back to back

ˌback-to-ˈback1 adjectiveadj [only before noun]

happening one after another 一个接一个的，连续发生的

They have had five back-to-back wins.

他们一连赢了五次。

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back to back• Two rows of chairs were arranged back to back.• Two sofas placed back to back in the centre of a space can often define the divisions of space very well.• We did three performances back to back that day.• His first interview recently was at 8 a. m. and his appointments were scheduled back to back until midnight.• His life is an endless stream of interviews and news conferences, often back to back.• Orlando and Vancouver, back to back.• The other three will be placed back to back with them inside.• The three nomes stood back to back.• They were astride a single horse, tied back to back, being led along a skyline by the sheriff's posse.• This idea works well using such designs as L-shapes, placed back to back to resemble book ends.

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back-to-back2 noun [countableC] British EnglishBrE

DHTBBa house in a row or terrace built with its back touching the back of the next row of houses 背靠背的房子

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back-to-back• The flues of back-to-back fireplaces can also add an interesting feature to the centre of some conversions.• Notice the back-to-back houses, the tunnel entrances to the completely enclosed court, and the primitive sanitation.• Type 5 - Automatic small-parts storage and retrieval systems - back-to-back racking and binning.• Type 2 - Automatic or man-rider stacker-cranes contained in a conventional building structure - back-to-back racking.• I've played back-to-back rugby for four years now and I feel as fresh as the day that I started.• An example showing how s673 would catch a back-to-back transaction in practice is set out below.• back-to-back victories• I don't think it was just because he made it back-to-back wins, either.

back to backn

a) BACK OF somethingwith the backs towards each other

Stand back to back and we’ll see who’s tallest.

b) SERIEShappening immediately one after the other

He performed up to three times a day, often back to back.

→ back-to-back1

→ back

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back-to-back• But Arnold Thomas smelled a bigger profit from the up-and-coming developers who were looking to build back-to-backs for the mill-workers.• What was once a landscape of banks of back-to-backs has become an asymmetrical mess of flats and maisonettes.• Behind the back-to-backs, a bruised industrial sky blackens, and fills with cooking smells, and rains.

From Longman Business Dictionary

back-to-backˌback-to-ˈback adjectiveadj [only before a noun]FINANCE

back-to-back increases or decreases happen very quickly one after the other

The Dow Jones finished up 5.96, the second advance this week and the first back-to-back gain since August.

ˌback-to-ˈback1 adjectiveadjback-to-back2 nounback to backn

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back to back

a) BACK OF somethingwith the backs towards each other 背靠背

Stand back to back and we’ll see who’s tallest.

背靠背站好，我们来看看谁个子最高。

b) SERIEShappening immediately one after the other 一个接一个的，连续发生的

5 a couple of back-to-back wins for the team

球队一场接一场的胜利

n He performed up to three times a day, often back to back.

→ back-to-back1

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→ back to back at back2(2)

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