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open-line

/oh-puhn-lahyn/US // ˈoʊ pənˌlaɪn //

开线,开放线,开放式线路,开放式线

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : maintaining open telephone lines to permit listeners or viewers to phone a program with comments, questions, requests, etc.; call-in.

Examples

  • Domestically, the prime minister maintains the dubious line that he is the only man who can keep the still-fragile peace.

  • When it became too crowded, they moved her into an open casket on the street.

  • Last week I turned 40, a bittersweet occasion because I crossed the line to living longer without my mother than with her.

  • Now it can't open on my phone due to what appears to be software incompatibility.

  • Completed in 1953 and composed with standard line breaks and punctuation, the book was completely ignored upon submission.

  • Then there was Wee Wo,—he was a little Chinese chap, and we used to send him down the chimneys to open front doors for us.

  • Let them open their minds to us, let them put upon permanent record the significance of all their intrigues and manœuvres.

  • In this position, the line of cavalry formed the chord of the arc described by the river, and occupied by us.

  • The doors (Indian bungalows have hardly any windows, each door being half glass) were open front and back.

  • It was close upon twelve o'clock, and the "Rooms" had been open to the public for two hours.