| 单词 | wire |
| 释义 | wire wire // noun, verb
■ noun
1 [U,C] metal in the form of a thin thread
2 [U,C] a piece of wire that is used to carry an electric current or signal: telephone wires
3 ( the system of sending messages by telegram; a telegraph IDIOMS go, come, etc. (right) down to the wire ( if you say that a situation goes down to the wire, you mean that the result will not be decided or known until the very end: The pay negotiations went down to the wire, and a strike was narrowly avoided. PULL verb ■ verb [+ obj] 1 wire sth (up) to connect a building, a piece of equipment, etc. to an electricity supply using wires: The fire was caused by a wrongly wired plug. 2 wire sb/sth (up) (to sth) to connect sb/sth to a piece of equipment, especially a computer system: The government is aiming for all schools to be wired up to the Internet within five years. 3 wire sth (to sb) | wire sb sth to send money from one bank to another using an electronic system: We will wire the money to you today. 4 (AmE) ( to send sb a telegram |
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