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Cuff Sleeve N Dress Gave Hands Cuffed Back

英语单词 cuff
英美音标 英 [kʌf] 美 [kʌf]
中文释义 n.袖口;<俚>手铐
n.巴掌
v.为...上袖口;带手铐
v.轻拍;掴
英语例句 (1) The dress pattern doesn't really explain how the cuff joins onto the sleeve.
(2) This old jumper of mine is frayed at the sleeve cuff.
(3) He gave the pickpocket a good cuff.
(4) The convict had his hands cuffed behind his back.
(5) She cuffed the dog when she found it on the chair.
中文例句 (1) 这个裙样没有真正地示明袖口是怎样与袖子连接在一起的。
(2) 我的这件毛织上衣的袖口已经磨损了。
(3) 他给那扒手狠狠一巴掌。
(4) 罪犯的手被铐在后面。
(5) 她发觉狗跳到椅子上,便轻轻打了它一下。
vocabulary简明 A cuff is the very end of a long sleeve or the rolled bottom of your jeans. You might prefer to wear a cuff on the bottom of your pants in order to show off your striped socks.
vocabulary扩展 One kind of cuff is at the end of your sleeve or trouser leg, and another is a type of jewelry you might wear around your wrist, like a wide gold cuff. You can also use the word cuff as shorthand for handcuff, the silver kind that police officers put on suspects' wrists during an arrest. The mid-fourteenth century version was cuffe, and it meant "mitten or glove," from the Medieval Latin cuffia, or "head covering.
柯林斯解释
1
[N-COUNT 可数名词]袖口 The cuffs of a shirt or dress are the parts at the ends of the sleeves, which are thicker than the rest of the sleeve.
  [usu pl]
  • ...a pale blue shirt with white collar and cuffs.

    有白色衣领和袖口的浅蓝色衬衫

2
[N-COUNT 可数名词](裤脚的)外翻边,外卷边 The cuffs on a pair of pants or trousers are the parts at the ends of the legs, which are folded up.
  [usu pl]
  [AM 美]
  • ...the cuffs of his jeans.

    他牛仔裤裤脚的翻边

in BRIT, use 英国英语用 turn-up
3
[VERB 动词](通常指轻而快地)拍,击(头或耳部) If you cuff someone, you hit them quickly and lightly with your hand, usually on their head or their ear.
  [V n]
  • Brodie cuffed him on the side of the head.

    布罗迪拍了一下他的头。

  • Cuff is also a noun.
    • He gave the dog a cuff.

      他轻轻地拍了拍那条狗。

4
[VERB 动词]给…戴手铐 If the police cuff someone, they put handcuffs on them.
  [V n]
  [INFORMAL 非正式]
  • She hoped they wouldn't cuff her hands behind her back.

    她希望他们不要把她反铐起来。

5
[PHRASE 短语]未经准备(或思考)的;即兴的 An off-the-cuff remark is made without being prepared or thought about in advance.
  [PHR n]
  • I didn't mean any offence. It was a flippant, off-the-cuff remark...

    我并无冒犯之意。那只是随口说出的一句轻率话。

  • Mr Baker was speaking off the cuff when he made those suggestions.

    贝克先生临时提出那些建议。

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