| 词组 | belt |
| 释义 | belt /belt/ noun 1. a band of leather, cloth etc that you wear around your waistadjectivesa wide/broad belt Around his waist he wore a broad leather belt.a narrow/thin belt The dress has a narrow belt.a leather/plastic/silver belt He wore a big leather belt.verbswear a belt She was wearing a belt with a gold-plated buckle.buckle/fasten/do up your belt She put the robe on and fastened the belt.unbuckle/unfasten/undo your belt He unbuckled his belt and took his jeans off.loosen your belt After he finished eating, he loosened his belt a little.tighten your belt She tightened the belt of her coat and turned up the collar.Tighten your belt is usually used metaphorically to mean ‘try to spend less money than you used to’.nouns + belta gun/sword belt (=for holding a gun or sword) One protester tried to grab an officer’s gun belt.a money belt (=one with a pocket for money)belt + nounsa belt buckle He undid his belt buckle.2. an area across or around a place, which has particular things or people in itadjectives/nouns + belta wide/narrow belt Along the coast is a wide belt of sand dunes. | Most of the population is located in a narrow urban belt.a mountain/forest/desert belt Where two continents collide, a mountain belt is formed.a coastal belt This narrow coastal belt is mainly desert.a shelter belt The house is protected by a shelter belt of trees.the industrial belt (=where there are a lot of factories) He claimed that the industrial belt of Silesia was ‘the most polluted part of Europe’.the green belt BrE (=land around a city where building is not allowed) The government has said it will protect the green belt.the corn/cotton/wheat belt (=where corn etc is grown) Dust storms hit the wheat belt in the 1930s.the rust belt/the Rust Belt (=where many factories have closed) The Rust Belt states saw entire industries die in the early 1980s.the commuter belt BrE (=an area around a large city from where people travel to work in the city every day) House prices are high in the London commuter belt.the stockbroker belt BrE (=an area around a city where rich people who work in the city live) She lived in a big house in the stockbroker belt.the asteroid belt The asteroid belt lies between Mars and Jupiter.prepositionsa belt of sth The hotel is screened from the nearest road by a belt of trees. |
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