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词典释义:
spruce
时间: 2023-07-06 11:32:36
GRE
英 [spruːs]
美 [spruːs]

adj. 整洁的

v. 把(人;地方)装扮得更漂亮;说谎;骗人;欺骗

n. 云杉

短语搭配
双语例句
  • The government allocated a sum of money to spruce up the museum.

    政府拨了一笔钱来修整博物馆。

  • This spruce man is very popular with women.

    这位衣着整洁的男子深受女性的欢迎。

  • The boy I admired was as straight as a spruce and as pure as blue sky.

    我爱慕的那位男生像云杉一般挺拔,像蓝天一样纯洁。

  • She spruced up for the interview.

    她为参加面试打扮了一番

  • A spruce is a kind of evergreen tree.

    云杉是一种常青树

  • It was made of soft lumber, spruce by the look of it.

    它是软木做的,看样子是云杉。

  • Trees such as spruce, pine, and oak have been planted.

    像云杉、松树和橡树之类的树已经种了。

  • A dark wall of trees—red spruce, balsam fir, beech, hemlock—surrounds you.

    你会被黑暗的树墙包围——红云杉、香脂冷杉、山毛榉和铁杉。

  • Over 75% of Mexico's forests, which range from temperate spruce and fir to tropical rainforest, are controlled by ejidos or indigenous groups.

    墨西哥的森林既有温带的云杉和冷杉,也有热带雨林,其中75%以上由合作农场或原住民团体控制。

  • Chris was looking spruce in his stiff-collared black shirt and new short hair cut.

    克里斯穿着那件衣领挺括的黑衬衫加上新剪的短发,看上去很整洁。

近义词
adj.
释义
adj.

neat in dress and appearance

(衣着或外表)整洁的

  • he looked as spruce as if he were heading for a meeting with his bank manager.

    他穿着整洁,像是要去和银行经理见面一样。

v.

make a person or place smarter or tidier

把(人,地方)装扮得更漂亮(更整洁)

  • the fund will be used to spruce up historic buildings.

    这笔资金将用来装扮古建筑。

n.

a widespread coniferous tree which has a distinctive conical shape and hanging cones, widely grown for timber, pulp, and Christmas trees

云杉。

v.

Brit. informal, dated engage in pretence or deception, especially by feigning illness

〈英, 非正式,旧〉 说谎,骗人(尤指装病)

  • he's no fool; he'd have known if she was sprucing.

    他一点也不笨,如果她说谎的话他早就知道了。

[with obj.]deceive

欺骗

  • they spruced you proper.

    他们完全欺骗了你。

词源

"late 16th cent.: perhaps from SPRUCE2 in the obsolete sense ‘Prussian', in the phrase spruceleatherjerkin.late Middle English (denoting Prussia or something originating in Prussia): alteration of obsolete Pruce ‘Prussia'. The application to the tree dates from the early 17th cent. early 20th cent.: of unknown origin. "

  • In the heart of Vermont's dairy country, meet the new power plants at the blue spruce farm, all 2,400 of them.

    在佛蒙特州以乳业为主的地区中心蓝云杉农场建新发电厂,这里共有2400只奶牛。

    《America Revealed》《透视美国》

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