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To beeline is to go quickly and straight toward someone or something, without wandering. People more often say make a beeline for a place than use beeline as a bare verb, but both happen, especially in American English. The picture comes from an old belief that a bee flies in a straight line back to its hive. Whether bees always do that, people still argue; the English phrase grew from that belief, not from a science lesson. It is informal. You beeline for food, for the door, for a friend across the room.
直奔、抄直線衝過去(常說 make a beeline for)
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
beelinenoun/ˈbiːlaɪn/
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A very direct or quick path or trip.
- to make / strike a beeline for / to something
- The children made a beeline to the swimming pool.
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historicalbusinessminingA dynamite fuse made with a small quantity of dynamite powder along its length, so that the spark travels quickly and at a specific known rate.
beelineverb/ˈbiːlaɪn/
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To travel in a straight line, ignoring established paths of travel.
- A uniformed policeman came off the elevator and beelined for the nurse's station. I beelined into the stairwell. I wasn't in the mood for chatting with the police.
- Suddenly, a woman beelines to the president, climbs to join him on his platform, there’s no security around to stop her and leans in for a kiss.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。