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 blackout ['blækaut]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 灯火管制, 暂时的意识丧失, 灯火熄灭, 删除

[计] 电网掉电

[医] 一时性黑蒙


  1. The streets were not lighted at night during the blackout.
    灯火管制期间,夜晚街道没有照明。
  2. He had had a blackout after the accident.
    事故发生后,他晕过去一阵子。
  3. The blackout happened August Fourteenth.
    断电事故发生在8月14日。


blackout
[ noun ]
  1. a suspension of radio or tv broadcasting

  2. <noun.time>
  3. darkness resulting from the extinction of lights (as in a city invisible to enemy aircraft)

  4. <noun.state>
  5. the failure of electric power for a general region

  6. <noun.event>
  7. a momentary loss of consciousness

  8. <noun.cognition>
  9. partial or total loss of memory

  10. <noun.cognition>
    he has a total blackout for events of the evening


blackout \blackout\ n.
1. a suspension of radio or tv broadcasting.
[WordNet 1.5]

2. any darkness resulting from the extinction of lights.
[WordNet 1.5]

3. the failure of electric power for a general region
sufficient to extinguish all normal lighting.

Syn: brownout, dimout.
[WordNet 1.5]

4. a momentary loss of consciousness.
[WordNet 1.5]

5. partial or total loss of memory. he has a total blackout
for events of the evening

Syn: amnesia, memory loss.
[WordNet 1.5]

6. a period during which artificial lighting is forbidden, as
in a city as a precaution against an air raid.
[PJC]

7. (Theater) the darkening of all stage lights, as at then
end of a performance or between acts.
[PJC]

8. suppression of information distribution; as, there was a
blackout on news from the military for the first day of
the Gulf War.
[PJC]

9. the prohibition of the broadcasting of a sports event,
such as a boxing match or football game, sometimes
confined to one particular area. It is usually done to
encourage sales of tickets to the event.
[PJC]

  1. "It would be a very foolhardy thing for me to do to go flying without knowing what caused the blackout," Root said after receiving a letter informing him of the FAA decision.
  2. The blackout will be lifted just an hour before Atlantis returns to Earth for a landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
  3. Residents in rebel-plagued Lima greeted 1989 with a blackout for the second New Year's Eve in a row.
  4. Strikers in the capital blocked key highways with burning garbage and leftist guerrillas sparked a blackout in the highlands, but there were no early reports of violent clashes between police and strikers, officials said.
  5. The Camp David agreement President Carter worked out between Egypt and Israel in 1978 was accomplished during a news blackout of nearly two weeks.
  6. Negotiators for the scriptwriters and the television and film producers engaged in contract talks this week under a news blackout.
  7. A Pentagon-imposed news blackout that affected most of the mission kept the space agency from discussing the astronauts' reaction to the delay.
  8. The mediator has imposed a news blackout on the two sides, so a Big Board spokesman couldn't comment on the talks.
  9. Meanwhile, Boeing has been negotiating under a news blackout since Tuesday with its second-largest union, the Seattle Professional Engineering Employees Association, which represents about 28,000 engineers and technical workers.
  10. A severe sag could trip current-monitoring equipment and trigger another blackout.
  11. In a report on the blackout, which lasted as long as eight hours in parts of the province, the provincially owned utility said the power failure originated at the Arnaud substation in northeastern Quebec, which was hit by a severe snowstorm.
  12. Immediately after causing the blackout Monday night, the rebels simultaneously exploded two car bombs in the capital, neither of which caused casualties, police said.
  13. Defying a Chinese news blackout, the students are using telephones and facsimile machines to contact relatives, other students, hospitals, newspapers and even sympathetic government officials.
  14. "You're either going to have awards limited or more blackout days," says Mike Boynton, manager of marketing services for Delta Air Lines.
  15. CBS sources called the blackout a "mishap," asserting that Mr. Rather and his team were unaware that the network would go black when he left to telephone CBS officials.
  16. While large parts of the city were unaffected, the Upper East Side and the Bronx were clogged with huge traffic jams as the blackout shut off traffic signals.
  17. The almost complete blackout of banks in the area could leave many residents who rely on government checks short of cash over the Labor Day weekend.
  18. In Detroit, student demonstrators in their ninth day of occupying a Wayne State University building were operating under a news blackout as negotiations with the administration continued.
  19. Police have imposed a news blackout on their investigation, and little was known about the detained youths.
  20. A news blackout has been imposed by both sides until the meeting ends.
  21. The blackout is affecting about 60 percent of this capital city of 7 million, officials said.
  22. The opera is in a number of concise scenes, each ending in blackout.
  23. Unknowable consequences of the strike resulted from the blackout in the city's cultural life - first-novels unreviewed, art shows unreported.
  24. Official media in Czechoslovakia, the Soviet Union and Hungary carried reports about East Berlin's decision to open its borders. Romania, which has the most repressive leadership in the bloc, has kept a virtual news blackout on the event.
  25. "The district town was in a total blackout Thursday might because the power plant's building was also damaged by the quake," according to the news agency, which said landslides occurred in some villages.
  26. But why make a momentary blackout between them?
  27. The Pentagon has imposed a news blackout on the flight similar to its six previous missions.
  28. The information blackout was in force today as the five astronauts were believed to be monitoring research experiments and testing their capabilities as military observers in space.
  29. Both sides in the strike have been asked by a federal mediator to maintain a news blackout, and detailed information about the bargaining sessions has been scant.
  30. NASA broke a news blackout on the flight Saturday to announce that Atlantis would land at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., at 1:08 p.m. EST.
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