bottleneck

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词源[编辑]

bottle +‎ neck

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名词[编辑]

bottleneck (复数 bottlenecks)

  1. 瓶颈
    1. (音乐) 将瓶颈的一部分放在手指上,作为吉他滑音使用
  2. (比喻) 隘路
    • 1962 October,“Talking of Trains: The collisions at Connington”,出自 Modern Railways, 页号232:
      "Permissive" working allows more than one train to be in a block section at one time but trains must be run at low speed in order to stop on sight behind the train in front. Such working is often authorised to allow freight trains to "bunch" together to await a path through a bottleneck instead of being strung out over several block sections, as would be necessary if absolute working were in force.
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    • 2020年12月2日,Andy Coward,“New-look Reading is willing and able”,出自 Rail, 页号58, 59:
      At one time, Reading was regarded as a notorious bottleneck in the rail network, almost incapable of managing the number of services that needed to pass through the station each day. [...]
      A road widening scheme at Cow Lane has also allowed two-way traffic to run beneath the railway for the first time, helping to remove a notorious road traffic bottleneck in the town.
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  3. (延伸) 耽误阻碍
    It is easy to create entries; processing the paperwork is the bottleneck.
    创建条目很容易;处理文书工作是瓶颈
    The bottleneck in this computer program is the inefficient sorting process; we should replace it with a faster one.
    该电脑程序的瓶颈是排序过程效率低下;我们应该用速度更快的来替换它。

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动词[编辑]

bottleneck (第三人称单数简单现在时 bottlenecks,现在分词 bottlenecking,一般过去时及过去分词 bottlenecked)

  1. (及物) 造成阻塞
    The merge bottlenecked the traffic every morning.
    车道合并导致每天早上交通都会拥堵
  2. (不及物) 形成阻塞
    The traffic bottlenecked at the merge every morning.
    车道合并处每天早上都会出现阻塞情况

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