Cornered的意思|Cornered的解释-里氏词典

cornered ['kɔ:nəd]

a. 有...角的

The election was a three-cornered fight between Conservatives, Labour and SLD.
这次选举是保守党、工党以及社会民主党三方的较量.
By defeating their main competitor this firm has cornered the wheat market.
这家公司击败了主要的竞争对手而垄断了整个小麦市场。
The escaped prisoner was cornered at last.
那逃犯最後走投无路了.

cornered

[ adj ]
forced to turn and face attackers
<adj.all>
a stag at bayshe had me cornered between the porch and her car
like a trapped animal

Corner \Cor"ner\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cornered} (-n?rd); p. pr.
& vb. n. {Cornering}.]
1. To drive into a corner.

2. To drive into a position of great difficulty or hopeless
embarrassment; as, to corner a person in argument.

3. To get command of (a stock, commodity, etc.), so as to be
able to put one's own price on it; as, to corner the
shares of a railroad stock; to corner petroleum.

Cornered \Cor"nered\ (-n?rd), p. a.
1 Having corners or angles.

2. In a possition of great difficulty; brought to bay.

They briefly took a hostage from among the nine people in the home, fired shots at a pursuing sheriff's deputy, and shot it out with Jacobson and a deputy when cornered in a ravine the evening of Jan. 12, Cottrell said.
When cornered, they squirt a poison from neck glands that kills dogs, cats, even humans.
But Helen, Helen -- your story of the "scuttle" game at the radio station, where the men would chase a secretary until they cornered her and took off her panties is not an example of a cute flirtation or minor dalliance.
But while the pressure to accept the Beltway-consensus panel's recommendations will be tremendous, the next president need not be cornered into raising taxes.
"Otherwise he will simply try this again in another eight years." Some Israeli officials worry that Saddam Hussein, if cornered, may see an attack on Israel as his best shot at uniting Arab allies.
Cassell, other zoo workers and Spokane County Animal Control employees searched for the 3-foot-tall, dark gray animal in the brushy areas along the Spokane River before it was finally cornered in the front yard of a residence about two miles from the zoo.
In the 185-mile chase that followed, the gunmen escaped from a garage where police had cornered them and kidnapped a 26-year-old woman from her home near Neumarkt, Bavaria, escaping in her car, police said.
The dogs, described by one witness as looking like huskies, were later cornered in a nearby oil field and shot to death by Placentia police officers.
Before his record-shattering, $13.64 billion offer for Texaco Inc. on Wednesday, the 52-year-old financier had already tracked, cornered and _ in some cases _ acquired some of America's most imposing corporations.
The dictator was finally cornered and shot, while his wife was initially shot in the back, said historian Cristian Popisteanu, quoting a witness he did not identify.
At the annual town fair, a banker found himself cornered at the bumper-car ride by an anguished jewelry-store owner whose mortgage application had inexplicably run into trouble.
A white security guard today shot and killed one of a group of club-carrying blacks who chased and cornered him during a celebration of Nelson Mandela's release, police said.
Lastly, if someone feels truly cornered, relocating to a community that upholds a different set of social/moral values is relatively easy in America as compared with most countries.
The conservatives, feeling cornered, responded by concentrating on pure politics.
But H. Kazempour Ardebili, Iran's deputy oil minister, arrived uninvited Saturday afternoon while the ministers were lunching, took a room just down the hall of the hotel where the ministers were meeting, and promptly cornered some of them.
Nearly cornered a week ago, he has started to deploy the only defensive mechanism available to him: an intense effort to behave in an honest, open manner or, to be precise, to appear to do so.
In southern Lebanon just above Israel's border, soldiers cornered three would-be infiltrators about 3 a.m. in the Israeli-controlled "security zone," an army spokesman said.
The guard was harassed and chased along a central Johannesburg street by about 50 revelers, and fired after he was cornered by members of the group carrying bricks and clubs, Capt.
Critics, including some within her own Conservative Party, think Mrs. Thatcher is cornered.
One manufacturer comments: 'The Italians have cornered the market in laggard plants, but closing them is politically impossible.' The attitude of the European Commission.
But a seaside or country bungalow in East Anglia remains the dream for many east Londoners. Bennett Homes, of Lakenheath in Suffolk, has cornered the market, having built more than 5,000 of them since 1947.
NCR was founded in 1884 when John Henry Patterson bought the National Manufacturing Co. and renamed it National Cash Register. The company nearly cornered the market in cash registers, creating thousands of jobs for the Dayton-area economy.
According to the Dutch official, "The Germans feel slightly cornered.
The Angels have cornered a man they say was selling drugs.

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