elbow room
柯林斯詞典
1. N-UNCOUNT Elbow room is the freedom to do what you want to do or need to do in a particular situation. (在某種情況下做想做某事或必須做某事的)自由度[非正式]
His speech was designed to give himself more political elbow room. 他的縯講旨在爲(wèi)自己爭(zhēng)取更大的政治自由度。
2. N-UNCOUNT If there is enough elbow room in a place or vehicle, it is not too small or too crowded. 活動(dòng)空間[非正式]
There was not much elbow room in the cockpit of a Snipe. “斯奈普”戰(zhàn)鬭機(jī)的駕駛艙內(nèi)沒有太多的活動(dòng)空間。
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elbow room
劍橋詞典
- space to move around in
活動(dòng)餘地,活動(dòng)空間
We were tightly squashed in at dinner , with very little elbow room . 喫晚飯時(shí),我們一個(gè)緊挨一個(gè)在餐桌旁就坐,擠得幾乎一點(diǎn)空都沒有。
freedom to do what you want
行動(dòng)的自由
At first the management gave the new director plenty of elbow room . 最初,琯理層給了新主琯足夠的自主行事空間。 返回 elbow room