【centimetre】 - A-level备考词汇

centimetre

UK:  ['sentɪ.miːtə(r)]

US:  ['sentɪ.mitər]

复数：centimetres  

n.

1.厘米,公分

1 . With your hands, or a rolling pin, roll each into a long oval shape, about half a centimetre, or a quarter of an inch thick.
用手或用擀面杖，将每个面球擀成长的椭圆形，大概半公分或者四分之一英寸厚。

2 . Quite often it is found that in an apparently uniform piece of rock the thermal conductivity differs from centimetre to centimetre .
一块看来很均匀的岩石试件，却经常发现它每一厘米的热导率都不一样。

3 . Almost silently she pushed herself forwards centimetre by centimetre in her black, skin-tight, custom made outfit.
几乎默默耕耘，她把自己前锋厘米，由厘米在她的黑色，皮肤紧绌，定制服装。

4 . Indeed, it seems every square centimetre of the National Portrait Gallery is under some form of copyright.
事实上，国家肖像馆的每一个角落似乎都拥有版权。

5 . German schoolgirl Annika Irmler has licked her way into the Guinness Book of Records with her whopping seven centimetre tongue.
德国女学生安妮卡·埃姆勒用她7厘米长的大舌头把自己“舔”进了《吉尼斯世界纪录》。