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lock

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Related topics: Motor vehicles
lock1 /lɒk $ lɑːk/ ●●● S2 W3 verb → lough, loch
1  fasten STH 拴住某物 [intransitiveI, transitiveT]SHUT/CLOSE to fasten something, usually with a key, so that other people cannot open it, or to be fastened like this 把（…）鎖住；被鎖住
Did you lock the car?
你把汽車鎖好了嗎？
I can’t get this drawer to lock.
我沒法把這個抽屜鎖上。
→4  See picture of 見圖 LOCK 2 →5 see picture at 見圖 fasten
2  keep in a safe place 存放在安全的地方 [transitiveT always + adverbadv/prepositionprep]SHUT/CLOSE to put something in a place and fasten the door, lid etc with a key 把〔某物〕鎖起來
lock something in something
Lock the cat in the kitchen.
把貓鎖進廚房裏。
3  fixed position 固定的位置 [intransitiveI, transitiveT]TTC to become fixed in one position and impossible to move, or to make something become fixed （使）固定，卡住，塞住
The wheels suddenly locked.
輪子突然卡住不動了。
lock something around/round something
He locked his hands around the younger man’s throat.
他用雙手卡住那個年輕人的喉嚨。
A moment later they were locked in an embrace (=holding each other very tightly in a loving or friendly way).
過了一會兒，他們緊緊地擁抱在一起。
Their eyes locked together (=they could not look away from each other) for an instant.
他們四目交投，對視了片刻。
4  fixed situation 固定不變的情形 [transitiveT] if you are locked in a situation, you cannot get out of it 陷入
be locked in/into something
The two groups are locked in a vicious cycle of killing.
這兩個團夥陷入了互相厮殺的惡性循環。
The company is locked into a five-year contract.
公司被一個五年期的合同套牢了。
n Grammar
Lock is usually passive in this meaning.
5  be locked in battle/combat/dispute etc TAKE PART/BE INVOLVEDto be involved in a long, serious argument or fight with someone 卷入鬥爭/戰鬥/爭論等之中
They are now locked in a bitter custody battle over the three children.
他們現在陷入了一場苦戰，爭奪三個孩子的監護權。
6  lock arms HOLDif people lock arms, they join their arms tightly with the arms of the people on each side 臂挽着臂
The police locked arms to form a barrier against the protesters.
警察臂挽着臂組成一道人牆，阻擋抗議者。
Examples from the Corpus
lock arms• This is not to say that Brownmiller has written a sanguine portrait of sisters locking arms in struggle.• Fifty students locked arms to block the entrance to the building.
7  lock horns (with somebody) ARGUEto argue or fight with someone （與某人）爭吵；打架
The band have now locked horns with their record company over the album.
樂隊眼下爲專輯的事和他們的唱片公司吵得不可開交。
Examples from the Corpus
lock horns (with somebody)• In fact, the feuding agencies were about to lock horns and starve over the first two dams on their priority lists.• Louis throws a chair at Victor; they lock horns and wrestle.• The big beasts of medical ethics have been locking horns, the rationalists against the religious as usual.• Who had once locked horns with superpowers.
—lockable adjectiveadj
 PHRASAL VERBS
Examples from the Corpus
lock• She was just chewing her dinner and her jaw locked.• She went over and tried one of the handles, but the cabinet was locked.• Once he had forgotten to lock Mr Corcoran's office and had been harshly reprimanded.• Lock the brakes before you take him out of the stroller.• Don't forget to lock the car.• The colored aide and the blond one took me downstairs and let me on to our ward and locked the door behind me.• Lock the door when you leave.• Wu panicked and locked the door.• As she left the house she locked the door.• As I said it, I jumped back in the bathroom and locked the door.• He locked the safe and put the key in his pocket.• That's what Lee had gone home to check, that Caspar was locked up.
locked in an embrace• And when that happens, you will surely see Switzer and Jones locked in an embrace.• Simultaneously they turned to face one another and a moment later they were locked in an embrace.• Ljungberg falls in the box with Babayaro locked in an embrace from behind.
be locked in/into something• We were locked in a grid four lanes wide.• Read in studio Voice over Two schools for children with special needs are locked in an argument over whether or not they should merge.• The implication is that scanning systems should not be locked into continuous data on limited sectors of the environment ...• In reality, the females are locked in fierce and intense competition.• At Motown, electric guitars, sometimes as many as four, were locked in intricate patterns.• The Ballet and the cavernous, gilt-trimmed Wang are locked in symbiotic, occasionally contentious embrace.• However, some critics have expressed doubts over whether future governments can be locked into the promises.• More often, Washington and Pretoria are locked in warm embrace.
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ldoce_205_glock2 ●●● S2 noun
1  fastening 扣拴物 [countableC]D a thing that keeps a door, drawer etc fastened and is usually opened with a key or by moving a small metal bar 鎖
I’m sorry, there isn’t a lock on the bathroom door.
對不起，浴室門上沒有鎖。
The key turned stiffly in the lock.
這把鑰匙開鎖不靈活。
a bike lock
自行車鎖
→ pick a lock at pick1(10) →5  See picture of a bike lock 自行車鎖, combination lock 密碼鎖, padlock 挂鎖 ... →4  See picture of 見圖 lock
2  under lock and key 
a) SHUT/CLOSEkept safely in a box, cupboard etc that is locked 安全地鎖着
Dad keeps all his liquor under lock and key.
爸爸把他所有的酒都鎖了起來。
b) KEEP somebody IN A PLACEkept in a place such as a prison 被關押着
Examples from the Corpus
under lock and key• Wherever they are kept, they should be out of reach of children and, where appropriate, under lock and key.• Your master should really have kept the book under lock and key.• Smith's copies have spent the last six days under lock and key at its Dunstable depot.• Since then, that length of self-healing cable has been kept under lock and key at the railway inspectorate building at Reading.• Oswald's FBI file has been kept under lock and key.• The older children were no longer kept under lock and key.• If they had kept me under lock and key from my fifteenth birthday until my twentieth, I might have escaped.• With Petersen under lock and key, life for the gumshoes of the Office of Security returned to normal.
3  lock, stock, and barrelstock, and barrel lock ALL/EVERYTHINGincluding every part of something 全部，一切
He moved the whole company, lock, stock, and barrel, to Mexico.
他把公司整個都搬到了墨西哥。
Examples from the Corpus
lock, stock, and barrel• He moved the whole company, lock, stock, and barrel, to Mexico.• The Knolls have owned the town lock, stock, and barrel for 15 years.• They sold everything lock, stock, and barrel.
4  hair 頭發
a) [countableC]DCB a small number of hairs on your head that grow and hang together 一绺頭發
lock of
He gently pushed a lock of hair from her eyes.
他輕輕地爲她拂去遮住眼睛的一绺頭發。
b) locks [plural] literaryDCB someone’s hair 頭發
long flowing locks
飄逸的長發
5. on a river etc 在河上等 [countableC]TTW a part of a canal or river that is closed off by gates so that the water level can be raised or lowered to move boats up or down a slope 〔運河、河流的〕水閘，船閘
6  in a fight 在搏鬥中 [countableC]DSO a hold which wrestlers use to prevent their opponent from moving 〔摔跤中的〕抱，夾
a head lock
夾頭
7. vehicle 交通工具 [countableC, uncountableU] British EnglishBrETTC the degree to which a vehicle’s front wheels can be turned in order to turn the vehicle 〔汽車前輪的〕轉動角度
8. rugby 橄欖球 [countableC] a playing position in the game of rugby 〔英式橄欖球的〕第二排前鋒
9  a lock on something American EnglishAmE complete control of something 對某事物的完全控制
Pro football still has a lock on male viewers aged 18 to 34.
職業足球賽的觀衆依然是以18到34歲的男性爲主。
Examples from the Corpus
a lock on something• His parents were not surprised when he asked for a lock on his bedroom door before he had reached his teenage years.• Republicans in Congress, used to having a lock on the White House, began attacking Clinton at once.• The lack of a lock on the one and only toilet was compensated for by the frosted glass panels in the door.• For security a lock on the front locks both the system and the keyboard.• Straightening, she reflected soberly that the only thing missing was a lock on the bedroom door.
→ air lock, combination lock
Examples from the Corpus
lock• She kept a lock of his baby hair in a book.• Equipment was stolen from a construction site entered by cutting a front-door lock.• That explains why there are no locks on the lockers in the hall.• There's no lock on the door.• Two types of locks had been developed by the Romans: the tumbler lock, and the lever lock.• Open up - watch the hard rasp as the key slides into the lock - and step inside.• The lock snapped and the detective levered up the bottom section.• The locks were closed again, the process ended, insipid Vadinamian refreshments were served in the visitors gallery.
From Longman Business Dictionary
locklock1 /lɒklɑːk/ verb
1[transitiveT] lock horns (with somebody) if two people or organizations lock horns, they start being involved in a serious disagreement or struggle with each other
Mr. Lorenzo locked horns with union representatives in his efforts to turn around the struggling business.
2be locked in a battle/struggle/dispute etc (with somebody) if two people or organizations are locked in a battle, they are involved in a serious disagreement or struggle against each other
The two networks are locked in a close ratings battle.
The unions are locked in difficult negotiations with the company.
→ lock something → away
→ lock in
→ lock into something
→ lock out
→ lock something → up
locklock2 noun
1have a lock on something to have complete control of something
The firm now has an 85% lock on the market.
Between them the two airlines have a virtual lock on domestic air traffic.
2put a lock on something to limit or control something
These currency controls put a lock on Pakistan’s dealings with the larger world.
Origin lock2
1. Old English loc
2. Old English locc

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