| 单词 | narrow |
| 释义 | narrow (once / 67 pages) 1adjvn 2adj 3adj Narrow means less wide or to make less wide. When you narrow down your choices, you decrease the number of choices. A road might be too narrow for a car. When used to describe something physical such as a street or hips, narrow simply means not wide. Similarly, with quantities it means not much like when you win your basketball game by a narrow margin. But if you use it to describe an attitude, it has the negative meaning of not wide or open enough. If you're narrow-minded, you don't see the big picture –– sometimes it means you think in narrow stereotypes. WORD FAMILYnarrow: narrowed, narrower, narrowest, narrowing, narrowly, narrowness, narrows+/narrowing: narrowings/narrowness: narrownesses USAGE EXAMPLESAt that point, Mr. Trump, otherwise expansive and genial, sat with narrowed eyes and pursed lips, like a schoolboy who’d just been lectured. New York Times(Jan 03, 2017) In what too quickly became the consensus view, all of the above were put in their place by Donald Trump’s narrow electoral victory. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) Narrow your list down to half a dozen candidates and call them. Wall Street Journal(Jan 01, 2017) 1 1adj not wide a narrow bridge a narrow line across the page Syn|Ant narrow-minded lacking tolerance or flexibility or breadth of view limitedsmall in range or scope thinof relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section constricting, constrictive, narrowing(of circumstances) tending to constrict freedom narrowedreduced in size as by squeezing together narrow-mouthedhaving a narrow mouth slender, thinvery narrow straitnarrow straplikelong and narrow like a strap narrowing, tapered, taperingbecoming gradually narrower broad, wide having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other comprehensiveincluding all or everything thicknot thin; of a specific thickness or of relatively great extent from one surface to the opposite usually in the smallest of the three solid dimensions beamybroad in the beam bird's-eye, panoramicas from an altitude or distance broad-brimmed(of hats) having a broad brim deepextending relatively far inward fanlikeresembling a fan sweepingtaking in or moving over (or as if over) a wide area; often used in combination wide-screen(motion pictures) projected on a screen with much greater width than height 2adj limited in size or scope the narrow sense of a word Syn limited small in range or scope 3adj very limited in degree won by a narrow margin a narrow escape Syn|Ant bare, marginal just barely adequate or within a lower limit wide great in degree comfortablemore than adequate 4v make or become more narrow or restricted The selection was narrowed The road narrowed Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper contract widen become broader or wider or more extensive bottleneck become narrow, like a bottleneck taper offbecome smaller or less active change undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature 5v become tight or as if tight Syn|Hypo|Hyper constrict, constringe astringe become constricted or compressed strangulatebecome constricted tighten become tight or tighter 6v define clearly I cannot narrow down the rules for this game Syn|Hypo|Hyper nail down, narrow down, peg down, pin down, specify concretize make something concrete determine fix in scope; fix the boundaries of 7v become more focused on an area of activity or field of study Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper narrow down, specialise, specialize branch out, broaden, diversify vary in order to spread risk or to expand overspecialise, overspecialize become overly specialized alter, change, vary become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence 8n a narrow strait connecting two bodies of water 2Exp|Hyper Verrazano Narrows a narrow channel of water separating Staten Island and Brooklyn sound, strait a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water adj characterized by painstaking care and detailed examination 3a narrow scrutiny Syn minute careful exercising caution or showing care or attention adj lacking tolerance or flexibility or breadth of view a brilliant but narrow-minded judge narrow opinions Syn|Ant narrow-minded close-minded, closed-minded not ready to receive to new ideas dogmatic, dogmaticalcharacterized by assertion of unproved or unprovable principles illiberal, intolerantnarrow-minded about cherished opinions opinionated, opinionative, self-opinionatedobstinate in your opinions petty, small-mindedcontemptibly narrow in outlook broad-minded inclined to respect views and beliefs that differ from your own broad, large-minded, liberal, tolerantshowing or characterized by broad-mindedness catholicfree from provincial prejudices or attachments free-thinking, latitudinarian, undogmatic, undogmaticalunwilling to accept authority or dogma (especially in religion) open-mindedready to entertain new ideas |
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