terminal

英 ['tɜːmɪnl] 美 ['tɜːrmɪnl]

• n. 末端；终点站；终点；终端机；航站楼
• adj. 末端的；终点的；晚期的；（每）学期的

双解释义

adj. (形容词)

1. 末端的,终点的,极限的

   of or at the end or limit of sth

2. 末期的,晚期的

   of or being an illness that will cause death

详尽释义

n. 名词

1. 航空站，航空终点站，机场大楼
2. 端子
3. 接头，线接头
4. 末端，末尾
5. 【计】终端机
6. 终点（站）
7. 【语】词尾
8. 【电】电极
9. 端，线端
10. 卸货车站用费
11. 终端机
12. 终端
13. 极限

adj. 形容词

1. 末端的
2. 终点的
3. 极限的
4. 末期的，晚期的
5. 每期的，定期的
6. 学期的，每学期的
7. 结尾的
8. 终端的
9. 学期终的，期终的
10. 【植】顶生的
11. 【动、解】末梢的
12. 分界处的
13. 端的
14. 【逻】名辞的

英英释义

Noun:

1. station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods

2. a contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves

3. either extremity of something that has length;

   "the end of the pier"
   "she knotted the end of the thread"
   "they rode to the end of the line"
   "the terminals of the anterior arches of the fornix"
   

4. electronic equipment consisting of a device providing access to a computer; has a keyboard and display

Adjective:

1. of or relating to or situated at the ends of a delivery route;

   "freight pickup is a terminal service"
   "terminal charges"
   

2. relating to or occurring in a term or fixed period of time;

   "terminal examinations"
   "terminal payments"
   

3. being or situated at an end;

   "the endmost pillar"
   "terminal buds on a branch"
   "a terminal station"
   "the terminal syllable"
   

4. occurring at or forming an end or termination;

   "his concluding words came as a surprise"
   "the final chapter"
   "the last days of the dinosaurs"
   "terminal leave"
   

5. causing or ending in or approaching death;

   "a terminal patient"
   "terminal cancer"
   

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. That terminal is live.
   那个接头有电。
2. A record message is played when the airport bus approaches the terminal.
   当机场班车接近终点时，播放了注意事项录音。
3. I'll keep with you to the bus terminal.
   我陪你到公共汽车终点站。
4. Please wait for me at the bus terminal.
   请在公共汽车终点站等我。
5. You have installed Microsoft Terminal Services.
   您安装了Microsoft终端服务。

用作形容词 (adj.)

1. Telomere locates on the terminal of DNA containing repeat DNA sequence.
   端粒是位于染色体末端的串联重复核苷酸序列。
2. Any of various Old World shrubs having smooth entire leaves and terminal panicles of small white flowers followed by small black berries,many used for hedges.
   任何一种东半球的灌木，有光滑的完整的叶子和末端的小白花的圆锥花序和小的黑浆果，许多被用做树篱。
3. Therefore, the person is the jumping-off point of education, is also the educational terminal point.
   因此,人是教育的起点,也是教育的终点。
4. About 70% patients were in terminal as they are diagnosed.
   由于早期症状体征不典型，在确诊时约有70%25的病人为中晚期。

常见句型

用作形容词 (adj.)

用作定语

～+ n.

1. The car has reached its terminal speed and can run faster no longer.
   这辆车的速度已达到了极限,不能再跑更快了。
2. She is a terminal patient.
   她是一个垂危的病人。
3. He is in the terminal stage of cancer.
   他正处于癌症晚期。

用作表语

S+be+～

1. For a hospital, cost shifting could be terminal.
   实行自费医疗,医院只有倒闭了。

经典引文

• People..speculated whether the Labour Party was not in the process of terminal disintegration.

  出自：New Statesman

• I had eighty-seven days of terminal leave when the war was over.

  出自：New Yorker

词汇搭配

用作形容词 (adj.)

～+名词

• terminal cancer 晚期癌症
• terminal examinations 期末考试
• terminal station 终点站
• terminal velocity 极速

词义辨析

station，stop，terminal

• 这些名词均可表示“站”之意。
• station普通用词，一般指火车站或汽车站。
• stop多指公共汽车站，尤指中途停车站。
• terminal指火车、公共汽车或飞机的终点(总)站。

词源解说

• ☆ 1459年进入英语，直接源自古典拉丁语的terminalis，意为最终的；最初源自该语的terminus，意为结尾，国界线。

近反义词

【近义词】

• bounding
• deadly
• fatal
• final
• last

【反义词】

• initial