dots

英 [dɒts]

美 [dɑːts]

n.  点; 小点; 小圆点; 点(用以分隔域名、统一资源地址、电子邮件地址的组成部分)
v.  在(字母上方、字母或单词旁边)加点; 星罗棋布于; 遍布; 布满; 点缀
dot的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• 点;小点;小圆点
  Adotis a very small round mark, for example one that is used as the top part of the letter 'i', as a full stop, or as a decimal point.
• N-COUNT (因距离远而看起来)似小点之物，点状物
  You can refer to something that you can see in the distance and that looks like a small round mark as adot.
  1. Soon they were only dots above the hard line of the horizon.
     很快他们就成了地平线上的几个小点了。
• VERB 散布于;星罗棋布于;遍布
  When thingsdota place or an area, they are scattered or spread all over it.
  1. Small coastal towns dot the landscape.
     这一地区滨海小镇星罗棋布。
• See also:dottedpolka dots
• PHRASE 准时地;按指定时间
  If you arrive somewhere or do somethingon the dot, you arrive there or do it at exactly the time that you were supposed to.
  1. They appeared on the dot of 9.50 pm as always...
     他们和往常一样在晚上9点50分准时出现。
  2. At nine o' clock on the dot, they have breakfast.
     他们在 9 点钟准时吃早饭。
• (在耗时且无关紧要的事情上)一丝不苟，注重细节
  If you say that someonedotsthei's and crossesthet's, you mean that they pay great attention to every small detail in a task; often used to express your annoyance because such detailed work seems unnecessary and takes a very long time.
• PHRASE 很久以前
  The year dotis used to mean a very long time ago.
  1. You've wanted to be a barrister since the year dot.
     很久以前你就一直想成为一名辩护律师了。

双语例句

• Soon they were only dots above the hard line of the horizon.
  很快他们就成了地平线上的几个小点了。
• Control to display text as stars or dots.
  控件以将文本显示为星号或点。
• Andreev Conductance and Spin Current in Quantum Dots
  量子点中的Andreev电导和自旋流
• There are dots of soot on the windowsill.
  窗台上有一点烟灰。
• A point system of writing in which patterns of raised dots represent letters and numerals.
  一种点字体以凸起的点表示字母和数字的书写模式。
• The image is then stored on the computer hard disk as a vast array of black or white dots.
  这幅图像当时就以大量黑点或白点排列的形式被存入电脑硬盘。
• In this "night writing," he used a system of dots and dashes.
  在“夜书”中，他使用了一套圆孔和凹痕系统。
• USA can be written with dots or without.
  写usa时，可以加点，也可以不加。
• This led to a fast increasing number of metaloxide nanoparticles of quantum dots.
  这导致越来越多的快速金属氧化物纳米粒子的量子点。
• Dots on the three lowest rungs would indicate that the system possesses no internal energy.
  圆点在三个最低梯级上，就表示这个系统没有内能。