英语单词 | unfurl |
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英美音标 | 英 [ˌʌn'fɜːl] 美 [ˌʌn'fɜːrl] |
中文释义 | v.展开;打开 |
英语例句 | (1) He unfurled the newspaper and began to read. (2) They unfurl the flag and let it flutter in the wind. (3) The students unfurled their books. |
中文例句 | (1) 他展开报纸开始阅读。 (2) 他们将旗展开让其迎风招展。 (3) 学生们打开书。 |
vocabulary简明 | When you unfurl something, you unroll it or spread it out. Your yoga teacher will unfurl her long purple mat at the beginning of class. |
vocabulary扩展 | To unfurl something is to roll it out, unwinding it the way you do with a coiled laptop charger cord. You might also unfurl a pair of socks curled around each other or the American flag you keep rolled up in a closet until the Fourth of July. Unfurl is a more common word than its opposite, furl, which means "roll or fold." The French origin is ferler, "to furl," from the Old French roots fer, "firm" and lier, "bind." |
柯林斯解释 | 1 [V-ERG 及物/不及物动词]打开(伞等);展开(帆、旗帜等) If you unfurl something rolled or folded such as an umbrella, sail, or flag, you open it, so that it is spread out. You can also say that it unfurls . [V n] [V]
2 [VERB 动词](事件、故事或场面)展开,显露 If you say that events, stories, or scenes unfurl before you, you mean that you are aware of them or can see them as they happen or develop. [V]
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