1TBBDHthe large flat piece of wood, glass etc that you move when you go into or out of a building, room, vehicle etc, or when you open a cupboard 门 → gate
3at the doorARRIVEif someone is at the door, they are waiting for you to open the door of a building so they can come inside 在门口,在门外
There’s somebody at the front door.
前门有人。
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at the door• Cover is $ 4 at the door.• Thanking her at the door, he asked who at the committee might know something and be willing to talk about it.• During my second evening at the hotel there was a knockat the door.• Debtors have difficultchoices about whom to pay first; often they will pay the person at the door at the time.• The last thing he had expected was to find the policeat the door.• I think there's somebodyat the door.• I stood at the door and looked up, but the windows were dark; she had gone to bed.• When he turned at the door.• Jack was at the door almost as soon as Fogarty got himself off the sofa.
out of doors• It can provide a place to play with toys and games and swings and slides, both in and out of doors.• They went without a flashlight, as the Managuans do if they are out of doors when the lights go out.• More and more people have come out of doors.• For everyone else out of doors it was an ordinaryafternoon in la perla de la septentrion.• After all, animals lived out of doors naturally.• Then out of doors went the parade, and through gate after gate again.• New energy and resolveerupted from the simpleact of moving their tiny toys out of doors!• They fed him, covered him when he was out of doors and kept him warm when he was within.
5show/see somebody to the doorGOODBYEto take someone to the main way out of a building 送某人到门口
My secretary will show you to the door.
我的秘书会送你到门口。
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show/see somebody to the door• They stood to leave and as an afterthoughtCobalt got up, too, and saw them to the door.• Amy helped him up and showed him to the door while Kath stripped off her gown and gloves.• Mrs Teal merely wished that Annie show Lois to the door.• Hanmer said as he showed me to the door.• I saw him to the door and watched him pace away along the streets he knew better than most others in London.• His neighbours, who regard him as a hero, respectfully show you to the door.• Then she showed them to the door.• My secretary will show you to the door.
6two/three etc doors away/down/upNEARused to say how many houses or buildings there are between your house, office etc and another building 隔两/三户[幢房子]等
two/three etc doors away/down/up from
Patrick lived two doors away from me.
帕特里克的住处和我家相隔两户人家。
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two/three etc doors away/down/up• Freda Berkeley misses her and another neighbour, the writer Patrick Kinross, who lived two doors away.• I took the keenestpleasure in expelling Phetlock from my old office, two doors down from the Oval.• Across the world, or two doors down the corridor.• He thanked the colonel for the interview and returned doggedly to his pistollessons in the basementrangetwo doors away.• The guest room's two doors down the corridor.• The second was in another bin beside the Argos showroomtwo doors away.• Mr Potts and the matrons left them in the church and went to stay two doors away, in a hotel.• He tried the house opposite, and was told two doors down.
7(from) door to door
a)TRAVEL especially British EnglishBrE from one place to another 两地之间
be on the door• One of his hands was on the door, the other extended to her.• The jury was told that Mr Johnson was on the door when the four arrived at his party at about three am.• Her name was on the door in a little metalcardholder.• Now the millworkers craned their necks to read what was on the doors.
9shut/close the door on somethingIMPOSSIBLEto make something impossible 使某事不可能发生
The accident shut the door on her ballet career.
这场事故使她的芭蕾舞生涯终结了。
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shut/close the door on something• Come in, lads, come in and shut the door on the fog.• It watched her, unwinking, until she reached the room behind the shop and shut the door on its crimsongaze.• Lucker murmurs something to Jasper and leads him away closing the door on me.• A loss in this election will not necessarily close the door on the campaign.• She closed the door on them.• The previousowner had used a bathroom off one of the bedrooms as storage and simply closed the door on it.• Imagine asking that they close the door on me so I can see what it feels like.• Even so, Wickham was not ready to shut the door on the possibility.
in/out (of)/through the door• In a slightly awkwardmovement, he shows her out the door.• I couldn't possibly get the pegin the door before he got his foot in it.• He stood in the door of the milking house, holding out the buckets for her to take.• His aidesignaled to me to move quickly and followed us out the door.• Maybe we only come to fully appreciate many great athletes and artists just before they walk out the door.• More or less, Ijust walked out the door, and kept walking.• Got up and went out the door and everything looked different.• Carefully he peeked through the glass windowin the door.
door2 verb [transitiveT]
to hit someone with a car door when they are ridingpast on a bicycle 开车门撞到〔骑自行车经过的人〕
I nearly got doored as I went past the flats in Camden Street.