| 词汇 | concertinaing |
| 释义 | concertinaing present participle ofconcertina concertina verb[ I or T ] UKuk /ˌkɒn.səˈtiː.nə/ us /ˌkɑːn.sɚˈtiː.nə/ to fold, crush, or push together: 折叠；挤压；压叠在一起 In the accident, several cars concertinaed into each other.事故中，几辆车撞成一团。 figurativeCould we concertina the three meetings into one morning?我们能把3个会议压缩在一个上午开吗？ Squeezing and grinding compression compressive concertina constrict constriction mash mill nip noncompressible pinch presser pulp snap squash squeeze squinch squish tamp unground unmilled Examples of concertinaingconcertinaing In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. I shall demonstrate how the concertinaing of the period between announcement tonight of the new boundaries and the elections has prevented the making of some substantial claims. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Reference has been made to the enormous increase in costs which results from concertinaing of our holidays into this limited number of weeks. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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