End

(noun.) (American football) a position on the line of scrimmage; 'no one wanted to play end'.

(noun.) the part you are expected to play; 'he held up his end'.

(noun.) a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold.

(noun.) a final part or section; 'we have given it at the end of the section since it involves the calculus'; 'Start at the beginning and go on until you come to the end'.

(noun.) the concluding parts of an event or occurrence; 'the end was exciting'; 'I had to miss the last of the movie'.

(noun.) a boundary marking the extremities of something; 'the end of town'.

(noun.) either extremity of something that has length; 'the end of the pier'; 'she knotted the end of the thread'; 'they rode to the end of the line'; 'the terminals of the anterior arches of the fornix'.

(noun.) the surface at either extremity of a three-dimensional object; 'one end of the box was marked `This side up''.

(noun.) one of two places from which people are communicating to each other; 'the phone rang at the other end'; 'both ends wrote at the same time'.

(noun.) (football) the person who plays at one end of the line of scrimmage; 'the end managed to hold onto the pass'.

(noun.) a final state; 'he came to a bad end'; 'the so-called glorious experiment came to an inglorious end'.

(noun.) the point in time at which something ends; 'the end of the year'; 'the ending of warranty period'.

(verb.) bring to an end or halt; 'She ended their friendship when she found out that he had once been convicted of a crime'; 'The attack on Poland terminated the relatively peaceful period after WW I'.

(verb.) have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical; 'the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed'; 'Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other'; 'My property ends by the bushes'; 'The symphony ends in a pianissimo'.

(verb.) be the end of; be the last or concluding part of; 'This sad scene ended the movie'.

(verb.) put an end to; 'The terrible news ended our hopes that he had survived'.

编辑:奥斯本

• The letter, perhaps, began in bitterness, but it did not end so. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• Johnson and I went to the Charleston end to carry out Edison's plans, which were rapidly unfolded by telegraph every night from a loft on lower Broadway, New York. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• A cocoanut shell always has a soft spot at one end because this is the provision nature has made to allow the embryo of the future tree to push its way out of the hard shell. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• It was put an end to by Mrs. Dashwood, who felt obliged to hope that he had left Mrs. Ferrars very well. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• If I was young, it would all have to be gone through again, and the end would be a weary way off, don't you see? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• There it goes, and there is an end, thank Heaven! 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• After spelling it out slowly, the man made it into a little roll, and tied it up in an end of his neckerchief still more slowly. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• It ended in my moving into the house next Lady-day, and starting in practice on very much the same conditions as he had suggested. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• The debate had ended at three in the morning. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• We have now ended the 6th day of very hard fighting. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Its founder was Clovis (481-511), who began as a small king in Belgium and ended with his southern frontiers nearly at the Pyrenees. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The interview here ended, I agreeing, however, to send a letter giving final terms by ten o'clock that night. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• It ended in my determining to keep the nightgown, and to wait, and watch, and see what use I might make of it. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Then, they are the more insolent, and it is the nearer ended. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• From these ends is extended the spindle of Necessity, on which all the revolutions turn. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• But in 1562, the year at which he ends with it, it contained no more than the same nominal sum does at present. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• By degrees the anarchy finds a way into private houses, and ends by getting among the animals and infecting them. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Brass tubes can easily be bent by ramming full of sand, stopping the ends, and bending them over a curved surface. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• The tube is 52 feet long, 4 feet diameter in the middle, tapering to a little over 3 feet at the ends. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Stephenson laid down new rails at Killingworth with half-lap joints, or extending over each other for a certain distance at the ends, instead of the butt joints that were formerly used. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• The modern boss, on the other hand, shelters behind legal forms which he has got hold of and uses for his own ends. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• To which he added, in a small complicated hand, ending with a long lean flourish, not unlike a lasso thrown at all the rest of the names: Blandois. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• It is of some comfort to know that this brutal use of the rope is being replaced by more humane methods of ending the lives of condemned criminals. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• It seemed as if something like the reflection of a white sunlit wing had passed across her features, ending in one of her rare blushes. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Reference to these possible applications is necessary in order that the abstraction may be fruitful, instead of a barren formalism ending in itself. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Yes, I think that will be the better ending of the two, after all. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Everything pointed toward a splendid ending of my second journey to Barsoom. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• Why yes, sir, that's all, says Mr. Snagsby, ending with a cough that plainly adds, and it's enough too--for me. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.

编辑:维姬