slab

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slab /slæb/ noun [countableC]

1 TBCa thick flat piece of a hard material such as stone 〔石头等硬质材料的〕厚板

a concrete slab

水泥板

paving slabs

铺路石板

slab of

They used a slab of concrete as a lid.

他们用一块水泥板当盖子。

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2. slab of cake/chocolate/meat etc PIECEa large flat piece of cake etc 一大块蛋糕/巧克力/肉等

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slab of cake/chocolate/meat etc• She simply looks satisfied, as if she had just bitten into the most delicious slab of chocolate she ever tasted.• One of the occupied tables contained a man and woman and child, tucking in to great slabs of meat.• Ahead of him a morose-looking man in a cardigan was sorting through slabs of meat in plastic containers.

3. on the slab informalDEAD lying dead in a hospital or mortuary 停尸在医院[太平间]

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on the slab• Little piles of cartridges accumulated on the slab - there was nothing else whatever in any of the pockets.• Once on the slab my boots failed to bite.• The holds all take the form of bumps and ripples on the slab.

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slab• Slabs of concrete had been used to build a pathway for people to walk on.• Then and only then it was that the vast seamless blocks and slabs of the buried city came back to light.• Since that moment, the black slab had done nothing.• The wall was topped with rolls of barbed wire and jagged ends of glass stuck into the eight-foot concrete slabs.• New concrete slabs have been laid in the back yard.• The butcher's counter was covered in huge slabs of red meat and the air smelled of blood.• His grave is covered by a huge marble slab.• He was able to go directly to the railroad supervisor and convince him to change the pace of slab deliveries.• The superintendent in the steel company needed power to get a more efficient delivery schedule of slabs.• The palette knife marks, the smooth slabs of even colour neutralise any notions of the personal autograph.• The floor was a mixture of stone slabs and floorboards.• Beneath the slabs was the first indication of how thorough the builder of the pond mark one had been.

slab noun

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