abut

UK:  [ə'bʌt]

US:  [ə'bʌt]

过去分词：abutted  现在分词：abutting  第三人称单数：abuts  

v.

1.连接;毗连;贴近;靠紧;接近

2.支撑,支承

n.

1.支架,支座

2.枢轴

3.接合端

1 . An external abutment member is joined between the pair of dilating frames to abut an external nasal valve.
外部接合构件在一对扩张框架之间结合，以与外部鼻阀邻接。

2 . Whenever I met Zillah, the housekeeper, in the village, I used to ask her abut Linton.
无论什么时候我在村子里碰到女管家齐拉，我就向她打听林顿的情况。

3 . In a variation the body has a projection which can abut the housing to lock the body into the housing.
在一变型中，所述主体具有可抵靠壳体以将主体锁入所述壳体内的突起。

4 . Now Tom Sever, the only archaeologist on NASA's staff, is suggesting that self induced climate change brought abut the end for the Maya.
现在，TomSever——唯一一名在NASA工作的考古学家——提出是玛雅人自导自演的气候变化最终给玛雅文明画上了一个句号。

5 . Although this experiment is failure, abut at least we know how to improve the process of it.
虽然实验失败了，但至少我们知道了该如何改进它的流程。