1A container with a flat base and sides, typically square or rectangular and having a lid.

香烟盒。

帽匣。

1. 1.1 The contents of a box.
   一箱（或一盒、一匣的）容量
   she ate a whole box of chocolates that night

   那晚她吃了整整一盒巧克力。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • I am fairly certain that cold medication was developed for moms who need to make it through the day without collapsing into a box of tissues.
   • But you have to be a real wizard in the kitchen to be able to turn a box of random ingredients into a meal that would not feel out of place at a fancy restaurant.
   • When I was a kid there would always be a box of glacé fruit at Christmas which largely remained uneaten and which I would not have touched in a million years.
   • How is it one careless match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box to start a campfire?
   • A box of wafers is demolished, down to the crumbs at the bottom of the wax liner, which are shaken out and inhaled.
   • Seb crossed his legs and gave me a contented smile, taking a handful of MY box of cheesy snacks.
   • Instead, I'm going to sit here and work my way through our box of 64 granola bars.
   • We have a stock of drinking water, washing water, a box of tinned food, biscuits, crisps, chocolates, we certainly won't go hungry.
   • I just ate a box of sweets and feel really quite sick.
   • We aren't content with one box of fresh berries, or one balmy day in the garden, or one vacation sometime later.
   • When we think of traditional food, some folks get a vision of a big bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken and a family box of fries.
   • The reason I hadn't finished this particular box of cornflakes was because my mum had recently replenished it with the contents of a new box.
   • I can't just go around frivolously spending my hard earned cash on boxes of cookies, to support an organization that has nothing to do with me.
   • But before I went to the party, I had to get rid of two boxes of Green Party pamphlets.
   • Macaroni is my favorite meal but I can't eat a whole box!
   • I plan to auction off the cards, as I have over half a box of them left.
   • If someone hands you a box of chocolates and you graciously take one into your mouth and you realize you hate the flavor, what do you do?
   • A gloved hand slammed merrily on a wooden table, shaking the contents on it and clattering a box of various tools to the floor.
   • We were given a box of mystery ingredients and had to come up with something in five minutes.
   • This patch of earth has yielded around 20 boxes of finds as each layer of the dig took the investigators deeper and deeper into the town's past with some fascinating results.
2. 1.2the boxBritish informal Television or a television set.
   〈非正式，主英〉电视（或电视接收机）
   we sat around watching the box

   我们坐在电视机前观看比赛。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Like millions of others in the affluent West, I have spent much of the last month glued to the box, watching as the world hurtled out of control.
   • Most people have busy and/or fulfilled lives, and lack the time or inclination to follow closely every sport on the box.
   • The sun was shining outside but the sports offerings on the box were simply too good to pass up.
   • As predicted I stayed home Friday night, kicked back and watched all manner of light entertainment on the box.
   • Watch it on the box when it's hopefully been distilled into something worth watching.
   • She merely sat curled up on the sofa, the remote for the large screen television in hand, and watched the box quietly, waiting for her friend to arise.
   • but all I really did as a kid was play in the street and watch the box.
3. 1.3informal A casing containing a computer.
   〈非正式〉电脑外壳
   the new model is half the cost of an equivalent IBM box

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Over here, we have the dead power supply which came out of our box, and over here we have the replacement power supply.
   • It does nothing except copy a bit of code and has no effect until the box is re-started.
   • Unplugging and plugging back in the box didn't do anything either.
   • As we've seen before, tweaking your memory times would be a good idea to get the most out of your box.
   • You don't always need to have the latest and greatest hardware (but it helps) to get the most out of your box.
4. 1.4informal A coffin.
   〈非正式〉棺材
   I always thought I'd be in a box when I finally left here

   那时我常想，当我最后离开这里时，我可能已进棺材了。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • It began look like I was the product of some genetic experiment involving something kept in 3 coffin shaped boxes.
   • They stand up, slowly, then pace their dispassionate bodies toward those two coffins, coffin-like boxes.
5. 1.5historical A coachman's seat.
   〈史〉（马车的）驭者座

2An area on a page that is to be filled in or that contains separate printed matter.

在订货单的方框里打钩。

1. 2.1 An area on a computer screen for user input or displaying information.
   电脑屏幕上的用户输入区（或信息显示区）
   a new box appears containing the names of all the programs which are opened

   Example sentencesExamples

   • The bug created a means for hackers to inject malware into vulnerable Windows boxes providing a user can be induced into viewing a maliciously constructed image.
   • It has a slider along its bottom edge, which can be used to scroll icons left and right if there are more icons than can be displayed in the box.
   • The computer made a sickly beeping sound and a box popped onto the screen.
   • I didn't check the others, but the Opteron box was displaying a generic screensaver over a locked console.
   • You can move maps and informational boxes around with ease.
   • No Linux port can run on that system unless the user opens up the box and makes alterations to the hardware.
   • It's easy to overlook the relevant box and users can easily end up with a listing they really don't want.
   • Alerts appeared on the screen, little boxes with red writing warning me of the presence of malware.
   • Double-clicking on the directory brings the user to the Linux box with the test data, without realizing it.
   • Immediately a small box appeared on the screen requesting a password.
   • I've got a complex Javascript form which assembles a search string from information the user has typed into various input boxes.
   • This landing page draws attention to the auction information boxes.
   • Participants were asked to guess which of four identical boxes appearing on the screen had been selected by the computer.
   • One at a time, x's start to appear in the boxes on the screen, and you are told that every time this happens you are to push the key corresponding to the box.
   • In much of Europe, there is an ‘opt-in’ policy, so a visitor will have to actively click a box to say that information can be used.
   • Leonti stared at the information box displayed on the main monitor of the Sestuan.
   • Onscreen wizards guide you through the trickier tasks and hint boxes appear each time you try something new.
   • For example, users can type queries directly into the search box on the TrustWatch toolbar.
   • Six boxes appear on the computer screen, each of which contains a different shape designed to be difficult to describe in words.
   • Your password is a phrase which can be as long as you like, although the box displays about 70-odd characters at a time.
2. 2.2British A box junction.
   （遇红灯时车辆不得驶入的）路口方形黄线区
   do not enter the box until your exit is clear

   Example sentencesExamples

   • The green cycle lanes and advance stop boxes at traffic lights across the city make life safer for cyclists and could well be saving lives, but accidents that don't happen don't get into the press.
   • They'll buy this car because it's cheap, and as a result of that, they're going to be tearing around Britain's yellow boxes and bus lanes in a genuinely very good little car.
   • At every set of traffic lights on the way queuing drivers blocked the cycle lanes and priority boxes.
3. 2.3the boxSoccer The penalty area.
   〔英足〕罚球区
   he curled in a brilliant second from the edge of the box

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Goal raids were frantic and the keepers were kept busy as the balls shot into the box and past the bars regularly.
   • Clydebank almost grabbed the lead in the 31st minute when their trialist wriggled free in the box, but he shot inches wide of the near post.
   • Dargo, lurking in front of goal, couldn't make a clean connection, but the ball spun behind him to Murray on the left-hand side of the box.
   • Meehan could only blast over from the left hand side of the box after Ferguson slid a precision pass through to him.
   • He carried the ball at pace from halfway towards the box before cracking a right-foot shot from 20 yards out.
   • The Hearts captain, in possession, tried to check his run in the box and was bumped over by his pursuer.
   • Amoruso rose to meet a Ricksen corner and the ball broke in the six-yard box and Flo smacked it into the net for his 21st of the season.
   • In the 88th he appeared on the other side of the box and fired in another shot, the one that was deflected into the arms of the goalkeeper.
4. 2.4the box" or "the batter's boxBaseball The area occupied by the batter.
   〔棒球〕击球手所在的区
   ten thousand people booed him when he stepped into the box

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Rice promptly pulled out his tape measure and measured the proper outline of the batter's box.
   • With Edmonds on first base, McGwire started to move from the on-deck circle to the batter's box.
   • It was there when things began to click and the move to the batter's box began to pay dividends.
   • He added to his reputation by telling all that he would hit his mother with a pitch if she walked into the batter's box.
   • He'll never be a star defensively or on the base paths, so his value will come when he's in the batter's box.
   • He will be in the batter's box facing Major League pitching every fifth day.
   • As Podsednik stepped into the batter's box, my friend asked me if I knew anything about the guy.
   • Make no doubt, it's stressful in that batter's box, never more so than when you've just looked at strike two.
   • As a batter steps into the box, Vin tells you where he comes from, what his mother and father do, or what he likes to read.
   • Moreno stood in the batter's box and watched the play along with the 19,517 fans in attendance.
   • He felt a twinge underneath the bone while pushing off out of the batter's box and running to first.
   • If he does, the umpire will merely direct the proper batter to take his place in the batter's box while inheriting the count.
   • What is clear is that as a result the batter's box was obliterated.
   • This leaves the umpire in a position of judgment as to whether or not the batter is properly in the box at least six inches away from home plate.
   • I want to stand in the same batter's box where Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig stood.
   • He inexplicably carried the ball out of the box, dropped it and retrieved it with his hand.
   • The umpire called him out for stepping out of the batter's box.
   • His world may be a mess, but the one place he can control things is in the batter's box.
   • Carew was so prepared by the time he stepped in the batter's box that many pitchers never stood a chance.

3A separate section or enclosed area reserved for a group of people in a theatre or sports ground, or for witnesses or the jury in a law court.

皇室包厢。

1. 3.1British A small country house for use when shooting or fishing.
   〈英〉（狩猎或捕鱼时住的）乡间小屋
   Example sentencesExamples

   • The fishing behind the boxes has slowed down considerably due to the havoc caused by the seals that come into the Ridge Pool with the high tide.
   • Available at furniture, storage supply, or home stores, these boxes come with open shelves, doors, or drawers.
   • Ahern was instrumental in retaining a much reduced Irish fishing box, much to the disgust of the Spanish.

4A protective casing for a piece of a mechanism.

1. 4.1informal
   short for gearbox

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Most people assume the higher the horsepower rating on the box, the better the air compressor.
   • It's fun, it puts you back in control but you're still left longing for a manual box for the country roads.
   • The gear ratios of the five-speed box are well spaced and the shifting is smooth.
   • Bungee cords hold the stereo box to the dash, a pair of gloves and a folded shirt serve as shock absorbers between the box and the dash.
   • Simply plant the accelerator, try to keep pace with the gearchanges in the six-speed box and soak up the noise.
   • Ford's excellent five-speed Tiptronic auto box also works well, ensuring smooth gearchanges and a suitably speedy kickdown.
   • Drop it down to second with some clunking from the sequential box, the revs rise, press the pedal to the floor and the world blurs.
2. 4.2British A light shield for protecting a man's genitals in sport, especially in cricket.
   〈英〉（尤指板球运动员使用的）下体护身
   Example sentencesExamples

   • But afterwards they padded me back up and pushed me out the door again - only to discover that they hadn't put my box or thigh-pad back on!
   • As we were getting changed, I noticed some of my new team-mates were putting on what looked like cricket boxes.
   • I realise that Thailand is not a cricketing nation, but wonder if protective boxes are available in Pattaya.
   • He wonders why European sportsmen don't wear boxes to protect themselves from such painful eventualities, when Americans are so keen on them.
   • Cricket boxes, shin pads, and gloves are all examples of equipment that should be worn to prevent injury.

5A facility at a newspaper office for receiving replies to an advertisement.

来信请寄112信箱转。

1. 5.1 A facility at a post office whereby letters are kept until called for by the addressee.
   （用户从邮局租用的）个人专用信箱
   Example sentencesExamples

   • She got a post-office box for her business to keep her home address private.
   • Customers will still have to wait for these boxes - possibly until mid-year, said Sun's chief marketing officer Anil Gadre.
   • The postman leaves the place mechanically dropping the letters into the boxes, which are collected by the residents leisurely, sometimes a day or two later.
   • After Paige went in her room, Emily looked at the box and saw a letter with her name on it.
   • The Company's mailing address was a postal box near Mr. Hermitt's home.
   • I know this because Abel and Cole always send a little letter with their boxes which tells me where everything has come from and how the farmers are getting on.
   • They scanned rows of boxes until they found what they were looking for.
   • This may mean renting a post-office box without the patient's knowledge.
   • Residents are being urged to help the fight against crime the next time they send a letter with the introduction of police crime boxes in post offices.
   • Also in the box were some letters for Chris which had come to me by mistake.
   • They spent all day sponging blood and ink from the floor, sorting letters into their boxes, sweeping.
   • He said adding boxes by enlarging the post office building is not feasible because of the costs of renovating the structure.
   • Ayako rushed down the aisles of little boxes until she reached box 884.
   • Upon my return from Hobart, I was excited to have the Collingwood FC letter in the box.
   • So, the mailman too was an Arcadian, or at least paid off to do that and put the letter inside of the box.
   • The Hope post office is staffed only 4 hours a day, but the lobby doors are unlocked around the clock so that residents can access their post-office boxes.
   • She tells him the name of a real ship and says his father is a sailor, even writing letters from this imaginary dad and sending them via a post-office box.

6North American vulgar slang A woman's vagina.

1often as adjective boxedPut in or provide with a box.

这些书是连盒成套出售的。

穆里尔把克里斯托弗所有的衣服都装进箱子里了。

1. 1.1 Enclose (a piece of text) within printed lines.
   加框于，加花边于
   boxed sections in magazines

   杂志上的花边文章。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Procedures relating to topics within the chapter are boxed in and numbered so that the reader can quickly recognize them.
   • It is visually appealing, with cartoons, bulleted checklists, and boxed exercises breaking up short chunks of text.
   • The Walker A, Walker B, and ABC signatures are boxed.
   • Cis-regulatory elements described in the text are boxed.
   • Conserved sequence motifs are in boldface type and boxed with a solid line.
   • These repeated words are boxed by a thin line in the alignment on the web page.
2. 1.2box someone in Restrict the ability of (a person or vehicle) to move freely.
   堵住，困住
   a van had double-parked alongside her car and totally boxed her in

   一辆货车双行停在她的汽车旁，将她困住。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • The Ferrari then pulled in close in front of him, braking, while the Mercedes drew close behind, boxing him in.
   • Mr Reed said the other man stayed in the car but two members of the public used their vehicles to box him in.
   • But the company's application to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister for six road closures has angered some residents who fear they will be boxed in.
   • It almost made him claustrophobic, having cars on either side boxing him in, the only way out behind him or in front of him.
   • To the redundant question of asking to define his style Doucet replied that ‘a style boxes you in [a painfully true statement in today's music scene] and I'm a happy student of all things combined.’
   • Four years later, in Sydney, Ainslie returned the favor, boxing Scheidt in on the first upwind leg and then hanging on for the overall victory.
   • ‘I think people are always trying to box you in, and I always tell my students that there is no such thing as talent, that you can learn to do anything,’ he says.
   • If someone is here just to recruit students of color, it kind of boxes them in.
   • Never underestimate him, never try to box him in.
   • If Canadians don't start thinking outside the box for themselves, they will be boxed in permanently.
   • Carter eventually stopped his vehicle in the slow lane after police boxed him in.
   • He has boxed us in to a situation where our only solution to our go-it-alone policy might well be forced conscription of our young people, and I'm against it.
   • ‘'Her trainer came out and had to help her get past them so she could get into her car,’ a source told the Daily News. ‘Then they boxed her in on all four sides.'
   • There's something about singing the part of an angel, or singing soubrette roles in opera, that categorises you and boxes you in, and I don't enjoy that very much when it happens.
   • However, over two furlongs out it looked as though Pat Eddery had the four-year-old in trouble as he was boxed in behind early leader Zaajer, seemingly with nowhere to go.
   • Fear is the dominant weapon the establishment uses, to isolate people, box them in and keep them quiet.
   • Apparently all the cars behind Mom and Dad were pulling out and passing our little caravan, thereby boxing Buddy in.
   • They tried to box her in, but she moved too quickly.
   • I tried to push my way out and run but I was boxed in by the others.
   • There was nowhere to move but forward, and the walls boxed me in like I was freight to be taken away.

   Synonyms

   hem in, fence in, close in, cage in, shut in, coop up, mew up

   trap, confine, kettle, restrain, constrain, imprison, intern, hold captive

   surround, enclose, encircle, circle, ring, encompass

   North American corral

   rare compass

2box sheep upAustralian NZ Mix up different flocks.

Fight an opponent using one's fists; compete in the sport of boxing.

他代表英格兰参加拳击比赛。

他不得不与本争夺拳击比赛冠军。

A slap with the hand on the side of a person's head.

她打了他一耳光。

1A slow-growing European evergreen shrub or small tree with small glossy dark green leaves. It is widely used in hedging and for topiary, and yields hard, heavy timber.

Buxus sempervirens, family Buxaceae

1. 1.1 The hard, heavy wood of the box tree, formerly used for engraving and for musical instruments.
   Example sentencesExamples

   • The mechanism is almost entirely made of wood, with the movement, frame and wheels in oak, the pendulum in mahogany, and the spindles and pinions in boxwood.
   • I've bumped into buckets of boxwood, magnolia and holly conditioning in water in the cool pantry before she packed them into an enormous welcoming wreath on the front door.
   • Rosewood rather than boxwood was used for the single boxing, and the iron was produced by the Humphreysville Manufacturing Company.
   • He once confessed to owning the prized possessions of a superb board of bird's-eye maple and Moluccan ebony, edged in sycamore, an 1871 boxwood and ebony Staunton set, plus a chess clock by Grant's of Stamford.
   • It is unlikely that he would have had room for boxwood from South America, even as ballast, but he might well have bought walrus ivory to sell to rulemakers.
   • Well, some of them have sulphur as their base compound, they're known as thials and they give smells as various as boxwood or a cat's aroma, right through to passionfruit, grapefruit and the like.
   • This choice of materials allows us to also enjoy these measuring instruments as visual objects as well - artifacts beautifully made of fine materials such as boxwood, brass, ivory, and German silver.
   • The hardwoods he mentions-box, cocoa - are probably short for boxwood and cocobolo.
   • Because boxwood is so dense and the logs so irregular, the logs were likely handsawn with a thin blade and were probably not sawn in the up-and-down sawmill, which would create a lot of waste of this expensive wood.
   • There was an Italian grapevine roof, a French parterre of boxwood, lobelia, and shiny black coal, and oak columns recently dredged from Boston Harbor garlanded with a ship's hawser and clematis.
   • There are 34 full-color photographs of beautiful gages made of ebony, rosewood, boxwood, mahogany, cherry, applewood, whalebone, ivory etc.
   • Famous in his lifetime and ever since, Bewick was a great miniaturist, and his ability to conjure acutely observed images of his native county out of blocks of boxwood can seem almost miraculous.
   • The Stanley Company began making rules in 1850, when Augustus Stanley founded A. Stanley & Co. to manufacture boxwood and ivory rules.
   • The shaft is made of charcoal anodised aluminium, inlaid with indigenous dark kershout (candle wood) and light boxwood.
   • Netsuke were fashioned from exquisitely carved ivory, horn, amber, or boxwood and sometimes embellished with gold or silver.
   • Once in a while the really dense woods, such as boxwood and ebony can fool me, and I really have to work hard to tell the difference between Madasgar and Honduras rosewood.
   • Equally intriguing is Shichifukujin, a netsuke of a peach carved out of boxwood that opens to reveal the stone inside.
   • The most common was boxwood with brass trim.
   • The cross piece should be pearwood or boxwood for strong external threading, but again white oak is acceptable.
   • The models were built with consummate skill, and created a fabulous confection of boxwood, brass, bone, ebony, gold leaf and painted details in the typical naval colours of Prussian blue and Venetian red.

2Any of a number of trees that have wood or foliage similar to the box tree.

several Australian eucalyptus trees (genus Eucalyptus, family Myrtaceae).

the tropical American Venezuelan or West Indian box (Casearia praecox, family Flacourtiaceae), the timber of which has now largely replaced that of the European box.

1Recite the compass points in correct order.

2Make a complete change of direction.