mobile

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Related topics: Telephone, telegraph, Visual

mo·bile1 /ˈməʊbaɪl $ ˈmoʊbiːl/ S1 W2 noun [countableC]

1 TCT British EnglishBrE a mobile phone 移動電話，手機 SYN American English cellphone

Give me a call on my mobile.

給我的手機打個電話。

Have you got my mobile number?

你有我的手機號碼嗎？

2. AVa decoration made of small objects tied to wires or string which is hung up so that the objects move when air blows around them 〔懸挂在繩索等上的〕風動小飾物

Examples from the Corpus

mobile• Digital mobiles witter noisily at high frequencies.• Members sat beneath handmade mobiles hung with colorful Origami birds.• A patrol is already searching, and other mobiles are on stand-by.• So mobiles are the new car radios.• Around two thirds of the mobile increased their social class while around one third moved downward.

Related topics: Sociology

mo·bile2 /ˈməʊbaɪl $ ˈmoʊbəl, -biːl/ adjectiveadj

1 MOVE something OR somebodynot fixed in one position, and easy to move and use in different places 非固定的，移動式的

mobile air-conditioners

移動式空調器

2 SSmoving or able to move from one job, area, or social class to another 流動的；易於變換工作[地區，社會階層]的

a more mobile workforce

具有更強流動性的勞動力

People these days are much more socially mobile.

如今人們的社會地位容易改變多了。

an upwardly mobile (=moving to a higher social scale) professional

步步高升的專業人士

3 MOVE/CHANGE POSITIONable to move or travel easily 行動方便的 OPP immobile

She’s more mobile now that she has her own car.

她現在自己有車，行動更方便了。

4 mobile library/shop/clinic etc British EnglishBrETTCMOVE something OR somebody a shop etc that is kept in a vehicle and driven from place to place 流動圖書館/商店/診所等

Two mobile units provide health care in rural villages.

兩個流動小組爲鄉村提供醫療保健服務。

Examples from the Corpus

mobile library/shop/clinic etc• A ferocious sandstorm overturned a mobile library.• A tent will not be a building, nor will a phone kiosk or a mobile shop.• The dry cleaner delivers, mobile clinics come to you.• We have a mobile clinic for them with eight centres. 1 want to start a colony for them.• In some remoter villages mobile shops play an important role, but these rarely create jobs in these villages themselves.• A mobile library visits once a fortnight.

5 mobile mouth/face/features writtenEXPRESSION ON somebody'S FACE features that can change their expression quickly 多變的口型/表情多變的臉/表情豐富的面容

His mobile features registered amusement.

他表情多變的臉上流露出愉悅的神情。

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mobile mouth/face/features• He finds a woman in black lace, with piercing eyes and a mobile face.• They did not show emotions as plainly as more mobile faces did.• I finally found Martin Clunes, the most mobile mouth in show business, lurking behind a large moustache.

n COLLOCATIONS – Meaning 2: moving or able to move from one job, area, or social class to another

adverbs

highly mobile (=very mobile)

We now live in a highly mobile society.

upwardly mobile (=moving up to a higher social class)

The restaurant's customers are mainly upwardly mobile young professionals.

socially mobile (=moving from one social class to another, especially to a higher social class)

Children today are even less likely to be socially mobile.

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mobile• Ethel needed help on the stairs, but was otherwise mobile.• The population of the U.S. has become more geographically and socially mobile.• Alligators are really mobile animals, used to moving from one body of water to another.• Remote areas are served by a number of weekly mobile clinics.• It's important to keep the patient mobile during recovery.• Eleven mobile eye screening units are now in operation throughout the United Kingdom.• She has an extraordinarily mobile face and an infectiously comic manner.• He won't be mobile for some time. It's a bad knee sprain.• As soon as it is sold the 58-year-old widow plans to move into the mobile home in nearby Laguna Beach.• They agreed to leave the hill and their mobile homes behind, and to remove the mobile homes on Sunday.• The community currently receives service from a rural mobile library.• Neuman revealed that she nearly quit showbusiness to run a mobile massage parlour.• The mobile phase flows continuously over the stationary phase and as it does so separates the components on the stationary phase.• Using souped-up scanners and antennas, thieves station themselves near mobile phone callers.• The 1990s have been characterized by record-breaking growth in most wireless segments, including cellular, paging, and specialized mobile radio.

upwardly mobile• The dating agency specializes in finding partners for the young and upwardly mobile.• The congregation was mostly young, unmarried, well-educated and upwardly mobile.• The Praga became a favoured haunt for upwardly mobile apparatchiks, visiting VIPs and wedding parties.• Conforming to the more rigid traditions such as locking up women is a privilege only the upwardly mobile can afford.• The Kotalawalas and the in Rayigam Korale, were both upwardly mobile Goyigama families with much local influence.• He should be an achiever and upwardly mobile in his job.• A great deal of the nudge-nudge wink-wink routine by the young upwardly mobile male executives was the usual response to her presence.• Perhaps the upwardly mobile middle classes in 1990s Detroit are now surrounding themselves with postmodern houses and artefacts!• We had moved to an upwardly mobile suburb of Chicago.• a highly educated, upwardly mobile young woman

Mobilen

na city which is Alabama's only port and one of the busiest ports in the US

From Longman Business Dictionary