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单词 tent
释义
tent
noun[C]
uk
/tent/us
/tent/
B1
asheltermade ofcanvasor asimilarmaterialandsupportedbypolesandropes, that you canfoldup andcarrywith you
帐篷
picture of tent
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Examples
  • How does itfeelto be back incivilizationafter all thoseweeksin a tent?
  • Rain haddampenedthe tent so weleftit todryin theafternoonsun.
  • Outside the tent I couldheartheconstantdroneofinsects.
  • Wethoughtwe'dinsureagainstrainby putting a tent up wherepeoplecould takeshelter.
  • Wepitchedourtent in theshade.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Camping
  • awning
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  • bivvy
  • bivvy sack
  • camping
  • camping site
  • campsite
  • canopy tent
  • canvas
  • caravan site
  • caravanning
  • encampment
  • pitch
  • ridge pole
  • ridge tent
  • tent city
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tent
verb[T]
uk/tent/us/tent/
to make somethingformashapethat israisedin themiddle, like a tent:
Cover thepanwithaluminiumfoilthat you have tented toallowforsteam.
He tented hisfingersandrestedhischinon them.
tocoversomething with a tent orsimilarstructure:
Crews werehurriedlytenting theredcarpet.
Thehousehas been tented andsprayedwithinsecticide.
After theconcert,guestswent into thegardenwhich had beencompletelytentedoverforsupper.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Patterns and shapes
  • amorphous
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  • asymmetry
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  • fishhook
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  • flowery
  • formless
  • fretted
  • herringbone
  • oblong
  • shapeless
  • shapelessly
  • shapelessness
  • sigmoid
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Covering and adding layers
(Definition oftentfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)
Examples from literature
  • A tent is a temporary shelter you use when you go camping.
  • At night, they partied together in their big tent, which they had reserved at the campsite.
  • But what do you do if you get lost and do not have a tent?
  • He didn’t see any avalanches, but one night, there was a really bad storm and his tent blew away!
  • He slept in a tent.
  • He waited in an ice-cold tent 3,800 meters up a mountain for seven hours a day – for seven weeks!
  • Most left with just the clothes they were wearing and had to live in tents or other temporary shelters.
  • Put the branches against a tree or near a tree in the shape of a tent.
  • Someone suggested going back to the tent to start packing up.
  • The forty-niners lived in camps and slept in tents.
  • Then they started to put up tents and bring other useful things from home.
  • They all lived in tents, but only one tent had a bath in it!
  • Tonight, groups of tourists sleep in tents and wait for the sun to rise.
tent
noun[C]
uk
/tent/us
/tent/
B1
asheltermade ofcanvasor asimilarmaterialandsupportedbypolesandropes, that you canfoldup andcarrywith you
帐篷
Examples
  • How does itfeelto be back incivilizationafter all thoseweeksin a tent?
  • Rain haddampenedthe tent so weleftit todryin theafternoonsun.
  • Outside the tent I couldheartheconstantdroneofinsects.
  • Wethoughtwe'dinsureagainstrainby putting a tent up wherepeoplecould takeshelter.
  • Wepitchedourtent in theshade.

tent| American Dictionary

tent
noun[C]
us
/tent/
amovableshelter, usually made of astrongclothsupportedbypolesandheldinpositionbyropesfixedto theground:
Wepitchedourtents near thestream.
(Definition oftentfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoftent

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People and cars milled about us, while posters, caravans, tents, and stalls were crammed in everywhere.
From theCambridge English Corpus
They sat in thetentall day, fully clothed but very cold, waiting for a break in the weather.
From theCambridge English Corpus
In bad weather, convicts had to spend the night in nomad tents erected by the locals, in caravansaries, or in empty huts.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Women calypsonians are joining men in the calypsotentand are competing in the same cultural space and commercial marketplace.
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In these two areas we searched for palms and other plants with large leaves that were modified into tents.
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It is possible that the microclimatic conditions are so diverse in tropical forests thattentorientation does not influence the quality of thetent.
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On the holidays, wherever he camped, one hundred tents would join him.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The implied actual law of motion (3) coincides therefore with thetentmap dynamics (4).
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We started to head to the wrong way to the side of thetentas we continued to make a detour avoiding the raven.
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The user is treated to the carnival tents and exhibitions, each more grotesque and absurd than the last.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The trajectory of the turning point is dense for almost alltentmaps.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Yet, even in low density tents, the rate of parasitism exceeded 60% only in a single case.
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Travel time, tour, tents, and primary forest were less consistent determinants of tourist choice.
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But every simulation of thetentmap quickly stabilises on 0 whereas simulations of the logistic map seem erratic.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The hall was covered with a pyramidal roof resembling atent+ an appropriate architecture for a nomadic-warrior culture.
From theCambridge English Corpus
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