【checkmate】 - SAT备考词汇

checkmate

UK:  [ˌtʃek'meɪt]

复数：checkmates  现在分词：checkmating  过去分词：checkmated  

v.

1.【游】(象棋)将军;困死

2.打败,击破;(使)失败,(使受)挫折

n.

1.【游】(象棋)将军;困死

2.打败,击破;失败,挫折

1 . I study the board, and it occurs to me that Clare could checkmate me if she took my bishop with her knight.
我看了看棋盘，突然想到，克莱尔可以用她的骑士来将我的主教。

2 . Now the president has won the first of those matches with an audacious checkmate snatched from a seemingly hopeless position.
如今，奥巴马大胆地将军，从看上去毫无胜算的局面中破釜沉舟取得了其中一场比赛的胜利。

3 . Scattered throughout the world. When you have them all in hand, checkmate is possible, the pale royals may be of use.
在世界各处散布，当妳涨我它们的全部的时候，围攻是可能的，灰白的王族可能有用。

4 . promised to intensify its efforts to fight click fraud as part of a settlement with CheckMate, a fraud-detection firm.
6月作为联合名为查柯曼特的欺诈侦察公司解决之道的一部分，雅虎承诺加大打击点击欺诈的力度。

5 . Abbr. K, k. The principal chess piece, which can move one square in any direction and must be protected against checkmate.
缩写K，k。王：象棋中主的棋子，向任何方向移动一个方格，但必须保护它不被将死。