成语

queue的意思_音标_例句

queue

音标

英 /kjuː/,美 /kjuː/

词性与释义

n.

长队;行列:指人或车辆为获取某物或进行某项活动而排成的有序队列。例如:the bus queue(排队等公交的队伍)

队列(计算机用语):有序的任务列表或消息列表,按顺序等待处理。例如:print queue(打印队列)

辫子:梳在脑后的发辫。例如:a braid of hair at the back of the head(脑后的发辫)

v.

排队等候:指人们或事物按顺序排列等待。常与up连用,如queue up for tickets(排队买票)

抢着做:形容多个主体争相进行某项活动。例如:Italian football clubs are queuing up to sign the young star(意大利足球俱乐部都抢着签约这位年轻球星)

词形变化

复数:queues

第三人称单数:queues

过去式/过去分词:queued

现在分词:queuing

短语搭配

queue up:排队等候。例如:Customers lined up in front of the store(顾客在店前排起了队)

priority queue:优先队列(计算机术语),指任务按优先级排序的队列

jump the queue:插队,不按顺序排队。例如:Don't jump the queue, or other people will not be pleased(别插队,否则别人会不高兴)

例句

I had to join a queue for the toilets.(我不得不排队等厕所。)

The system queues the jobs before they are processed.(系统在处理任务前会将其排成队列。)

She waited in the bus queue.(她排队等公交车。)

Manchester United would be at the front of a queue of potential buyers.(曼联队将排在潜在买家的最前列。)

Single parents got priority in the housing queue.(单亲父母在申请住房时享有优先权。)

Your print job has been sent to the network print queue.(你的打印任务已发送至网络打印队列。)

By 10 o'clock a long queue had formed outside the bank.(到十点钟时,银行门外已排起长队。)

To what window are you standing in a queue?(你在哪个窗口排队?)

Some cultures are too adept at lining up: a citizen of the former Soviet Union would join a queue just so he could get to the head of that queue and see what everyone was queuing for.(有些文化过于擅长排队:前苏联的公民会加入队列,只为排到队首看看大家在为什么而排队。)

As customers began to queue, Mr. Azar reached beneath the counter for a black plastic bag.(当顾客开始排队时,阿扎尔先生从柜台下拿出一个黑色塑料袋。)

词源

15世纪晚期进入英语,直接源自法语的“queue”(意为“尾巴”),最初源自古法语的“cue”。其语义从“尾巴”延伸为“长队”,因队列形态类似动物尾巴。

从日常排队到计算机数据处理,queue 一词在不同场景中均体现了“有序排列”的核心含义。下次在银行排队或处理电脑任务时,不妨想想这个词背后的逻辑与秩序。

成语首拼