blackouts

英 [ˈblækaʊts]

美 [ˈblæˌkaʊts]

n.  断电; 停电; 新闻封锁; 灯火管制(期)
blackout的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT （战时）灯火管制期
  Ablackoutis a period of time during a war in which towns and buildings are made dark so that they cannot be seen by enemy planes.
  1. ...blackout curtains.
     遮光幕帘
• N-COUNT （新闻等的）禁播，封锁，禁止出版
  If ablackoutis imposed on a particular piece of news, journalists are prevented from broadcasting or publishing it.
  1. ...a media blackout imposed by the Imperial Palace...
     皇宫施行的新闻封锁
  2. Journalists said there was a virtual news blackout about the rally.
     记者们说有关这场集会的新闻实际上被封锁了。
• N-COUNT 停电；断电
  If there is a powerblackout, the electricity supply to a place is temporarily cut off.
  1. There was an electricity black-out in a large area in the north of the country.
     该国北部大片地区断电。
• N-COUNT 晕厥；暂时昏迷
  If you have ablackout, you temporarily lose consciousness.
  1. I suffered a black-out which lasted for several minutes.
     我昏迷了几分钟。

双语例句

• Nobody familiar with the power grid expects blackouts to disappear entirely.
  熟习电力输送网的专家都不认为停电会完全消失。
• The project will enable the country to overcome frequent power shortages and blackouts, and has raised hopes of national recovery following years of bitter conflict, Mazzei says.
  该项目还将有助于塞拉利昂解决经常性电力短缺和停电问题，为该国在多年的惨烈冲突之后实现复苏带来了希望，Mazzei说。
• Electricity blackouts and water shortages caused by fire and flood and affecting hundreds of thousands of households and businesses have compounded the chaos.
  火灾与洪水造成的停电和缺水，影响到数十万家庭和企业，这造成了更大的混乱。
• The tremor caused widespread blackouts in affected areas.
  该震动导致受灾地区大范围停电。
• They can't remember something or they have some sort of blackouts and so on.
  他们不能够记住某些东西或者他们有某类停滞等等。
• The blackouts didn't have any effect on the prison operations.
  停电对监狱没有任何影响。
• Nikon notes that it is evaluating how the facility damage and rolling blackouts will affect its business.
  尼康指出，它正在评估如何设施损失和轮流停电会影响其业务。
• I suffer from rage blackouts.
  我有时候控制不了自己的情绪的。
• But recently, successive power blackouts of large scale occurred in the world, result in a great loss, which attracts researchers attention to the reliability of power grid.
  但是由于近年来世界范围内大停电事故频频发生，带来了巨大损失，因此，引起了科学界对电网的研究热潮。
• A massive power outage has caused blackouts in the US states of California and Arizona, and in Mexico.
  美国加利福尼亚州、亚利桑那州和墨西哥发生大面积停电事故。