【end音标】 英[end] 美[end]
【单词释义】 end是什么意思：
n.结束；末端；终止；终结；结尾；最后部分
vt.&vi.结束，终止
[单词分级] 中考英语词汇
[单词复数] ends [第三人称单数] ends
[单词现在分词] ending
[单词过去式] ended
[单词过去分词] ended
[反义词] begin v.开始
【end形近词/近似词】
fend v. 避开，挡开；回避（难题、批评等）；自谋生计，照顾自己
bend v.（使）弯曲，屈身
mend v.修理，修补
rend v.撕碎；分裂；撕开；强夺
tend v. 倾向，趋向；照料；照管
send v.送；派遣；发送；邮寄
lend vt.把…借；借出
【常用短语】
at the end 最终，最后；在终点
at the end of 在……尽头；在……结束时
bring an end to vt. 结束，使完结
by the end 到…末尾；到…为止
by the end of 到……结束时；到……时为止；在……之前
end up 最终到达;最终
end up with 以…结束
end with 以…结束
from beginning to end 自始至终
in the end 终于，最后
the end 结束;剧终;末日
【单词例句】
◇ Iate in the afternoon he came to the end of his journey in the far western sea and got on his golden boat to return to his eastern home.
黄昏时分,他在遥远的西海结束了旅行,然后就乘上金船返回东方的家中。
---- Apollo
◇ "But there's no end to this cloth!" exclaimed the king. No sooner were the words out of his mouth than the cloth came to an end.
“这线怎么没有个头啊!”国王话刚一出口，线就拉到头了。
---- The Prince Who Married a Frog
◇ There was great joy everywhere, and the king and the queen conducted their wedding ceremony once again, and they lived happily until their blessed end.
全国到处一片欢腾，国王和王后再次举行了婚礼，从此永远幸福满足地生活在一起。
---- The Girl without Hands (II)
◇ She walked on and on —— far, far to the end of the world. She came to the sun, but it was too hot and terrible, and ate little children. She hurried away.
她走啊，找啊，不停地寻访着，一直找到遥远的天边，来到太阳面前。但太阳太热太凶猛了，她急忙跑开。
---- The Seven Ravens
◇ Not until near the end of the nineteenth century did inventors achieve the delicate balance of insulation and circulation needed for an efficient icebox.
直到近19世纪末，发明家们才成功地找到有效率的冰箱所需要的精确的隔热和循环的精确平衡。
---- The Origin of Refrigerators
◇ If you are grateful to life, it will bring you shining sunlight. If you always complain about everything, you may own nothing in the end. When we are successful, we can surely have many reasons for being grateful, but we have only one excuse to show ungratefulness if we fail.
如果对生活感恩，你的生命将充满灿烂的阳光；如果一味怨恨，终将一无所获。我们成功时，有千万个理由感恩生活，而失败时，只要一个借口就会表现出忘恩负义。
---- Being Grateful
◇ The two of them silhouetted against the window light at the end of the long hall. My father leaning over my mother's,pressed forehead to forehead. The word“Surgery”on the doors behind them forming a caption for the picture they made. Hands clasped together as if believing they held each other's hearts. As longingly as the first time they had reached for each other,as desperately as two lovers being forced apart.
二人的身影好像一幅剪影投射在长廊上，身后“手术室”三个字构成了这一画面的字幕。父亲俯在母亲所躺的病床边，彼此额头紧贴，紧握着对方的手仿佛紧握着对方的心，恰似他们当年那样渴望得到对方，又如同一对恋人被强行拆散时那样地绝望。
---- To Love Enough
◇ It gets worse. Almost a third of all plastic packaging escapes collection systems and ends up in nature or clogging up infrastructure.
而现在，情况变得越来越糟了。近三分之一的塑料袋无法回收，要么堵在了城市基础设施的某个角落，要么在自然界中“自生自灭”。
---- More plastic than fish in oceans by 2050
◇ It had been lovely to spend extra time with her 21-month-old son, but by the end of the third day off she was shattered.
能够和21个月大的儿子共度更多时光本来是件很好的事，但是到第三天快结束时她感觉自己要崩溃了。