elbow room

英 [ˈelbəʊ ruːm]

美 [ˈelboʊ ruːm]

n.  足够的活动空间; 足以走进的地方

牛津词典

noun

• 足够的活动空间；足以走进的地方
  enough space to move or walk in

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 行动自由；活动空间
  Elbow roomis the freedom to do what you want to do or need to do in a particular situation.
  1. His speech was designed to give himself more political elbow room.
     他的演讲旨在给自己更多的政治空间。
• N-UNCOUNT 宽裕的空间;充足的活动空间
  If there is enoughelbow roomin a place or vehicle, it is not too small or too crowded.
  1. There was not much elbow room in the cockpit of a Snipe.
     “沙锥鸟”战斗机的驾驶舱空间不太宽敞。

英英释义

noun

• space for movement
  1. room to pass
  2. make way for
  3. hardly enough elbow room to turn around
  Synonym:roomway

双语例句

• I can think of one person who has more elbow room than she needs& the Queen of England.
  我们有六个孩子马上又要生第七个了。我们需要比现在更大一些的地方。
• I can hardly move. Give me some elbow room.
  我差不多动不了了，给我让点地方吧。
• Concluded that: the sales environment temperature of4 ℃, the shear force of cooked meat products is that people can accept. ( 4) Study light the sauce elbow color change at room temperature.
  得出结论：销售环境的温度为4℃时，熟肉制品剪切力是人们可以接受的。（4）研究在室温条件下光照对酱猪肘颜色变化的影响。
• And for those of you at the very end of the alphabet, 1-190 we have a special room for you, 1-190, so everybody has some elbow room.
  而你在字母表的末尾，我们给准备了一个特别的房间，因此，每个人都有些活动空间。
• This means that open source middleware stacks like XAMPP might have some elbow room at the lower end of the software market.
  这意味着像XAMPP这种开放源码中间件在低端软件市场上还是有一定的存活空间的。
• His speech was designed to give himself more political elbow room.
  他的演讲旨在给自己更多的政治空间。
• Give me some elbow room.
  给我让点地方。
• There was not much elbow room in the cockpit of a Snipe.
  “沙锥鸟”战斗机的驾驶舱空间不太宽敞。
• He raised himself on his elbow and tried to see into the darkness of the room.
  他用肘撑起身子，竭力朝黑洞洞的房间里张望。
• As Mr. Solomon wrote, A century ago, nature had elbow room.
  正如所罗门所写：一个世纪前，大自然还有一些自己的空间。