naked mole rats to bear offspring which are sired by only a few males

10. female cat

Verb:

1. promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess

2. become a queen;

   "her pawn queened"
   

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. The queen consort has come together with the king.
   王后也随同国王前来。
2. Mary, Queen of Scots, was put to death in1587.
   苏格兰王后玛丽于1587年被处死。
3. They were bowing as the king and queen walking in.
   当国王和王后进来时他们屈膝致敬。
4. The Pope was present at the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.
   教皇参加了伊丽莎白二世的加冕礼。
5. They saluted the Queen by firing ten guns.
   他们鸣礼炮十响向女王致敬。
6. The Queen was flanked by a retinue of bodyguards and policemen.
   女王左右有保镖和警察护卫着。
7. The queen ruled her kingdom wisely.
   女王英明地统治着她的王国。
8. The queen was gracious enough to invite us.
   女王亲切地邀请了我们。

常见句型

用作名词 (n.)

1. The queen of England is a hereditary ruler.
   英国女王是世袭的统治者。
2. The queen's robes were garnished with gems and fur.
   女王的礼服上装饰着宝石和毛皮。
3. The maids helped to divest the queen of her robes.
   女仆们帮助女王脱去礼服。
4. By a cunning trick he became the queen's confidant.
   利用狡猾的手段,他成了女王的心腹。
5. Queen Marie Antoinete of France was the wife of Louis the 16th.
   法国王后玛丽·安托瓦内特是法国国王路易十六的妻子。
6. The royal family consists of the king and queen and their relatives.
   王室成员包括国王、王后及其亲属。
7. Inside the pyramids are the rooms for kings and queens.
   金字塔内是安葬国王和王后的地方。
8. She is elected as May Queen this year.
   她被推选为今年的五月节女王。
9. Owing to the link with medicine, botany was queen.
   由于和医学的关系,植物学是众学科之冠。
10. London is the queen of British cities.
    伦敦位列英国各城市之首。
11. Venice is the queen of the Adriatic.
    威尼斯是亚得里亚海岸边的胜地。
12. The queen bee never leaves the hive.
    蜂王从不离开蜂房。
13. There is the queen of hearts in his hands.
    红桃Q在他手里。
14. Have you seen that womanish man?He's a queen.
    你看到那个女人气质的男人吗?他是个男性同性恋者。

经典引文

• Hermione, Queen to the worthy Leontes, King of Sicilia.

  出自：Winter's Tale , Shakespeare

• Spenser..flourished in the reign of Queen Elizabeth.

  出自： Dryden

• Nan..still queened it over the rest of the staff.

  出自： J. Gathorne

• The bride was in full folly, queening it before the groom.

  出自： V. S. Pritchett

常用短语

用作名词 (n.)

Queen Anne's dead

这不是新闻,是众所周知的 expression to indicate that a statement is old news

用作动词 (v.)

queen it over

对…似掌权者行事 behave as if in a position of power over sb
queen it over sb
Since her promotion she queens it over everyone else in the office.

她获得提升后对办事处所有的人都发号施令。
She's not the kind of girl to let promotion go to her head.Not the sort to queen it over the ordinary nurses.

她不是那种让提升冲昏头脑的人,也不是那种在普通护士面前摆架子的人。

词汇搭配

用作名词 (n.)

动词+～

• become queen 成为女王
• love a queen 热爱女王
• make sb queen 拥戴…为女王
• praise a queen 颂扬女王
• serve a queen 为女王效劳
• toast a queen 为女王干杯

形容词+～

• beauty queen 第一美女,选美得头奖者
• cruel queen 残忍的女王
• faithless queen 无信誉的女王
• late queen 先女王
• popular queen 受臣民欢迎的女王
• strong queen 有权势的女王
• weak queen 软弱的女王

名词+～

• campus queen 校花
• movie queen 影后

～+名词

• queen mother 皇太后

～+介词

• Q- of England 英国女王
• queen of hearts 美人,红心之后

词语用法

n. (名词)

1. queen的基本意思是“女王”,是独立政体的女王、女酋长、女首领等的头衔,通常是世袭的,用作专有名词时首字母要大写,常与介词of连用。
2. queen也可指“皇后”,是国王的妻子,引申可表示最好或最重要的女子、地方或事物,也可表示节日或庆典中最重要的女子,常与介词of连用。
3. queen也可作“蜂王,蚁王”解,指为群体产卵的雌性昆虫。
4. queen还可指国际象棋的“后”或纸牌的“王后”,常与介词of连用。
5. 在俚语中, queen也可作“男性同性恋者”解,指男性同性恋者中充当女人角色的那个男子,常用于贬义。

v. (动词)

1. queen用作动词的意思是“(使…)升为后”。
2. queen可用作及物动词,也可用作不及物动词。用作及物动词时接名词、代词作宾语。
3. 在口语中queen常接一个没有意义的it作宾语,表示一定的情绪。

词源解说

• ☆ 直接源自古英语的cwen，意为皇后。

近反义词

【近义词】

• beauty
• empress
• princess
• star

【反义词】

• king 国王