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box

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Related topics: Daily life, Measurement, Newspapers, printing, publishing, Theatre, Sport, Plants, Law
ldoce_034_gbox1 /bɒks $ bɑːks/ ●●● S1 W1 noun
1  cardboard.jpg container 容器CONTAINER [countableC]DTI a container for putting things in, especially one with four stiff straight sides 盒；匣；箱
cardboard/wooden/plastic etc box
a strong cardboard box
一只結實的紙板箱
toolbox/shoebox/matchbox etc (=a box used for keeping tools etc in) 工具箱/鞋盒/火柴盒等
→5  See picture of jewellery box BrE【英】/jewelry box AmE【美】首飾盒, tin 金屬盒, egg carton 蛋盒 ... →4  See picture of 見圖 box
2  amount 數量AMOUNT IN A BOX (also boxful) [countableC]TM the amount of something contained in a box 一盒[一箱]（之量）
box of
a box of chocolates
一盒巧克力
3  shape 形狀SQUARE SHAPETCN [countableC]
a) a small square on a page for people to write information in 方框，方格
Put an ‘X’ in the box if you would like to join our mailing list.
如果你想加入我們的郵寄名單，請在方框内打X。
b) a square or rectangle on a page where information is given or where an answer can be written 〔提供信息或填寫答案的〕方框
The box on the left gives a short history of the battle.
左邊方框内簡要介紹了這場戰役的經過。
4  in a court/theatre etc 在法庭/劇院等中IN A THEATRE/COURT [countableC]APTSCT a small area of a theatre or court that is separate from where other people are sitting 〔戲院的〕包廂；〔法庭的〕專席
the jury box
陪審團席
→5 see picture at 見圖 theatre
5  small building 小的建築物 [countableC] a small building or structure used for a particular purpose 小亭，崗亭 SYN booth
a sentry box
崗亭
telephone box 電話亭 British EnglishBrE
6. at a post office 在郵局裏box 25/450 etc TCMa box with a number in a post office, where you can have letters etc sent instead of to your own address 25號/450號等郵政信箱 SYN PO Box
7  sports field 體育場地SPORTS FIELD [countableC usually singular]DS a special area of a sports field that is marked by lines and used for a particular purpose 〔運動場上用線劃定的〕區，特定區域
the penalty box
罰球區，禁區
8. protection 保護WORN DURING SPORTS [countableC] British EnglishBrEDS a piece of plastic that a man wears over his sex organs to protect them when he is playing a sport, especially cricket 〔尤指板球運動員的〕下體護身，護罩
9  tree 樹TREE [countableC, uncountableU]HBP a small tree that keeps its leaves in winter and is often planted around the edge of a garden or field 黃楊〔一種常綠小樹，常種植在花園或田野四周〕
a box hedge
黃楊樹籬
10  television 電視the box informalDHHTELEVISION/RADIO the television 電視
What’s on the box tonight?
今晚有什麽電視節目？
Examples from the Corpus
the box• What's on the box tonight?
11. be out of your box DRINK British EnglishBrE informal to be very drunk or have taken an illegal drug 爛醉；吸毒
→ black box
n COLLOCATIONS
types of box
a cardboard/wooden/plastic box
We packed all our things into big cardboard boxes.
a storage box (=for storing things in)
Plastic storage boxes are useful for putting things in the attic.
a toolbox
The hammer’s in the tool box.
a shoebox (=that you buy shoes in)
She used to keep photographs in old shoe boxes.
a sandwich/lunch box
Most of the kids bring lunch boxes to school.
a jewellery box British EnglishBrE, a jewelry box American English
A jewellery box had gone missing.
a money box (=that children save money in)
How much have you got in your money box?
a cash box (=for keeping a supply of money in, for example in a shop)
Thieves stole £100 from a cash box at the school.
phrases
a pile/stack of boxes
There was a pile of boxes in the street outside the house.
Examples from the Corpus
box• It comes from a collection of letters I found in a box at the top of the attic.• We need only your blue box.• I did not want to die impaled on a boom box during midair turbulence.• a cardboard box• For instance: Ban all polystyrene, such as packing chips, meat trays and some egg boxes.• the penalty box• The young Sri Lankan scorer in the press box awarded it to Manuel.• All the complex calculations are built into the software; all you do is enter the numbers in the right boxes.• the batter's box• I go back over the contents of the boxes, particularly some correspondence I had not examined.• After building your own machine you certainly will not be worried about opening the box!• The box on the left gives a short history of the Alamo.• Check this box if you would like information about our other products.• five wooden boxes
cardboard/wooden/plastic etc box• But there is also something worrying about a plastic box outwitting humans at this most cerebral of pastimes.• I carry Jack in a cardboard box and he seems relaxed as we have a quiet conversation in the dark.• For similar reasons, they enjoy playing with sand and cardboard boxes.• There was an ironing-board, two kitchen chairs and a couple of broken wooden boxes snaked around the front room.• They sat on bedrolls or collapsed cardboard boxes along Park Boulevard.• Buckingham Palace is at one end of the Mall, and at the other end people are sleeping in cardboard boxes.• The music was simply put into cardboard boxes and left in his brother's basement.
box of• a box of chocolates
telephone box• Once we spent all day - somewhere near Pitlochry, I think - in a telephone box playing battleships.• How they connected it - he was on his way home and there's a telephone box.• There was a telephone box just outside; she had promised to call Anne.• They cluster around telephone boxes and the bus station, plotting to head north.• The first telephone boxes were designed by Sir Giles Scott in 1935, they were made of cast iron.• Until recently, 1p coins topped the league when it came to money lost in or near telephone boxes.• Look out for the old red telephone box which stands nearby.• And that phone call ... Part of it was overheard by one of the village ladies waiting just outside the telephone box.
penalty box• The money is to go in a penalty box kept by Grandmother; the proceeds will go to a charity.• I can't help thinking that the battle in the penalty box tomorrow will be just as vital.• If two-minute penalties were handed out for four-letter words, Newman would still be in the penalty box.• The goal came off a throw-in from Joaquin Del Olmo to Blanco in the penalty box.• Officials sent offenders to the penalty box left and right.
box hedge• No suitable material came to hand for the box hedges.• This is a strongly conceived space, with the box hedge enclosing the area in a flowing curve.
Related topics: Sport, Daily life
box2 ●○○ verb
1. [intransitiveI, transitiveT]DS to fight someone as a sport by hitting them with your closed hands inside big leather gloves 〔拳擊運動中〕擊打
2  (also box up) [transitiveT]DTI to put things in boxes 把…裝入箱[盒]内
Help me box up the Christmas tree lights.
幫我把聖誕彩燈裝進盒子。
→ boxed
3. [transitiveT]DRAW to draw a box around something on a page 〔在紙上〕給〔某物〕畫框
4. box somebody’s ears HIT/BUMP INTO old-fashioned to hit someone on the side of their head 打某人耳光
5 box somebody/something ↔ in phrasal verbphr v 
a) AROUND/ROUNDto surround someone or something so that they are unable to move freely 封堵
Someone had parked right behind them, boxing them in.
有人把車正好停在他們的後面，把他們給堵死了。
b) feel boxed in
a) LIMITto feel that you cannot do what you want to do because a person or situation is limiting you 感覺施展不開，感到被限制
Married for only a year, Connie already felt boxed in.
結婚才一年，康妮已經感覺受到了束縛。
b) MOVE/CHANGE POSITIONto feel that you cannot move freely, because you are in a small space 〔被困在狹小空間内而〕動彈不得
Examples from the Corpus
box in• In one she has packed the leftover cake, in its box.• Cutting letter box slots in doors is a job most of us have to do once or twice in a decade.• All I could think of was that box had some one in it who I loved - Peter.• Lawmakers have virtually boxed themselves in on this one.• When they opened the trailer door, I could see the cabbage boxes were stacked in the back.• You may be wondering why we wired over the box we installed in the barn.• Among the sights, the Box Tunnel in the Cotswolds.• For example, Houston Rockets star Clyde Drexler was on a box once in the Portland area.
feel boxed in• Married for only six months, Dawn already felt boxed in.
6 box something ↔ off phrasal verbphr v TBCto separate a particular area from a larger one by putting walls around it 把…圈上，將…隔開
We’re going to box off that corner to get extra storage space.
我們打算把那個角落隔出來，多一點儲藏空間。
Examples from the Corpus
box off• I wanted all those wonderful colors to collide in ways that could blow your voice box right off.• When he took over the role last year, the box office took off, and the reviews were positively glowing.• The jury box is set off by a walnut rail and descending baubles, round spheres of beautifully grained wood.• So I packed my plastic box, and off I went.• So now I want you and your whole box of tricks off my ship and out of my way.• I stepped back obligingly and let him heft the box up off the floor and carry it to my car.• Some were taking boxes and drums off the lorries.
Examples from the Corpus
box• She'd just box a few ears, knock a few heads together like she did with the Rattries, and chase them off.• Nearly all the pews were boxed in, the panels chest-height, narrow doors allowing entry.• I should be able to box Jerome.• Items like tea bags and cigarettes are boxed, then wrapped in cellophane.
From Longman Business Dictionary
boxbox /bɒksbɑːks/ noun
1think outside the box to think of ideas and solutions that are completely different and new, especially in business
It’s always diffiult to think outside the box and come up with a good product name.
2tick all the boxes/have ticks in all the right boxes if something ticks all the boxes, you think it is very good and exactly what you want
Sony’s new high definition TV ticks all the boxes.
Origin box1
(900-1000) Latin buxus, from Greek pyxis, from pyxos type of tree, whose wood was used for making boxes
 box2
1. (1300-1400) Origin unknown.
2. (1400-1500) → BOX1

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