| 词组 | black out |
| 释义 | black out 1. black out to suddenly become unconscious: ▪ The driver of the car had apparently blacked out at the wheel. ▪ I felt as if I was suffocating, as if I was going to black out. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑pass out blackout n C when you suddenly become unconscious: ▪ You'll have to go to the doctor if you keep having these blackouts. 2. be blacked out if a room, building, or city is blacked out at night during a war, all the lights are turned off and the windows are covered with dark material, especially so that the buildings cannot be seen by enemy planes: ▪ During the NATO bombing, the city was blacked out and the cafes closed at 8 pm. ▪ The windows were permanently blacked out, the rooms turned by war into dirty, dismal places. blackout n C a period of time each night during a war when no lights can be used and windows must be covered with dark material, so that the buildings cannot be seen from the air: ▪ Kitty had had enough of the blackout, the bombings and the shortages. ▪ blackout curtains 3. be blacked out if a building, city, country etc is blacked out, there are no lights on in it because the electricity has stopped working: ▪ From time to time the whole country was blacked out by power cuts. ▪ Large sections of the capital were blacked out following the earthquake. blackout n C when the electricity has stopped working so that there is no light available: ▪ Due to a power blackout, their hotel was in total darkness. 4. black out sth • black sth out to cover something so that it cannot be seen, by using a dark mark or dark material: ▪ The car's license plate had been blacked out with tape. ▪ He was wearing a wig, and several of his teeth were blacked out. 5. black out sth • black sth out to prevent a television or radio programme from being broadcast, or a news report from being seen or read, especially because it is damaging to a government in some way: ▪ The authorities in Belgrade blacked out news of what was happening in Kosovo. blackout n C when a radio or television programme is prevented from being broadcast, or a news report from being seen or read: ▪ Police ordered a news blackout while the negotiations to free the hostages were in progress. |
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