file

1. N-COUNT A file is a box or a folded piece of heavy paper or plastic in which letters or documents are kept. 文件盒; 文件夾

...a file of insurance papers. …一個保險單文件夾。

2. N-COUNT A file is a collection of information about a particular person or thing. 卷宗

We already have files on people's tax details. 我們已經有了人們付稅詳情的卷宗。

3. N-COUNT In computing, a file is a set of related data that has its own name. 文件

Be sure to save the revised version of the file under a new filename. 確保將改過的文件版本另存在一個新的文件名下。

4. N-COUNT A file is a hand tool which is used for rubbing hard objects to make them smooth, shape them, or cut through them. 銼刀

5. V-T If you file a document, you put it in the correct file. 使歸档

They are all filed alphabetically under author. 它們都是在作者一欄下麪按字母順序來歸档的。

6. V-T/V-I If you file a formal or legal accusation, complaint, or request, you make it officially. 提起

I filed for divorce on the grounds of adultery a few months later. ，我幾個月後以通奸爲由提起了離婚。

7. V-T When someone files a report or a news story, they send or give it to their employer. 提交

He had to rush back to the office and file a housing story before the secretaries went home. 他不得不趕廻辦公室，在秘書們廻家之前提交一份有關住房的報道。

8. V-T If you file an object, you smooth it, shape it, or cut it with a file. 銼

Manicurists are skilled at shaping and filing nails. 美甲師對脩剪、銼光指甲很在行。

9. V to march or walk in a file or files 排成縱隊行進

the ants filed down the hill

10. →see also rank and file

11. PHRASE A group of people who are walking or standing in single file or single file are in a line, one behind the other. 成單行

We were walking in single file to the lake. 我們排成單行走曏湖邊。