英语单词 | cuff |
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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]
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]
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]
4 [VERB 动词]给…戴手铐 If the police cuff someone, they put handcuffs on them. [V n] [INFORMAL 非正式]
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]
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