| 词汇 | back-to-back |
| 释义 | back to backphrase close together and facing in opposite directions: 背靠背的 The office was full of computers, and we had to sit back to back in long rows.办公室里摆满了电脑，我们只好背靠背坐着，排成长排。 The soldiers were sitting back to back on sandbags. Push the two forks back to back into the clump of roots. The photo shows two siblings, positioned back to back. At night, they slept back to back in the narrow bed. The two men stood back to back with their arms folded. happening one after another, without interruption: 连续的，一个接一个的 Coming up after the break, three Rolling Stones classics back to back.短暂休息过后，接下来是3首滚石乐队经典歌曲连放。 He's definitely getting better - he has lots more good days back to back now. We were very tired after doing three movies back to back. In order to succeed, you must be prepared to work 16-hour days back to back. We had to deal with two big hurricanes almost back to back. All the episodes will be broadcast back to back. See also back-to-back backnoun(FURTHEST PART) back-to-back adjective[ before noun ] uk /ˌbæk.təˈbæk/ us /ˌbæk.təˈbæk/ back-to-backadjective[before noun] (CONTINUOUS)happening one after another, without interruption: 连续的，一个接一个的 Hamilton is celebrating back-to-back victories in the German and British Grands Prix.汉密尔顿正庆祝在德国和英国大奖赛上接连取得的胜利。 See also back to back Simultaneous and consecutive accompanied by someone/something accompaniment accompany all the whileidiom along heavy rotation in parallelidiom in rotationidiom in tandemidiom in the processidiom minute process soon step straight successive successively sync turn while back-to-backadjective[before noun] (CLOSE TOGETHER)close together and facing in opposite directions: 背靠背的 UKback-to-back terraced houses互相背对着的排屋 Closeness in distance and time a hair's breadthidiom a stone's throwidiom about ace anywhere anywhere nearidiom approachable around float float around hand to handidiom hard by here proximately proximity roof round the corneridiom shadow shout step back-to-back | American Dictionaryback-to-back adjective[ not gradable ] us/ˈbæk·təˈbæk/ back-to-backadjective[not gradable] (BACKS TOUCHING)with backs touching or toward each other: We stood back-to-back to see who was taller. back-to-back adjective, adverb[ not gradable ] back-to-backadjective, adverb[not gradable] (ONE AFTER ANOTHER)one following after another: The soccer team won back-to-back victories last weekend. back-to-back | Business Englishback-to-back adjective[ before noun ] uk /ˌbæktəˈbæk/us happening one after the other, with nothing between: Optimists also point out that stocks posted hefty gains after back-to-back losses. Homeowners were hit by the first back-to-back rise in interest rates in more than four years. The firm had back-to-back quarters of strong earnings. Examples of back to backback to back The batches were analyzed in back-to-back assays to minimize interassay variation. Headers and footers can be more than one line long, vary for odd and even pages (handy if your copy will be printed back-to-back), and include formatting and other commands. I have in my hand photographs of my old constituency as it was with its back-to-back houses, its derelict spaces and its slums. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 For many people, things have hardly changed in the austere surroundings of the back-to-back terraced houses. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The back-to-back houses in different parts of the country are abominable. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The old squares and back-to-back houses were pulled down to put up tower blocks. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The occupants, in the main, are people who have been decanted, if that is the word, from back-to-back houses on to new housing estates. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I began life in a small two-up, two-down, back-to-back dwelling backing on to a railway embankment—very humble beginnings. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Very few people nowadays buy a hi-fi system unless it has a back-to-back taping system. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These were mainly in streets of small, two-storeyed houses in terraces, but there were few tenements, and no back-to-back houses. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Why did it appear easier to ventilate back-to-back tenements than it was to ventilate back-to-back houses? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He would have thought that back-to-back houses were much more salubrious than back-to-back tenements. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If two back-to-back houses were dealt with under this scheme and if they were made into one "patched" house, they would draw two subsidies. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It contained the most appalling slums, with houses not just back-to-back but back-to-back-to-back-to-back. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I should explain that a back-to-back recording is one taken directly from a tape, and so on. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of back to back These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. 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