Coventry

1. (作为惩罚)拒绝与某人交谈
   If people send you to Coventry, they avoid speaking to you whenever they meet you, as a way of punishing you for something that you have done.

1. I took my first extra-mural course in 1948 in Coventry, even though I was working in Birmingham
   1948年我在考文垂第一次上校外课，虽然当时我在伯明翰工作。
2. The campus is linked by regular bus services to Coventry.
   校园与考文垂之间由班车连接起来。
3. But doctors at University Hospital Coventry were stunned when Mrs Osborn's test results came back negative.
   但是当得知奥斯本夫人的检验结果是阴性的时候，考文垂大学医院的医生们都大吃一惊。
4. The Coventry schoolboy broke the record for his age during a charity bodybuilding event at the Standard Triumph Club in his hometown on Sunday.
   这个来自考文垂的男孩于上周日在其家乡标准胜利俱乐部举行的一次慈善健身活动中一举打破了12岁年龄组的举重纪录。
5. I am skeptical as to how big a deal this really is, said Crawford Spence, an accounting professor at Warwick Business School in Coventry, England.
   我怀疑这件事究竟有多大影响，英格兰考文垂华威商学院（WarwickBusinessSchool）的会计学教授克劳福德·斯宾塞（CrawfordSpence）说。
6. I'm in social Coventry through leaving the receiver off.
   停止使用无线电接收机，我好像被社会摈弃了。
7. Many of the serious uses of virtual worlds were on show at a conference held in September at Coventry University in England.
   2007年9月在英国考文垂大学举行的会议论坛上展示了许多虚拟世界的真正用途。
8. Who is the labour candidate for Coventry north?
   北考文垂的工党候选人是谁？
9. Black's transfer to an Italian football club came as a shock to Coventry cupporters.
   布莱克转到意大利足球俱乐部使考文垂支持者大为震惊。
10. In 1940, during World War Two, German planes destroyed most of the English town of Coventry.
    1940年的这一天，德国战机在二战期间几乎摧毁英国的考文垂市。
11. He asked me in the pub if I was a native, so I confessed I was from coventry, not a local girl.
    他在酒店里问我是不是本地人，我承认我是从考文垂来的，不是本地女孩。
12. They punished me by sending me to Coventry for the rest of the summer holiday.
    他们在暑假剩下的日子里以不跟我讲话来惩罚我。
13. Didn't she use to live in Coventry?
    她从前是住在考文垂这地方吗？
14. Coventry Cathedral has modern architecture.
    考文垂大教堂有着非常现代的建筑风格。
15. The game took place at Cobham on Tuesday with the opposition provided by Coventry City's reserves.
    这场比赛是星期二在科巴姆训练基地进行的，对手是考文垂预备队。
16. The main line from London to coventry.
    从伦敦到考文垂的铁路干线。
17. It says this train is for Birmingham and Coventry only.
    上面说这火车只到伯明翰和考文垂。
18. Southall was born in Coventry, UK and used his parents'home as a base for his adventures.
    索思豪尔出生在英国的考文垂，经常用父母的住所作为冒险活动中心。
19. Lady Godiva rode naked through the empty streets of Coventry the next day.
    第二天葛黛瓦夫人一丝不挂骑着马穿过了空无一人的街道。
20. Zimbabwe took one gold and three bronze medals in women's swimming, all by Kirsty Coventry in the100-and200-meter events.
    津巴布韦在女子100米和200米游泳比赛中夺得1枚金牌和3枚铜牌。
21. Godiva was the beautiful wife of the Lord of Coventry. She lived in the eleventh century.
    葛黛瓦是考文垂勋爵的漂亮太太。她生活在十一世纪。
22. Sat September 3rd The youth team travels up in the morning to Coventry and draws 1-1.
    9月3日星期六今日早晨青年队前往考文垂比赛并1-1握手言和。
23. Let's aim for Coventry first, and then we'll have a look at the map.
    让我们先以考文垂为目标，然后再看一下地图。
24. Coventry was blitzed mercilessly during the second world war.
    二战期间考文垂被惨无人道地空袭过。
25. According to an old legend, the Lord taxed the people of Coventry heavily and unjustly.
    根据古老的传说，勋爵摊在考文垂人身上的税既重又不公平。
26. She was educated at her local school for three years before being sent away to boarding school in the nearby city of Coventry.
    她到附近的考文垂市上寄宿学校以前曾在当地的学校读过三年书。
27. In2004, he studied in Coventry University, UK, receiving a Master's Degree of Communication Management.
    年在英国考文垂大学学习，获通信管理硕士学位。
28. We sent him to Coventry for two weeks because he told the teacher who had broken the window.
    由于他告诉了老师谁打碎了玻璃，我们有两星期不理睬他。
29. I've been accepted at Coventry University, he says.
    我已被考文垂大学录取了，他说。

n.

send sb to Coventry

• 拒绝与某人交谈，不理某人（作为惩罚）
  to refuse to speak to sb, as a way of punishing them for sth that they have done