check-out

柯林斯詞典

check out (checking,checked,checks)

• 1. PHRASAL VERB When you check out of a hotel or clinic where you have been staying, or if someone checks you out, you pay the bill and leave. 退房

  They packed and checked out of the hotel. 他們收拾好行李，退了旅館的房。

  I was disappointed to miss Bryan, who had just checked out. 我很失望沒見到佈萊恩，他剛剛退房走了。

• 2. PHRASAL VERB If you check out something or someone, you find out information about them to make sure that everything is correct or satisfactory. 調(diào)查

  Maybe we ought to go down to the library and check it out. 也許我們該去圖書館調(diào)查一下。

  We ought to check him out on the computer. 我們應該在計算機上調(diào)查他的信息。

• 3. PHRASAL VERB If something checks out, it is correct or satisfactory. 成立

  She was in San Diego the weekend Jensen got killed. Her alibi checked out. 詹森遇害的那個周末她在聖地亞哥。她不在現(xiàn)場的申辯成立。

• 4. PHRASAL VERB If you check out a library book, you borrow it for a fixed period of time. 借出

  No books can be checked out after 6 p.m. tomorrow. 明天下午6點以後圖書不可以借出。

• 5. →see also checkout

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