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词汇 elbow-room
释义 elbow room
noun[ U ]
uk /ˈel.bəʊ ˌruːm/ us /ˈel.boʊ ˌruːm/
space to move around in: 活动余地,活动空间
We were tightly squashed in at dinner, with very little elbow room.吃晚饭时,我们一个紧挨一个在餐桌旁就坐,挤得几乎一点空都没有。
freedom to do what you want: 行动的自由
At first the management gave the new director plenty of elbow room.最初,管理层给了新主管足够的自主行事空间。
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elbow room | American Dictionary


elbow room
noun[ U ]
space in which to move around:
With five people in my little car, there won’t be enough elbow room.

Examples of elbow room


elbow room
Elbowroom: the varieties of free will worth wanting.
For example, the second slot of a binary onset has significantly less distributional elbowroom than its sister position.
It will give them more elbowroom and greater chances for the re-adaptation and modernisation of the industry than would otherwise be the case.
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There should be elbowroom in order to permit the making of satisfactory arrangements as regards the transfer of services.
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They have elbowroom and elasticity for children in primary and secondary schools.
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Perhaps we were too tough and did not give the railways enough financial elbowroom.
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They may scion be forgotten in the struggle for power, for elbowroom.
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There is no elbowroom in budgets of this kind and these budgets on which many millions of our people live.
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It would not lengthen the election, but it would give more elbowroom for registration officers and candidates than they will have under these proposals.
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Their claim is for elbowroom by which they hope to attain economic self-sufficiency.
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Therefore, this discretionary power of "may" release, which is intended to allow elbowroom over time and circumstances—and nothing else—is the best we can do.
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Of course, they need more elbowroom in the balance of payments.
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They say that they have done it because the economy must have elbowroom, because we must have mobility of labour.
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One of the greatest difficulties about the final agreement on the bases was how much elbowroom did we require.
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Further, judges have no elbowroom within which to exercise their private discretion.
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