| 单词 | one-way |
| 释义 | one-way 1. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] In one-way streets or traffic systems, vehicles can only travel along in one direction. He zoomed through junctions without stopping and sped the wrong way down a one-way street. 2. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] One-way describes journeys which go to just one place, rather than to that place and then back again. The trailers will be rented for one-way trips. 3. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] A2 A one-way ticket or fare is for a journey from one place to another, but not back again. [mainly US] ...a one-way ticket from New York to Los Angeles. One-way is also an adverb. Unrestricted fares will be increased as much as $80 one-way. 4. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] If you say that a course of action is a one-way ticket to a place or situation, or is a one-way journey there, you are sure that it will lead to the place or situation mentioned. It seemed like a one-way ticket to riches, but then it all went wrong. Having children is not a one-way ticket to unconditional bliss. 5. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] One-way glass or a one-way mirror is a piece of glass which acts as a mirror when looked at from one side, but acts as a window when looked through from the other side. They are used for watching people without their knowledge. From the observation booth, we watched Ted and his therapist through the one-way glass. 6. one-way street phrase If you describe an agreement or a relationship as a one-way street, you mean that only one of the sides in the agreement or relationship is offering something or is benefitting from it. For some, loyalty is a one-way street; something you demand but do not give. So trade between the two nations has been something of a one-way street, with Cuba deriving the benefit. Idioms: a one-way ticket to something something that is certain to lead to a particular situation or state, usually an undesirable or unpleasant one Having strong feelings for someone when those feelings aren't returned is a one-way ticket to unhappiness. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Collocations: one-way communication Informative transmission sees evangelism as a one-way communication of certain facts the hearer needs to know. Christianity Today Preaching has a long tradition of one-way communication. Christianity Today We learned the hard way on this last piece of advice, because we persisted in one-way communication. Christianity Today One-way communication from pulpits, even plexiglass pulpits, has an aura of authority. Christianity Today One-way communication has gone the way of the dodo bird-at least, it should have. Christianity Today Expressing the mildest interest in visak technique or energy fields would set off hours of one-way conversation. Times, Sunday Times And it was all down to those hot tubs and a one-way conversation, with the supplier, which unravelled in typically cloth-eared fashion. The Sun And if you really love your plants, you will care for them with or without the bonus of a one-way conversation. Times, Sunday Times Our readers make sure this journal isn't just a one-way conversation. Christianity Today That, though, was a one-way conversation. Times, Sunday Times And now, what had once been a slow and steady one-way flow threatened to become a torrent in the other direction. Times, Sunday Times The one-way flow pattern in the exhibit moves the visitors through twenty-five birds habitats, ranging from desert to tropical forest. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This creates a mostly one-way flow of information, and exposure to mostly western products and values. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The path along the chain can form either a one-way flow or a food web. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The windows of one-way glass, which formerly displayed smiling, seductive figures, are dark and blank. Times, Sunday Times As they waited for the next stage of the experiment, researchers viewed the subjects through one-way glass. Times, Sunday Times In its subtle, understated performances, the actors vanish into characters who behave like ordinary people observed through one-way glass. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 We never got caught because we could see through the one-way glass whenever a teacher would come. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Suddenly he found his reserves of stamina had been depleted, the momentum of the match swung dramatically and thereafter it was almost one-way traffic. Times, Sunday Times The visitors were without 10 players and the game was one-way traffic from kick-off. The Sun Not that they expect one-way traffic or anything! The Sun After the break, however, it was one-way traffic. The Sun Hall opened the scoring on nine minutes and it was one-way traffic from that moment on. The Sun The duty was doubled last year, with passengers paying up to 80 for a one-way trip. Times, Sunday Times But the rite of passage should be what it says on the ticket: a one-off, one-way trip. Times, Sunday Times The interplanetary pioneers would make a one-way trip to set up a human colony on the red planet or its moons. The Sun Tickets, please: a one-way trip costs 31, or 38 in first. Times, Sunday Times Each has paid about $1,600 for the one-way trip. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 单向行驶的 Japanese: 一方通行の |
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