1. 管子;管;管狀物 A tube is a long hollow object that is usually round, like a pipe.
e.g. He is fed by a tube that enters his nose. 他靠鼻飼管進(jìn)食。 e.g. ...a cardboard tube. 紙卷芯
2. (內盛膏狀物等的)管狀容器 A tube of something such as paste is a long, thin container which you squeeze in order to force the paste out.
tube什么意思
e.g. ...a tube of toothpaste. 一管牙膏 e.g. ...a small tube of moisturizer. 一小管保濕液
3. 管狀器官;管;道 Some long, thin, hollow parts in your body are referred to as tubes .
tube什么意思
e.g. The lungs are in fact constructed of thousands of tiny tubes. 肺實(shí)際上由上千條細微的氣管構成。
4. (倫敦的)地鐵 The tube is the underground railway system in London.
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e.g. I took the tube then the train and came straight here... 我先乘地鐵，然后坐火車(chē)直奔這里。 e.g. He travelled by tube. 他乘地鐵旅行。
5. 電視機 You can refer to the television as the tube .
e.g. The only baseball he saw was on the tube. 他看過(guò)的唯一一場(chǎng)棒球賽是在電視上看的。
in BRIT, use 英國英語(yǔ)用 the box
6. （公司、經(jīng)濟、機構）完全垮掉，徹底崩潰，告吹 a business, economy, or institution goes down the tubes or goes down the tube, it fails or collapses completely.
e.g. The country was going down the tubes economically... 該國經(jīng)濟正在徹底崩潰。 e.g. When I was dieting, that was when my social life started going down the tube. 我節食的時(shí)候，也就切斷了一切社交生活。
7. see also: bronchial tube;cathode-ray tube;fallopian tube;inner tube;test tube
tube英英釋義
noun
1. an electric railway operating below the surface of the ground (usually in a city)
e.g. in Paris the subway system is called the `metro' and in London it is called the `tube' or the `underground'
Synonym: metroundergroundsubway systemsubway
2. conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gases
Synonym: tubing
3. electronic device consisting of a system of electrodes arranged in an evacuated glass or metal envelope