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

• 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。
• 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。
• Blackouts per household have been kept to a remarkably low four minutes a year.
  每户家庭一年的断电时间被维持在极低的4分钟。
• The summers are often accompanied by severe water shortages and power blackouts due to crumbling infrastructure and the weather.
  由于基础建设不完善以及气候因素，夏季常伴随严重缺水与电力管制。
• Rich states, no longer strangers to blackouts, are worried about security of energy supply.
  富国对停电不再陌生，它们对能源供应安全感到忧心忡忡。
• Power blackouts have been a regular feature of life in India for many years.
  多年来，停电是印度人司空见惯的事情。
• But backed-up ports, frequent blackouts and hellish roads put many off.
  但落后的港口、频繁的停电以及糟糕的道路，让许多公司望而却步。
• The drought is threatening to drive up electricity costs for this heavily hydropower-reliant nation and has already caused blackouts.
  在这个高度依赖水利发电的国家，干旱可能会推高其电力成本。这种情况已经引发断电。
• 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。