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Pants English Pænts Piece Pair Syn Informal American

This flashcard defines "pants" as a plural noun with multiple meanings: underwear (British English), trousers (American English), and informally in British English, something of poor quality. It also includes idiomatic phrases.

This flashcard defines "pants" as a plural noun with multiple meanings: underwear (British English), trousers (American English), and informally in British English, something of poor quality. It also includes idiomatic phrases.

word pants
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/pæ̱nts/
1
[N-PLURAL 复数名词]内裤 Pants are a piece of underwear which have two holes to put your legs through and elastic around the top to hold them up round your waist or hips.
  [also a pair of N]
  [BRIT 英]
  • I put on my bra and pants.

    我戴上乳罩,穿上内裤。

in AM, usually use 美国英语通常用 underpants
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[N-PLURAL 复数名词]裤子 Pants are a piece of clothing that covers the lower part of your body and each leg.
  [also a pair of N]
  [AM 美]
  • He wore brown corduroy pants and a white cotton shirt.

    他身着棕色灯芯绒裤子和白色棉衬衫。

in BRIT, use 英国英语用 trousers
3
[N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]劣质品 If you say that something is pants, you mean that it is very poor in quality.
  [BRIT 英]
  [INFORMAL 非正式]
  • The place is pants, yet so popular.

    那个地方很糟糕,却很受欢迎。

4
[PHRASE 短语]使…(烦)得要死;把…(吓)得要命 If someone bores, charms, or scares the pants off you, for example, they bore, charm, or scare you a lot.
  [v PHR]
  [emphasis]
  [INFORMAL 非正式]
  • You'll bore the pants off your grandchildren...

    你会把孙辈们烦透的。

  • We all love to frighten the pants off ourselves by going on hair-raising rides at funfairs.

    我们都喜欢乘坐游乐场那些让人毛发直竖的游乐设施,把自己吓得魂不附体。

5
[PHRASE 短语]凭感觉;凭直觉 If you fly by the seat of your pants or do something by the seat of your pants, you use your instincts to tell you what to do in a new or difficult situation rather than following a plan or relying on equipment.
  [V inflects]
    6

    to be caught with one's pants down→see:
    catch

    to wear the pants→see:
    wear

      Oxford pants / pænts ; NAmE pænts / noun _clothes_suit_comp.jpg _trousers.jpg [plural ] 1 ( BrE) underpantsor knickers 内裤;短衬裤 a pair of pants 一件内裤 2 ( especially NAmE) trousers 裤子 a new pair of pants 一条新裤子 ski pants 滑雪裤 see also
      cargo pants
      3 BrE slang also used as an adjective 也用作形容词 something you think is of poor quality 次品;劣质品 SYN
      rubbish
      Their new CD is absolute pants! 他们的新光盘绝对是次货! Do we have to watch this pants programme? 我们非要看这种烂节目吗?
      IDIOM bore, scare, etc. the ˈpants off sb ( informal) to make sb extremely bored, frightened, etc. 把…烦死(或吓死等) more at
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      pants / pænts ; NAmE pænts /
      LDC
      pants1 noun
      pants2 adjective
      pantspants1 /pænts/ ●●● S3 noun [plural]
      Word Origin
      Examples
      Thesaurus
      Collocations
      Phrases
      1especially American English a piece of clothing that covers you from your waist to your feet and has a separate part for each leg SYN trousers British English:  She was wearing dark blue pants and a white sweater.2British English a piece of underwear that covers the area between your waist and the top of your legs SYN underpants American Englishknickers, briefs, boxer shorts3bore/scare etc the pants off somebody informal spoken to make someone feel very bored, very frightened etc:  She always bores the pants off me.4beat the pants off somebody American English spoken to defeat someone very easily in a game or competition SYN  thrash5somebody puts his pants on one leg at a time American English spoken used to say that someone is just like everyone else:  Go on, ask him for his autograph – he puts his pants on one leg at a time just like you do.6(since somebody was) in short pants British English informal since someone was a very young boy:  I’ve known Eric since he was in short pants. do something by the seat of your pants
      at seat1(10)
      , → catch somebody with their pants down
      at catch1(6)
      , → wear the pants/trousers
      at wear1(7)
      pants1 noun
      pants2 adjective
      pantspants2 adjective [not before noun] British English spoken informal
      Collocations
      Phrases
      very bad:  The concert was pants.
      WDF

      pants

      [pænts]
      原型:pants 是 pant 的第三人称单数
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      n.裤子

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