| 单词 | shut |
| 释义 | shut (ʃʌt ) Word forms: shuts , shutting language note: The form shut is used in the present tense and is the past tense and past participle. 1. verb A2 If you shut something such as a door or if it shuts, it moves so that it fills a hole or a space. Just make sure you shut the gate after you. [VERB noun] The screen door shut gently. [VERB] Synonyms: close, secure, fasten, bar Shut is also an adjective. They have warned residents to stay inside and keep their doors and windows shut. The exit doors were locked shut. 2. verb A2 If you shut your eyes, you lower your eyelids so that you cannot see anything. Lucy shut her eyes so she wouldn't see it happen. [VERB noun] Shut is also an adjective. His eyes were shut and he seemed to have fallen asleep. 3. verb A2 If your mouth shuts or if you shut your mouth, you place your lips firmly together. Daniel's mouth opened, and then shut again. [VERB] He opened and shut his mouth, unspeaking. [VERB noun] Shut is also an adjective. She was silent for a moment, lips tight shut, eyes distant. 4. verb A2 When a store, bar, or other public building shuts or when someone shuts it, it is closed and you cannot use it until it is open again. There is a tendency to shut museums or shops at a moment's notice. [VERB noun] Shops usually shut from noon-3pm, and stay open late. [VERB] What time do the pubs shut? [VERB] Shut is also an adjective. Make sure you have food to tide you over when the local shop may be shut. 5. shut one's eyes to something phrase If you say that someone shuts their eyes to something, you mean that they deliberately ignore something which they should deal with. [disapproval] We shut our eyes to the plainest facts, refusing to admit the truth. She was shutting her eyes to reality, just as she had done after her husband died. 6. keep your mouth shut phrase B2 If you keep your mouth shut, you do not express your opinions about something, even though you would like to. If she had kept her mouth shut she would still have her job now. 7. keep your mouth shut phrase B2 If someone tells you to keep your mouth shut about something, they are telling you not to let anyone else know about it. I don't have to tell you how important it is for you to keep your mouth shut about all this. Synonyms: say nothing, keep quiet, keep mum [informal], not tell a soul 8. shut your mouth phrase [NOUN inflects] If someone tells you to shut your mouth or shut your face, they are telling you very rudely to stop talking. [informal, rude, disapproval] 'Oi, shut your mouth and have respect for elders,' the man said to the boy. 9. shut up shop phrase [VERB inflects] When a shop, office, or firm shuts up shop, it stops doing business and closes, either at the end of the day or permanently. [British] If they had been faced with the bill they'd have shut up shop and fled the country. Synonyms: close down, shut down, cease trading, wind up a business Phrasal verbs: shut away phrasal verb B2 If you shut yourself away, you avoid going out and seeing other people, usually because you are feeling depressed. Depressed and ill, he had again shut himself away in his darkened studio. [VERB pronoun-reflexive PARTICLE] shut down 1. phrasal verb B2 If a factory or business shuts down or if someone shuts it down, work there stops or it no longer trades as a business. Smaller contractors had been forced to shut down. [VERB PARTICLE] It is required by law to shut down banks which it regards as chronically short of capital. [VERB PARTICLE noun] Mr Buzetta sold the newspaper's assets to its competitor and shut it down. [VERB noun PARTICLE] 2. See also shutdown shut in 1. phrasal verb B2 If you shut someone or something in a room, you close the door so that they cannot leave it. The door enables us to shut the birds in the shelter in bad weather. [VERB noun PARTICLE noun] 2. phrasal verb B2 If you shut yourself in a room, you stay in there and make sure nobody else can get in. After one particular bad result, he shut himself in the shower room for an hour. [V pron-refl P n] He shut himself in his office, telling his secretary to hold all calls. [V pron-refl P n] 3. See also shut-in shut off 1. phrasal verb If you shut off something such as an engine or an electrical item, you turn it off to stop it working. They pulled over and shut off the engine. [VERB PARTICLE noun] Will somebody please shut that alarm off. [VERB noun PARTICLE] 2. phrasal verb If you shut yourself off, you avoid seeing other people, usually because you are feeling depressed. Billy tends to keep things to himself more and shut himself off. [VERB pronoun-reflexive PARTICLE] She shut herself off from all the social aspects of life. [V pron-refl P from n] 3. phrasal verb If an official organization shuts off the supply of something, they no longer send it to the people they supplied in the past. The State Water Project has shut off all supplies to farmers. [VERB PARTICLE noun] shut out 1. phrasal verb B2 If you shut something or someone out, you prevent them from getting into a place, for example by closing the doors. 'I shut him out of the bedroom,' says Maureen. [VERB noun PARTICLE + of] I was set to shut out anyone else who came knocking. [VERB PARTICLE noun] 2. phrasal verb If you shut out a thought or a feeling, you prevent yourself from thinking or feeling it. I shut out the memory which was too painful to dwell on. [VERB PARTICLE noun] The figures represent such overwhelming human misery that the mind wants to shut it out. [VERB noun PARTICLE] 3. phrasal verb If you shut someone out of something, you prevent them from having anything to do with it. She is very reclusive, to the point of shutting me out of her life. [VERB noun PARTICLE + of] They refused to allow Republicans to offer amendments, effectively shutting them out of the process. [V n P of n] She had effectively shut him out by refusing to listen. [VERB noun PARTICLE] shut up phrasal verb B1 If someone shuts up or if someone shuts them up, they stop talking. You can say 'shut up' as an impolite way to tell a person to stop talking. Just shut up, will you? [VERB PARTICLE] I don't feel like shutting up; I think statements about injustice should be made. [VERB PARTICLE] A sharp put-down was the only way to shut her up. [VERB noun PARTICLE] Idioms: shut up like a clam to become very quiet and withdrawn When they are worried, they may well shut up like a clam, definitely not wanting to tell you what is wrong. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers shut up shop [British] or close up shop to be forced to close your business, for example because of difficult economic conditions Unless business picks up soon, some of the 245 foreign-owned banks in Switzerland may have to shut up shop. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Collocations: shut a valve But that's like buying an automobile with the gas-line valve shut as the default configuration. Globe and Mail Scallops have simple eyes around the margin of the mantle and can clap their valves shut to move sharply, hinge first, to escape from danger. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 As the camshaft lobe enters the lift phase of its travel, it compresses the lifter piston, and a valve shuts the oil inlet. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A production retainer valve shuts in the riser and the annulus master valve shuts in the riser. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 These are used in cases where accidentally shutting the valve would have severe consequences, or any application where the end user prefers a mechanical device. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A nurse put glue on the wound to seal it - but some ran into the 14-month-old's left eye, which shut tight. The Sun The boats anchored out in the bay all have their curtains shut tight. Times, Sunday Times I wouldn't know, however, as my eyes were shut tight. The Sun If you keep the pressure cooker shut tight, people's irrational resentments are more likely to explode. Times, Sunday Times He stands there with his mouth shut tight. The Sun Translations: Chinese: 关闭 Japanese: 閉める |
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