installing

柯林斯词典

BRIT also instal

1. V-T If you install a piece of equipment, you put it somewhere so that it is ready to be used. 安装
They had installed a new phone line in the apartment. 他们在公寓里安装了一根新的电话线。
2. installationN-UNCOUNT 安装
Hundreds of lives could be saved if the installation of alarms was more widespread. 如果警报器的安装范围更为广泛，成百上千人的生命就可能获救。
3. V-T If someone is installed in a new job or important position, they are officially given the job or position, often in a special ceremony. 正式任命
A temporary government was installed. 一届临时政府被正式任命。
Professor Sawyer was formally installed as president last Thursday. 上星期二，索耶教授被正式任命为校长。
4. installationN-UNCOUNT 任命仪式; 就职仪式
He sent a letter inviting Naomi to attend his installation as chief of his tribe. 他给娜奥米寄了封信，邀请她来参加他就任部落酋长的仪式。
5. V-T If you install yourself in a particular place, you settle there and make yourself comfortable. 安顿[正式]
Before her husband's death she had installed herself in a modern villa. 在丈夫去世之前她就已经在一所现代的别墅里安顿了下来。