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

• But following the catastrophe of Fukushima and the power blackouts that followed, Japan has seen an explosion in investment in alternatives.
  但继福岛核危机和随后大范围停电后，日本在可替代能源领域的投资呈现出爆炸式增长。
• 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。
• The blackouts didn't have any effect on the prison operations.
  停电对监狱没有任何影响。
• 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。
• We could sharply increase the reliability of their network and reduce blackouts.
  我们能极大地提高他们的电网的稳定性，减少停电事故。
• Residents of many major urban areas complain of20-hour-long daily blackouts.
  很多大城市的居民抱怨每天断电时间长达20小时。
• 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。
• But conservation measures appear to have have helped avoid feared blackouts.
  但是节能措施看来帮助避免了人们所担心的停电现象。
• If it happened during one of the blackouts.
  如果这是在他昏厥的时候发生的。