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1. N-COUNT A bar is a place where you can buy and drink alcoholic drinks. 酒吧[美国英语]

...Devil's Herd, the city's most popular country and western bar. …“魔鬼群”，全城最受欢迎的西部乡村酒吧。

2. →see also snack bar , wine bar

3. N-COUNT A bar is a room in a hotel or other establishment where alcoholic drinks are served. (旅馆等的) 酒吧间

Last night in the hotel there was some talk in the bar about drugs. 昨天晚上，在旅馆的酒吧间里有人说起毒品了。

4. N-COUNT A bar is a counter on which alcoholic drinks are served. 吧台

Michael was standing alone by the bar when Brian rejoined him. 布赖恩回来的时候，迈克尔正独自站在吧台旁。

5. N-COUNT A bar is a long, straight, stiff piece of metal. (金属)棒

...a brick building with bars across the ground floor windows. …底楼窗户有铁栅穿过的一座砖楼。

6. PHRASE If you say that someone is behind bars, you mean that they are in prison. 在狱中的

Fisher was behind bars last night, charged with attempted murder. 由于被指控犯有谋杀未遂罪，费希尔昨晚进了监狱。

7. N-COUNT A bar of something is a piece of it which is roughly rectangular. (长方形的) 条

What is your favourite chocolate bar?

你最喜爱的巧克力棒是什么？

8. V-T If you bar a door, you place something in front of it or a piece of wood or metal across it in order to prevent it from being opened. 闩 (门)

For added safety, bar the door to the kitchen. 为了更加安全，把厨房的门闩上。

9. V-T If you bar someone's way, you prevent them from going somewhere or entering a place, by blocking their path. 挡 (路)

Harry moved to bar his way. 哈里挪过去挡住了他的路。

10. V-T If someone is barred from a place or from doing something, they are officially forbidden to go there or to do it. 禁止[usu passive]

Amnesty workers have been barred from the country since 1982. 自1982年以来特赦的工人被禁止进入该国。

11. N-COUNT If something is a bar to doing a particular thing, it prevents someone from doing it. 障碍

One of the fundamental bars to communication is the lack of a universally spoken, common language. 沟通的根本障碍之一就是缺乏一种通用的共同语言。

12. PREP You can use bar when you mean "except." For example, all the work bar the laundry means all the work except the laundry. 除…外[英国英语]

Bar a plateau in 1989, there has been a rise in inflation ever since the mid-1980s. 自20世纪80年代中期以来，除了1989年稳定之外，通货膨胀一直在增长。

13. →see also barring

14. N-SING Thebar is used to refer to the profession of any kind of lawyer in the United States, or of a barrister in England. 律师职业[oft N n]

Less than a quarter of graduates from the law school pass the bar exam on the first try. 不到1/4的法学院毕业生能一次就通过律师考试。

15. N-COUNT In music, a bar is one of the several short parts of the same length into which a piece of music is divided. (音乐的) 小节

She sat down at the piano and played a few bars of a Chopin Polonaise. 她坐在钢琴边弹奏了肖邦的波洛奈兹舞曲的几个小节。

16. N-COUNT a cgs unit of pressure equal to 106 dynes per square centimetre. 1 bar is equivalent to 105 newtons per square metre 巴(压强单位)

17. N-COUNT immunity from being caught or otherwise penalized in a game (法律上或比赛中的)豁免权[Southwest English] [DIALECT]