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VERB
锁；锁上；锁住
When you lock something such as a door, drawer, or case, you fasten it, usually with a key, so that other people cannot open it.
例句
Are you sure you locked the front door?...
你确定锁了前门吗？
Wolfgang moved along the corridor towards the locked door at the end.
沃尔夫冈走向过道尽头锁着的那扇门。
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N-COUNT
锁
The lock on something such as a door or a drawer is the device which is used to keep it shut and prevent other people from opening it. Locks are opened with a key.
例句
At that moment he heard Gill's key turning in the lock of the door...
那一刻，他听见吉尔的钥匙开启门锁的声音。
An intruder forced open a lock on French windows at the house.
有人强行撬开落地窗上的锁闯入屋里。
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VERB
把… 锁起妥藏；把…关起来
If you lock something or someone in a place, room, or container, you put them there and fasten the lock.
例句
Her maid locked the case in the safe...
她的女佣把箱子锁进保险柜里。
They beat them up and locked them in a cell.
他们殴打了他们，并把他们锁在一间囚室里。
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V-ERG
扣住；拴住；（使）固定
If you lock something in a particular position or if it lock there, it is held or fitted firmly in that position.
例句
He leaned back in the swivel chair and locked his fingers behind his head...
他仰靠在转椅上，十指交叉枕在脑后。
There was a whine of hydraulics as the undercarriage locked into position.
随着液压系统嘎吱一声响，起落架进入了锁定位置。
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（运河或河流上的）船闸，水闸
On a canal or river, a lock is a place where walls have been built with gates at each end so that boats can move to a higher or lower section of the canal or river, by gradually changing the water level inside the gates.
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一绺（头发）
A lock of hair is a small bunch of hairs on your head that grow together and curl or curve in the same direction.
例句
She brushed a lock of hair off his forehead.
她撩开他脑门上的一绺头发。
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N-PLURAL
头发
Your locks are your hair.
例句
...women with long, wavy locks.
留着长长卷发的女人们
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PHRASE
妥善锁藏着；被关押着
If something or someone is kept under lock and key, they are in a container or room which has been securely locked.
例句
The books were normally kept under lock and key in the library vault...
这些书一般妥善锁藏在图书馆的地窖里。
He is currently under lock and key at Eastmoor secure unit in Leeds.
他眼下被关押在利兹的伊斯特穆尔保安部。
Noun
1. a fastener fitted to a door or drawer to keep it firmly closed
2. a strand or cluster of hair
3. a mechanism that detonates the charge of a gun
4. enclosure consisting of a section of canal that can be closed to control the water level; used to raise or lower vessels that pass through it
5. a restraint incorporated into the ignition switch to prevent the use of a vehicle by persons who do not have the key
6. any wrestling hold in which some part of the opponent's body is twisted or pressured
Verb
1. fasten with a lock;
"lock the bike to the fence"2. keep engaged;
"engaged the gears"3. become rigid or immoveable;
"The therapist noticed that the patient's knees tended to lock in this exercise"4. hold in a locking position;
"He locked his hands around her neck"5. become engaged or intermeshed with one another;
"They were locked in embrace"6. hold fast (in a certain state);
"He was locked in a laughing fit"7. place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape;
"The parents locked her daughter up for the weekend""She locked her jewels in the safe"8. pass by means through a lock in a waterway
9. build locks in order to facilitate the navigation of vessels