shunt

英 [ʃʌnt]

美 [ʃʌnt]

v.  使(火车或火车车厢)转轨; 调往，转至(次要的地方)
n.  车辆追尾事故; 分流管

过去分词：shunted　现在分词：shunting　过去式：shunted　复数：shunts　第三人称单数：shunts　

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Collins.1 / BNC.14287 / COCA.18929

牛津词典

verb

• 使（火车或火车车厢）转轨
  to move a train or a coach/car of a train from one track to another
• 调往，转至（次要的地方）
  to move sb/sth to a different place, especially a less important one
  1. John was shunted sideways to a job in sales.
     约翰被平级调动到销售部门的一个岗位上。

noun

• 车辆追尾事故
  a road accident in which one vehicle crashes into the back of another
• 分流管
  a small tube put in your body in a medical operation to allow the blood or other fluid to flow from one place to another

柯林斯词典

• VERB (通常因为不方便而)将…转移至别处，将…调往别处
  If a person or thingis shuntedsomewhere, they are moved or sent there, usually because someone finds them inconvenient.
  1. He has spent most of his life being shunted between his mother, father and various foster families...
     他一生中的大部分时间都在他母亲、父亲及各种各样的寄养家庭之间辗转度过。
  2. Independent thinkers are shunted into minor jobs or refused promotion.
     见解独到的人士要么被调往次要的岗位，要么就不被提升。
• VERB 使(火车车皮或车厢)转轨
  When railway enginesshuntwagons or carriages, they push or pull them from one railway line to another.
  1. The GM diesel engine shunted the coaches to Platform 4.
     通用柴油动力火车头将车厢转轨到了 4 号月台。

英英释义

noun

• implant consisting of a tube made of plastic or rubber
• a conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current
  Synonym:electrical shuntbypass
• a passage by which a bodily fluid (especially blood) is diverted from one channel to another
  1. an arteriovenus shunt

verb

• transfer to another track, of trains
• provide with or divert by means of an electrical shunt

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