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Button   [V Coat Pushing Round N Count 可数名词 Small

英语单词 button
英美音标 英 ['bʌtn] 美 ['bʌtn]
中文释义 n.纽扣;按钮
v.扣上纽扣;用纽扣装饰
英语例句 (1) One of the buttons has come off my coat.
(2) You may stop the machine by pushing this button.
(3) It's very warm, he didn't even button his coat.
中文例句 (1) 我上衣上的一颗扣子掉了。
(2) 按下这个按钮你就可以关掉这个机器。
(3) 天气很暖和,他甚至都没扣他外衣的钮扣。
vocabulary简明 A button is a small, flat, round object often found on clothing. It can also describe the round disc you press to turn on an electronic device, like the button you push to turn on your computer.
vocabulary扩展 The noun button also can refer to the little round billboards people pin to their clothes to display their favorite political candidate, band, organization, or saying. Button can also be a verb, which describes the act of fastening buttons, like when you button your shirt. Or if you work at an electronics factory, your job might be to button, or attach buttons to, a cell phone.
柯林斯解释
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[N-COUNT 可数名词]纽扣;扣子 Buttons are small hard objects sewn on to shirts, coats, or other pieces of clothing. You fasten the clothing by pushing the buttons through holes called buttonholes.
  • ...a coat with brass buttons.

    带铜纽扣的外套

2
[VERB 动词]扣上…的纽扣 If you button a shirt, coat, or other piece of clothing, you fasten it by pushing its buttons through the buttonholes.
  [V n]
  [V P n (not pron)]
  [V n P]
  [V-ed P]
  • Ferguson stood up and buttoned his coat.

    弗格森站起身来,扣上了外套。

  • Button up means the same as button .button up同button
    • I buttoned up my coat; it was chilly...

      我扣上了外套的扣子;天气很冷。

    • The young man slipped on the shirt and buttoned it up...

      这个年轻人一下子穿上衬衫,扣好了扣子。

    • It was freezing out there even in his buttoned-up overcoat.

      外面非常冷,即使穿上大衣扣上扣子也不顶事。

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[N-COUNT 可数名词](机器的)按钮,开关 A button is a small object on a machine or electrical device that you press in order to operate it.
  • He reached for the remote control and pressed the 'play' button.

    他伸手拿过遥控器,按下“播放”键。

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[N-COUNT 可数名词]圆形小徽章 A button is a small piece of metal or plastic which you wear in order to show that you support a particular movement, organization, or person. You fasten a button to your clothes with a pin.
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    [PHRASE 短语](巧妙地)获取想要的东西 If you say that someone presses the right button or pushes the right button, you mean that they get what they want from a particular situation or person by behaving in a clever way.
      [V and N inflect]
    • Buchanan pushed all the right buttons, appealing to Maher's loyalty and to his guilt.

      布坎南通过激发马厄的忠心和负罪感得到了他想要的东西。

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