1A continuous area or expanse which is free, available, or unoccupied.

一张桌子占了很大空间。

我们要一起生活在一个狭小的空间里。

他从停车场倒车出来。

1. 1.1count noun An area of land which is not occupied by buildings.
   空地
   she had a love of open spaces

   她很喜欢开阔的地方。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • It is pleasant to have an open space over which to look from your bedroom and sitting room windows, so far as it is possible to see over the concrete wall.
   • Many of those who are against the proposals say this area should be turned into an open space.
   • Housing is necessary - so also is the provision of parks, public open space and green areas.
   • Work is under way on a new play area at the nearby Paxmans Road estate and an open space is due to follow this autumn, which parents hope will ease the problem.
   • Everyone else on my block plants a flower garden, but they would like my lawn left open as a public space for children to play on, or to walk dogs on.
   • After being found to contain explosives, it is carefully taken by police to an open space and detonated.
   • I, for one, think that dogs should have a lead on anytime, apart from when they are in an open space.
   • The housing estate backs onto an open space, which was once a football pitch.
   • The moor is a vast space of land with lots of tracks and paths.
   • About 30 caravans had moved onto an open space beside Fair Oak Road by last Wednesday.
   • The derelict building is to be flattened and replaced with a open space and children's play park in the short term scheme.
   • The 20 acres of unused land near Mangalavanam can be converted into an open space.
   • The proposed development would also feature a shop, an open space, landscaping and car parking.
   • The trees were growing naturally on a sunny roadside or in an open space, being unshaded by other trees.
   • The developer has already encountered opposition from residents in nearby Rowley View, who want the area kept as an open space.
   • The committee had recommended that the site was not to be sold for building purposes but developed as an open space.
   • The discovery was made when a grader was developing an open space in the town area into a sport field.
   • In the short term scheme, intended to last for five years, the building will be replaced by an open space and children's play area.
   • But she said it would go back to being a grass area and would remain an open space for young people under the age of 12.
   • It includes new houses, low-cost homes, community facilities and an open space to be run by St Osyth Parish Council.

   Synonyms

   area, open space, open area, unoccupied area, empty area, expanse, footprint, stretch, sweep, tract
2. 1.2 An area rented or sold as business premises.
   （出租或出售的）商铺
   Example sentencesExamples

   • More than the required numbers of firms have applied for office and retail space in the building.
   • Can you convince a business or community center to donate space or offer a reduced rent?
   • We don't want to rent expensive office space and have that fixed expense looming over our heads every month.
   • The market is also seeing a change in the type of retailer looking for space.
   • It was advertising some sort of company that sells or leases office space, I think.
   • The first level will be leased as retail space while the firm will use the second level.
   • The expansion will boost the center to more than 311,000 square feet of retail space.
   • Two major developments are planned in the city centre to deal with the demand for retail space.
   • Because she owns the building, the overhead costs for renting commercial space is eliminated because her mortgage payments add to the equity in her property.
   • Now their workers' cooperative rents its own office space in Mbeya and contributes to agricultural projects for youth.
   • Office space in the Southfields business park has been let for the first time for £18.75 per square foot.
   • The company benefits, too, because it doesn't have to rent office space for him anymore.
   • In return, the college will get new office space in the adjoining building.
   • The unit contains 49 square metres of office space which is situated to the front of the building.
   • And he used the proceeds to rent office space from his father to house a music studio.
   • The successful purchaser may wish to integrate these two areas to create one large office space.
   • The scheme will have four large floors of retail space and a rooftop restaurant.
   • If the amount of community space is unsustainable it could be converted to office space and rented.
   • For a while, he rented office space in a townhouse, which came with a swimming pool.
   • Days later a current tenant with an adjacent lease asked to rent the same space to expand her business!
3. 1.3count noun A blank between printed, typed, or written words, characters, numbers, etc.
   （印刷、打字、书写的词语、字母和数字之间的）间隔，空格，空铅
   Example sentencesExamples

   • In the texts of the period, there were no spaces between words, punctuation was meagre, and reading depended on a capacity to see patterns in the unbroken lines.
   • Counting only letters, and ignoring characters like spaces and commas and hyphens, you can see the proof in the definition.
   • There are much greater spaces between his words than in his earlier poems.
   • This time, the sentences run on and on together, but the spaces between the words have now disappeared along with the punctuation.
   • Note that the Greek New Testament was originally written without punctuation or spaces between words.
   • The fact that English puts spaces between words, while Chinese does not, accounts for some of this difference.
   • Articles should be formatted to 65 characters per line or less, including spaces, and written in short paragraph sections.
   • Personally, I work on a computer first, then print out what I have written, leaving generous spaces for inevitable alterations.

   Synonyms

   blank, empty space, gap
4. 1.4Music count noun Each of the four gaps between the five lines of a stave.
   〔乐〕（谱表的）线间空白；线间
   Example sentencesExamples

   • A gifted music teacher, he even devised his own system of music writing with four spaces between five lines to show the strings and the numbers from zero to four to guide the fingers.
   • You can use a word or silly sentence to help you memorize which notes belong on the lines or spaces of a clef.
   • B on the A string, a perfect fifth higher, is one space above the top line or three staff spaces above the E.
   • If we go up three spaces into the treble clef or down three into the bass, we will find C again.
   • While devices abound for remembering the names of the lines and spaces of the treble and bass clefs, children often do not remember which saying is for which clef and then which is for lines and which for spaces.

2The dimensions of height, depth, and width within which all things exist and move.

这部作品给人一种经历了一次时空旅行的感觉。

1. 2.1 The physical universe beyond the earth's atmosphere.
   （地球大气层以外的）外层空间
   Example sentencesExamples

   • Simply put, a space elevator is a revolutionary way of getting from Earth into space.
   • Patrick talks to Dr Duncan Steel about the threat of objects in space colliding with Earth.
   • For instance, consider the problem of launching a vehicle from Earth into space.
   • The space around the Earth is more dangerous than scientists thought, according to new research.
   • She made it possible for further studies to enable Man to step off his home planet and survive in space.
   • The view of our own planet from space is quite literally out of this world.
   • In the future as in the present, humanity still yearns to reach out into space and explore the stars.
   • Apparently Turkey is planning to send a rocket into space and explore a planet, by 2014.
   • If this is the true shape of the universe, it means space is finite.
   • Here on Earth and out in space, communications would seem to be important if we need to defend ourselves from enemies.
   • His first extended mission in space was a stay aboard Mir in 1988.
   • But he was ignored because of his wild ideas, like the proposition that life came to Earth from space.
   • The Aurora is able to fly from the atmosphere into space and then return to Earth.
   • In space, as on Earth, there is no such thing as a free lunch - not to mention a free launch.
   • But the next big area up for grabs is space, and whoever dominates space will dominate the planet.

   Synonyms

   outer space, deep space, the universe, the cosmos, the galaxy, the solar system, infinity
2. 2.2 The near-vacuum extending between the planets and stars, containing small amounts of gas and dust.
   （行星和恒星之间，只含少量气体和灰尘的、近乎真空的）空间
   Example sentencesExamples

   • Today I announce a new plan to explore space and extend a human presence across our solar system.
   • Most newly discovered comets seem to originate from an area in space known as the Oort cloud, named after Dutch astronomer Jan Oort.
   • Morin remained firmly convinced that the Earth was fixed in space.
   • She finds the study of space, physics and the origin and faiths of the universe fascinating.
   • There could be a lot more space beyond that and there could even be other Big Bangs apart from the ones of which we are the aftermath.
   • An asteroid tears through space heading towards the fourth planet from the sun: Mars.
   • The growth process is slower in space than on earth, which could lead to a higher quality crystal growth process.
   • Experts agree that the rate at which the Earth travels through space has slowed ever so slightly for millennia.
   • It has a thick chemical rich atmosphere that extends more than three times as far into space as Earth's.
   • It will also test the theory that the Earth drags space along with it as it spins
   • Just about anyone who has ever looked up at the stars has wondered if space goes on forever, or if perhaps it ends somewhere.
   • A lunar eclipse occurs when the moon passes into the earth's shadow in space.
   • He drew a map of the world as it was then known and calculated the angle of tilt of the earth in space.
   • Sunlight vaporizes the ice, opening fissures which spew gas and dust into space.
   • Any rocks - like asteroids, or bits of other planets blown into space by volcanoes - are more likely to hit us than the moon.
   • With Sun and Moon aligned on either side of the Earth, the Moon passes through the shadow projected by the Earth into space.
   • Beyond the window, space stretched out to infinity, looking coldly back at them.
   • Now we're looking for extrasolar planets, space still has the capacity to make me excited.
   • Radiation from the Big Bang fireball has been travelling across the universe, cooling as space expands, they say.
3. 2.3Mathematics A mathematical concept generally regarded as a set of points having some specified structure.
   〔数〕空间
   Example sentencesExamples

   • He worked on conjugate functions in multidimensional euclidean space and the theory of functions of a complex variable.
   • Up to this stage quantum theory was set up in Euclidean space and used Cartesian tensors of linear and angular momentum.
   • The maths syllabus covers algebra, shape and space, mental arithmetic, handling data and measures.
   • Our interest is in the space of affine equivalence classes of equal-area polygons.
   • However he continued to work on topological ideas, in particular embedding complexes in Euclidean space.

3An interval of time (often used to suggest that the time is short considering what has happened or been achieved in it)

他俩的车在三天时间里都被偷了。

4The portion of a text or document available or needed to write about a subject.

没有篇幅叙述更多的细节了。

1. 4.1 Pages in a newspaper or magazine, or time between television or radio programmes, available for advertising.
   （报纸的）广告专页；（电视、广播节目间的）广告插播时间
   it is the media person's job to buy the press space or the TV or radio spots

   Example sentencesExamples

   • The biggest purchasers of advertising space are not expanding companies but recruitment agencies.
   • But to me it seemed no different from a publisher paying for advertisement space in a newspaper.
   • Could it be that scandal and gore sells papers and advertising space on TV and radio?
   • The third tactic is the purchasing of broadcast time and advertising space from existing independent media.
   • Labor's spokesman has added up the cost of buying that much space in the papers.
   • He buys ad space in newspapers to press his case, but the committee is hanging tough.
   • It was always a mystery why cash flow was so poor, given that he openly sold editorial as well as advertising space.
   • She then got a job in telesales selling advertising space for newspapers and airtime for radio, and discovered her vocation.
   • He is under no pressure to disclose circulation figures, given that he is not selling space to advertisers.
   • Games of other sorts take up three or four pages of advertising space in the local free weeklies.
   • The majority of revenue comes from selling advertising space on the radio stations.
   • Such swings make headlines, selling newspapers and advertising space.
   • The new title began selling advertising space cheaply, eating into the revenues from the other titles.
2. 4.2 Capacity for storage of data in a computer or other digital device.
   additional disk space is required for the database operation

   delete songs from your iPod should you start running out of space

5The freedom to live, think, and develop in a way that suits one.

青少年需要自己的空间。

6Telecommunications
One of two possible states of a signal in certain systems.

1with object Position (two or more items) at a distance from one another.

那些房子相互之间都有距离。

1. 1.1 (in printing or writing) put blanks between (words, letters, or lines).
   （印刷或书写中）在（词语，字母，行）之间加空格
   Example sentencesExamples

   • The length of each copy is represented by the closely spaced horizontal lines.
   • Thus, the basic letter forms and spacing for a word printed with or without diacritics remain unchanged.
   • There were eleven perfectly straight, evenly spaced lines drawn on another blackboard.
   • I notice US covers use more serifs and more covers have titles with lots of letter spacing.
   • It was addressed to her in large fancy letters evenly spaced and formed.
   • With print design, we have precise control over spacing between letters, words and lines of text.
   • There are many ways to go about spacing typefaces and this isn't meant to be definitive.
   • Now, it may seem odd to focus on letter spacing, but it's been a holy grail of the printing industries since the beginning.
   • They are several printing / spacing errors and the index of the book is not very accurate and far from complete.
   • Adjustments that are possible include changes to colours, background, text sizes, line spacing and fonts.
   • Why is it that when you edit a post, the line spacing goes weird?
   • The body of the manuscript must be double spaced, and margins should be at least one inch all around.
   • Hmmm, I did not mess up the line spacing between the dialogues, but if it makes it hard to read, I will fix it.
   • Use permanent markers to avoid smudging, and place a sheet of ruled paper underneath so that the writing is evenly spaced.
   • To do that, I had to measure the old type and match font, body size, leading, and letter spacing exactly.
   • It was double spaced and under some of the black inked writing was writing in red.

2be spaced out" or "space outinformal Be or become euphoric or unaware of one's surroundings, especially from taking drugs.

我太累了，开始感到完全迷糊了。

有几分钟我感到有点儿昏昏沉沉的。